IBM Launches Watson B2B Analytics Tool

IBM has launched Watson Analytics, which provides access to natural language based predictive and visual analytics for business users.

The new product offers a full range of self-service analytics, including access to data refinement and data warehousing services that IBM says will make it easier for business users to acquire and prepare data for analysis and visualization.

Unlike analytics tools designed primarily for data scientists and analysts focused on visualization, the new service has been designed to automate areas such as data preparation, predictive analysis and visual storytelling for business professionals across data intensive disciplines including marketing, sales, operations, finance and human resources.

Bob Picciano (pictured), IBM's SVP, Information and Analytics Group, comments: 'Watson Analytics is designed to help all business people see patterns, pursue ideas and improve all types of decisions. The combination of Watson-fueled analytics to magnify human cognition, the vast potential of big data, and cloud-scale delivery to PCs, smart phones and other devices is transformational.'

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