IBM Watson Ecosystem Partners in Market Building Businesses

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What should technologies mean to us? The answer of IBM in this article was everything if only you possibly imagine. The technology giant showed us that this was a new era of data-driven, the biggest challenge to each industry even every single people was to process overwhelmed information  in any place at any time and pick up the valuable information from these seemingly chaotic databases to get deep insights of the problem , however, it usually costed us a lot of time, particular in pharmaceuticals, life-science and finance  fields, whose research is relied on heavy data analysis. Then, IBM announced significant advances in Watson's cognitive computing capabilities that are enabling researchers to accelerate the pace of scientific breakthroughs by discovering previously unknown connections in Big Data.It reduces the time needed to test hypotheses and formulate conclusions that can advance their work -- from months to days and days to just hours -- bringing new levels of speed and precision to research and development.
Given the insightful understanding of the computing future, the platform based on cloud-service to facilitate its cognitive computing system which aims to reshape the world we live in, IBM actually creates a planet across existing industries to encourage incubators or innovators to make all kinds of possibilities to be achieved, this was a great step it taken since Watson launch, more than 'win-win' strategy consideration, these so-called partners would contribute more knowledge and creation to rich IBM Watson ecosystem when their products is embedded with Watson service.

It's thrilled to see artificial intelligence which existed only in science fiction movies before is now coming true and will even be commercialized soon.
IBM Watson's partnership with its partners and developers could be a role model for many hardware or software companies to refer to. For instance, in order to attract more developers, it offers its platform to them for free at the beginning and then share revenue with them when they make money. In this way, it gives the start up companies more opportunities to test out their products and services and hence more possibilities to succeed. In return, the Watson platform becomes more popular day by day through its partners. Upon building a healthy Ecosystem, Watson makes itself grow while helping its partners to realize their business dreams.

It is obvious that no single company can survive isolatedly,let alone a company in an internet age.IBM which used to focus on personal computers has changed its strategy,transforming the company from a pure product-orient company to an internet service provider.It is an important shift for the company to build and develop a platform which integrate various application developers and innovative servers.The ecosystem approached by IBM,to some degree,can be viewed as a new economy development in the form of so-called "platform economic". Alibaba,he biggest internet company in China,shows an evidence of this platform economic,it aggregates suppliers and demanders in the world-wide market through getting rid of redundant intermediate links. Maybe IBM not only operates the platform economy,but also push a further development.

After reading this article that I really feel IBM has truly transformed itself from a manufacture company to a creative and technology cutting-edge company. By starting from creating personal PCs in the beginning, IBM was aware that hardware manufacture is highly dependent on the technology development trend, which means something sold well could flash away at one night with the launching of a new product or technology, such as the story of Nokia, Motorola, etc.. IBM sought for a promising way by creating an ecosystem or a platform rather than making a series of products or applications to enter in the Cloud business, which is the hottest area in the IT world.

Meanwhile, IBM does not battle alone but collaborate with Partners together to create an ecosystem. This is a way that the company can save amounts of money in R&D of the areas they are not familiar with, and can extend its influence to the other markets, such as retail, education, etc., where the technology can bring revolution to the industries and dig out new opportunities. The alliance could bring IBM great vitality to stay above across various business but focusing on one target to penetrate cutting edge technology into traditional industries to create new opportunities there.

This is a very interesting article and what interests me is that IBM Watson Ecosystem is very high tech and artificial intelligent. If this technology will be fully used in all fields which can do bring a new era in the world. If the computer could learn the terminology of a certain field and get the access to the database which will help humans to solve the problems easily. When the technology is more mature in the future, the computer can understand a certain field of expertise and can apply that knowledge because it can access millions of sources of data in seconds which would take a human months. It doesn't give you a solution but it gives you a probabilistic answer which needs you to interpret. Also this technology helps partners differentiate their businesses which would be more efficient in the future.

Now look back to IBM, this company did have transformed from everyday PC to complex self-learning computer systems. IBM Watson Ecosystem is another milestone of IBM which shows the company's business strategy has been changed from being a manufacture company to be an innovative and high tech company. This works and it's very successful.

Open Innovation
Unlike the usual way before, this time IBM chooses to open cooperate with a large number of partners rather than do it by themselves. Partners from variety of lines could bring new business ideas and utilize the development of Watson by enriching products and service. It also will push innovation and efficiency

Catch Trend
It is no doubt that we are now going through a technology time with the approach of Cloud and big data. Watson is a significant transform and core technology for IBM. Facing competitive, Watson needs speed and scare. Watson’ speed must be faster than IMB’s speed. Or Watson will lose good timing and chance.

