AvePoint Confidence Platform vs. IBM Cloud Pak for Data

AvePoint's Confidence Platform is very well suited for all businesses, specifically those on a budget, who are looking to secure, harden, and manage their Microsoft 365 environment. Their stack includes products to migrate data, back up data, secure and maintain data, apply custom policies around data management, and get valuable insights into how your data is being used. I cannot think of a scenario where their products would not be well suited for a company, because data management is critical.

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IBM Cloud Pak for Data with Netezza is well suited for clients who require fast, economical analytics processing. It is not designed to be used as a transactional processing environment. For example, a large customer is using it during the point of sale process. That makes little sense in that business case. However, to take analysis to market faster, it excels well in that space.

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• Multiple backups a day
• Able to bring own storage
• Set and forget

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• Increases our impact by combining BI skills with advanced analytics and machine learning in an easy to use visual interface.
• Visualization and reporting.
• Rapidly provides business -ready data to all users equally.
• Manage data spread across distributed stores and clouds.

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• It can be a bit tricky to set up the repositories initially.
• Can sometimes err out with telling you why.

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• Cannot save changes to some secrets in the internal vault
• Sign-in issues on environments where IAM is enabled
• The Enforce quotas option is disabled

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Overall, I think AvePoint's Confidence Platform, and specifically, their backup solution and data migration solution, are very user friendly, even for a novice. Their knowledge base for the products is extensive, and provides detailed instructions for almost everything you will be doing within their platform. They also have a very knowledgeable support staff, and their products are tailored to make your company more secure.

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AvePoint Cloud Backup for Office 365 stacks up against Datto Backupify well. Although I feel that Datto's Backupify was a bit easier to configure and setup, and process backups. Probably because I have experience with it, but overall I do feel that it is easier to use than AvePoint.

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IBM Cloud Pak for Data takes the IBM Cognos solution and provides this on an enterprise cloud platform that can be extended to support better data integration and data science capabilities.

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• Secure our data
• Migrate data very Fast

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• We have the ability to access all our data much quicker through the unified search option.
• 30% increase in productivity through the introduction of AI.
• Improved data security and governance.

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