IBM Watson Discovery

IBM Watson Discovery

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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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So Smart

3 out of 10
May 17, 2021
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 …
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How IBM Watson Discovery Differs From Its Competitors

Natural Language Processing

IBM Watson Discovery’s natural language processing capabilities has impacted our users’ experience by Improved Search Accuracy: With Watson Discovery's natural language processing capabilities, users can search for information using natural language queries instead of relying on specific …
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Natural Language Processing

IBM Watson Discovery's Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities have hugely and positively impacted our users' experience, especially when we worked with legal SMEs and engineering SMEs. These capabilities helped these SMEs not only identify and, classify and tag documents but also helped …
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Natural Language Processing

Definitely yes. IBM's engine for NLU (Natural Language Understanding) is, if not the best on the market; this in itself reduces the time needed to find what you are looking for, the insights offered by Discovery also help in reducing the search time, as it returns subjects correlated to the …
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Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing in the case of Discovery allowed users to get access to relevant content at the point of initial request as opposed to having to wait for an agent. This is especially powerful for after working hours requests. The analytics features allow us to fine tune and optimise …
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Natural Language Processing

IBM Watson Discovery’s natural language processing capabilities reduce the effort and give correct information.NLP Models are really great for getting the right data. Our team mostly uses content mining or text mining features. NLP Service helps our organization to analyze target phrases for more …
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Natural Language Processing

Our team quickly implemented this product. Also, some senior members trained other employees without any external training. Also, it is efficient and saves time for our employees so they can be more productive.
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Natural Language Processing

The NLP has had a great impact on our customers as we saw a drastic change in our statistics of relevance and irrelevancy. The feature of rating the specific article makes this tool the best in the business as it helps to display the best article at the top in the order.
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Product Details

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

Frequently Asked Questions

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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Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of IBM Watson Discovery are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Kenzie Cranston Lee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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
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
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
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 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In Our Organization, we use IBM Watson Discovery to extract the latest and relevant business insights from web sources or web pages. We also utilize it to find relevant text or data from any documents by just passing the text. IBM Watson Discovery's Natural Language process help to reduce the organization-wide effort in getting correct and meaningful data.
  • Helps in reducing the efforts of the users and gives the correct information.
  • Training system on document contents is fast and easy.
  • Gives most relevant business insights from documents or web pages.
  • Requires lot's of training to start with the system.
  • Document ingestion and converting the document throws errors sometimes, which can be improved.
  • Price of product is bit higher compare to other alternatives.
IBM Watson Discovery really worked well in our organization when it comes to getting relevant and fast data from any documents or other compatible sources. Price of IBM Watson Discovery should be bit less. Effort And training require to use the full potential of the product are very high and it takes too long to get hands on on this system which should be improved.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
No interactions with support to date
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Similar to all IBM Watson and Salesforce product solutions, the overall support would be a 10/10. Their provided FAQ's help with frequently experienced issues and if still unable to figure something out, their customer service representatives are always super responsive. With instant chat functions available, it is easy to ask a quick question rather than sitting on hold.
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