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IBM watsonx Assistant

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What is IBM watsonx Assistant?

IBM offers watsonx Assistant, an AI and natural language driven chatbot designed to allow anyone to deploy a chatbot in an app or website.

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Recent Reviews

Gen-AI that does the work for you

8 out of 10
December 04, 2023
This is one of the solution we considered for our customer success team, it was intended to become a "complimentary" for our existing …
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Conversational AI at its best

9 out of 10
August 31, 2023
IBM watsonx Assistant has allowed the reduction of telephone contacts and assistance to users. IBM watsonx Assistant is an invaluable …
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Product Details

What is IBM watsonx Assistant?

IBM watsonx Assistant is a conversational AI solution designed to build AI assistants that scale across a business, while providing customers and employees with fast, consistent and accurate answers across any messaging platform, application, device or channel. Using generative AI and natural language understanding, Assistant learns from customer conversations, improving its ability to resolve issues the first time while removing the frustration of long wait times, tedious searches and unhelpful chatbots.

Most chatbots try to mimic human interactions, frustrating customers when a misunderstanding arises. IBM watsonx Assistant gives users tools to build AI-assistants designed to know when to search for an answer from a knowledge base, when to ask for clarity and when to direct users to a human agent for more assistance. And it can be deployed in any cloud or on-premises environment, offering integrations to a business's existing tools.




IBM watsonx Assistant Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM offers watsonx Assistant, an AI and natural language driven chatbot designed to allow anyone to deploy a chatbot in an app or website.

IBM watsonx Assistant starts at $0.

Amazon Lex, Azure Bot Service (Microsoft Bot Framework), and Amazon Connect are common alternatives for IBM watsonx Assistant.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of IBM watsonx Assistant are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Hamzah Iessar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Tidio is very very basic and it is not having adequate NLP understanding let alone be sarcasm in language that is a far far distant thing so that's why it was a no from my end to Tidio.With Chatfuel there was only English language in focus and for our business we needed the both of above mentioned limitations so that's how I landed to watsonx Assistant and it worked quite fine for me leveraging everything I was missing out on.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I mean Einstein is fine and is going into the right direction but it's a bit limited for now. In the future it will be fine. IBM watsonx Assistant is more reliable, more intuitive, more natural and pretty much has what you need. Using Einstein is great in some particular and basic scenarios, however IBM watsonx Assistant is something you would implement pretty much everywhere.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Watsonx Assistant is distinguished by its ability to understand natural language and its ability to adapt and learn over time. This allows for a more natural and personalized interaction with customers, enhancing the user experience. In addition, Watson Assistant offers a wide range of advanced features, such as intent recommendations, disambiguation, speech and text integration, and conflict resolution.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Those tools are complimenting each other, in my short interaction with this tool, this is like having a gen-AI tool that work for your business with a comprehensive documentation and available technical support to answer your questions. Bear in mind that this solution can be up and running in matter of hours, so measure your load and ROI carefully, as once you go using this kind of tool, it will be hard to have a same consistency level if you are using human agent
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
They are related - coming from the stable of IBM only. IBM Watson assistant specifically suited my pilot project because it was pretty straightforward and intuitive. IBM Watson Studio seemed to me like more of a super set, which could easily have all the features of IBM Watson Assistant - but then, the price also would be higher.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Watson Assistant has a competitive cost structure, is easy to integrate with Intercom, and is more scalable as we look to future enhancements such as speech-to-text, document upload/analytics, and natural language processing across multiple languages.

IBM technical support / case resolution is good.

IBM updates / communication, product enhancements are clearly communicated.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Its a great tool to use it in conversational chatbots, data retrieval virtual agent very easily. It provides results with good accuracy. Development is not a big task, its almost ready enterprise product.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Dialogflow (formerly Api.ai)
Mainly the UI of DialogFlow is not at all developer friendly which will definitely move you to IBM Watson [Assistant] which has the clear UI with multiple options arranged in [a] usable manner.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Watson Assistant is doing great as other tools directly search from the internet and it need to understand all the algorithm to fetch the right answer. Also design of this is very difficult as they need to much of data feed where as IBM's tool can train by itself using both adaptive and predictive studio.

Its in Great shape and looking forward for more enhancements.
Leonardo Biazom | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Watson Assistant provides a highly intuitive and user-friendly interface, making it accessible to non-technical users to easily create and deploy conversational agents. Additionally, being a cloud-based platform, it eliminates the need for manual retraining of the bot after each modification, saving time and resources for businesses. This combination of user-friendliness and automation makes watsonx Assistant an ideal choice for building conversational agents at scale.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
I have not yet evaluated other products like IBM Watson Assistant, but I have read that Kore.ai competes well with IBM Watson Assistant for the first place as a market leader, and it has won the first place due to a number of reasons, including a more intuitive and customizable UI, a huge library of APIs and more extension possibilities, especially with open source tools. Not to mention that IBM Watson Assistant is slightly more expensive than Kore.ai in terms of subscriptions. I look forward to evaluating Kore.ai with a hands-on approach in order to be able to provide a more thorough review of the product in the near future.
November 04, 2022

Watson Assistant review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WA unifies several features of the products presented above, in a way that simplifies the creation of a bot that uses conversational features. Compared to competing products, WA presented more features compatible with my needs, which include variable responses depending on the intent and entities identified during data collection with the user.
November 01, 2022

Watson Review.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft NLP approaches are interesting and powerful, but they don't have an easy way to model the interaction between actions like Watson, and they don't have a powerful way to test your virtual agent while you build them. Salesforce Einstein is a basic platform and doesn't have a powerful NLP engine.
Segundo Leon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft's NLP approaches are interesting and powerful, but they don't have an easy way to model the interaction between actions like watsonx, and they don't have a powerful way to test your virtual agents while you build them. Salesforce Einstein is a basic platform and doesn't have a powerful NLP engine.
Jainal Gosaliya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Dialogflow
This part of the review might be not as comprehensive as we haven't done a deep comparison. For our internal use cases, we are already using IBM Watson APIs for speech, text, and image recognition in our products. So it kind of makes sense to continue using the IBM Watson suite of products and our response till now is quite satisfactory with all of the services. Although we still had a little experience trying out Google's Dialogflow for our use case and here is my complete assessment based on our needs.

We found that IBM watsonx's prebuilt frontend GUI is a better alternative and Dialogflow didn't have such options.

Due to the multilingual feature of Dialogflow, it sometimes confused some parts of customers' queries with something else and we didn't need the multilingual part as our use case was English only.

The NLP and machine learning part of IBM watsonx was more broad and accurate than Dialogflow.

The integration with other services was more straightforward and broad in IBM watsonx Assistant.
Shadi Khalifa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Watson Assistant is way more generic than ManyChat. It delivers more functionality and gives developers that flexibility to do whatever they want, pretty much. It is also way better in terms of natural language understanding and understanding concepts such as time, money, and people's names. IBM Watson Assistant also offers APIs that makes it very easy to programmatically generate and manipulate conversations in realtime.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
My company is currently using Adobe Analytics, as we use a variety of products from the Adobe suite, so it has integrated very well. In comparison, the learning curve was little to non-existent as our experience with trials and training, let alone customer support from Adobe was 7-star worthy. Salesforce Einstein does not compare to the level of feedback and product capabilities that Watson or even Adobe offer, but it's a great starting point for smaller companies that lack the budget or analytics team for the actual analytics from these platforms. SAP was a bit of a thunderstorm experience - we had power and system outages while implementing, so we never got the full experience. Yet our IT department said there was something strange about the integration that caused us to have to overhaul our entire intranet after we exited that product's usage.
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