It handles 26 billion inquiries on its cloud based system daily, this is several times more than the world’s leading search engine.The Weather Company is the world’s most widely recognised weather media company across many platforms with weather data being used by 750+ broadcasters globally. Some interesting statistics about The Weather Company The acquisition closed on 29 th January 2016. The TV segment – The Weather Channel – was not acquired but now licenses weather forecast data and analytics from IBM under a long-term contract. IBM acquired The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web properties, including WSI,, Weather Underground and The Weather Company brand. Has The Weather Company data been used elsewhere within IBM Watson IoT?.Why is weather so important to asset health?.How has Maximo been effected by the acquisition of The Weather Company?.How can Weather Alerts help businesses?.What B2B Weather Data Packages are available?.What industries does The Weather Company typically operate in?.Is the weather forecast provided by The Weather Company accurate?.Some interesting statistics about The Weather Company.It certainly seemed a strange acquisition, but knowing that asset deterioration and performance can be effected by weather, that the efficiency of field working and worker safety are similarly affected my reaction was a positive one, but the question had remained a mystery until I recently did a bit of research. On 28 th October 2015 at the time of the announcement that IBM was to acquire The Weather Company I was an IBMer.

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