This sounds a bit too good to be true, and an awfully good way for IBM to sell it's consulting services. How can a system be capable of analyzing financial data

This sounds a bit too good to be true, and an awfully good way for IBM to sell it's consulting services. How can a system be capable of analyzing financial data, weather system, medical information, etc. without someone plugging in all of the data sources and explicitly telling the system how to correlate the data -- of course to do that you simply pay for a large helping of consulting... cha-ching! Maybe I'm missing something fundamental (the article was vague) but I just don't see anything really new here. I read it as marketing.