IBM Watson Cognitive Computing - Analytics Industry Blog

IBM Watson is a platform that represents a new era of computing based on its ability to interact in natural language, process vast amounts of disparate forms of big data and learn from each interaction. It is able to sift through and understand massive amounts of big data at unprecedented speeds to assist professionals in understanding data quickly and easily, while increasing knowledge and gaining value over time. IBM Watson is not only solution in this space, Digital Reasoning and several other players also have compelling offerings. IBM Watson just happens to have the most name recognition. Watson is a cognitive system that sifts through massive libraries of data to discover insights that can help its users answer simple to the most complex of questions.