Enhancing Financial Services Operations with IBM watsonx Assistant
March 25, 2025

Enhancing Financial Services Operations with IBM watsonx Assistant

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with IBM watsonx Assistant

We use IBM watsonx Assistant in our organization to resolve customer queries which are common in nature through the AI chatbot feature provided by the IBM watsonx Assistant. It addresses the problem of having more human agents to work on such issues which can be managed by the chatbots. We make use of it to be multilingual in nature as we work with 190+ countries so that it can efficiently chat/voice in different languages. As a scope it provide transactional assistance to the customer for sending and receiving the the money as our core work operations are based on remittance market and money transfer services. It also handles FAQs of the customers about the exchange rates, limits, transfer fee and other things. Refunding of failed transactions is also automated through this tool which helps in initiating the refund requests for failed transactions.

Pros

  • Provides AI assistant features such as chatboats/automated responses for customer queries. The availability of the service is 24/7 which reduces reliance on having manual intervention by human agents.
  • It also provides easy resolution for the FAQs which can be related to any questions such as payment status or refund related queries.
  • Its AI feature helps in personalizing the experience of the user based on the past transactions or interactions with the product.
  • Multiple Language support is truly exceptional for global reach of the product.

Cons

  • IBM watsonx Assistant is indeed powerful tool but it requires high level of configurations and training which can be difficult for non technical users.
  • Integration of IBM watsonx Assistant with legacy system is challenging so there is a room to improve in this area as many of its competitors are easy to integrate.
  • It does not automatically learn from interaction and sometimes need retraining to increase its accuracy. It has issue with memory recall which can be considered as one of the missing functionality into it.
  • It has reduced our manual processing by 30% we no more require human agents to answer common queries of customers
  • It is 24/7 model so it has increased the overall uptime by 17% than the previous uptime because things got automated by the tool.
  • It is helping in providing personalized recommendations to customers which has improved the customer retentions.
  • As a negative impact is it has high operational cost as we work with so much of data and millions of customers.
  • Sometimes maintaining it and integrating it taking time initially for new developers to onboard different features to it which is consuming some time.
It can understand the queries of customer in human plane language, Because the model is based on NLP and provide excellent features for AI driven chatbots. We can scale the large volume of date when we deal with large number of customers. We can customize the tool as per our business needs. It also provides us enterprise level security and it meets the compliance standards.
There are chances of doing mistakes by human agents and our error rate was high while answering some complex technical questions. IBM watsonx Assistant made the life easier as we have trained it with our data and it starts giving answers perfectly to the customer for their queries and reduced our error rate by almost 90%. Thousands of queries are getting prioritized easily and resolved quickly without manual intervention.
It focus on enterprise level flexibility and it also provides us cloud and on prem both support which helps in integrating with legacy and modern systems. It has better compliance standards than other competitors. Better data governance and cost effective AI model which is very useful when we are dealing with enterprise applications. Great level of customization is available and easy to integrate with other IBM products.

Do you think IBM watsonx Orchestrate delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM watsonx Orchestrate's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM watsonx Orchestrate live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM watsonx Orchestrate go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM watsonx Orchestrate again?

Yes

Based on the experience, IBM watsonx Assistant is well suited in financial services organization like our organization which is fully based on money transfer services. Where focus is on resolving customer queries related to the money that they are transferring so AI assistant of IBM watsonx Assistant play a crucial role there. It can be less appropriate in such scenarios where assistant need to make some complex decision making which requires great level of reasoning and it may lead to some financial fraud in such scenarios we should be cautious while using.

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