IBM introduced Watson Analytics - exceptional service, operating on the basis of natural language, which provides businesses with powerful analytical tools.
This is the most important analytical IBM service delivery over a decade. Currently, only a small percentage of people using business intelligence
tools adopting important decisions. Meanwhile, Watson Analytics is designed to acquire and use advanced analytics and forecasting tools are easy, even without experience in data processing professionals.
Unlike in the past the use of analysis tools that are primarily dedicated to data analysts, IBM's Watson, Analytics automates the data preparation, predictive analysis and visual presentation actions. This is what enables the use of self-service and business activities, or human resource management, marketing and sales managers.
"The new service is designed for all business people - the sales manager to the company managers - to see patterns, develop ideas and more effective solutions," - said Bob Picciano, IBM Information and Analysis Group senior vice president.
Users can access their specific duties corresponding to different scenarios. The service is based on cloud computing resources, making it possible to use both stationary and mobile devices. Self-filtering-based data storage services, and makes it easy to access and prepare data for analysis. Particular attention was paid to the analysis of the reports visualization.
Most business intelligence applications for on the assumption that consumers are ready to analyze the data, a clear idea of what they need to analysis and modeling skills and time. However, the majority of business users, none of these things do not. Data search and cross-check can take up more than half the time allocated for the analysis of the project. Then it turns out that consumers often do not understand the results of the analysis or long to decide how to display them properly. Watson Analytics automates these steps and thus speeds up the ability of consumers to independently find the necessary answers.
Watson Analytics uses natural language tools, allowing users to ask the right questions and get results for business-oriented language. Interpretation of results and clarification requests, users can reveal unexpected patterns and relationships.
Watson Analytics delivers seamless interoperability of data, analytics and cloud. Like other IBM cloud computing solutions, the new service is running SoftLayer environment and available through the IBM Cloud portal. IBM also intends to provide Watson Analytics on Bluemix platform and allow developers and Internet service vendors to further develop this service opportunities.
Some of the Watson analytics capabilities in beta users will be able to test in the coming month, and "Freemium" (free service combined with the overhead paid services) and paid services available, will be launched later this year.
Three main Watson Analytics innovations that make it easier to use advanced analytical tools:
Simple business intelligence environment. Up to now, has been used to separate the analytical tools to solve different tasks, while Watson Analytics provides a unified environment, and self-service capabilities in the cloud. Business professionals identify the problem, and IBM service can help you find the data they are cleaned, discover insights, predict and visualize the results, create reports, and to cooperate with other units.
Predictive analytics wizard. Watson Analytics forecasts used tools help identify key facts and uncover unexpected patterns and associations. This process raises new questions and better insights and directs users to the businesses that need the most attention.
Natural language dialogue. The chat box just need to enter the desired issues while Watson Analytics normal business language to respond. Specialists, getting to know the results of specifying, ask queries and also to get to the heart of the matter.
