IBM Watson Analytics delivers a unified analytics experience on the cloud and helps you focus on the drivers that matter most in your business
IBM United States Software Announcement 214-475December 16, 2014
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The key capabilities of Watson™ Analytics include:
- An engaging user experience
- Data access and refinement
- Data discovery
- Guided analytic discovery
- Interactive dashboards
- Natural language interface
- Cloud-based agility
- Ready for mobile
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IBM Watson™ Analytics delivers a unified analytics experience on the cloud and helps you focus on the drivers that matter most in your business. By automating the steps of data access and refinement, predictive analysis, and visual storytelling, Watson Analytics immediately identifies and explains hidden patterns and relationships to accelerate your understanding of why things happened and what is likely to happen.
Watson Analytics lets you ask the right questions and get results in the familiar terms of your business. Just as the first spreadsheet program made financial calculations easier for anyone with a PC, Watson Analytics opens up the world of advanced analytics to all business users on the cloud.
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Watson Analytics requires a supported browser.
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December 16, 2014
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Watson Analytics key capabilities:
- Engaging user experience: Watson Analytics adapts to every user's dynamic approach for thinking and understanding, in order to customize which results and how results are shown. Whether they are starting from a question, testing a hypothesis, or beginning from a story suggested by Watson Analytics, business users have the freedom to dig as deeply as they want and move seamlessly between discovering insights, predicting outcomes, understanding results, and sharing dashboards or infographics.
- Data access and refinement: Watson Analytics accesses data and uniquely scores the readiness of your data for analysis, highlighting potential data issues that could compromise results.
- Data discovery: Watson Analytics lets you visually explore and interact with your data to find the obvious patterns and derive useful insights.
- Guided analytic discovery: With embedded predictive analytics that automatically performs statistical correlations, prediction, and key driver analysis, Watson Analytics directs business users to what matters most and ensures they are drawing the correct conclusions based not only on what has happened but on what is likely to happen next.
- Interactive dashboards: Watson Analytics takes the guesswork out of how to best show what is important in your data and automatically recommends the most effective visualization to convey the results you are looking for. With a few clicks, users can further alter chart types and data to fully customize the interactive visualizations to meet the needs of the business.
- Natural language interface: Simply type in what you would like to see and Watson Analytics produces comprehensive results that explain why things happened and what is likely to happen, all in the familiar terms of your business. As you interact with the results, you can continually fine-tune your questions to get to the heart of the matter.
- Cloud-based agility: Watson Analytics is available anytime, anywhere on the cloud.
- Ready for mobile: Use your tablet for analysis on the go.
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| Program number |
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Program Program number name 5725-R69 IBM Watson Analytics
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Product information is available via the Offering Information website
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Supported browsers:
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- Internet Explorer 11
- Firefox 32 and Firefox 31 ESR
- Safari 6 and 7
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