Overview

Let’s dig less yet discover more

What if you could discover deeper insights buried inside your business documents with less effort in a fraction of the time?   

With IBM Watson® Discovery, automate search and content analysis so experts make faster decisions and have more time for high-value work. That means faster business results, satisfied customers, and happier employees.  

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Find answers

Find answers

Comb through complex documents in multiple content formats including PDF, HTML, table, images, websites to get the most relevant passage along with the source documents.

Discover insights

Discover insights

Glean insights from natural language information sources with smart document understanding and content analysis to inform decision making.

Ask chatbots

Ask chatbots

Experience conversational search where virtual assistants engage with you in natural language and respond to your queries with answers and insights.

Watson Discovery named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Insights Engines

How does it work?

Smart document understanding

Smart document understanding

Use machine learning to visually label text, tables and images to surface the most relevant results in the format you want. 

Business domain adaptability

Business domain adaptability

Integrate custom NLP and natural language understanding (NLU) models that can be trained for your business domain and constantly improve through reinforcement learning. 

Flexible deployment options

Flexible deployment options

Deploy virtually anywhere, on-premises or any cloud, and scale easily across the enterprise with IBM Cloud Pak® for Data. 

Additional features

Additional features

Learn how Watson Discovery uses natural language to pinpoint answers, find trends, enhance chatbots and more. 

Reports

Leader in document text analytics

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Leader in document text analytics

Watson Discovery was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Document-Oriented Text Analytics Platforms, receiving highest scores for product vision, architecture and automation.

Leader in text analytics

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Leader in text analytics

Watson Discovery was again named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ AI-Based Text Analytics (People-Focused) report receiving the highest score for strategy and market presence. 

Leader in insights engines

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Leader in insights engines

For the third consecutive year, IBM Watson Discovery is recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Insights Engines.

Related products

IBM Watson® Assistant

Address customer requests across channels like digital and voice channels. Guide employees through internal processes, allowing your teams to focus on higher-value work—all while reducing costs.

IBM Watson® Natural Language Understanding

Analyze text to extract metadata from content such as concepts, entities, keywords, categories, sentiment, emotion, and semantic roles.

IBM Watson® Speech to Text

Transcribe your audio with near real-time dictation or batch audio files using our available API that provides out-of-the-box language models, audio frequency options, and transcription output features.

Next steps

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