IBM Intent to acquire The Now Factory

October 9, 2013 - Research N153

IBM has continued to define and extend its footprint in the Big Data and Analytics space with this acquisition. The Now Factory specializes in applications for CSPs and Telco facing organizations, providing quick analysis capabilities of large volumes of data. Nucleus has seen customers gain value from the Smarter Commerce and Smarter Planet initiatives and expects IBM will continue to provide value from solutions within these initiatives. Nucleus expects to see other big data industries such as retail look to take advantage of IBM’s newest technology.