IBM plans to sell big data service Watson as a business intelligence tool

Bit network (chinabyte) September 17 News, IBM is trying to its large data service Watson http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/16353.html "> Analytics as a business intelligence tool to sell. Later this year, the service will run as a tool on the IBM cloud.

Watson is a supercomputer, originally designed to test state-of-the-art computing techniques such as natural language processing and data mining, and IBM researchers have saved millions of of documents to Watson, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, and literature. According to IBM, Watson can handle 500GB of information per second, equivalent to 1 million books per second.

Watson Analytics Service is designed to help enterprise users collect a wide variety of data from different departments to solve various business problems. IBM wants the service to be able to engage in an online marketing campaign for a new car, and to first figure out which consumers in those areas are more likely to click on the ad, just ask the supercomputer in the simplest and most straightforward language and get the answer in a few seconds, Without having to bother a system engineer to query the data in the corporate database.

Alistair Rennie, IBM business analyst Aristellenri, said in an interview that Watson Analytics could help executives predict which deals could be completed in a specific period based on historical data, or what incentive plans could help retain talent. Later this year, he said, the service will run as a tool on the IBM cloud.