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Transforming
industries
and professions
with data
IBM WATSON SOLUTIONS
AND APPLICATIONS
A growing portfolio of Watson applications
is extending the expertise of leading
professionals — wealth managers,
researchers, retailers and more — to their
peers around the world. For example,
doctors at Bumrungrad International
Hospital in Bangkok treat 1.1 million patients
from 190 countries each year, and will
be using IBM Watson for Oncology,
trained by Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center, to plan the most effective
treatments based on each cancer
patient’s profi le.
THE WORLD’S FIRST COGNITIVE
SYSTEM: IBM WATSON
IBM Watson enables entirely new
kinds of discovery, as well as new ways
for humans and computers to work
together. In 2014 we turned this
technology breakthrough into a thriving,
multidimensional business. Through the
cloud-based IBM Watson Ecosystem,
developers and partners can now embed
cognitive computing APIs (application
program interfaces) into their apps.
Since November 2014, 6,800 developers
have built more than 7,000 cognitive
apps. Finally, IBM Watson Analytics
brings intuitive visualization and predictive
analytics to every business user.
To mine and refi ne the world’s vast new natural resource
of Big Data requires a new class of advanced analytics.
IBM’s unmatched analytics capabilities draw upon more than
30 acquisitions and include nine Analytics Solutions Centers
with an ecosystem of more than 6,000 business partners.
Our global leadership in analytics was also key to last year’s
alliance between IBM and Twitter. Together, we will help
enterprises unlock insights from the 500 million Tweets
generated every day — bringing a whole new category of data
to the enterprise and using it to develop unique solutions for
fi nancial services, consumer products, retail and more.
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