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IBM watsonx Assistant

Overview

What is IBM watsonx Assistant?

IBM offers watsonx Assistant, an AI and natural language driven chatbot designed to allow anyone to deploy a chatbot in an app or website.

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Recent Reviews

Gen-AI that does the work for you

8 out of 10
December 04, 2023
This is one of the solution we considered for our customer success team, it was intended to become a "complimentary" for our existing …
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Conversational AI at its best

9 out of 10
August 31, 2023
IBM watsonx Assistant has allowed the reduction of telephone contacts and assistance to users. IBM watsonx Assistant is an invaluable …
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Product Details

What is IBM watsonx Assistant?

IBM watsonx Assistant is a conversational AI solution designed to build AI assistants that scale across a business, while providing customers and employees with fast, consistent and accurate answers across any messaging platform, application, device or channel. Using generative AI and natural language understanding, Assistant learns from customer conversations, improving its ability to resolve issues the first time while removing the frustration of long wait times, tedious searches and unhelpful chatbots.

Most chatbots try to mimic human interactions, frustrating customers when a misunderstanding arises. IBM watsonx Assistant gives users tools to build AI-assistants designed to know when to search for an answer from a knowledge base, when to ask for clarity and when to direct users to a human agent for more assistance. And it can be deployed in any cloud or on-premises environment, offering integrations to a business's existing tools.




IBM watsonx Assistant Technical Details

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

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM offers watsonx Assistant, an AI and natural language driven chatbot designed to allow anyone to deploy a chatbot in an app or website.

IBM watsonx Assistant starts at $0.

Amazon Lex, Azure Bot Service (Microsoft Bot Framework), and Amazon Connect are common alternatives for IBM watsonx Assistant.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of IBM watsonx Assistant are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Absolutely yes, because AI integration helped us to answer our user's questions, even if those questions are not trained on our chatbots. Before AI implementation, our support agents needs to take the conversation if our chatbot can't answer those questions, but now we have trained the AI with all the data that our users may require, so we don't have to worry about it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We don't have V2 yet, but with V1, we've already been able to improve our ability to understand user input when interacting with the chatbot, and we've managed to bring a more 'humanized' contact, less robotic, as we would have with a strictly guided flow.
Hamzah Iessar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
First and the foremost thing is that it supports multiple languages which is key part of our business since we work overseas that was the first thing I had in my mind which IK started- off with it. Also that it is having advanced features like entity recognition and sentiment analaysis to check how the user is prompting and that adds to the customer experience I don 't have to spend much time on it manually to solve FAQ's and queries, the bot is doing much itself. It has reduced the workforce by 1 practically and is saving bucks against the manual queries we were handling before.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
This is pretty much the amazing part of this service. It's well developed to provide the amazing results. The capacity to accept information is really great that we can get pretty much answer for several things related to information we provide, and with its reasoning capacity, you can get coherent results based on what you need.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Positive Impact: Quick and accurate responses, coupled with disambiguation features, can reduce user frustration caused by misunderstandings or delays, leading to a more positive overall experience.

can lead to a more interactive and engaging user experience, increasing the likelihood of users achieving their goals.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Watson Assistant's AI and NLP capabilities have improved the customer experience by providing relevant recommendations, avoiding misunderstandings, enabling cross-channel interaction and resolving conflicts. These advanced capabilities contribute to a more seamless, personalized and satisfying interaction between customers and the virtual assistant, which in turn strengthens the customer relationship and improves service quality.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Actually in the case that our users used the shortened version of the words, with a predefined trainings (it also has its own sets of predefined modules) the tool can detect, translate, understand and predict what our users come to us for, the satisfaction rate was not as high as the human agent, but in our case, this due to a short time in implementation, in a long run I believe this will be a better solution
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Whereas previous AI engines that we utilized made many mistakes and did not accurately understand questions/requests, IBM watsonx Assistant is able to provide consistent and high-level feedback to customers; this improves their satisfaction since their questions are answered and they do not get frustrated with the tool misunderstanding them.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Natural language processing and quick and accurate answers satisfy the customers. However, a few clients don't prefer English as their primary language so they struggle a bit to understand the responses. IBM Watson Assistant should look at adding a few more languages to the stack.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my experience, these capabilities have ease the process of communicating . Communication between 2 parties have become more easy . People upfront are given options what to select and what to communicate. This way we are narrowing down what is coming towards business and sending the same to others.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Disambiguation has been particularly valuable in scenarios where customer inquiries are a bit vague or have multiple interpretations. By clarifying the context and intent behind these queries, we've been able to ensure that customers receive the right information, reducing frustration and enhancing their interaction with our platform
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Like i mentioned in the last answer, I used both AI feature and NLP (Natural Language Processing) feature of IBM Watson to create the conversational chatbot for my organization. Text integration feature of the NLP helped me with categorising the user generated queries into specific buckets which later on could be answered based on a guiding document on FAQs. Intent recommendation, although used in a very basic way, helped us in lead qualification.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The features like Disambiguation helps user to choose from multiple options which makes this a perfect solution from an end user perspective. The confidence score for each query based on NLP is again something by which we can play with the dialogs to maintain the chatbot accuracy. Overall a great experience.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The best part about IBM Watson Assistant is that the integration with other external system can we done easily. As this tool not only support test but also various formats to help user resolve their issue. It is very simple enough to create a virtual assistance.

This is one of IBM's finest product and the Building, training and test is very easy and efficient.
Leonardo Biazom | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The various AI and NLP capabilities offered by IBM watsonx Assistant, including intent recommendations, disambiguation and especially digression, have greatly impacted our ability to provide customers with an enhanced and personalized conversational experience. With the help of digression, for example, users can easily navigate through different dialogues and receive accurate responses to their queries, even if their input is not directly related to the previous bit of conversation. This has not only improved the overall user experience but has also increased customer satisfaction and loyalty towards our brand. We believe that IBM watsonx Assistant's advanced capabilities have been a significant factor in our success in delivering exceptional customer service.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Overall, these capabilities have a significant impact on the customer experience by providing accurate and personalized responses, reducing errors and ambiguities, and providing a seamless and convenient interaction method that makes customers very satisfied with the experience, This can also help improve the overall customer experience and reduce the need for additional customer support interactions, so we don't need human interactions.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our project currently planning to implement voice recognition by translate voice to text and AI can respond as user asked question and provide as text.Now we learning stage let see how it will work....
Francesco Davidde | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The capabilities reported above are very important to develop a complete project based on machine-human interaction. The complete project is currently being evaluated by several companies to develop their customer support automated responses. In my opinion, it will be heavily used in the next 2 years.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
AI and NLP feature powering IBM Watson Assistant helped us deliver an excellent customer experience not only through the web but also through mobile web, telephony, and the capabilities of Watson Text-To-Speech and Speech-To-Text which support various languages, including German, which made the client-agent conversations seem so real, especially with the options of translation and transliteration. Clients were very impressed when we gave a demo of these features, and they certainly asked for it to be integrated with the next releases of the current implementation, which does not have speech and text capabilities.
November 04, 2022

Watson Assistant review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AI and NLP are very assertive, the intentions get mixed up a bit when they have the same or very similar sentence examples, the intention suggestions feature for users I had to disable, as it presented very random suggestions and out of the context that the user was looking for. I miss a native integration with Watson translator.
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