Weather Defender

Actionable business insights that enhance safety, improve performance, reduce risk and protect revenue. Get 2x the advance warning over public sources to minimize risks, avoid costly shutdowns and detect disruptions before they occur. Quickly adjust distribution and operational needs, create new sales opportunities and keep customers and revenue safe. Keep staff, customers and data centers safe in advance of severe weather across multiple facilities. Prepare in advance of severe weather and optimize outdoor project schedules by leveraging weather insights. Manage portfolio risk ahead of impact to ensure business continuity and gain competitive advantage by serving your clients first. Our healthcare solutions include a two-tiered warning system that helps you make operational decisions, keep patients safe and anticipate patient influx.

IBM strives to combine accurate weather data with industry-leading science and technology to better inform consumers’ daily actions and support smarter decision-making for businesses. Universal and powerful, weather has a serious effect on people’s emotions and behaviors. From food and clothing choices to taking shelter after a tornado alert, millions of decisions are made every day based on the weather. As part of IBM’s commitment to being essential, we are focused on using our knowledge, scale, technology and trust to advance the science of accurate weather forecasting and help people everywhere make better decisions. Weather also serves a critical role in business intelligence, such as guiding the route a pilot takes to avoid turbulence, when a farmer fertilizes their crops or how an energy company mobilizes its crews after a power outage. Everyone deserves accurate and reliable weather forecasts and data.