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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Coveo Relevance Cloud

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ACoveo is an enterprise search technology which can index data on disparate cloud systems making it easier to retrieve. It has integrated plug-ins for Salesforce.com, Sitecore CEP, and Microsoft Outlook and SharePoint.

    $600

    per month

    IBM Watson Content Analytics

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Watson Content Analytics is an enterprise search option. This supersedes IBM's older offerings, IBM Omnifind and IBM Content Analytics and Enterprise Search.N/A
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    Coveo Relevance CloudIBM Watson Content Analytics
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    Base
    $600
    per month
    Pro
    $1,320
    per month
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.6
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    User Testimonials
    Coveo Relevance CloudIBM Watson Content Analytics
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    Coveo
    Coveo Relevance Cloud is a great solution to implement into Salesforce to provide Knowledge-Centered Support, Enhancements to a Customer Community, to provide sales aids, or to complement your customized app in Salesforce.
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    IBM
    If one is looking for a content crawling search engine (think "Google" but on your own private system), IBM Watson does a great job. It is also very good for locating duplicate files/folders and lost items. If document organization and searching is the goal, IBM Watson hits the nail on the head.
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    Pros
    Coveo
    • Coveo is fast, search results come up quick (though it's not always great).
    • Not much complexity to run.
    • Coveo is implemented within our portal and doesn't require extra steps to use it.
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    IBM
    • Easy Interface - Drag and click based UI.
    • Good amount of tools for visualization.
    • Less amount of time taken to perform analysis.
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    Cons
    Coveo
    • It would be great if Coveo 6 allowed you to rebuild indexes from a certain subtree instead of needing to rebuild the entire tree to see changes. This functionality was added in Coveo 7 and is very useful.
    • In Coveo 6, integration with Sitecore is more difficult than one would expect. This integration is much improved in Coveo 7.
    • I have seen cases where an exception thrown when crawling a specific document will cause the indexing to stop completely. I believe this only happens in implementations using custom faceting but it could be handled more efficiently if the trouble document was skipped and the indexing could continue.
    • Relevancy ranking editor is good but not as powerful as GSA. GSA offers a self-learning scorer which automatically analyzes user behavior and the specific links that users click on for specific queries to fine tune relevance and scoring.
    • We've ran into issues on multiple clients with Sitecore items being indexed multiple times in Sitecore 7 and Coveo 7. The fix Coveo suggested was to upgrade our Sitecore version and Coveo but unfortunately this didn't resolve our issue. After months of testing we were finally able to resolve this by implementing our own CoveoItemCrawler to get around the issue (based on https://developers.coveo.com/display/public/SC201404/Items+in+the+Same+Language+Gets+Indexed+Multiple+Times;jsessionid=3C1A2AE33540E0A0B8BB52BA3A64AF70).
    • Integration with RabbitMQ in Coveo 7 seems error prone. We often see the error "The AMQP operation was interrupted" and on occasion, need to restart the Coveo service to get this operating again. In some extreme cases, we have also had to restart the server because of issues when attempting to restart the Coveo service.
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    IBM
    • The software is semi-limited to indexing and searching.
    • Software does not force a specific "structure" as some document management systems do.
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    Coveo
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    IBM
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    IBM
    IBM Watson is not quite in the same category as Worldox or NetDocuments as both are full-fledged document management. However, both vendors provide a similar searching and indexing product. Worldox provides searching and indexing but the Indexer is somewhat prone to issues. IBM Watson does not have the stability/consistency issues. NetDocuments is cloud-hosted document management and its index does not seem to have issues. That being said, there is a large premium as the data is all stored in a cloud container with the management system.
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    Return on Investment
    Coveo
    • Quick to find things in a massive database when needed.
    • Results need to be more concise - sometimes we spend more time looking for the right file than if we were to just search amongst our own networks instead.
    • Coveo is not always the most useful but does its job when general information is needed.
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    IBM
    • It has provided a positive work environment.
    • Since its easy and understandable good amount of team communication improved.
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