IBM Watson Discovery

4.6

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is IBM Watson Discovery?

IBM Watson Discovery is a software designed to help organizations extract insights from large volumes of unstructured data. The software applies natural language processing and machine learning to analyze documents, webpages, and other text data, enabling the identification of relevant information and trends. Watson Discovery supports customizable data connectors, advanced search functions, and the ability to build question-answering systems, facilitating knowledge discovery and data-driven decision-making. This software addresses business challenges related to information retrieval and organizational knowledge management by enabling users to efficiently search, classify, and understand complex data sources.

Overall experience with IBM Watson Discovery

Data Architect
500M - 1B USD, Banking
FAVORABLE

Watson Discovery highly recommended for industry applications.

5.0
Apr 9, 2025
Excellent customer service, problem resolution, and knowledge transfer. The IBM team helped us with two POCs related to Watson Discovery and both of them exceeded our expectations. The projects are now fully operational on production environment attending 30k requests on average.
Head Of Product Security
1B - 3B USD, Miscellaneous
CRITICAL

Solid product, from a well-known vendor, need some polishing on integration

3.0
Apr 13, 2021
We tried the product as a base for our marketing site to power a self-service Q&A site. It was difficult (for us) to integrate with our platform, which is based on the Microsoft ecosystem. Further, we couldn't find a good enough vendor to help with the integration.

About Company

Company Description

IBM is a well-established entity focused on technology and development. The primary mission revolves around fostering technological growth and enhancing infrastructure, achieved through focused developments and consulting services. By encouraging inventiveness and innovation, it is geared towards facilitating the transition of theoretical ideas into practical realities, thus improving global functionalities. IBM brings about transformation by creating advanced solutions that reshape and redefine the world.

Company Details

Company type
Public
Year Founded
1911
Head office location
Armonk, New York, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD

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4.6

(85 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
45%
4 Star
48%
3 Star
7%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.5

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4.4

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4.4

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  • Data Architect
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
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    Watson Discovery highly recommended for industry applications.

    5.0
    Apr 9, 2025
    Excellent customer service, problem resolution, and knowledge transfer. The IBM team helped us with two POCs related to Watson Discovery and both of them exceeded our expectations. The projects are now fully operational on production environment attending 30k requests on average.
  • Engineer
    <50M USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Intuitive AI-based tool to extract information

    5.0
    Mar 21, 2024
    Watson used it to obtain information quickly and easily and we can take advantage of the benefits in existing workflow and it also works very well to analyze unstructured data and indicate patterns and helps with natural language processing.
  • Program Manager
    10B+ USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Watson Discovery remains best in class for document understanding

    5.0
    Sep 29, 2021
    Our implementation had high-level visibility, and because it was customer-facing, an equally high level of concern. IBM stood with us during the implementation, and has continued to be a strong partner ever since. Watson Discovery has leading-edge capabilities, which have exceeded our expectations.
  • General Manager
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    IBM Cloud and the garage team are best in class to start AI projects

    5.0
    Sep 22, 2021
    Very professional IBM team, listening to our needs and visions, so we build up a successful and well fitting AI-Chat-Bot Pilot in our company, together with the IBM Team. Very good knowledge transfer enabled us to drive the AI project, independ from external IBM teammates, after launch. IBM Cloud by itself is build up to scale in a lot of new use cases, independ from the starting point. Very "cool playground" to try out the possibilities of automatization of IBM Cloud Services, as the most of them are free in the light versions.
  • Associate Software Developer
    10B+ USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Study your documents with IBM!

    4.0
    Apr 15, 2021
    A highly impactful tool from IBM. Discovery helped us immensely to generate insights from data that were scattered across documents (PDF, doc etc). Earlier, we used to employ people to study these documents and generate the required insights. This was tedious and also less efficient. It was economically unviable too. With IBM Watson discovery, it simply detects the required keywords and easily generate insights based on the document content.
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