IBM and Deloitte launch new AI offering to unlock business insights in hybrid cloud environments

DAPPER combines Deloitte analytics platform with IBM Cloud Pak for Data on Red Hat OpenShift

ARMONK, NY and NEW YORK, October 11, 2021 / PRNewswire / – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Deloitte today announced a new offering: DAPPER, an AI-powered managed analytics solution. The solution strengthens the 21 years of existence of the two organizations global alliance– which helps organizations accelerate hybrid cloud and AI adoption across the enterprise – and 10 years of experience implementing the Deloitte analytics platform. DAPPER’s end-to-end capabilities will empower organizations to gain confidence in the information their data delivers through a secure and easy-to-use managed service offering that aims to solve the challenges of AI adoption.

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Relevant and actionable data can propel businesses to success in today’s competitive, knowledge-driven business environment. Customers across industries report struggling to accelerate the value of AI and analytics, due to a lack of confidence in the data, domain expertise, and resources needed to create a solution that can operate in any business environment, while simultaneously meeting stringent security and compliance requirements. Gartner^® recommends its customers to “choose AI cloud services over building custom models to meet a wider range of use cases and for faster deployment and built-in scalability” (Hype cycle^MT for Cloud Computing, 2021, Posted July 14, 2021 – ID G00747400, by David smith, Ed Anderson).

DAPPER is the result of the combined technology leadership, hands-on business experience and industry experience of the Deloitte and IBM alliance. DAPPER combines the Deloitte analytics platform with IBM Cloud Pak for Data on Red Hat OpenShift to provide business users with a fully managed AI solution designed to avoid having to commit resources and time to development, to the implementation and management of a tailor-made solution.

Leveraging IBM’s modern hybrid cloud architecture and AI technology, DAPPER provides organizations with the ability to scale up their operations, promote an organization’s confidence in their data, and enable intelligent reporting. DAPPER is a managed service run by Deloitte in the IBM Cloud and available on premise or in multi-cloud environments. Its fully managed analytics service offers a choice of service offerings and subscription models, and contains three core elements, designed to help businesses get the most from their data:

A cloud-based analytics platform: IBM-backed security and analytics platform with streamlined administration, operations and maintenance provided by Deloitte, designed to provide business users with an analytics solution for automated and transparent data.
Analytical Development Factory: Access to specialized analytical building blocks and methods designed to streamline analytical development with operations, delivering a DevOps experience to help accelerate the delivery of analytical assets.
Catalog of Subscription Service Offerings: Combines simplicity with data integrations to offer a selection of analytics services, including dashboards, corporate reports, data management tools, as well as orchestration and consumption of AI.

With DAPPER, Deloitte and IBM can help data scientists and business users create, organize and manage assets that provide information to help promote reliable reporting within an organization and AI solutions for businesses can focus on business results.

For example, with DAPPER, Deloitte and IBM can help a government organization fight fraud, such as tax evasion or those related to employee benefits, pensions or money laundering. With DAPPER, an analytics cloud can collect and help business users report siled data across disparate data centers, making data available for advanced AI algorithms and reporting, leveraging cases associated usage and supporting customers’ regulatory compliance requirements. Delivered as a managed service offering, all of this is designed to be deployed in weeks rather than months, and relies on real-time data across various business units or, in this example, locations. government agencies.

“Today’s announcement is further proof of the companies’ long-standing collaboration to help customers modernize with cutting-edge technology,” said Evaristus Mainsah, GM, Hybrid Cloud and Edge Ecosystem, IBM. “Together, Deloitte and IBM have created a flexible hybrid cloud engine that can extract real value for customers by using AI to get the most out of their data. DAPPER will drive transformation, drive innovation, and reshape the business to pave the way for digital dominance. “

Richard houston, senior partner and CEO Deloitte North & southern Europe said: “DAPPER builds on 10 years of business and technology innovation from Deloitte. It is another leading example of how Deloitte and IBM have combined technology, industry experience and knowledge to help customers turn data into insight – quickly, reliably and repeatedly. . “

Deloitte, IBM Platinum Business Partner, is part of the IBM Partner Ecosystem, an initiative to support partners of all types, whether they rely on IBM technologies and platforms, whether they maintain or resell IBM technologies and platforms to help customers manage and modernize mainframe workloads at the edge. and everything in between using IBM solutions and Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform.

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About IBM
IBM is the global leader in hybrid cloud and AI, serving customers in more than 170 countries. More than 3,200 customers use our hybrid cloud platform to accelerate their digital transformation journeys, and in total, more than 30,000 of them have turned to IBM to unlock value from their data. This client list includes nine of the ten largest banks in the world. With this foundation, we continue to leverage Red Hat OpenShift as a leading platform to meet the business needs of our customers: an open, flexible and secure hybrid cloud platform. Guided by principles of trust, transparency and support for a more inclusive society, IBM is also committed to being a responsible steward of technology and a force for good in the world. For more information visit: www.ibm.com.

About Deloitte
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