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What is IBM Watson Discovery?

IBM offers Watson Discovery, a natural language processing (NLP) application with options to measure sentiment, detect entities, semantic roles, and other concepts.

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What is IBM Watson Discovery?

Watson Discovery is a Natural Language AI platform for discovering relevant answers and insights among natural language information sources. Watson Discovery’s Smart Document Understanding and Natural Language Models are trained to recognize both the structure and domain specific language of complex documents in multiple content formats that include PDF, HTML, tables, images, websites etc. The out-of-box and low-code offering can be configured by the business domain experts with little to no support from IT.

IBM Watson Discovery Features

  • Supported: Smart Document Understanding
  • Supported: Semantic Search
  • Supported: Content Mining

IBM Watson Discovery Technical Details

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

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IBM offers Watson Discovery, a natural language processing (NLP) application with options to measure sentiment, detect entities, semantic roles, and other concepts.

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The most common users of IBM Watson Discovery are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have a huge amount of complex events to analyze and find value on their patterns. In this way, our test environments with IBM Watson Discovery demonstrated to be really useful. We also tried to do the same with ChatGPT and other similar AI tools.
  • Saves a lot of time analyzing documents
  • Generates interesting insights from them (non evident)
  • Performs with an acceptable performance over complex information
  • Language feature (currently in Beta stage) that's really necessary for our field. We analyze lots of documents related to items sold. This data contains lots of language specific information.
  • Better insights on the ingestion process, in order to detect errors or failures.
  • Better documentation on every step of its data processing.
You have lots of sold items data and you look for patterns that would been useful for your customers (usually e-shops). In this case, that's great to process with stability massive amounts of information and finding answers to questions still not asked.

