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The IBM Strategic Water Information Management (SWIM) solutions platform is both an information architecture and an intelligent infrastructure that enables continuous automated sensing, monitoring, and decision support for water management operations. This includes a combination of "smart" sensors, modeling, analytics, and visualization tools which connect and facilitate information flows, enable continuous monitoring of physical water infrastructure and environments, and provide the foundation for more robust, reliable, and scalable strategic water management capabilities. In addition to the openly extensible technology platform, IBM provides end-to-end consulting and systems integration services that include:

  • Water management innovation discovery workshops and diagnostic assessments
  • Green Sigma™ consulting for formal definition of key performance indicators, optimization of work processes, and opportunities for operational integration
  • Full systems architecting and integration leveraging IBM's international business partner network
  • Integration of energy efficient high-performance computing platforms and complex sensor, metering, and actuator networks
  • Implementation of computational and visualization techniques for analyzing and understanding complex data
  • Flexible choices between on-premise and cloud computing delivery models

The open platform utilizes IBM's most advanced technologies including:

  • IBM Infosphere for enabling best of breed master data management capabilities and real-time delivery of trusted critical information to drive new intelligence
  • IBM Cognos Now! for enabling operational dashboards for continuous monitoring of time-sensitive KPIs and metrics
  • IBM Maximo® asset management for unifying comprehensive asset life cycle and maintenance management on a unified platform
  • IBM ILOG for enabling advanced rules management, constraint-based optimization, and rich visualization tools to more effectively manage and automate the water management decision making processes
  • IBM Deep Thunder for enabling integration of hi-resolution local weather predictions and optimizing weather sensitive water management operations

Benefits of the IBM Strategic Water Information Management solutions include:

  • Improving the coordination of relevant information among stakeholders
  • Developing innovative capabilities for standards-based, secure data exchange
  • Providing new analytical capabilities and decision-support tools for managing and controlling their intelligence as well as providing access to their information from other sources
  • Ensuring appropriate information is available at the right time and place
  • Ensuring that water information is secure and confidential

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