Cartesian Consulting, a global analytics firm, is using IBM Cloud Paks on Red Hat OpenShift to power ZipCast, a solution that helps clients accelerate enterprise-scale demand forecasting for the Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods, Distribution and Manufacturing industries. The solution is designed to automate the model building and forecasting process to help data scientists save time and focus on higher-value work.
Harnessing the flexibility, security and portability of IBM Cloud Paks to power solutions across hybrid cloud environments, ZipCast:
* Collects and analyzes data from multiple sources, including on-premises and multicloud and
* Extracts and transforms raw data into market-ready analysis using IBM Watson, IBM Data Refinery and IBM Cognos Analytics that can be used to predict daily inventory, forecast merchandise shortages and schedule stock replenishments.
“Working with IBM to build ZipCast has been absolutely brilliant. IBM Cloud Paks helped us build ZipCast in a manner that can significantly improve productivity and adoption among data scientists,” said Sandeep Mittal, Managing Director, Cartesian Consulting. “ZipCast is helpful for enterprises that are looking to improve their forecasting abilities.”
“Our work with Cartesian reinforces IBM’s commitment to create assets with our ecosystem partners that bring value to clients across industries.” said Gaurav Sharma, Vice President – Cloud and Cognitive Software, IBM India. “IBM Cloud Pak for Data empowers organizations to unlock the value of their data, designed in a cost-efficient way. An industry accelerator for demand forecasting, Cartesian’s ZipCast solution leverages IBM Cloud Pak for Data to build and deploy forecasting models to respond to dynamic market requirements.”
Cartesian Consulting is part of IBM’s Cloud Pak ecosystem, an initiative to support partners of all types — whether they build on, service or resell IBM technologies and platforms — to help clients manage and modernize workloads from bare-metal to multicloud with Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform.
