Reduce time, create cognitive application extracting value from large amount of unstructured and structured data.

1. You constantly perform
under pressure. Now do it
at high velocity.
IBM Watson Discovery Service
helps developers quickly
create cognitive applications
that extract value from large
amounts of structured and
unstructured data.

2. The pervasive, ever-increasing growth of unstructured data offers incredible
opportunities…if you can unlock the data and capture signals fast enough.
Creating a new data pipeline often takes months, bogged down by time-
sucking engineering and integration problems. Meanwhile, business needs
change, data volumes increase and that new technology you planned to
introduce is already outdated. There has to be a better way.
What if you had access to a service that accelerated the creation of your apps?
What if you found a way to manage different types of data, housed in different
sources, without losing any of the advanced API, machine learning or other
features you may need? What if someone else took care of those integration
and engineering issues?
Watson Discovery Service is a set of APIs that takes care of all of that, so you
can rapidly build intelligent search and content analytics engines to extract
value from unstructured and structured data. Discovery also makes it easy to
scale. Start with a single proof of concept (you can build it in as quickly as a
day!) then scale rapidly across your organization.
Here’s how it works …
Automated ingestion, conversion, enrichment
and normalization
Discovery takes the drudgery out of the ingestion process. Simple tooling
allows you to upload your own data or publicly available data, convert and
normalize it, and enrich it with integrated Watson APIs. Other ingestion options
include using data crawler and conversion APIs, so you still have all the
flexibility and power while gaining time-saving automation.
Integrated Natural Language Processing (NLP)
enrichment options
Enrichments, like concepts, relationships, sentiment and tone allow machines
to understand text and other content. Applying those enrichments to massive
amounts of structured and unstructured data can reveal surprising and
actionable insights to improve customer experience, shorten time to value in
manufacturing, reduce call center wait times, and more. With Discovery, you
can easily apply the enrichments and immediately view how your data will look,
so you can fine-tune it before application.
Simplified query language
A built-in intuitive query language makes it easy for you to build and refine
queries that surface answers and patterns quickly and accurately. Then,
use REST APIs to embed your Discovery data into existing applications and
workflows, and put those new insights into the hands of employees to take
action and strengthen decision-making.
Pre-enriched news content, 24/7
With Discovery, you can query the world's news sources like a database. Take
advantage of constantly refreshed, ingested and enriched content from more
than 200K sources to perform highly targeted search and trend analysis. Go
beyond simple keyword-based searches without having to acquire, enrich and
store the data yourself.
Capabilities
Extract value from data in
less time, with less effort
Automation that streamlines
development without limiting
options
Bring your own data, use
public data or combine them
Rapidly create a proof of
concept and scale with ease

3. Simple tooling, or direct API calls—you choose
Discovery offers powerful yet simple tooling to make it easier to create data
pipelines for a wider range of developers, allowing teams and organizations
to gain more ground, faster, with existing resources. But you’re not limited to
the tooling. With Discovery, you can do everything with direct API calls and
still save time, thanks to the built-in integration and engineering.
Watson Discovery Service helps you build more quickly and get more
from all your data, with less pressure. Achieve more in less time. Try it
at ibm.biz/WatsonDiscovery
Try out Discovery today.
Potential uses
Help a customer service team
decrease support times, find
hidden insights on customer
pain points, behaviors and needs,
and improve agent productivity
Enable research teams to extract
the latest studies and insights
from journals, newsletters,
press releases and blogs to
provide consolidated industry
and domain-specific insights
Empower field service teams
to locate hard-to-find answers
in manuals, FAQ documents,
collaboration sites and more
Augment a chat bot or other
application created with Watson
Conversation to provide possible
responses to complex questions
without modeling intents

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