Google Cloud AI vs. IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Cloud AI
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Google Cloud AI provides modern machine learning services, with pre-trained models and a service to generate tailored models.N/A
IBM Watson Studio
Score 10.0 out of 10
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IBM Watson Studio enables users to build, run and manage AI models, and optimize decisions at scale across any cloud. IBM Watson Studio enables users can operationalize AI anywhere as part of IBM Cloud Pak® for Data, the IBM data and AI platform. The vendor states the solution simplifies AI lifecycle management and accelerates time to value with an open, flexible multicloud architecture.N/A
Pricing
Google Cloud AIIBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
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Google Cloud AIIBM Watson Studio
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Google Cloud AIIBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
Considered Both Products
Google Cloud AI
Chose Google Cloud AI
These are basic tools although useful, you can't simply ignore them or say they are not good. These tools also have their own values. But, Yes, Google is an advanced one, A king in the field of offering a wide range of tools, quality, speed, easy to use, automation, prebuild, …
Chose Google Cloud AI
This product has given us the type of space and security that we need to store data. Other companies have given us so many problems when it comes to losing power and losing data and with over 15 thousand consumers we need to make sure all of our stuff is safe and not lost.
Chose Google Cloud AI
Amazon AWS AI provides is better than Google Cloud AI if you are looking for better support to customize the AI / ML algorithms being used. Google Cloud AI does a better job than Microsoft Azur ML when customization is not needed but speed to market is needed. IBM Watson is on …
Chose Google Cloud AI
Google's documentation for their AI and Machine Learning products is a bit more straightforward and still much easier to onboard into compared to the Azure Machine Learning and other AI products. Additionally, Google's Cloud AI products provide more comprehensive specific …
Chose Google Cloud AI
Google cloud AI stacks up comprehensively and competitively with other tech providers. Their scientists are smarter, make bigger leaps forward in design, and they are always cutting edge in methods to boost productivity and skip to the next generation. We need machine AI, as we …
Chose Google Cloud AI
We decided to use the Google tool because it is better suited to our needs as a team. The other tools seemed very interesting to us, but what made us choose the Google tool is that with the others we would have had to have chosen another tool from the same provider in order to …
IBM Watson Studio
Chose IBM Watson Studio
Google Cloud may be a good place but it is not as easy to understand as IBM Watson is. Google Cloud has a lot of things and it is terrifying for a beginner. You need hours of specialization for that. On other hand, anyone can start using IBM Waston just by the following …
Chose IBM Watson Studio
  • Data ingestion
  • Batch data processing
  • Built-in connectors to Python
Chose IBM Watson Studio
Anaconda and Jupyter Notebook
Chose IBM Watson Studio
AWS Sagemaker is a well-established product that supports on-demand notebooks, data pipelines, and so on, however, it also comes with the learning overhead of the whole AWS stack. It does allow per-defined models, but the benefit of using IBM Watson Studio is that users are …
Chose IBM Watson Studio
Organization of data, use of data, manage the data, visualize the data is easy. Use of the environment for any project. We can use python or R or Scala in the notebook.
Chose IBM Watson Studio
It provides better user experience. All your data on cloud and does not take up space locally.
Chose IBM Watson Studio
I think they are very similar but IBM Watson is not good enough yet to pay for the services that I can already get from Jupyter Notebook.
Chose IBM Watson Studio
Easy to use, but still requires a lot of coding to use. There is no ranking of models used and models are not persistent, which means you have to keep running the models again every time you leave the session. The filesystem is clunky and need to keep authorizing Google Drive …
Chose IBM Watson Studio
The main reason I personally changed over from Azure ML Studio is because it lacked any support for significant custom modelling with packages and services such as TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit and Spark ML. IBM Watson Studio provides these services and …
Chose IBM Watson Studio
IBM offers a deep neural network training workflow, with a flow editor interface similar to the one used in Azure ML Studio. However, the custom build modeling in IBM has notebooks such as Jupiter to program models manually using popular frameworks like TensorFlow, …
Chose IBM Watson Studio
As it offers more features and can be used for several applications like AI,ML,DS etc.,
Chose IBM Watson Studio
With my experience on Jupyter Notebook I think both are good and currently more comfortable with Watson Studio product. With Jupyter it's open source (free) is always good. "Lots of languages (50), data visualization with Seaborn, work with the building blocks in a flexible and …
Chose IBM Watson Studio
We didn’t evaluate other products but we liked what we saw in Watson Studio.
