Near-term opportunities for cognitive systems in our ever-connected era

Many findings and analysis converge on the fact that, near-term opportunities for cognitive systems are in industries such as banking, securities and investments, and manufacturing. Cognitive technologies are being used in the banking industry to detect and combat fraud.

One can also observe that, in manufacturing, cognitive systems improve product quality; respond to dynamic fluctuations in product specs by adapting the production to stay within quality targets.

In these segments, IDC finds a wealth of unstructured data, a desire to harness insights from this information, and an openness to innovative technologies.