What is IBM Watson Analytics?
IBM Watson Analytics is a cloud-based business intelligence and analytics platform designed to help business users visually explore, analyze, and share data insights without needing coding or data science skills.
Key features of Watson Analytics include:
- Data preparation tools to cleanse, shape, and enrich data
- Visualizations and dashboards to spot patterns and trends
- Natural language querying to ask plain language questions about data
- Predictive analytics capabilities powered by machine learning algorithms
- Storytelling features to build interactive data narratives and reports
- Collaboration capabilities to discuss findings and share dashboards
- Connections to a wide variety of data sources including Excel, databases, cloud apps, and more
Watson Analytics targets business professionals, analysts, managers, executives and more who want self-service access to insights from their organization's data. Its automated data analysis and visualization capabilities allow users without coding skills to easily prep, analyze, and visualize data to make data-driven decisions.