With IBM Streams, organizations can see events and trends as they are happening rather than react to them after they have passed. Thanks to its ability to bring meaning to unwieldy bodies of fast-moving data streams, the technology has already achieved success across a wide spectrum of industries. Any organization that requires immediate, accurate analysis and business decisions based on up-to-the-minute information can benefit from Streams.

IBM Streams V4.2 is poised for continued growth with new Python and Rules developer support, Internet of Things (IoT) Edge analytics, and Hyperstate Accelerator. Streams V4.2 offers the following benefits:

• Python developers can call the extensive Streams analytic libraries along with thousands of Python libraries to run on Streams, creating real-time analytic processing applications.
• Based on industry-leading capabilities from IBM Operational Decision Manager, Streams developers can now create rules that are compiled to run natively on Streams for superior runtime performance.
• New support for Apache Edgent enables Streams developers to create federated applications. These applications can optimize computing for IoT applications with Edgent at the edge, and Streams for central analytics. IBM Watson™ IoT Platform on Bluemix® can be used as a management service.
• Speech to Text toolkit enables Streams to analyze English language speech and convert it to text for further analysis and insight.
• With its high-speed, Hyperstate Accelerator, Streams natively supports state management and event playback for processing at very high speed. The need for Stream processing has been growing quickly, as sensors and machines produce more and more data. You can now acquire, analyze, and act on data in real time to gain competitive advantage.

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