Also business as usual insights are provided in a reasonable time. What still should be clearer, imho, that's how to the process performs internally and if we are doing good or poor use of the tool (also an AI based advisor would be great).
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I was able to use IBM Watson Discovery to revise our company policies and regulations. We made amendments and made sure to include all important details. Plus, we used references to provide in-depth details on each regulation. There were a lot of documents that we needed to review in a limited amount of time, and Watson helped.
  • Fast results.
  • Provides overview and references that we could use as basis on other documents.
  • Easy to use!
  • I believe AI should be more flexible about providing data. However, it's understandable that you need to provide the details you need in a more specific and detailed way.
  • The interface could use more tweaking. Being new to the program, it was kind of hard to navigate.
  • Luckily, there was a customized feature of the dashboard that I could set up, and having something that you know where you are placed always feels familiar and comfortable.
IBM Watson Discovery has been very helpful in providing references when we amended policies and regulations. Later, we also applied it by making our standard operating procedures per each platform and program we used. We were initially reluctant to try it, but it's a good thing that Watson offers a free trial.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We're using IBM's Watson X as part of the application engineering excellence to create applications using lesser bugs and more standardized coding practices in the local as well as higher environments.
  • Automated code generation
  • data extrapolation
  • data filtering
  • User Interface
  • technical documentation
This is an average software used mostly in legacy environments to quickly enhance a given project with minimum of breaks. However, this has to be judiciously applied to ensure that there is not any form of issues which may arise in future.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Watson Discovery to search and answer questions about business documents using NLP and Large Language Models from IBM Research. In our campaign, we handle different software that is difficult for some of our employees and we use IBM Watson Discovery to resolve those questions. Is easy to use and understand.
  • Transform questions to simple Ideas.
  • Bring fantastic solution.
  • Is easy to use and understand.
IBM Watson Discovery is really amazing creating powerful search functionalities for organizations dealing with extensive amounts of documents, manuals, and internal databases. Also with Customer Support and Chatbots, can be employed to enhance customer support systems by quickly retrieving relevant information from diverse data sources, aiding in faster issue resolution. Is always recommended by our Company.
Leah Patterson Moore | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This high-quality Artificial Intelligence Platform maintains consistency in the monitoring of all data while having an optimal automation system for internal processes, making this software ideal for any organization that remains in constant dealing with customers, that is, its ability to reduce the work done by customer service representatives is unbeatable, which makes all responses and content clearer and resolution easy and fast.
  • It is an excellently fast platform with documents and the answers to queries.
  • With automation learning beneficial as it saves time.
  • When searching for a document, everything stays located and easy to find.
  • Acceptance of various documents.
  • It has a quite comfortable Technical support, always available when required.
  • It should have a lot more free features, at least in the beginning, to get more information and dig deep.
  • Some improvements in its interface I would like to see in new updates.
With this work tool, work time is significantly reduced since everything is automated and controlled. Several documents are ingested simultaneously, consulting automatically. It is a great solution for your business, with a good follow-up of potential clients, helping them with whatever they need; we also have the best learning system and powerful text analysis. We recommend IBM Watson Discovery; it will help in the growth of the organization.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Watson Discovery is like our document superhero. It dives into texts, understanding them with Smart Document Understanding. Imagine it as a wizard—using Optical Character Recognition to pull insights from images, even in tricky situations. No more keyword struggles; it guides us smoothly through documents with JSON output. Natural Language Processing adds emotions to the mix, enriching our understanding. It's user-friendly, letting us shape it without tech headaches. Custom entity extraction? It's like teaching it our own language. From insurance to legal jargon, Watson Discovery makes our work feel like a breeze.
  • Insightful Image Text Extraction: Its OCR excels in extracting insights from images, overcoming challenges like irregular fonts and low resolution.
  • Best NLP of Watson, Watson Discovery's faceted search and NLP enrichments redefine document searches, offering intuitive navigation and nuanced insights for better decision-making.
  • IBM Can Enhanced There OCR Adaptability.
  • Simplifying the process of custom entity extraction could enhance user experience.
In our education sector, Watson Discovery is well-suited for analyzing academic research papers. Researchers and educators can leverage its capabilities to swiftly extract insights, navigate through extensive documents, and apply Natural Language Processing enrichments. This aids in efficiently identifying key concepts, sentiments, and relationships within scholarly content, streamlining the research process.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I leverage its NLP technology to efficiently process large documents, addressing challenges in information retrieval and analysis. Its scope often includes enhancing search functionalities, extracting key insights, and accelerating decision-making processes. The advanced NLP capabilities contribute to quick bug document processing, improving overall operational efficiency.
  • Process large documents and can track with tags
  • The tool automates complex document comprehension, swiftly extracting crucial information to streamline workflows.
  • First of all they have to make it cost effective
  • Secondly, this tool consumption of RAM is quite high I want you to make more user friendly
In industry like technology, where comprehensive analysis of research for many pages and technical documents is crucial, IBM Watson Discovery shines by swiftly extracting relevant information, aiding in informed decision-making. With the help of IBM Watson we can read and get summary of huge amount of pages in quick time.
Sure Sai Venkata Krishna Sahit | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Watson Discovery is wonderful place to make out new innovations which involve standard and consistent performance.
  • Analyzes Data
  • Prepares machine learning models on top of foundation models
  • Allows usage of prompting on large language models
  • A cheat sheet or section help me making use of models more easier
  • Valuable series or learning sections which can diversify the usage of each option
  • Standards and sample case studies which can help in building LLMS
It is well suited well defined and structured case datasets and works moderately with less data and logic which needs to be improved.
Kenzie Cranston Lee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This platform has allowed us to have a constant analysis and tracking of all our data. It has an automation system for better internal processes. IBM Watson Discovery has the capabilities to take your business on a better path, with its various management features, to make the best decisions for your organization. Resolving customer cases is easier with this tool; all are resolved within a time limit. Document selection system according to importance.
  • Client monitoring.
  • Data analysis and management.
  • Automation system.
  • Its integration is a bit complex to understand in the first instance.
  • I would like to see file customization options.
It offers us a system for machine learning and text analysis. IBM Watson Discovery is a great solution to implement; with it, we can have the improvements we want in a short time. It is also a good method for us to follow up with our potential clients and help them fully resolve their cases. It is really useful; implementing it does not take much time, and also the results are seen in a short time.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Watson for several things:<br><ol><li>Content Analysis</li><li>Personalization</li><li>Knowledge Management</li></ol>The scope ranges from analyzing educational content to providing personalized recommendations and improving knowledge management.
  • Content Anaylsis
  • Personalization
  • Knowledge Management
  • Quality of Data
  • Limited Training
  • Contextual Understanding
Customer Support: Watson Discovery is used to improve our customer support by analyzing customer feedback and support tickets. By extracting insights from customer inquiries, Watson Discovery can identify common issues and provide recommended solutions to support agents.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Watson Discovery has helped us and our clients tap into loads of data sources, create collections with documents, enrich these documents, and allow us to search through them and get answers to questions it took us a long time to find in the past, and now it takes us only a few seconds to search and find what we are looking for. This has helped free up our staff's schedules to focus on more important issues rather than spend hours and weeks manually searching documents to find a needle in a haystack.
