The era of Enterprise AI is here and embracing AI and digital innovation at scale has become imperative for companies to stay competitive. We are dedicated to revolutionizing the Global Financial Systems with the power of AI.
Did you know that a staggering $800 Trillion in financial transactions, accounting for 73%* of the world's total, are processed by IBM zSystems?
To enable AI adoption in these mission-critical workloads, we are committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions that empower our customers to address a wide range of challenges, from combating fraud and money laundering to streamlining clearing and settlement processes and facilitating instant payments securely.
Today, we are excited to announce the latest version of our flagship machine learning platform, IBM Watson Machine Learning for z/OS v3.1 is generally available. Designed exclusively for AI workloads running on z/OS, this platform offers an array of features that enable businesses to harness the power of AI for their most mission critical applications. This comprehensive platform enables businesses to leverage the exceptional power of AI while maintaining the security, reliability, and performance of their on-premises infrastructure.
By adopting our solution, companies can seamlessly integrate between the powerful IBM Z platform and hybrid cloud, unleashing the combined potential of both environments and empowering them to harness the agility, scalability, and flexibility of IBM Z while preserving their sensitive data and transactional gravity. The result? A harmonious synergy that fuels innovation, enhances operational efficiency, and propels businesses ahead of the competition.
As part of this release, we are proud to introduce two new products: IBM Watson Machine Learning for z/OS v3.1 Enterprise Edition and IBM Watson Machine Learning for z/OS v3.1 Core Edition.
IBM Watson Machine Learning for z/OS v3.1 - Enterprise Edition builds upon the success of its predecessor, v2.4, and represents a complete end-to-end machine learning model development, deployment, serving, and lifecycle management platform. Companies can benefit from the data and transactional gravity of the IBM Z platform, enabling them to develop and deploy AI models in close proximity to their mission-critical transactional workloads, and then infuse the models with Z application native interfaces. The proximity and scoring using native interfaces or RESTful APIs facilitate near real-time in-transaction inferencing and yields substantial improvements in service level agreements (SLAs)
IBM Watson Machine Learning for z/OS v3.1 - Core Edition offers a lightweight yet enterprise grade set of REST-API based core AI services that includes online scoring, making it easy for applications running on z/OS to leverage this offering as their AI engine as part of their solution. WMLz Core Edition will be the foundation for our strategy of AI powered solutions on Z, which is to infuse AI into Z solutions wherever possible, and thus our customers can get out of box values without requiring AI skills and talents.
Our latest release introduces a host of exciting features and an improved user experience. Notable advancements include an enhanced configuration tool, advanced time series AI models, fortified security measures, and the inclusion of secure open-source AI packages, such as the IBM Z platform for Apache Spark 3.2 and Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS. Furthermore, our platform offers comprehensive support for deep learning models through the ONNX or IBM Z Deep Learning Compiler for companies to harness the latest breakthroughs in AI research and development.
The time to act is now. In this rapidly evolving landscape, companies cannot afford to lag behind. By modernizing your applications on running IBM Z platform and infusing them with AI, you unlock limitless possibilities for innovation, efficiency, and competitiveness. IBM Watson Machine Learning for z/OS provides the bridge that enables you to navigate this transformative journey seamlessly.
Don't let the opportunity pass you by. Embrace Enterprise AI, empower IT modernization, and lead your organization towards a future defined by success and innovation.
Read the full announcement here or visit our website to learn more and contact a member team to get started.
Act today, and together, let's unlock the power of Enterprise AI.
Thank you,
Elpida Tzortzatos
IBM Fellow - CTO AI for IBM zSystems and z/OS