IBM Analytics Engine vs. NodeXL Pro

• Well suited for my big data related project or a static data set analysis especially for uploading huge dataset to the cluster.
• But had some issues with connecting IoT real-time data and feeding to Power BI. It might be my understanding please take it as a mere comment rather than a suggestion.

Incentivized

It is suited for social scientists who are more focused on the interpretation that fits in the area of Social Science and Humanity and has nothing to do with computer programming and mathematics

• Jobs with Spark, Hadoop, or Hive queries are rapidly attained
• Can collect, organize and analyze your data accurately
• You can customize, for example, Spark or Hadoop configuration settings, or Python, R, Scala, or Java libraries.

Incentivized

• extracting the data from the social media
• visualising the big data of the social media
• sentiment analysis
• cluster analysis
• time series analysis

• Easier pricing and plug-and-play like you see with AWS and Azure, it would be nice from a budgeting and billing standpoint, as well as better support for the administration.
• Bundling of the Cloud Object Storage should be included with the Analytics Engine.
• The inability to add your own Hadoop stack components has made some transfers a little more complex.

Incentivized

• It would be nice if NodeXL can analyse other type of social media such as Instagram, Facebook and TikTok
• It would be nice if it is 100 percent stable, as sometimes I have a problem with error in NodeXL when it is processing the data
• It would be nice if is able to reduce the price for adding Microsoft Power BI in NodeXL

We initially wanted to go with Google BigQuery, mainly for the name recognition. However, the pricing and support structure led us to seek alternatives, which pointed us to IBM. Apache Spark was also in the running, but here IBM's domination in the industry made the choice a no-brainer. As previously stated, the support received was not quite what we expected, but was adequate.

Incentivized

NodeXL is userfriendly, and needed for conducting advanced data analysis techniques which emphasizes the metrics of the visualization NodeXL produce an interesting interactive visualisation

• This product has allowed us to gather analytics data across multiple platforms so we can view and analyze the data from different workflows, all in one place.
• IBM Analytics has allowed us to scale on demand which allows us to capture more and more data, thus increasing our ROI.
• The convenience of the ability to access and administer the product via multiple interfaces has allowed our administrators to ensure that the application is making a positive ROI for our business users and partners.

Incentivized

• More advance in analysis data
• Attract more people to collaborate with me
• Minimise the time for analysing the data