  • Searching through big collections of documents has never been easier thanks to Discovery's ability to identify, classify, profile, tag, and even split documents to allow for optimized search results.
  • IBM Watson Discovery is by far the go-to tool for mining data collections and getting deeper insights, thanks to the recent release of the Data Miner feature and its amazing graphic interface.
  • Another thing Discovery does well is the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Smart Document Understanding (SDU) features to train and learn the structures of documents which makes it super easy to find and highlight answers to complex questions.
  • Discovery does not have an end-user interface which makes it a little cumbersome for the non-technical audience. One needs to figure out how to leverage open-source technology to create a simple UI to interface with Discovery, but I believe IBM Dev teams ought to create an intuitive UI similar to that of Watson Assistant and make it easier for both technical and non-technical audiences to use Discovery with ease.
  • Another issue we faced with Discovery was when we tried to ingest very technical documents with less text and more engineering diagrams and ended up with a bit of a mess because Discovery did not manage to parse them correctly, but that is being fixed by IBM Dev team as far as I know. IBM is enhancing its OCR to allow for better recognition and understanding of advanced engineering graphs and diagrams.
  • After having tested the newly released Data Miner on IBM Watson Discovery, my impression is that it is targeting a niche audience of SMEs and technical people who understand what to mine for and comprehend the overly complicated graphs generated. I believe IBM should work on simplifying the UI as well as the way graphs are being displayed to allow business users to leverage this awesome feature.
Overall, IBM Watson Discovery is an amazing technology that we use with our clients to address various business problems, but the biggest challenge has always been about ingesting, analyzing, enriching, and searching huge collections of documents and allowing our end users and SMEs to be able to search for what they need to reduce the time and efforts spent daily on a manual search through various collections of documents. We have successfully managed to reduce manual work by over 80%, and now our SMEs are being used for the skills they have to gather insights rather than do manual work.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In the technical area, it took us about six months to train a new analyst in the systems developed by the company so that after this training period, he/she would be able to provide assistance to customers autonomously; even so, the support and monitoring of a full analyst is necessary. As doubts about features, parameterization, and even error correction are frequent, they need to resort to the support of another analyst or even escalate the level of service. As we have a library of documents and manuals on the use of the systems, as well as technical documentation, we were able to create a chatbot with Watson Assistant and integrate it with the Watson Discovery service to include in the answers sent to technicians, the documentation associated with the item it was researching, this ensured that we maintained a standard of knowledge in the company, reduced the need for support from a full or senior analyst in the assistance of the junior analyst, and disseminated all the new features and procedures of our systems in a centralized and accessible way.
  • Ease of including documents for research.
  • Support for multiple file formats.
  • Multi Language Support for documents.
  • Easy implementation.
  • Web scrapers is so hard to use.
  • High Cost.
  • Poor UI/UX, it's not easy to novice users.
Whether using it as a standalone search tool, integrating with other IBM Watson products, or using the API to integrate with proprietary or third-party systems and applications, Watson Discovery addresses these and many other scenarios where document search is required -- understand- if here documents can be pdf, doc, txt files, websites, among other formats --, don't confuse Watson Discovery with EDRMS (Electronic document and records management system) software, Discovery goes further, allowing text search to be done within a context using natural language (NLU) and returning not only the search term but also insights and related issues. File indexing works very well, and training Discovery so that documents and technical terms are learned a bit of work, but it can be reduced by using some of the learning models already trained and available for use.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Watson Discovery to enrich self-serve customer capability by enabling intelligent search and retrieval of relevant content based on intent recognition. Watson Discovery resulted in a much more user-friendly and efficient way for customers to access our FAQs as opposed to having to read through static content.
  • Web crawl.
  • Create content libraries.
  • Optimises search via machine learning.
  • The Plus Plan only allowed 3 concurrent Discovery instances which was too limiting.
  • It took a long time to configure web crawl content.
Watson Discovery worked well with Watson Assistant. It unlocked the following capabilities: FAQs: Retrieve relevant information based on user inputs/intent recognition. Allowed Watson Assistant to make recommendations / upsell based on our partnerships /supplier offerings. Rather than have to maintain static content and update it whenever things changed, we simply enabled web crawl or deep linking.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Watson Discovery is helping our business and clients with the housekeeping of data from our servers. We filter data as per our needs by using IBM Watson Discovery and keep data in separate departments. We need not to do these things manually now, which saves a lot of time and effort for our employees.
  • Helps in filtering data without any manual effort.
  • It's AI is very powerful and accurate in all process.
  • Very easy in implementation-- Doesn't need much training for the integration purpose.
  • Yes, it is right that it saves a lot of capital by automating things but pricing is on the higher side for the IBM Watson Discovery.
Our banking clients have a lot of old unwanted data of their users on the server, which increases the server cost as well as creates much load on the server. So, here with the help of IBM Watson Discovery, we automate our process of housekeeping.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Discovery works purely on NLP and machine learning. We have multiple BMC Helix chatbots which are integrated with IBM Watson. IBM Watson is extended with Knowledge Articles through the help of IBM Discovery through crawler, one of the great features of IBM Discovery. Because of IBM Discovery training, we have a drastic change in our statistics of ChatBot accuracy.
  • Great use of NLP.
  • Great use of ML.
  • Can train itself through files like, word, powerpoint etc.
  • Gives proper suggestion as per the training.
  • The confidence threshold can be improved.
  • Sentiment extraction from the document can be improved.
If you have a ChatBot that is built using IBM Watson and you have to extend it by your knowledge articles, then IBM Discovery is the best. If you want to manage your knowledge articles as a standalone application, then I would prefer a different platform rather than IBM Discovery.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Assist clients to manage a large number of documents, understanding the content of corpus through NLP technology, and finding insights from them. Mainly used in customer service center data analysis, social media opinion analysis, enterprise internal document(like email) linkages analysis, etc.
  • document structure model
  • customized language model
  • Proven Solutions
  • knowledge graph
  • Algorithm disclosure
Watson Discovery can be quickly introduced into the enterprise, with no need for someone who is proficient in NLP technology, and a good UI design can assist the business side to quickly conduct NLP analysis and understand the analysis results.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Watson Discovery is helpful software to provide us with an amazing automation process for the organization. It helps us to fetch a great value from pdf and HTML files, moreover, we can set up the required entities at the bot and after that, it automatically finds the data and enriches it. IBM Watson Discovery has a great option to check the useful insights of data and can integrate it with a third-party tool.
  • Data Extraction
  • Data Visualization
  • Bot Automation
  • More control on web scrapper
This software is great that helping us to read the bulk of documents. We have used IBM Watson discovery to extract the data from a portable document format with our desired components. In my using experience IBM Watson Discovery text reader with the power of AI suggestions and get more useful insights.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using IBM Watson Discovery over the past two years. The solution we are developing uses IBM Watson Discovery for ingesting multiple documents and then querying these documents to extract the relevant content. The way we designed the solution has each paragraph representing an IBM Watson Discovery document because we wanted to return the relevant paragraph when queried and not the entire PDF.
  • Retrieving relevant documents
  • Ranking documents based on relevancy
  • Fast document ingestion
  • [I feel the] pricing model needs to be changed to consider small documents.
  • Allow multiple document submit through the API.
IBM Watson Discovery is great in terms of retrieving the relevant documents. It's fast in ingesting the documents and in responding to queries. It will work well and it will be cost-efficient when dealing with few large documents. However, the cost grows significantly as the number of documents increases. Which was the case in our solution as we have a lot of very small documents.
May 17, 2021

