Why CTOs Have Been Thinking About Intelligence All Wrong

For a better approach to make your company smarter, look to APIs. IBM Watson), you can create smarter systems that provide top notch analysis without the need of a data lake. APIs enable data to flow into the machine learning system (since all interactions with the application happens through the APIs, the API traffic represents the totality of all signals about an app's usage). But more importantly, APIs represent a very simple way of taking action. Recommendations can be pushed, for example, as part of the API responses.