Introduction

In today’s competitive environment, sharing information and expertise can be critical in driving both individual and organizational success. From forward-thinking business leaders to younger workers who have grown up in the Web-based world, working collaboratively is now business as usual. Many companies want to innovate—but not all understand the importance of collaboration to making innovation possible. Many are hobbled by old concepts of collaboration that can slow their success. People in the company may, for example, consider collaboration to be extra work. But to today’s innovative worker, collaboration is what work is all about. In the old way of thinking, employees make themselves valuable through what they know. But in the new way, people make themselves valuable by seeking opportunities to work with others and tapping into the expertise that others possess.

IBM Collaboration Solutions software gives your teams cognitive tools to outthink challenges. These solutions open up new ways to connect and engage. IBM Watson Workspace is part of the IBM Collaboration Solutions portfolio.

IBM Watson Workspace is a messaging app with the built-in power of Watson - it’s designed to help you and your teams do your best work. With Watson Workspace, you can connect and collaborate with your teams, squads, and other work groups from anywhere, on any device. It has full, searchable history of all conversations and one central place for all shared images and resources. You can connect third party apps to work more seamlessly with your every day tools and when conversations move fast, cognitive technology summarizes conversations, prioritizes what’s important to you and connects actionable language to next steps so you can get more done.

Developers can create, share and publish their own apps using the Watson Work Services APIs. Watson Work Services provides you with a cloud based platform for building collaboration apps with the power of Watson. You’ll find easy to use APIs that go beyond just collaboration, they are infused with the insight and understanding only Watson can provide. In this lab you will see how easy is to create Cognitive Conversations Apps using Watson Work Services and Node.js that leverage Watson intelligence to improve your employees productivity and your business results, enjoy it!