Today, IBM and Salesforce announced a joint partnership to work on AI solutions. In order to deliver joint solutions designed to offer artificial intelligence and enable companies to make smarter decisions, a global strategic partnership has been announced by IBM and
Salesforce. Thanks to the alliance as it will be beneficial across sales, service, marketing, commerce as it enables to connect with new level of intelligent customer engagement.
As far as Global Business Services capabilities for Salesforce are concerned, IBM tries to enable the clients to rapidly implement the combined IBM Watson and Salesforce Einstein capabilities by bringing strategic investment into force. As per the plan, the alliance capitalizes on Bluewolf's Salesforce implementations and their current augmentation of multiple Salesforce in addition to Watson projects.
New insights from Watson are expected as it tries to combine deep customer insights from Salesforce Einstein with Watson's structured and unstructured data across many sources and diverse industries ranging from weather, healthcare, financial services to retail.
IBM Watson APIs into Salesforce are to be integrated to entice smarter, faster decisions across sales, service, marketing, commerce. In order to provide valuable information on weather insights that inform customer interactions and business performance, a new Lightning component on the Salesforce AppExchange comes in handy.
To surface data directly within Salesforce Intelligent Customer Success Platform, the customers will be able to able to bring together On-Premise enterprise and Cloud data with specialized integration products for Salesforce. Salesforce Service Cloud across the company has been of the view to transform its global product support services and gain a single, unified view of every IBM customer is expected to be deployed by IBM.
In the second half of 2017, IBM Watson and Salesforce Einstein integration is expected to be available and for pricing, expect it to be announced at the time of general availability.