So Smart

Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is helpful in providing smart automation suggestions and helping better set up our processes. I think it has some good intel and has a lot of fun. I think automation and intelligence will help companies make smarter and better decisions to better suit the consumer. I think it will help businesses make sound decisions and help consumers stay engaged in new ways. I think they have a lot of interesting ways to change businesses that are stuck in their old ways and not thinking of new ways to do things. Stuff like that would really help. I think it is all nice things.
  • Integration
  • Analytics
  • Automations
  • Intelligence
  • Interface
  • Usability
  • Price point
It is well suited to help with automation and artificial intelligence solutions. This provides a lot of help and insight into how we should best position and utilizes our software. They are advanced and so helpful in making our processes smoother. They have a lot of good features. For one-off emails, we don't need IBM Watson Discovery, but for longer campaigns, it is super helpful to have.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My business segment uses it to surface client and prospect insights. It helps us efficiently know where we need to focus our attention on a daily and weekly basis.
  • Data cleanup to reduce duplicate accounts/contacts
  • Pinpointing relevant contracts and documents ahead of renewal conversations
  • Prioritizing leads for timely followup
  • Expediting case resolution
  • Steep learning curve
Useful for expediting case resolution and lead followup.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
After integrating the new IBM Watson Discovery into our Salesforce platform, employees across our entire organization have been able to utilize insights - powered by AI - to make smart, informed decisions when developing digital marketing strategies and implementing them both internally and externally for our clients. Our customer service team, specifically, uses the IBM Watson Discovery to quickly and easily resolve complicated cases for clients.
  • IBM Watson Discovery for Salesforce has improved our customer service response times when it comes to resolving cases for clients.
  • With improved response times, easier resolutions, and less frequent repeat cases, our customer's satisfaction has surely improved since using IBM Watson Discovery for Salesforce.
  • This feature has been a great way to quickly bring new employees up to speed by using it as a tool when training.
  • The system cuts down on the time spent resolving cases but automatically learning from past cases and surfacing the most relevant content.
  • Having more collaborative features for employees across the organization to give and get insight would be helpful.
  • The customization features are great for our organization with the available data integrations.
IBM Watson Discovery for Salesforce is perfect for any organization dealing with customers. It significantly improves response times and lessens the leg work done by customer service representatives. By analyzing past cases, this feature automatically refines responses and surfaces the most relevant content for that particular case, making a resolution for the customer quick and easy.
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