IBM is announcing a collaborative development initiative with Lightbend, the provider of the world’s leading Reactive Application Development Platform, to help advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive solutions in the enterprise.
IBM is announcing a collaborative development initiative with Lightbend, the provider of the world’s leading Reactive Application Development Platform, to help advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive solutions in the enterprise.
The collaboration will create new code, tools and documentation that will be designed to help developers build Java- and Scala-based applications on the Lightbend Reactive Platform. Joint solutions will provide a complete toolchain for Java and Scala developers to easily build and deploy AI and cognitive applications in both on-premise and cloud environments.
Lightbend’s current Reactive Platform is powered by an open source core and brings developers capabilities across reactive programming, data and microservices. IBM will integrate these capabilities across its own cloud platform and portfolio of cloud services, including data analytics, cognitive and machine learning, the Watson data platform and more. All will be designed to extend new capabilities to Java and Scala communities. Developers across enterprises and startups will be able to take advantage of the latest cognitive and AI technologies and to make the most of existing investments.
“We believe the use of the Lightbend Reactive Platform is essential to building today’s modern infrastructures, ” says Bob Lord, IBM’s chief digital officer. “Lightbend represents IBM’s continuous commitment to the Java and Scala communities. Java and Scala are the languages of cognitive and AI development, and cognitive development is the future. The collaboration between IBM and Lightbend can help enterprise developers build cognitive applications and accelerate the era of cognitive computing.”
The Lightbend Reactive Platform will to be available in the coming weeks through IBM’s Cloud as an integrated bundled solution with WebSphere Application Server. More information is available on the Lightbend website.
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