Cognitive Computing on the Cloud - Watson services for bluemix

1. Watson Services for
IBM Bluemix
Watson’s address is Bluemix.net

2. Watson is creating a new partnership between people and
computers that accelerates, enhances, and scales human
expertise.

3. Agenda
Chapter 1: What are IBM Watson & Bluemix
Chapter 2: What are the Watson Services
Chapter 3: Watson powered App Demo
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4. Watson has opened up a world of
new possibilities
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size
speed
corpus
flexibility
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size
speed
corpus
flexibility
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2880 cores
Single user system
2-3 sentences input
5+ days to retrain
Wikipedia, general corpus
Single Power 750, 240% faster
1000s of users
20 pages of input
< Day to ingest and train
Medical corpus
Watson Developer Cloud
Millions of users
Open to Bluemix users
Few hours
Broad industry corpus
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5. Watson is ushering in a new era of computing
Tabulating
Systems Era
Programmable
Systems Era
Cognitive
Systems Era
1900 1950 2011

6. Watson is cognitive computing
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Understands
natural language
Generates and
evaluates
hypotheses
Adapts
and learns
Watson understands me.
Watson engages me.
Watson learns and improves
over time.
Watson helps me discover.
Watson establishes trust.
Watson has endless
capacity for insight.
Watson operates in a timely
fashion.

7. Cloud
Mobile Social
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Analytics
The Mega Trends

8. IBM Bluemix
We have introduced more than 60 IBM and 3rd party boilerplates, runtimes and services with
thousands of developers interacting with us daily.
• Run apps in any include:
language
• Built on open standards
• Integration services to
systems of record
• Designed for mobile
• Provides DevOps
services
Compose Apps
from a rich library of
IBM, 3rd party and open
source runtimes,
services and APIs.
Bluemix services
Code w/ Confidence
knowing IBM’s cloud
platform is built on a
foundation of open
standards.
Deploy and Scale
new applications and
services with
infrastructure services
from IBM SoftLayer.
• DevOps
• Big Data
• Mobile
• Cloud Integration
• Security
• Internet of Things
• Business Analytics
• Database
• Web and application
• NEW -Watson Services
About Bluemix
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9. Watson: a new partnership between human and computers
Scale
expertise by elevating the
consistency and objectivity of
decision making across an
organization.
Enhance
the cognitive process of
professionals to strengthen
decision making in the
moment
Accelerate
development of expertise in
others by capturing the
expertise of top performers
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10. Agenda
Chapter 1: What are IBM Watson & Bluemix
Chapter 2: What are the Watson Services
Chapter 3: Watson powered App Demo
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11. Until now, access to Watson services has been limited.
Today, the barriers are gone…What will you do with
Watson?

12. IBM has radically expand access to Watson services
Access restricted to partners
and IBM developers
Accessible by anyone with a
Bluemix account
Wait until services are GA to
release
Release in beta and gather
input from user community
North America Global
One service Eight services and more coming
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13. How will users access these services?
Where:
•Through the user’s Bluemix account
•New users will receive 30 day free access on
Bluemix.
•After 30 days, pricing will be based on
Bluemix usage plan, but Watson Services for
Bluemix are free while in beta
How:
•Link to Watson landing page on the top
carousel of Bluemix main landing page
•Documentation, demos, videos, etc. will be
available to support development

14. User Experience overview

15. Eight services are available with more on the way
User Modeling
Personality profiling to help engage users on their own terms.
Language Identification
Identifies the language in which text is written
Machine Translation
Globalize on the fly. Translate text from one language to another.
Concept Expansion
Maps euphemisms or colloquial terms to more commonly understood phrases
Message Resonance
Communicate with people with a style and words that suits them
Question Answer
Direct responses to users inquiries fueled by primary document sources
Relationship Extraction
Intelligently finds relationships between sentences components (nouns, verbs, subjects, objects, etc.)
Visualization Rendering
Graphical representations of data analysis for easier understanding

16. Who is using the services today?
We ran a five week closed beta with twelve participants. Examples:
“…we were able to
quickly and easily
embed Watson's
capabilities into our
eyeQinsights platform
to provide an even
more personalized
shopping experience”
“we’re able to work with
cognitive computing
capabilities that we
couldn’t dream of
creating ourselves - it’s
a fantastic opportunity
and a real chance to
transform our industry”
“[this] is like putting the
Hubble telescope in the
hands of a backyard
astronomer… Watson’s
cognitive possibilities
alone will spawn a
completely new service
industry…”

17. Agenda
Chapter 1: What are IBM Watson & Bluemix
Chapter 2: What are the Watson Services
Chapter 3: Watson powered App Demo
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18. Watson App Demo
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19. Get hands on fast!
• Get a Bluemix account
• Try the Watson services
free of charge for 30 days
• Take the next step toward
further development or
production deployment
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20. Q & A
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21. IBM Watson
IBM Bluemix
facebook.com/ibmbluemix Bluemix.net @ibmbluemix
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22. Bluemix users can choose the
Watson Developer Cloud access
that fits their need
Trial
- Free Access
- Beta Services (Fixed)
Sandbox
- Paid access to production
Production
- Production pricing