Beyond Jeopardy!--How Watson is helping to build businesses - IBM Systems Blog: In the Making

In 2011, Watson made a dramatic public debut on the Jeopardy! Using IBM Power Systems and analytics software developed with open frameworks like Apache Hadoop and UIMA, Watson showcased a cutting-edge ability to understand complex natural language questions and sift through vast libraries of unstructured human knowledge. And Watson proved to know a thing or two about Beatles songs and Olympic history too. But while the show served as a great platform to introduce amazing new technology to the world, the intelligence behind Watson was designed to solve real business problems. IBM Watson Analytics allows business users to better compete by helping them get more value from their data.