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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

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.

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 Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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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.
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 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 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.
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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