KuppingerCole Report
Executive View
By Anne Bailey

IBM Watson

IBM Watson is a computing platform that aims to meet the AI needs of any organization – those that wish to develop projects themselves, or those who wish to gain standard capabilities quickly. The comprehensive attention to data management, analytics, model training, deployment, and lifecycle management make the portfolio of IBM Watson products a strong choice for enterprises.
By Anne Bailey
aba@kuppingercole.com

Content of Figures

  1. Figure 1 The IBM Data and AI Portfolio. Image © IBM

1 Introduction

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a buzzword with many strong business cases that most enterprises are ready to embrace and, thanks to the abundance of ...

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2 Product Description

IBM has developed a concept it calls the AI Ladder to provide organizations with an understanding of where they are in their AI journey as well as a f ...

Running on Cloud Pak for Data are a number of products that target different steps along the AI pipeline. For example, Watson Knowledge Catalog meets ...

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3 Strengths and Challenges

There are some clear strengths offered by IBM’s platform for data and AI. IBM is a global player with a wide partner ecosystem. For the organization ...

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4 Related Research

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