IBM Presents Watsonx Platform To Encourage AI-Based Digital Transformation

JAKARTA - IBM presents Watsonx Artificial Intelligence (AI) designed for business and data platforms at the Think Experience and Tech Summit 2023 event.

"The Indonesian government has formulated a roadmap to achieve and enable a comprehensive digital transformation to encourage economic growth," said IBM Indonesia President Director Roy Kosasih in Jakarta, Thursday, August 10.

To support this vision, Roy sees strong digital infrastructure and the adoption of digital technology, such as automation and analytics, will increase productivity and efficiency.

"I believe organizations need to consider in-depth implementing AI across their workflows, business processes, and operations," said Roy.

Think Experience and Tech Summit 2023 is also a forum for dialogues around AI adoption readiness, as well as academic collaboration and cross-sectoral partnerships that are important to support AI-based digital transformation in Indonesia.

Based on a study by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV), involving CEOs of global companies, it was found that as many as 75 percent of those surveyed believed, industries equipped with the latest generative AI would generate significant profits.

A large number of CEOs (43 percent) have implemented a generative AI to inform strategic decisions, while 36 percent use them for operational decisions and 50 percent combine them into their products and services.

"We must develop in this new era of AI with trust and transparency as the foundation. IBM is trying hard to empower governments and businesses with the advanced AI Watsonx platform to drive growth and competitiveness in this changing time," said Roy.

Roy explained that Watsonx was developed to provide access to independent services and everything businesses such as, devices, technology, infrastructure and consulting experts on a large scale in one place.

Watsonx comes with quality controls built to ensure trust, along with devices that allow businesses to safely use their own data, simultaneously adapt flexibly to changing legal environments and regulations.

The models in Watsonx ensure accuracy and prevent the creation of false information.

In addition, this platform's security and automation features allow data scientists and developers to use company data that are set to train the foundation model while handling compliance and security throughout the data ecosystem.

The platform consists of a watsonx.ai studio for a new foundation model, a generative AI, and machine learning (ML), data storage of watsonx.data, built on an open-lakehouse architecture and a watsonx.governance device to help allow AI workflows to be built with responsibility, transparency, and clarity.

Still at the same event, IBM also announced that PLN Icon Plus, a subsidiary of PLN, had utilized IBM Maximo Application.

Maximo Application is an AI solution and is key in improving the reliability of its operations, which supports their commitment to being able to take responsibility for the environment.