

Rometty said its Watson Group will help Big Blue and partners push into new markets and bring a new class of software, services and apps that "think, improve by learning, and discover answers and insights to complex questions from massive amounts of Big Data." Rhodin's new title is senior vice president, IBM Watson Group.
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IBM said the 2,000-strong group would be located in "Silicon Alley" in downtown New York and would seed development with $100 million in venture investments going toward startups and businesses building Watson apps and an ecosystem around the technology.Īt a press event Thursday streamed live online, IBM Chief Executive Virginia "Ginni" Rometty said the Jeopardy-winning computer has the "potential to transform industry and enterprises to new levels of knowledge for citizens and the masses." IBM said the Watson Group will be led by Michael Rhodin, who served as senior vice president, IBM Software Solutions Group.

Watson Explorer takes heed of that to help deliver better performance and real-time results. IBM points out that only 12 percent of an average organisation’s data is utilized while the rest of the potentially game changing information remains untapped. Unlike traditional search solutions that fail to provide context, trends and relationships, Watson Explorer can help professionals find and understand the information they need to work more efficiently, gain more insights from their unstructured content and realize their objectives of improving business outcomes.” “Watson Explorer advances data exploration by bringing cognitive capabilities, providing users with a 360-degree view of contextually relevant information to offer deeper levels of insight, showing what is happening and why.
