ATOmate vs. IBM Watson Discovery

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ATOmate
Score 9.0 out of 10
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ATOmate automationes ATO document processing and distribution. From Business Automation Works (BAW) headquartered in Melbourne, a solution created for accountants that want to communicate important ATO information to clients efficiently and effectively; ATOmate automates the processing, checking and distribution of ATO documents including Notices of Assessment, Statements of Account and Tax Debts.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
ATOmateIBM Watson Discovery
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ATOmateIBM 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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User Ratings
ATOmateIBM Watson Discovery
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(26 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
5.8
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
ATOmateIBM Watson Discovery
Likelihood to Recommend
Business Automation Works (BAW)
ATOmate has automated so many processes and we are now able to assign staff to more meaningful tasks rather than sorting out paper documents.
In saying that, there are times when manual intervention is required like sending out a big payment required.
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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
Business Automation Works (BAW)
  • They are at the forefront of any changes with the way the ATO is working
  • The pro-actively find solutions for problems that could arise
  • They keep us informed of any downtime with their product or the ATO
  • They get almost all documents from the portal without any input from us.
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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
Business Automation Works (BAW)
  • Sometimes the ATOmate web portal is very slow
  • There is a lack of logging of events that we as users can see
  • We should be able to assign a partner to documents where the client is unknown
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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
Business Automation Works (BAW)
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IBM
IBM Watson Discovery has the best user capabilities and easily transform business decision-making portfolio. The automation system saves time used in data analysis as opposed to manual research that consumes a lot of time. The visualization across the dashboard enables my team to interpret complex data and use it to make reliable marketing decisions.
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Support Rating
Business Automation Works (BAW)
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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
Business Automation Works (BAW)
ATOmate has the ocr that is far superior to kofax and the client names and amounts on the ato forms are almost 99% captured. This was compared to about 80% with kofax
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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
Business Automation Works (BAW)
  • ATOMATE has allowed us to redeploy admin staff to different tasks and we have been cable to expand without needing more staff
  • The only downside to it is the admin staff used to keep excel sheets that would be checked off every quarter and the partners used that sheet to keep track of their workflow
  • We no longer have to wait for paper correspondence from the ato as most gets picked up by ATOmate
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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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