This article gives me a thought from two aspects: IBM's strategic transformation and construction of ecological system.
IBM，a hardware manufacturer,it’s strategic transformation has completed a process from the hardware manufacturer to the combination of science and technology. In view of the development of current era and the cruel market competition, enterprises have to turn to upstream and downstream for seeking resources integration in order to achieve the effect of 1 + 1〉2.
Concerning the construction of ecological system, through win-win pattern,IBM and his partners managed to develop the market space, their mutual advantages can be completed via complementary cooperation, which can be conducive to the sustainable development of the enterprise.

IBM Watson is a good example to show us the importance of the platform or ecosystem for a creative and dynamic IT company. Watson is not the first guy to have the ideas of meeting the needs of targeted consumers via cognitive apps, but it is not easy to accomplish if there is no Watson Developer Cloud. Per the plan of Watson with its new partners, it is very doable and promising. Watson’s work is to ensure the quality of so many new apps and do a good marketing work to let people access to those apps easily and conveniently.

Then, being versatile to a new business is not a bad thing. But they should focus on several core apps to solid its market share with close relationship and collaboration with its key app developers. So the popular apps with most downloads will benefit to the platform back in return.

Internet change the world. It help each other connect very easily. It break the boundary of industry.IBM Watson ecosystem partners help star-upper to focus on their creative idea, instead of hardware and software.
IBM is a traditional IT company. With rapid development of IT industry, he must to adapt the new environment of internet era. IBM build a platform to help innovator to realize their dream. Like App store of Apple. It will help IBM transform them from an IT company to a IT service company.

With the development of Cloud, Big Data, and etc, our time is a day of rapid changes. IBM used to be leading company in its filed and is now confronted with fierce market competition. Watson is the first open cognitive computing technology platform and represents a new era in computing area.
It provides the platform instead of technology and hardware only. The pattern is a bit like Iphone model and APP is used based on the Iphone IOS system. The relationship with Watson and variety of partners is similar with IOS and APP developers. With wide use of products from partners, the platform will be more and more important. Thus, IBM is exploring and developing its partners to grow the market.
As said, ‘first class company is rule maker, second class one is brand builder and third class one is products maker.’ The action on opening the platform is on the way to change the game rule and starting to become rule maker with more and more demands of partners which will be a key to IBM innovation.

The notion that IBM’s market expansion is to integrate Watson’s competitive advantage, which aimed at a historical-stunning computing superpower. A wide varieties of forces including the cognitive computer technologies are now becoming much more popular with sudden, swift transmission of the ideas that change society. New ideas and trends has dominated the future generation of products and services. Once a new idea has spreads, the company still need to strive our best to get hold of it and execute these innovative concepts into practical applications.

Nowadays, AI (artificial intelligence) is no more just a word exists in science fiction films, but a real technology used in our daily life. From Deep Blue, the computer invented by IBM 14 years ago, which defeated the world greatest chess player, to the latest computer system Watson, which enable users to get great help in various fields with it’s cognitive analysis function. With the development of AI by the computer companies like IBM, it would be easily to predict that science and technology will make further huge changes to the way we live in all aspects. Therefore, how to take advantage of such AI platform, such as Watson Developer Could mentioned in the article, is important to every industry, not only in IT section.

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With the development of internet, our life has been changed by the IT technology.
Nowdays, all aspects of our life are related to the Bigdate, cloud serve, artificial intelligence and the other Ecosystem...
Well, the IBM Watson Ecosystem Partners is a wonderful example to show Application in Market Building Businesses. It help their customers to improve efficiency, and do better than without the ecosystem.
We are looking forward to that the IBM Watson Ecosystem Partners can serve to not only business, but also education, government, public serve, indiviual life...In these industry, there are so many opportunities to make some creativties and make some innovations and earn more money.

Big Data and Cloud Computing, with Artificial Intelligence, a great combination of three show the trend of the further. The future is DT (Data Technology), which needs Cloud Computing to make accurate prediction, and which also needs Artificial Intelligence to imitate the human decision-making process. When robot becomes smart enough, human brain will be liberated from mundane jobs and the evolution is happening.

IBM Watson is a good start. I expect to see more of such kinds of innovations, benefiting the world and to the benefactor itself.

IBM Watson ecosystem has provided online service of artificial intelligence to a considerable number of clients. Previously artificial intelligence has been dealing with issues by individual unit. However, IBM transformed the application of artificial intelligence through the delivery of analysis and recommendations based on online cloud computing. And IBM Watson ecosystem gradually built up a platform for numerous enterprise users to use its software, helping them streamline various business scenarios, improve efficiency, achieve the business target more swiftly, make the business decisions more effectively. The prospect of IBM Watson ecosystem is quite bright.

