By Legal IT Insider, October 28, 2015
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In its second major deal to be announced in as many weeks Thomson Reuters has revealed that it has entered into a partnership with IBM to use its artificial intelligence solution Watson across the breadth of its customer solutions.
The Toronto and New York-listed publishing giant will explore the application of Watson – a cognitive computing system that learns and develops as it is used – across the legal, tax and finance departments.
Thomson Reuters’ chief strategy officer Brian Scanlon said: “Thomson Reuters helps customers make critical business decisions by applying cutting-edge technology and domain expertise to complex sets of data and information. Our work with IBM to apply Watson is a natural complement to our market-leading customer solutions.”
According to a statement issued on Friday (9 October), Thomson Reuters will explore how Watson can be applied to key industry market opportunities, leveraging deep content analytics, natural language processing, decision support and evidence-based learning to enable Thomson Reuters customers to derive greater insight and workflow efficiency.
