IBM joins Computer Science on the University campus
Date Added: 4th January 2012
We're delighted to welcome a team of software developers from IBM who have recently made the Department of Computer Science their new workplace.
The IBM team is dedicated to the support and development of IBM’s Cognos Financial Performance Management (FPM) software - in particular, new modelling and monitoring tools for the TM1 OLAP database.
TM1 is a multidimensional, in-memory OLAP engine which provides exceptionally fast performance for analysing complex and sophisticated business models, large data sets and also streamed data.
The team, led by Peter Thomas, have been settling in over the last few weeks and are enjoying the new facilities immensely: “Our new environment provides us with all the facilities we need in order to continue our successful research and development projects. Additionally, there now exists an even greater opportunity to extend our working relationship with the University and possibly take our research in new directions.”
Both the University and IBM have long recognised the value of successful collaboration. For example, here in Computer Science, we collaborate regularly with industry to ensure that our teaching is relevant, as well as providing knowledge transfer to organisations and governments worldwide. Collaboration is a key tenet of IBM’s Smarter Planet vision, literally developing ways to use technology to make the world work in a smarter way.
Professor John McDermid OBE FREng, Head of the Department of Computer Science said, "We are delighted to welcome the IBM Lab into Computer Science. We see this as a major step forward in our strategic relationship with IBM. We look forward to identifying ways in which we can work with the IBM team, benefitting from their world-leading work on analytics and finding opportunities for research collaboration."
You can find out more about IBM at www.ibm.com/uk