IBM never stop innovating. It does not just focus on innovation by itself. It also help and encourage the start ups and innovators in established business to make the innovative business through the cognitive computing technology platform-Watson. IMB sees the trend of congitive computing and is leading the industry. It creates the Watson and build the ecosystem. The more people or companies are involved in the the Ecosystem, the more benefit every party can get which create sustainable and organic bussinss.

How could IT change the life and industries? After read the introduction of IBM Watson Ecosystem, I'm impressive by the idea and already start looking forward to try this. Sometimes, we lack of enough information to analysis and resolve the problem, to make the decision, to approach to the key point. The integrated information provided by IBM Watson Ecosystem simplify the information collection process, the accurate information allow its users to spend more time on significant work.

The IBM Watson Ecosystem penetrate variety industries and work function,  after collect sufficient data, probably IBM Watson Ecosystem could understand its users better than themselves in the future.

IBM always creates computing industry miracle, the Watson is the most symbolic and milestone.Building this platform has helped many companies in different filed fulfill their achievement.And we could predict that Waston will play the critical role in future, especially the age of big data. Meanwhile, Waston will assist in the analysis of unstructured data, so as to make better business decisions. And Watson is used in many of the IBM tools have been used for the enterprise, such as IBM content analysis software.

Enterprise content management market development and strategy director Craig Rhinehart suggests Watson's design is not to replace the role of people, but to play a supplementary role in the decision-making process, can communicate with employees in other ways. IBM is the product in the field of medical diagnosis and auxiliary function.

Moreover, Watson can also be used in financial and consumer services such as data volume larger industry. A report shows that the system can be used for telephone marketing, but not to Rhinehart. There is no doubt that Watson's ability to attract many consumers, IBM current attention is its price.

IBM team the next challenge is let Watson to provide more hypothetical situation, research and development team also need at least two years to complete the task.
Watson is an incubator for startups and innovation.

In the bid data era, app economy is a quite hot topic. Previously IBM has tried many years to generate more revenue on their Watson Develop Cloud and now they finally find its way to encourage app developers and make many useful apps to benefit the public by leveraging the Watson Developer Cloud.

All the apps introduced are designed attractively. In the following step, IBM might need to think about clear how to attract more and more apps users. For instance, Apple’s users get sticky to all the apps on IOS through iphone, ipad and Macbook. Likewise, IBM has to develop its own high technology products to showcase all the apps and get the customers to easily use them.

I am thrilled that by the ecosystem, created by IBM that enable us making a big a step to artificial intelligence . I also appreciated IBM's constantly efforts in new technology innovation, letting it always be a cutting edge company in the world.
But technology improvement or R&D output is not the way we called innovation. I believe thoughts or ideas that change people's life style by using technology could be viewed as real creation. According to ecosystem, it can also provide consulting service, but from a consultant's view, I am not afraid it will take away my job, cos I deeply know it is human create methodology, technology is only a tool help me be more efficient or easy to get.

Watson, a familiar name as one famous "doctor", represent IBM's intention about service for the new interact era. IBM once was a giant but is transferring lighter and lighter, become more flexible and keen after changed to service supplier. Now it sells the professional service via building an open platform and developing as self-developing with the help of explosive internet era, for instance, as the article mentioned, cognitive computing. This is the competitive trend recent and in future.

IBM creates a platform based on AI and big data that could help people to gererate more innovated ideas and also more biz opportunities.
APP biz has come to a new era that is more mature, now more and more companies jump into the biz. But different from other companies IBM based on its rich experience and also the excellent partners develops a platform with high levels.
The Apps on the platform are developed by companies rather than single person which make the Apps more mature and more advanced in general, as the companies are IBM's parnters and we are aware that the parnters of IBM are top ones in the line.
After selling its hardware biz IBM become a consulting company, which make itself more involved in the re-building of a company and knows more good companes which could be better resources.
Big data helps the developers to develp Apps with precise positioning. Based on the analysis on huge amount of data related, the result is more accuate and repliable than before.
Most important I believe the platform could develop itself with development of the develpers. It is not like the upgrade of software but like the growing of a person.

IBM Watson: Pioneering a New Era of Computing

From this article I learned that IBM has grown up to a new high level from a PC industry which opened a new era of computing. The change of this commercial model was of great success. IBM Watson also changed our life in every aspect, such as Strategy Advisory, Citizen Services, Personalized Health and Wellness, Research & Development, Online Marketing/CRM, and so on. It has the more useful computing ability than Goole and other IT companies. What"s more, it is efficient for IBM to start two dedicated business units, Watson and Watson Health. This structure could better its commercial model and advance Watson. 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.