- [Narrator] Data Services, also known as
data microservices, are abundant on the internet
and until IoT, were only accessed by software.
Data services such as weather, mapping and pricing
can provide incredible value to physical products.
Many data services are free, some are not.
But what they have in common are, they're all accessed
with an API.
Once our product has been virtualized, it too can call
APIs just like software.
Consider IBMs Transformation from once a infrastructure
company, to a software company, and then a professional
service company and most recently with their acquisition
of the weather company, and their increased emphasis
on Watson, they've now become both a big data
and analytics company.
Weather isn't the only data IBM is analyzing.
Watson is being used in consumer, commercial, industrial,
and infrastructure IoT.
The transformation of IBM clearly demonstrates where all
companies should be heading.
Since the IoT is virtualized in the software, it can
interface with this rich form of data in the same way that
internet software does today.