BANGALORE, India, Feb. 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced InspireOne Technologies and TEXTIENT as the first
two India-based partners to join
the IBM Watson Ecosystem. The companies will begin developing
cognitive computing solutions in the region.
InspireOne Technologies is using IBM Watson cognitive APIs in
its professional development app to empower employees to develop
their leadership skills, and TEXTIENT is a marketing insights
platform tapping Watson to develop real-time brand perception
reports.
The announcement was made as part of the IBM Watson India Summit
in Bangalore focused on how
cognitive systems are transforming businesses and customer
outcomes, and ways in which India
is well poised to usher in this next wave of technology innovation.
According to a Gartner announcement from November, India has the fastest growing IT market in the
world -- IT spending in India is
forecast to reach $71 billion in
2016, and grow to $85.28 billion by
the end of 2019.
"The creativity and passion of Indian businesses to introduce
cognitive-infused apps to the market is overwhelming, and the
region is poised for incredible growth," said Stephen Gold, vice president for IBM Watson. "As
the first Indian partners to join the Watson Ecosystem, InspireOne
Technologies and TEXTIENT are excellent examples of how cognitive
technology will help transform the region and the world."
InspireOne Technologies and TEXTIENT are already making strides
in bringing their powered by Watson solutions to market in
India.
InspireOne Technologies (Haryana, India): InspireOne Technologies is a
professional development organization that is embedding Watson in
its Supernova application to empower employees to develop their
leadership capabilities. Supernova uses Watson's Sentiment Analysis
and Natural Language Classifier APIs to analyze corporate emails,
enabling Supernova to deliver evidence-based insights so managers
can refine their own leadership capabilities and areas for
development. Supernova can capture and quantify to what extent an
employee applies leadership competencies such as collaboration or
strategic thinking and also explain how to further develop such
skills. For example, an employee who does not demonstrate
collaboration frequently might get specific pointers, such as
asking more questions from team members during interactions. HDFC
Life, a large insurance company in India, has been using InspireOne's Supernova
solution powered by Watson.
According to Rajendra Ghag,
senior executive vice president and chief human resource officer at
HDFC Life, "We used InspireOne's Supernova solution as a post
program follow up and online coaching application across our
executive talent pool. The new development in Supernova, powered by
IBM Watson, will generate enormous value for organizations looking
to sustain their growth and invest in developing leaders. Not only
do leaders get insights on how they applied behaviors that are
essential for high performance, but they also get insights on their
sentiments expressed, which is a huge plus point for any leader to
fully assess the impact he or she can make in the workplace."
TEXTIENT (Tiruvanmiyur, Chennai, India): TEXTIENT is a Software as a
Service (SaaS) platform for brand, marketing and customer insights.
It allows marketers to quickly gain strategic and actionable
insights from social media posts about the impact of a marketing
action or the competitive differentiation of their brand. TEXTIENT
uses Watson's Personality Insights API along with sentiment
analysis, entity extraction, and concept extraction to
automatically generate a comprehensive Brand-Essence Report in a
matter of minutes. The report reflects dimensions influencing a
brand's strength and equity such as dominant brand personalities,
emotional and sensory brand experiences, customer engagement and
brand credibility. The intent is to supplement traditional market
research, such as focus groups or surveys, with a cognitive
solution that allows marketers to gain strategic and actionable
insights in real-time that can help them act faster and maintain a
competitive edge.
IBM Watson Accelerates Global Expansion
To continue the momentum sparked by InspireOne Technologies and
TEXTIENT, IBM is working with dozens of startups and businesses
across India to begin embedding
Watson in their businesses across many industries. IBM also
expanded within the Indian health sector late last year by
announcing Manipal Hospital in Bangalore as the first client in India to deploy Watson. Furthering IBM's
strategy to accelerate the global growth of cognitive computing, in
late 2015 Watson launched an Internet of Things Global Headquarters
in Germany and also announced
ecosystem partner programs in Japan, London, the Middle
East and North Africa, and
The Netherlands.
Watson is open to the world, allowing a growing ecosystem of
developers, students, entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts to easily
tap into the most advanced and diverse cognitive computing platform
available today. The Watson ecosystem now represents more
than 500 ecosystem partners across 17 industries and disciplines,
more than 100 of which have already introduced commercial cognitive
enabled apps, products and services to the market. These partners
join the more than 80,000 developers globally who are tapping into
APIs via the IBM Watson Developer Cloud on Bluemix to pilot, test
and deploy new business ideas.
IBM Watson: Pioneering a New Era of Computing
IBM Watson represents a new era in computing called cognitive
computing. Watson continuously learns, gaining in value and
knowledge over time, from previous interactions. With the help of
Watson, organizations are leveraging cognitive computing to
transform industries, help professionals do their jobs better, and
solve important challenges. To advance Watson, IBM has two
dedicated business units: IBM Watson, established for the
development of cloud-based cognitive computing technologies that
commercialize "artificial intelligence," and IBM Watson Health,
dedicated to providing crisp data to doctors, researchers, insurers
and others to surface new data insights and deliver personalized
healthcare. For more information on IBM Watson, visit:
ibm.com/Watson and ibm.com/press/Watson.
Gabrielle Gugliocciello
IBM Media Relations
gguglio@us.ibm.com
1-314-494-8715
Gayatri Doda
IBM Media Relations - India and
South Asia
gayadoda@in.ibm.com
+91-96-3228-9966
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