NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson
Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for
businesses and professionals, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced
they have entered into an agreement to enhance customer solutions
across Thomson Reuters using Watson.
The collaboration underscores the ongoing commitment by Thomson
Reuters to deliver innovative technology solutions within specific
industry domains to its customers via its in-house technology
development, as well as through key strategic collaborations.
"Thomson Reuters helps customers make critical business
decisions by applying cutting-edge technology and domain expertise
to complex sets of data and information," said Brian Scanlon, chief strategy officer, Thomson
Reuters. "Our work with IBM to apply Watson is a natural complement to our
market-leading customer solutions."
"Working with Thomson Reuters, and their vast trove of data, is
an incredible opportunity to combine Watson's cognitive capabilities with a global
leader in decision making solutions across science, legal, tax, and
finance," said Mike Rhodin, senior
vice president, IBM Watson. "The result will be accelerated
discoveries for the professionals that rely on these important
information solutions, ultimately bringing new levels of speed and
precision to critical decisions."
Thomson Reuters will explore the application of Watson technology to key industry market
opportunities to leverage deep content analytics, natural language
processing, decision support and evidence-based learning to enable
Thomson Reuters customers to derive greater insight and workflow
efficiency.
Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent
information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry
expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical
information to leading decision makers in the financial and risk,
legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and
media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news
organization. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges. For more
information, go to http://thomsonreuters.com
IBM Watson: Pioneering a New Era of Computing
Watson is the first open
cognitive computing technology platform and represents a new era in
computing where systems understand the world in the way that humans
do: through senses, learning, and experience. Watson continuously learns, gaining in value
and knowledge over time, from previous interactions. With the help
of Watson, organizations are
harnessing the power of cognitive computing to transform
industries, help professionals do their jobs better, and solve
important challenges.
To advance Watson, IBM has two
dedicated business units: Watson, established for the development
of cloud-delivered cognitive computing technologies that represent
the commercialization of "artificial intelligence" or "AI" across a
variety of industries, and Watson Health, dedicated to improving
the ability of doctors, researchers and insurers and other related
health organizations to surface new insights from data to and
deliver personalized healthcare.
For more information on IBM Watson, visit: ibm.com/Watson and
ibm.com/press/watson.
Join the conversation at #ibmwatson. Follow Watson on Facebook and see Watson on YouTube and Flickr.
CONTACTS
Thomson
Reuters
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Corporate
Affairs
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david.girardin@thomsonreuters.com
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