Behind the Code: Meet Zia Mohammad
February 10, 2020 | Trends and Profiles
As a product manager on IBM’s Watson Platform team, Zia Mohammad oversees Natural Language Understanding offerings such as Language Translator and Tone Analyzer. Zia also teaches at IBM’s Project Management Bootcamp. We talked to him about why he chose to work in AI, where he sees the field going in 2020, and what other tech ...read more
The defining moments of IBM Watson last decade
January 16, 2020 | Trends and Profiles
Unveiled to the world just under a decade ago, today, IBM Watson is being used by millions of people in thousands of different ways to unlock the value of data in new and profound ways. Across countless industries, Watson is helping businesses around the world harness their data, increase productivity, and improve customer experiences with the ...read more
Behind the code: Meet Mitch Mason
January 6, 2020 | Trends and Profiles
Mitch Mason is Senior Offering Manager for IBM Watson Assistant, a cloud service that allows developers to build and train AI chatbots, or “virtual assistants.” Mitch has been recognized as a leader in the chatbot space and is guiding an effort to help businesses integrate conversational interactions into their applications with Watson. We took some ...read more
What’s next for NLP?
December 20, 2019 | AI for the Enterprise, Watson APIs
In my posts over the past few months, I’ve explained what NLP is, why it’s the backbone of AI integration in industries today, and how NLP can be put to work inside organizations. As we close out 2019 and look ahead to 2020, I want to address the future of NLP, where I see it ...read more
IBM Watson enables your business to get started with text-analytics
December 19, 2019 | AI for the Enterprise, Discovery and Exploration
What are text analytics? Text analytics can help organizations discover patterns in large unstructured data sets. Unstructured data, such as videos, photos and audio accounts for at least 80% of your company’s data, a true “blind spot” for most businesses. Add to this the fact that every second companies around the world add data to ...read more
Run Watson Language Translator service on any cloud
December 16, 2019 | News and Updates, Watson APIs
At IBM, we understand that you need a fully-integrated data and AI platform that modernizes how you collect, organize and analyze data on a global scale. As businesses expand to new markets, the need for multilingual support is key. Our answer to this challenge is the Watson Language Translator service. From the translation of internal ...read more
How to provide a seamless chat experience with ServiceNow and Watson
December 5, 2019 | Conversational Services
The customer service challenge A new generation of customers expect quality service anytime, anywhere, on the channel they choose, and in the language of their choice. If they do not receive immediate support, your business may end up losing a customer. Businesses today can simply not afford to sacrifice their quality of customer service. One ...read more
Watson Discovery’s new NLP feature prepare enterprises for LIBOR transition
December 4, 2019 | AI for the Enterprise
As a business owner, shielding your company from risk is among your primary concerns. You want to make certain that your decisions are security minded, sound and based on the best available data. So, when a scandal erupts around the longest running global interest rate standard – the London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR – ...read more
IBM announces new industry-leading NLP features inside Watson Discovery
December 4, 2019 | AI for the Enterprise, Discovery and Exploration
Do you want to better understand the insights hidden within your essential business documents? It’s time to try Watson Discovery – recognized by both Gartner and Forrester as a leader in extracting insights – for your AI search app needs. In July 2019, IBM Watson coupled Watson Discovery with IBM’s Cloud Pak for Data integration ...read more