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IBM Watson

10Judge labels

0First choices

9Negative labels

8 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. IBM Watson was named 1 time in AIOps, where New Relic led with 17%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business75 of 96

under the label threshold

Mid-market87 of 93

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In aiops · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named IBM Watson for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
AIOps platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	87 of 93	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 17%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for IBM Watson yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated IBM Watson across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“without spending the budget or man-hours required to implement massive enterprise suites like BMC Helix or IBM Watson” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AIOps · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IBM Watson, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Watson was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon SageMaker8 of 100Not among the top eight

Azure Machine Learning8 of 100Not among the top eight

Google Vertex AI7 of 100Not among the top eight

Kubeflow6 of 100Not among the top eight

RapidMiner5 of 101Not among the top eight

KNIME Analytics Platform4 of 102Not among the top eight

BigML4 of 101Not among the top eight

Oracle AI4 of 100Not among the top eight

SAP AI4 of 100Not among the top eight

DataRobot3 of 100Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named IBM Watson. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 9 of the 10 answers that named IBM Watson and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

it-ai-index.com7

dagshub.com6

checkthat.ai5

devopsschool.com5

g2.com5

learn.g2.com5

m.umu.com5

smartdatacollective.com5

articsledge.com3

appreviewlab.com2

Forty-eight of the forty-eight domain citations in answers naming IBM Watson came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

it-ai-index.com/it-data/ml-platforms/smb7

dagshub.com/blog/top-deep-learning-platforms6

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-machine-learning-platforms-in-2025-features-pros-cons-compari5

learn.g2.com/best-machine-learning-tools5

m.umu.com/ask/a111223015738539992595

smartdatacollective.com/machine-learning-companies5

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-machine-learning-platforms3

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-machine-learning-platforms-tools-in-2025-features-pros-cons-c3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Follow IBM Watson

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

IBM is the company behind IBM Watson.

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On record

Company records

Also from IBM: IBM AI Fairness 360, IBM API Connect, IBM Apptio Cloudability, IBM Aspera, IBM Aspera Managed File Transfer, IBM Business Automation Workflow, IBM Cloud Databases, IBM Cloud Kubernetes and 98 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: See how IBM Watson has advanced enterprise AI.
ibm.com/watson
For: enterprise workflows
ibm.com/watson/events
Price stated: trial, essentials and standard plans ibm.com/products/watson-studio
Free plan or trial: Start free trial ibm.com/watson/events
Customers named: The US OpenVodafoneD&B Ask ProcurementIBM
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What IBM Watson's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: ibm.com/watson, ibm.com/watson/events, ibm.com/watson/resources, ibm.com/products/watson-query, ibm.com/products/watson-studio. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when IBM Watson's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as IBM Watson, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for IBM Watson by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where IBM Watson is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name IBM Watson, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.