President of IBM have developed together with the Polish – 25 years of the country – Onet.pl

 
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“In the 90s in Poland basic need of developing enterprises were primarily equipment – computers and servers. We grew up together with the Polish economy. In 1993. With the installation of the first server, mainframe Center Cards and Cheques in Bank Pekao SA it was possible to launch payment cards market. Financial market quickly caught up abroad, used the latest available at the time of solutions “- says PAP Technologies Ales Bartunek, president of IBM Poland and the Baltic States.

As pointed out, when in the 90s IBM equip computers office workers, coincided in time with the launch of “mobile” computers – to transfer them needed was a big suitcase. “Today, we wonder if the laptop with a graphical interface, weighing less than a kilogram, the employees really need, since they work just a phone or tablet,” – he added.

over the past 25 years, IBM has launched several centers in Poland and development activities and services, where employment found by Polish engineers, programmers, cybersecurity experts. Client Innovation Center in Wroclaw and Katowice it is Europe’s largest center for adaptable software and services to customers’ needs – even global. Wroclaw Center for security Management supports clients in the field of network security, including by conducting real-time threat analysis and management of potentially dangerous situations.

President stressed that revolutionary changes IT market, we have seen in recent years, led to a change in the role played today by IBM. Representatives of the companies are increasingly assume the role of advisors and experts suggest the best use of information systems and devices. This trend is also visible in other industry leaders. The challenge has now become not itself produce and deliver a highly efficient computing machine, but to write the best software that will be able to quickly adapt to new challenges.

“data has become the new natural resource in the world, transforming industries and professions. Cloud transforms the IT and business processes to digital services. Mobility and social media change the individual human involvement, creating high expectations of security and trust for personal data “- says Bartunek.

” At the moment, we advise customers that the software will help them improve the performance of the company. We focus on solving specific business problems faced by our customers, such as how to make the increased frequency of visits or even purchases of retail customers or how to shorten product delivery time “- adds the President.

for this purpose, the company uses, among others, the so-called. cognitive systems, or those that can work on different types of data as well as their processing, to learn. These solutions are in the opinion of the President support the adoption by the people of key decisions. The support system of cognitive Watson is today available for airlines, telecoms and banks, which use it to match their products to specific customers.

over the past 25 years, IBM next business, became involved also in cooperation with the science sector. In the face of generating huge amounts of data over the last quarter century it increased the demand for scientists increasingly powerful computational units. For instance, in 1995. Corporation has equipped three academic centers in supercomputers POWERparallel Scalable System 2. 20 years ago it was one of the most advanced equipment, now similar computing power every 12 processors of those computers have the latest smartphones.

“Today, the possibilities of systems are incomparably greater – because we can measure the challenges of the past that remain beyond our reach. For example, IBM’s Blue Gene system, installed at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw, thanks to the enormous computing power, it allows scientists to study diseases of civilization – cancer, neurological and cardiovascular systems, “- notes Bartunek.

the head of IBM also reminded about the company’s cooperation with the National Research and Development Centre. The project Science Infrastructure Management Support (SIMS) 120 scientists participated in training and internships in Polish and amerykańskichlaboratoriach IBM, where he trained in the field of processes and management techniques in laboratories, implementation of innovation and monetization as well as the protection of intellectual property.

the scale of the development of the Polish iT market in the last quarter clearly reflects the fact that in the early 90s at IBM in Poland worked more than a dozen employees, today it is a few thousand.