IBM introduces Watson Workspace collaboration tool

On October 25, 2016 at IBM World of Watson, IBM announced the preview release (i.e. pre-beta) of Watson Workspace.

Watson Workspace leverages the cognitive computing capabilities of IBM Watson.
This is an IBM collaboration tool that allows people to create shared spaces where they can post questions, share ideas, collaborate on projects, etc. Essentially it's a group messaging client, but with a twist... it's being built from the ground up to leverage the cognitive computing capabilities of IBM Watson.
What does that mean? Well IBM's goal is to provide a client that helps eliminate the information overload often associated with today's collaboration tools. Today employees hold conversations in chat clients, assign tasks in project management tools, manage customer records in CRM systems, share files in another tool, etc. Watson Workspace enables people to integrate multiple tools into a single stream, creating a more seamless experience versus jumping back and forth between multiple tools.
But bringing multiple applications into a single stream is not what makes Watson Workspace unique. There are several group messaging clients like Slack, Glip, Cisco Spark and Office 365 Groups that already do this. Watson Workspace's (current) differentiator is a new feature called Moments. Workspace Moments leverages the IBM Watson cognitive APIs to create a summary of the posts taking place in a Space. It groups together posts making it easier for people to digest the vast amounts of information being shared. Moments even labels the items in the summary as questions, actions or decisions to provide context around why these posts are the ones you should pay attention to.
Watson Workspace moments
So go sign up for IBM Watson Workspace and feel free to invite me into a space. The mobile clients for iOS and Android are available, but are currently lacking the Moments feature.