Case Study: NC State University helps students uncover business opportunities faster with IBM big data solutions

Helping businesses uncover new opportunities with IBM big data

North Carolina State University's Poole College of Management needed a platform to help its students learn how to turn big data into actionable knowledge for better business decision-making. The challenge was to find a solution capable of efficiently managing and analyzing extremely large volumes of both structured and unstructured data from diverse sources.

IBM implemented its big data solution, which included IBM InfoSphere BigInsights and IBM Content Analytics software running on IBM PowerLinux servers. This allowed students to apply analytics to real-world business problems, helping a chemical company identify new potential partners more than 200 times faster than before, reducing a six-month process to just a few hours while using fewer resources.

North Carolina State University

Michael Kowolenko

Senior Research Scholar