No AI Team? No Problem. How ISVs Can Embed AI Without Starting From Scratch

The pace of change surrounding AI can at times appear overwhelming, as can meeting customer demands for innovation. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are under pressure to extract more value from data, deliver actionable insights and roll out user-friendly features.

AI has huge potential to deliver in these areas, but keeping up with advances in GenAI models, machine learning and natural language processing requires significant resources and data science expertise.

Outsourcing expertise

For Independent Software Vendors, investing the necessary time and skills to develop AI-powered features can be prohibitively costly, eating into potential revenue benefits. Working with a third party that has expertise in this area removes this barrier to entry and ensures ISVs can harness AI advances without shifting focus from their core business model.

IBM’s embeddable AI portfolio makes AI more accessible and consumable, empowering ISVs to easily incorporate IBM’s core AI technologies into their own commercial applications. These pre-built models can be embedded and deployed without the associated cost or complexity. This gives ISVs and their access to functionalities that would take far longer to build in-house.

Developed using both open source and IBM models, ISVs have the flexibility to build and run applications or solutions in the cloud, on premises or at the edge.

Partnering for innovation

There are many different IBM AI tools ISVs can harness to create their own differentiated solutions, with IBM using its core Watson technology in more than 20 products. For example, watsonx™ Assistant can be used to build AI-powered voice agents and chatbots to enhance customer experiences, Watson® Discovery enables advanced natural language processing, natural language understanding and optical character recognition, and watsonx Orchestrate™ can be used to increase productivity by automating tasks and streamlining processes.

IBM has recently launched its watsonx.ai™ Lightweight Engine, specifically designed for enterprises. This allows ISVs to access a variety of fit-for-purpose foundation models including open source, proprietary and custom foundation models, and enterprise-grade APIs. This enables businesses to deliver enterprise-scale AI inferences capabilities while reducing the total footprint and compute requirements.

Real innovation happens when organizations’ areas of expertise are allowed to shine, and combining IBM’s tried and tested AI tools with ISVs’ knowledge of the software application market allows for exciting, high-quality solution to be brought to users.

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