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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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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.

UiPath Document Understanding, Coveo Relevance Cloud, and Amazon Elasticsearch Service are common alternatives for IBM Watson Discovery.

The most common users of IBM Watson Discovery are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Watson Discovery is a very useful data tool that we use and it helps us automate our workflow and increase productivity by efficiently sorting, trimming and analysing our data. It is also integrates really well with other 3rd party and IBM products so you won't run into any issue while using it. Additionally, you can easily generate detailed reports of your analysed data and let me tell you, they can also display the report on a graph too which is really useful and you won't regret using them.
  • Increase your efficiency and overall productivity.
  • Sort, trim and analyse your data.
  • Can provide reports in graphs if needed.
  • High resource consumption which may increase overall cost.
There are several software that would sort, trim and analyse your data but we wanted to get the report of the analysed data in graphs and IBM Watson Discovery does display your reports in graphs if you need them to be. So if you need such functionality then you should go with it though the cost is quite high due to it's heavy resource consumption.
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 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.
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 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 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.
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