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ARMONK, New York, Dec. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced that Watson Analytics, a breakthrough natural
language-based cognitive service that can provide instant access to
powerful predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses, is
available in beta. See Vine (vine.co/v/Ov6uvi1m7lT) for a sneak
peek now. IBM Watson Analytics automates the once time-consuming
tasks such as data preparation, predictive analysis, and visual
storytelling for business professionals. Offered as a cloud-based
freemium service, all business users can now access Watson
Analytics from any desktop or mobile device. Since being announced
on September 16, more than 22,000
people have already registered for the beta. The Watson Analytics
Community, a user group for sharing news, best practices, technical
support and training, is also accessible starting today.
This news follows IBM's recently announced global partnership
with Twitter, which includes plans to offer Twitter data as part of
IBM Watson Analytics.
To view today's news and access a video to be shared, visit the
Watson Analytics Storybook: https://ibm.biz/WAStorybook.
Learn more about how IBM Watson Analytics works:
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NU6DA_cZtc
As part of its effort to equip all professionals with the tools
needed to do their jobs better, Watson Analytics provides business
professionals with a unified experience and natural language
dialogue so they can better understand data and more quickly reach
business goals. For example, a marketing, HR or sales rep can
quickly source data, cleanse and refine it, discover insights,
predict outcomes, visualize results, create reports and dashboards
and explain results in familiar business terms.
On Thursday, Dec. 4, at
12 p.m. ET, IBM will host a Google
Hangout, Go Inside Watson Analytics: Big Data Experts Discuss
First-hand Experiences Live. For more details and to watch the
live video chat, visit and bookmark:
IBMBigDataHub.com/video-chat.
To access the beta, visit: watsonanalytics.com
Media Contact:
Faye Abloeser
IBM Media Relations
+1-917-472-3526
abloeser@us.ibm.com
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