Putting Watson to work.

Watson and workload optimized systems

IBM Watson: Putting Watson to work (00:04:06)

Watson’s advances in workload optimized systems design and its ability to interpret natural language will now be tuned to new tasks to solve analytics challenges in healthcare, financial services, government citizen services and many other industries.

IBM Watson: Transforming Healthcare (00:00:31)

There are over 12,000 diseases in the world. Some take years to diagnose and treat. This, combined with medical knowledge that doubles every 5 years often makes it difficult for doctors to keep up. IBM is working on new solutions based on Watson to help doctors with faster and more accurate diagnoses.

IBM Watson: A System Designed for Answers

Watson is a workload optimized system designed for complex analytics, made possible by integrating massively parallel POWER7 processors and DeepQA technology. Read the white paper about Watson’s workload optimized system design.

As businesses put Watson to work for smarter analytics solutions, each new challenge will be different, combining established analytics solutions with new technologies like DeepQA, and domain knowledge contributed by experts in specific industries. Watch the video (3:01min)

Industry perspectives on Watson

Healthcare
See how a DeepQA system similar to Watson could help transform how doctors and hospitals care for patients.

Finance
A system with capabilities similar to Watson could help transform how the finance industry does business

Customer Services
Watch as IBM experts explain how an IBM DeepQA system similar to Watson could help transform customer service.

How can you put Watson to work?

Watson demonstrated that even the most complex analytics challenges can be successfully overcome. So, perhaps the most important question is “How can you put Watson to work?”

IBM Smart Analytics System 7700 is the industry's most complete business-ready analytics solution with cost-efficient, flexible design, and mission-critical reliability. Like Watson, it’s a workload optimized system for high-performance analytics that is built on POWER7 based servers and designed to accelerate delivery of insights for faster, smarter action.

Building Watson on commercially available POWER7 systems helped accelerate businesses putting Watson to work. Watson uses commercially available Power 750 systems, deployed by businesses today to run workload optimized systems for everything from complex analytics to transaction processing. Learn more