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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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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Watson Discovery is helping us in building production -ready tools that perform semantic searches. By combining the power of NLP, it creates documentation pipelines that define data flows & also the sentiments of our end users.
It's not suitable for firms that are not yet digitized in terms of documentation.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If your main goal is to only analyse data that only includes texts, then you should go with IBM Watson Discovery as it is really good at it and the API that it provides is really powerful and analyses almost every types of file. But if your data includes images, then IBM Watson Discovery may not be the best choice for you as it struggles with OCR.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
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
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
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.
Leah Patterson Moore | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
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
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.
Kenzie Cranston Lee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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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