IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding

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Sopra Steria builds turnkey virtual assistant on IBM Watson for European public and private clients

European digital transformation firm Sopra Steria evaluated 15 AI virtual assistant solutions and chose IBM watsonx Assistant, IBM Watson Language Translator, Natural Language Understanding, and Text to Speech to build an intelligent virtual assistant accelerator engine now running at 10 production sites across Europe. The first implementation, a central digital billing portal for the French government, handled more than 75,000 conversations and 340,000 requests to watsonx Assistant in its first month, resolving 80% of inquiries without human agents, and later scaled from 450,000 to more than 1.5 million users.

Sopra Steria· FranceIBM watsonx Assistant · IBM Watson Language Translator · IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding +3

MarketingNatural Language ProcessingMachine LearningPredictive Analytics

SherloQ's AI-powered marketing platform lifts an HVAC company's sales 98% by surfacing real customer search language

SherloQ built an 'AI Smart Core' using IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding and Natural Language Classifier services to analyze calls, chats, texts, and email transcripts in real time, capturing first-party customer search language that major ad platforms strip out. For HVAC company Hurley & David Inc., SherloQ's AI revealed customers were searching for terms like 'A/C for small attic space' rather than the industry term 'mini-split'; after the company's ad agency rewrote landing pages and ads using this AI-derived language, sales rose from about USD 105,000 to more than USD 208,000 in three months, a 98% increase driven mainly by organic search. For the Law Offices of Mark E. Salomone, adopting the SherloQ AI solution raised the firm's click-to-lead conversion rate from an already above-average baseline to 28.92% within a month, reaching a peak of 46.75% by November 2019 against an industry average of 6.98%.

SHSherloQ· United StatesIBM Watson Machine Learning · IBM Watson Studio · IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding +1