{"id":15909,"date":"2015-07-15T10:59:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T10:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=230131"},"modified":"2015-07-15T10:59:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T10:59:58","slug":"ibm-mubadala-joint-venture-to-bring-watson-cloud-to-mena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-mubadala-joint-venture-to-bring-watson-cloud-to-mena\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM, Mubadala joint venture to bring Watson cloud to MENA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_214322\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/02\/Analytics1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-214322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/02\/Analytics1-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"IBM is bringing Watson to the Middle East\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">IBM is bringing Watson to the Middle East<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>IBM is teaming up with Abu Dhabi-based investment firm Mubadala Development Company to create a joint venture based in Abu Dhabi that will deliver IBM\u2019s cloud-based Watson service to customers in the Middle East and Northern Afirca (MENA) region.<\/p>\n<p>The companies will set up the joint venture through Mubadala\u2019s subsidiary, Injazat, which will be the sole provider of the Watson platform in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The companies said the move will help create an ecosystem of MENA-based partners, software vendors and startups developing new solutions based on the cognitive compute platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBringing IBM Watson to the region represents the latest major milestone in the global adoption of cognitive computing,\u201d said Mounir Barakat, executive director of ICT at Aerospace &amp; Engineering Services, Mubadala.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt also signals Mubadala\u2019s commitment to bringing new technologies and spurring economic growth in the Middle East, another step towards developing the UAE as a hub for the region\u2019s ICT sector,\u201d Barakat said.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Rhodin, senior vice president of IBM Watson said Mubadala\u2019s knowledge of the local corporate ecosystem will help the company expand its cognitive compute cloud service in the region.<\/p>\n<p>IBM has enjoyed some Watson wins in financial services, healthcare and the utilities sectors, but the company has been fairly quiet on how much the division rakes in; over the past year the company made strides to expand the platform in the US, Africa and Japan, and recently made a number of strategic acquisitions in software automation in order to boost Watson\u2019s appeal in customer engagement and health services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM is teaming up with Abu Dhabi-based investment firm Mubadala Development Company to create a joint venture based in Abu Dhabi that will deliver IBM&rsquo;s cloud-based Watson service to customers in the Middle East and Northern Afirca (MENA) region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2979,2980,799,1993,616,2981,1976,2982,993],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-dubai","category-ibm","category-infrastructure-as-a-service","category-middle-east","category-mubadala","category-news-analysis","category-uae","category-watson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15910,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15909\/revisions\/15910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}