Jan 22, 2016

Software-Nation Development via. IBM Watson

We recently started moving forward with IBM Watson to become one of the first integrators/Developers in leveraging IBM's algorithms and processing power via. the Watson Ecosystem . If you are asking your self what is IBM Watson?

Watson, the AI-powered computing system from IBM, could be one of the systems that leads the charge in bringing tools such as machine learning, automated reasoning, and natural language processing to the forefront of the business world. i.e. Human Intelligence

Lauri Saft is the director of the Watson Ecosystem. She said the community is targeting "companies that want to build cognitive applications or businesses or expand their current portfolio with some of the technology."

From the early days of the Watson business unit, Saft said, they thought they wouldn't be able to find all the good business uses internally. So, they opened up the APIs and gave access to companies such as Software-Nation in a plethora of industries to tease out the possibilities.

The Ecosystem ramped up quickly in healthcare, but now counts hundreds of partners in different industries across 17 countries. So far, there are upwards of 25 APIs that Ecosystem partners can use in their business, Saft said.

All though still considered an experimental phase Software-Nation is still one of the early adopters and integrators when it comes to complex algorithmic development for stand alone software and 2nd/3rd party systems integration. Our current verticals include Healthcare and Education as we believe there is a most identifiable need for breaking language barriers in education/communication and healthcare solutions that will bring expensive medical solutions to your living room vs. prolonged expensive hospital visits. Software-Nation's goal is simple better, faster more reliable and affordable result.