The other thing we are working on is big data, in partnership with Google, to combine social news, events, and weather data, pulling that into our supply chain algorithms along with the IoT data.
For example, what's their niche in the big data space or do they have strategic partnerships?" Emery says.
The partnership will leverage IBM's big data analytics and more than 100,000 industry sales consultants and software developers, to help Apple penetrate the global corporate enterprise market.
There are also a number of university-corporate partnerships, as well as commitments from big data firms Quandl, The Climate Corporation and SWIIM.
This week at CES, IBM unveiled some new Watson partnerships that underscore its push into big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
The two-day Executive Education program is run in partnership with IRI, a leading provider of big data and predictive analytics.
Through a partnership with SAP - which specialises in handling "big data" for business - the club has incorporated real-time data measurements into its training schedule.
Partnerships are emerging that aim to use big data technologies and techniques to create a platform capable of revolutionising the management of chronic health conditions such as cancer, diabetes, pulmonary conditions and cardiovascular disease.
Accenture's recent partnership with the University of California, Berkeley to create a new Big Data and Data Science curriculum is one such example.
And it has already invested a great deal in partnerships to help create its own ecosystem in big data management.
By marrying extremely talented big data and cloud analytics engineering team with extremely talented scientists, we created a unique partnership to drive innovative thinking.
