Member Resources

Ecosystem members are given access to a wealth of resources to help them create their applications built with Watson.

The services in Watson Developer Cloud are now available to anyone with a Bluemix account.

By signing up for Bluemix, developers get access to the Watson Developer Cloud and the Watson services in it. This publically available experience through Bluemix is for non-production use and for the time being, the services are beta.

Watson Ecosystem Partners have access to the same services plus production-level versions of some services within their own sandbox development environments. There, they may use their own content, configure, and train Watson services for production-level deployment.

Building an application thats built with Watson requires the right kind of data and content. The Watson Content Marketplace makes this possible by bringing together different sources of data for developers and content providers, including general knowledge, industry-specific content and subject matter expertise.

It's important to have access to the right people with the right skill sets to build a cognitive application. Whether its machine learning, user experience design or analytics, Ecosystem members can work with Watson experts on a fee or project basis.

The goal of the Watson Ecosystem is to nurture and support partners in developing commercial applications that incorporate Watsons cognitive computing capabilities and collaborate on new commercial uses for Watson. To that end, IBM will invest $100M in select companies that develop a solution on Watson technology. As invested portfolio companies, partners can gain access to IBMs technology, expertise, channels and client relationships.

Criteria for equity investment include company size and growth rate, the ability of the application to positively disrupt and spur innovation in a market or industry, and level of committed resources.

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