HfS published the Top 10 Cognitive Assistant Service Provider report that explores the emerging conversational service provider ecosystem across key areas including execution ability, innovation capability, and the voice of the customer. The conversational services called as Cognitive Assistants, go beyond the traditional chatbots and augment human-customer interaction across both front- and back-office business operations. IBM was recognized for its market leadership in Cognitive Assistant that harness the power of IBM Watson capabilities – including NLP, conversation and analytics. HfS also merits IBM for demonstrating the greatest volume and depth of cognitive assistant use cases across industry verticals and enterprise processes.