Chose IBM Watson Studio
As an IBM Business Partner, we are financially incentivized to recommend and deploy IBM solutions where it makes sense to do so for the customer. Against other solutions, few have the governance and security that IBM offers, which is essential for any kind of work in highly …
Chose IBM Watson Studio
They are close, but I feel Alteryx is more of an enhanced Jupyter capability, whereas WS is more of an enterprise solution for multiple teams
Chose IBM Watson Studio
I am excited with the roadmap of Watson Studio incorporating SPSS Modeler in the offerings.
Chose IBM Watson Studio
Watson Studio was our choice in data management because its "all-in-one" packaging. Watson studio also stood out to us because it was more affordable and free for our organization to try out. We also greatly value the open source ecosystem Watson Studio has fostered.
Chose IBM Watson Studio
AWS Sagemaker is new, and I personally think it's better than sliced bread. There's very little set up to do. Watson Studio needs to up its game against Sagemaker.
Chose IBM Watson Studio
AWS stacks up very favourably against Watson Studio, and in fact this is what the customer ultimately chose over Watson Studio after an evaluation period due to the sophistication, maturity, security, and capabilities of the AWS components. The downsides of AWS are having to …
Chose IBM Watson Studio
The learning curve for DSX is smaller compared to other tools. The data science user base often has preferred tools that they have used previously which are often not DSX which makes adoption of DSX by trained data scientists harder than new users.
Chose IBM Watson Studio
IBM DSx is more comprehensive and easy to use, IBM Data science experience has many connectors to the data source and guarantees the portability with your old projects.
Features
Google Cloud AIIBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
Platform Connectivity
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Google Cloud AI
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Ratings
IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
8.1
Ratings
3% below category average
Connect to Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Extend Existing Data Sources00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Automatic Data Format Detection00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
MDM Integration00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Data Exploration
Comparison of Data Exploration features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud AI
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IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
10.0
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17% above category average
Visualization00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Interactive Data Analysis00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Data Preparation
Comparison of Data Preparation features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud AI
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IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
9.5
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15% above category average
Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Data Transformations00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Data Encryption00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Built-in Processors00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Platform Data Modeling
Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud AI
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IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
9.5
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12% above category average
Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Automated Machine Learning00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Single platform for multiple model development00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Self-Service Model Delivery00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Model Deployment
Comparison of Model Deployment features of Product A and Product B
Google Cloud AI
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IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
8.0
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6% below category average
Flexible Model Publishing Options00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Security, Governance, and Cost Controls00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Google Cloud AIIBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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8.2
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Usability
8.0
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9.6
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Availability
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8.2
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Performance
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8.2
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Support Rating
7.3
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8.2
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In-Person Training
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8.2
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Online Training
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8.2
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Implementation Rating
10.0
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7.3
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Product Scalability
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8.2
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Vendor post-sale
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7.3
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8.2
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User Testimonials
Google Cloud AIIBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
Likelihood to Recommend
Google Images analysis model is a good one and I think is very useful in our case of detections. Speech AI is also a good one. I can only recommend Google Cloud AI API and the model for that second will be SpeechKit by Yandex both these tools have exceptional values one can utilise to enhance their projects.
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It has a lot of features that are good for teams working on large-scale projects and continuously developing and reiterating their data project models. Really helpful when dealing with large data. It is a kind of one-stop solution for all data science tasks like visualization, cleaning, analyzing data, and developing models but small teams might find a lot of features unuseful.
