Amazon Forecast vs. Iguazio vs. Microsoft R Open / Revolution R Enterprise

Amazon Forecast is well suited when you are a company that's looking for a simple and effective solution in terms of understanding and predicting your resources planning in the AWS. However, it's also good to know that the cost that is incurred is higher and not suited for anything other than the AWS solutions integrations.

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With Iguazio we are able to scale up our organisations AI infrastructure which us vital to meet business goals and accelerate time-to-time. We are also able to manage our ML pipeline end-to-end using a full-stack,user-friendly environment, feature-rich integrated feature store and powerful data transformation and real-time feature engineering capabilities.

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If you are a MS shop specifically, or have more generic data requirement needs from Microsoft sourced data this will work well. If you have a lot of disparate data across a number of unique platforms/cloud systems/3rd party hosted data warehouses then this product will have issues or a lack of documentation on the net. Performance-wise this product is equal to other R platforms out there.

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• Built-in datasets
• Accuracy
• Machine learning

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• Dynamic scaling capacity.
• Central Metadata management.
• Data ingestion and preparation.

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• It allows distributed algorithm runs on Hadoop HDFS cluster
• It allows using different file formats such as SAS7BAT files or complex files in tab or comma delimited making data munging easier
• It provides scalable solutions by allowing users to re-use R scripts and distributing the computing over nodes through RHadoop

• Not easy for beginners as it requires insights to set the forecast
• Much more expensive if considered for small businesses

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• The user interface is not so much user-friendly, and easy-to-use, navigate.

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• Very steep learning curve... for such a quick and useful tool the learning curve is unacceptable.
• Very dangerous in the wrong hands. Because most add-ons are pre-written, you have to trust the community that malicious script is not used.

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In general, Revolution Analytics brings a lot of value to the organization. The renewal decision would be based on return on investment in terms of quantified actionable insights that are getting generated against the cost of the product. Additionally, market brand of the tool and reputation risk in terms of possible acquisition and its impact to overall organizational analytic strategy would be considered as well.

It is good, easy to use, improvements are being made to the product and more info being shared in the community. It just needs some more time to become more integrated to other platforms and tools/data out there.

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Generally support comes through the forums and user generated channels which are helpful, easy to access, quickly turned around and provided by knowledgeable users. However the support channels are not employees and the channels are often used as a way to learn quick difficult elements of R. Better design, users interface and tutorial options would alleviate the need for this sort of interaction.

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Cost-effective and user-friendly.

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Execution, experiment, data, model tracking, and automated deployment is done automatically through the MLRun serverless runtime engine. MLRun maintains a project hierarchy with strict membership and cross-team collaboration. End-to-end data governance is fully solidified and managed with authentication and identity management. Customers securely share data by providing access directly to it and not to copies.

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The two are different products for different purposes. But for someone who has little or no experience in R programming, Power BI would be better for starting with. Having said that, Microsoft R is built on R, thus allowing for customization of complex calculations not typically available otherwise.

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• Helped in planning the resources required.
• ML and AI delivered near perfect forecasts.
• Features and the details available for the cost is not enough.

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• Is a fully integrated solution with a user-friendly portal.
• Manage our ML pipeline end-to-end using Full-stack,user friendly environment.
• Iguazio enables our teams to manage all artefacts throughout their lifecycle.
• Enhance team work and collaboration in our teams.

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• Helped save company money versus buying other stat software

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