Amazon Alexa for Business vs. IBM watsonx Orchestrate

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Alexa for Business
Score 4.9 out of 10
N/A
Alexa for Business is a service that enables organizations and employees to use Alexa to get more work done. With Alexa for Business, employees can use Alexa as their intelligent assistant to be more productive in meeting rooms, at their desks, and with Alexa devices. IT and facilities managers can also use Alexa for Business to measure and increase the utilization of the existing meeting rooms in their workplace.
$3
per month per user
IBM watsonx Orchestrate
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
IBM® watsonx™ Orchestrate® leverages AI to automate complex workflows. The solution helps build, deploy, and manage AI assistants and agents. It offers a catalogue of pre-built agents and tools, low-code agent builder, multi-agent collaboration capabilities, and integrations with enterprise apps.
$500
per month
Pricing
Amazon Alexa for BusinessIBM watsonx Orchestrate
Editions & Modules
Enrolled users
$3
per month per user
Shared devices
$7
per month per device
Essential
$500
per month per subscription
Essentials
$500
per month Per subscription
Standard
Enterprise
Standard
Enterprise
per month Per subscription
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon Alexa for BusinessIBM watsonx Orchestrate
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsIBM watsonx Orchestrate can be deployed and run on IBM Cloud, AWS, or on-premises. Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.
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Community Pulse
Amazon Alexa for BusinessIBM watsonx Orchestrate
Considered Both Products
Amazon Alexa for Business

No answer on this topic

IBM watsonx Orchestrate
Chose IBM watsonx Orchestrate
We have existing licenses with IBM for other products, so it was easier to integrate, and it had the features we needed.
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User Ratings
Amazon Alexa for BusinessIBM watsonx Orchestrate
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.6
(119 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(4 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(78 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(9 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Alexa for BusinessIBM watsonx Orchestrate
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Virtual assistants at work are still new features and have a lot to improve. 
The more features we have, the more we want new features.
In small environments we have "noise" between virtual assistants, making use inappropriate.
But in more distributed environments it is very good.
We still have a lot to learn (both, us and our Alexas).
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IBM
In our case, it is well-suited for workday integration, which allows us to automate the entire workflow. However, we are still working on the O9 platform integration, which we feel is less appropriate, and integrating the workflow into the platform.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Communication between people on the team.
  • Interactive personal assistant.
  • Better workspace management.
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IBM
  • New and improved natural language processing yielding better results helps the assistants understand the intention behind the query.
  • Preserves context of communication, allowing the customers to establish inquiries on the website and continue on the mobile app without having extra informational input.
  • Intelligent conversations mean that complex paths that are branched based on the user's inputs allow for a much more natural flow of the conversation than fixed scripts.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Could have a feature for group chats.
  • Alexa has some problems hearing nearby voices.
  • Website suggestions are irrelevant sometimes (should have user evaluation functionality for the answer, improving accuracy).
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IBM
  • I think that it needs to be able to integrate better with the knowledge catalogs. It currently provides a default database, which isn't quite large enough for enterprise use. We can connect that then to an external source, but it'd be nice if we could able just to instantiate one straight away.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
IBM
Currently we are using to develop chatbots based on client provided flow what kind chatbot required for client either button or free text chatbots. we will decided accordingly flow and develop chatbot using IBM Watson. We will integrated custom components if required which is not present in library. Action flow and dialog flow we are currently in chatbot.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
IBM
With the growing use of AI and chatbots, it's very easy to use, and the conversational language makes it easier than keyword searches in a document. The contextual language processing is impressive. It's easy to integrate into our internal portal. The use of this tool would depend on each company's security and data sensitivity.
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Performance
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
IBM
To develop chatbots based on client provided flow what kind chatbot required for client either button or free text chatbots. we will decided accordingly flow and develop chatbot using IBM Watson. We will integrated custom components if required which is not present in library. IBM Watson library anyone can easily learn and develop chatbots.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
IBM
We've rarely had to engage support, but they've always been prompt in responding and very attentive. Support experiences have been extremely positive (but we're mostly happy that we just don't have any cause to routinely need support in the first place!).
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Online Training
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
IBM
Excellent course material.
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Implementation Rating
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
IBM
Overall the implementation was simple.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
We looked at two other alternatives: Google Nest and Apple. But Alexa already has popular devices that many people on the team already had in their homes. And it would be easier to integrate into the professional environment. The cost of Amazon products is also much lower, which makes the product more competitive.
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IBM
Make has more community of workflows to follow that have been redeveloped and are available for download. Selecting WxO is based on our trust level with IBM and the propositions of the Granite model being less biased, more business trained, and the ecosystem allowing for expansion with Assistant and Discovery.
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Scalability
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
IBM
From past 3+ years I am using IBM Watson in our current project easily can implement and manage and monitor user how their using. Is there and update also just update dialog is just enough to change no need to touch any other templates. Multiple language will support, and action and dialog speak recognize chatbot we can create as per client requirement. Overall, as of now good experience with IBM Watson.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Difficulties with technology integration.
  • Identify all possible uses.
  • We still lost a lot of time making new settings.
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IBM
  • By automating tasks that would otherwise require human intervention, organizations may achieve cost savings in terms of labor, especially for handling large volumes of routine inquiries.
  • Virtual assistants can handle a large number of simultaneous interactions, making them scalable to accommodate growing customer bases and increasing workloads without a linear increase in staffing.
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