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Pros
  • Smart reply and its AI suggestions make the organization think more carefully about their e-mail responses in Gmail. We were skeptical at first but it really works well for many instances.
  • We do a lot of business and contracts in Western Europe and South America, so the translate solutions make this much easier for our banking paperwork.
  • When we go to meetings or during a meeting, we often use the Google voice search to save time on research and filtering ideas or analysis.
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  • Integration of IBM Watson APIs such as speech to text, image recognition, personality insights, etc.
  • SPSS modeler and neural network model provide no-code environments for data scientists to build pipelines quickly.
  • Enforced best-practices set up POCs for deployment in production with a minimum of re-work.
  • Estimator validation lets data scientists test and prove different models.
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Cons
  • Hard to find what to use - To find the right products, you need look closely at the details of each API, and find which suits your purposes. This can be easily fixed by creating a main page that details all of the products simply.
  • Expensive - The API costs can quickly add up, especially during the setup process and as engineers figure out the usage of the API.
  • No playground or training - There is a lack of an "API playground" or training sessions that could make onboarding engineers to this API much easier.
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  • The cost is steep and so only companies with resources can afford it
  • It will be nice to have Chinese versions so that Chinese engineers can also use it easily
  • It takes a while to learn how to input different kinds of skin defects for detection
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Likelihood to Renew
We are extremely satisfied with the impact that this tool has made on our organization since we have practically moved from crawling to walking in the process of generating information for our main task to investigate in the field through interviews. With the audio to text translation tool there is a difference from heaven to earth in the time of feeding our internal data.
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because we find out that DSX results have improved our approach to the whole subject (data, models, procedures)
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Usability
I give 8 because although it´s a tool I really enjoy working with, I think Google Cloud AI's impact is just starting, therefore I can visualize a lot/space of improvements in this tool. As an example the application of AI in international environments with different languages is a good example of that space/room to improve.
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The UI flawlessly merges this offering by providing a neat, minimal, responsive interface
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Reliability and Availability
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From time to time there are services unavailable, but we have been always informed before and they got back to work sooner than expected
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Performance
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Never had slow response even on our very busy network
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Support Rating
Every rep has been nice and helpful whenever I call for help. One of the systems froze and wouldn't start back up and with the help of our assigned rep we got everything back up in a timely manner. This helped us not lose customers and money.
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I received answers mostly at once and got answered even further my question: they gave me interesting points of view and suggestion for deepening in the learning path
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In-Person Training
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The trainers on the job are very smart with solutions and very able in teaching
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Online Training
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The Platform is very handy and suggests further steps according my previous interests
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Implementation Rating
In fact, you only need the basic tech knowledge to do a Google search. You need to know if your organization requires it or not,. our organization required it. And that is why we acquired it and solved a need that we had been suffering from. This is part of the modernization of an organization and part of its growth as a company.
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It surprised us with unpredictable case of use and brand new points of view
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Alternatives Considered
Google's documentation for their AI and Machine Learning products is a bit more straightforward and still much easier to onboard into compared to the Azure Machine Learning and other AI products. Additionally, Google's Cloud AI products provide more comprehensive specific use-cases that are API-optimized, and easier to integrate into existing scripts and backends.
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The main reason I personally changed over from Azure ML Studio is because it lacked any support for significant custom modelling with packages and services such as TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit and Spark ML. IBM Watson Studio provides these services and does so in a well integrated and easy to use fashion making it a preferable service over the other services that I have personally used.
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Scalability
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It helped us in getting from 0 to DSX without getting lost
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Return on Investment
  • Positive impact on ROI due to reduction in staff needed to build, deploy and manage a AI workload pipeline.
  • Positive impact on the business by moving to OpEx without need for upfront CapEx investment.
  • Improvement in time to analyze the data (structured and unstructured), increasing the business's ability to act based on AI results.
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  • Could instantly show data driven insights to drive 20% incremental revenue over existing results
  • Still don't have a real use case for unstructured data like twitter feed
  • Some of the insights around user actions have driven new projects to automate mundane tasks
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