IBM Watson Centre, Garage & Design Studio open in Singapore

IBM has set up three new facilities in Singapore touted to offer access to its cognitive computing and design capabilities as well as a testbed to build product prototypes based on emerging technologies. Located at tech vendor's local office at Marina Bay Financial Centre, the new IBM Watson Centre houses both IBM Garage and IBM Studios and serves as the regional hub, offering customers and industry partners in Asia-Pacific a platform on which to test out new ideas using IBM's cognitive and data analytic technologies. The Singapore outfit also now serves as the company's new headquarters for the region. Speaking at the launch Thursday, IBM executives heralded "a new era" of cognitive where everything could be "reimagined" and reengineered to break new grounds. Businesses' transition towards digitisation had generated huge volumes of data and, with the advent of cloud, that now could be harnessed and fed into machine-learning systems.