Expansion of embeddable AI software portfolio
can help companies address AI skills gap, lack of
resources and development costs of bringing AI-powered applications
to market
ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM
(NYSE: IBM) today announced an expansion to its embeddable AI
software portfolio with the release of three new libraries designed
to help IBM Ecosystem partners, clients and developers more easily,
quickly and cost-effectively build their own AI-powered solutions
and bring them to market. Generally available today, the AI
libraries were developed in IBM Research and designed to provide
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) across industries an easily
scalable way to build natural language processing, speech to text,
and text to speech capabilities into applications across any
hybrid, multi cloud environment.
The expanded portfolio provides access to the same AI libraries
that power popular IBM Watson products. It is designed to help
lower the barrier for AI adoption by helping partners and clients
address the skills shortage and development costs required to build
machine learning and AI models from scratch. Developer and IT teams
also have the flexibility to embed the new Watson libraries of choice into their
applications to help create customized and compelling products
without data science expertise.
"Enterprises must commit to a significant investment in
expertise, resources and time required to build, deploy and manage
AI-powered solutions," said Kate
Woolley, General Manager, IBM Ecosystem. "By bringing to
market the same portfolio of embeddable AI technology that powers
our industry-leading IBM Watson products, we are helping Ecosystem
partners more efficiently deliver AI experiences that can drive
business value for their clients."
With the three new software libraries, developers can easily
access AI capabilities and choose the specific functionality, such
as natural language processing, that they want to embed in
different parts of an application. The libraries include
innovations developed by IBM Research as well as open source
technology and are designed to reduce the time and resources
required for a developer to add powerful AI to an application.
The three new libraries available today include:
- IBM Watson Natural Language Processing Library:
designed to help developers provide capabilities to process human
language to derive meaning and context through intent and
sentiment.
- IBM Watson Speech to Text Library: designed to
enable speech transcription with speed and accuracy to help
businesses improve customer service experiences.
- IBM Watson Text to Speech Library: designed to
enable developers to convert written text into natural sounding
audio with accuracy in a variety of languages and voices within an
existing application.
This release builds on IBM's existing portfolio of embeddable AI
products, which includes industry leading products such as IBM
Watson Assistant, IBM Watson Discovery, IBM Instana Observability,
IBM Maximo Visual Inspection and IBM Watson APIs. With IBM's
embeddable AI portfolio, CXOs and other IT decision makers can use
AI to uncover business insights and build enhanced end user
experiences.
Access Embeddable AI through the
IBM Ecosystem
IBM Ecosystem partners and mutual clients are benefiting from
IBM's portfolio of embeddable AI products.
"We are thrilled with our ability to embed IBM Watson Natural
Language Processing in our technology so seamlessly," said Yatharth
Gupta, SVP Products, SingleStore. "Helping our clients integrate
and use capabilities such as sentiment analysis will be invaluable
in driving real time analytics to help them better understand,
engage and serve their customers."
Other IBM Ecosystem partners like EquBot, CrushBank, and Sherloq
are using embeddable AI technology in their solutions to make
informed investment decisions, enhance help desk interactions, and
identify marketing leads through web 3.0 compliance and intelligent
website design.
As IBM Ecosystem partners build with IBM's embeddable AI, there
are partner programs to help them at every step of their journey,
from building with IBM to go-to-market with IBM. Partners can
access these valuable benefits including co-create, co-marketing,
and co-sell resources to help drive market demand and grow their
business. Today's news follows IBM's recent announcement to revamp
its approach to skilling, offering partners access to the same
badges and selling enablement materials as IBMers, comes at no cost
and can be accessed through a simplified digital experience.
About IBM
IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid
cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more
than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data,
streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the
competitive edge in their industries. More than 4,000 government
and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as
financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's
hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital
transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's
breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing,
industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and
flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's
legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility,
inclusivity and service. Visit www.ibm.com for more
information.
Media Contacts:
Chris Blake
IBM
Communications
blakechr@us.ibm.com
Sarah Murphy
IBM
Communications
Srmurphy@us.ibm.com
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