Watson and Microsoft SharePoint

We launched the latest enhancement to Watson today – out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft SharePoint.  Now any SharePoint user can use Watson to tap into their portal content and have it automatically delivered to their desktop.  This is a boon for companies that want to jump-start collaboration and content re-use.  People put systems like SharePoint in place so that people can reuse documents.  Watson helps find opportunities to put those documents to work by letting people know when there’s something relevant out there.  Now users of SharePoint get this automatically.

We chose SharePoint for out-of-the-box integration because so many of our users requested it, and SharePoint provides a robust and scalable enterprise search solution for people who don’t already have something in place. The query language under the hood allows the IT department to customize what’s delivered in Watson by leveraging metadata and taxonomies.  This means that queries dispatched from Watson can deliver more precise results to users.

As always, I’d love to hear what you think about it.  If you’re a Watson Professional user, you can get the update here.  You’ll see the SharePoint integration when you select Tools > Configure Info Sources…  Sorry, this is available for users of Watson Professional only.  If you have the ad-supported version and want to upgrade, click here.

Watson can still be configured to search any searchable source.  Where else do you want to see Watson deliver content from...any suggestions?

-j

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