Amazon Kendra vs. IBM Watson Discovery

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Kendra
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Amazon Kendra is presented by the vendor as an accurate and easy to use enterprise search service powered by machine learning.N/A
IBM Watson Discovery
Score 9.1 out of 10
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IBM offers Watson Discovery, a natural language processing (NLP) application with options to measure sentiment, detect entities, semantic roles, and other concepts.N/A
Pricing
Amazon KendraIBM Watson Discovery
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon KendraIBM Watson Discovery
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Small Businesses
Algolia
Algolia
Score 8.9 out of 10
Algolia
Algolia
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Guru
Guru
Score 9.0 out of 10
Guru
Guru
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Guru
Guru
Score 9.0 out of 10
Guru
Guru
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon KendraIBM Watson Discovery
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(2 ratings)
9.5
(22 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon KendraIBM Watson Discovery
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
An intelligent search solution that makes it easy to find the information employees and customers want to know without migrating from one place to another and without wasting time with just a few clicks, Amazon Kendra connects relevant data sources through fully functional and customizable search while minimizing risks increasing workflow by obtaining detailed results.
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IBM
Overall, IBM Watson Discovery is an amazing technology that we use with our clients to address various business problems, but the biggest challenge has always been about ingesting, analyzing, enriching, and searching huge collections of documents and allowing our end users and SMEs to be able to search for what they need to reduce the time and efforts spent daily on a manual search through various collections of documents. We have successfully managed to reduce manual work by over 80%, and now our SMEs are being used for the skills they have to gather insights rather than do manual work.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Extremely accurate.
  • Easy to use and setup.
  • Great search engine.
  • Powerful research tool.
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IBM
  • It is an excellently fast platform with documents and the answers to queries.
  • With automation learning beneficial as it saves time.
  • When searching for a document, everything stays located and easy to find.
  • Acceptance of various documents.
  • It has a quite comfortable Technical support, always available when required.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service that facilitates the way we obtain information by making it easier to obtain accurate documents without wasting time, it is a software that is designed to work in an optimized way, providing a business quality service with flexible features and innumerable benefits. , it is effective and fresh.
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IBM
  • I believe AI should be more flexible about providing data. However, it's understandable that you need to provide the details you need in a more specific and detailed way.
  • The interface could use more tweaking. Being new to the program, it was kind of hard to navigate.
  • Luckily, there was a customized feature of the dashboard that I could set up, and having something that you know where you are placed always feels familiar and comfortable.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
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IBM
Powerful insights with a little bit of a learning curve
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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IBM
Similar to all IBM Watson and Salesforce product solutions, the overall support would be a 10/10. Their provided FAQ's help with frequently experienced issues and if still unable to figure something out, their customer service representatives are always super responsive. With instant chat functions available, it is easy to ask a quick question rather than sitting on hold.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
Amazon Kendra offers an intelligent search experience, it is a tool that facilitates the way we work by providing secure and immediate results, saves time, increases productivity and brings progress. It is the best way to get accurate answers using natural language. It is a software that works in an extraordinary way, being easy to implement, safe and effective, the experience is unique.
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IBM
Discovery differs from its competitors due to the better ease of implementation and the high level of natural language recognition, it is equal in integration resources such as API and workflow or process pipeline, but it loses in the price for a high volume of documents and/or research. If you own or plan to use other services from the IBM Watson family, there is no doubt that Watson discovery is your best option. Another important point is if you plan to use a cloud or on-premise service (local server or private cloud).
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Ease of use of website, converting in more sales.
  • Better internal documentation, reducing emails back-and-forth.
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IBM
  • We find its Enterprise plan expensive for a country of LATAM. For US or Europe based businesses, looks great.
  • A Big Data and massive queries based company would find the service expensive. Maybe a flat price plan would be helpful.
  • Have you thought in making a cheaper plan where you take the learning from your customer's data to enrich your AI tool?
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