SAN FRANCISCO, CA and NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 10/13/16 — Enterprise search leader is tapping into the platform for its Fusion platform, an application framework that helps developers to create enterprise discovery applications so companies can understand their data and take action on insights.
Today–s knowledge workers face an avalanche of data and documents. Lucidworks– Fusion is an application framework for creating powerful enterprise discovery apps that help organizations access their information to make better, data-driven decisions. By integrating Watson, Fusion can deliver insights within seconds and can process massive amounts of structured and multi-structured data in context, including voice, text, numerical, and spatial data. Fusion–s platform upgrade with Watson reduces the work and time it takes to create enterprise discovery apps from months of in-house development to only weeks with Watson.
“Watson is a powerful platform for companies and developers to build collaboration solutions and data analysis apps,” said Will Hayes, Chief Executive Officer of Lucidworks. “We–re bringing next-generation capabilities to enterprise discovery by embedding cognitive computing technology like Watson into our Fusion platform to transform how customers create discovery applications for today–s data-rich, fast-paced work environment.”
Customers can rely on Fusion to develop and deploy powerful discovery apps quickly thanks to its advanced cognitive computing features and machine learning from Watson. Fusion applies Watson–s machine learning capabilities to an organization–s unique and proprietary mix of structured and unstructured data so each app gets smarter over time by learning to deliver better answers to users with each query. Fusion also integrates several Watson services such as , , , and to bolster the platform–s performance by making it easier to interact naturally with the platform and improving the relevance of query results for enterprise users.
For example, a Fusion app could use Watson–s Speech to Text service to convert the end user–s natural language spoken query into text, sending it to the application. As the results are retrieved and served back to the end user, Fusion can use Watson–s Retrieve and Rank service to rank those results for maximum relevancy based on the end user–s persona, demographic, or previous behaviors. Additionally, embedding Watson, a cloud-based cognitive system, bridges the gap between on-premise and cloud based solutions by enabling customers to seamlessly query data in both locations.
Now, customers looking for hosted, pre-tuned machine learning and natural language processing capabilities can point and click their way to building sophisticated applications without the need for additional resources. By bringing Watson–s cognitive computing technology to the world of enterprise data apps, these discovery apps made with Fusion are helping professionals understand the mountain of data they work with in context to take action.
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Lucidworks builds enterprise search solutions for some of the world–s largest brands. Fusion, Lucidworks– advanced platform, provides the enterprise-grade capabilities needed to design, develop and deploy intelligent discovery and data apps — at any scale. Companies across all industries, from consumer retail and healthcare to insurance and financial services, rely on Lucidworks every day to power their consumer-facing and enterprise search apps. Lucidworks– investors include Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, and Walden International. Learn more at lucidworks.com.
Watson represents a new era in computing called cognitive computing, where systems understand the world the way humans do: through senses, learning, and experience. Watson continuously learns from previous interactions, gaining in value and knowledge over time. With Watson, organizations are harnessing the power of cognitive computing to transform industries, help professionals do their jobs better, and solve important challenges. Watson is open to the world, allowing a growing community of developers, students, entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts to easily tap into the most advanced and diverse cognitive computing platform available today. Watson solutions are being built, used and deployed in more than 45 countries and across 20 different industries. For more information on IBM Watson, visit: and .
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