IBM Analytics Engine vs. Rational BI

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Analytics Engine
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
IBM BigInsights is an analytics and data visualization tool leveraging hadoop.N/A
Rational BI
Score 7.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Rational BI provides analytics, data science and business intelligence in an analytical platform that connects to databases, data files and cloud drives including AWS and Azure data sources, enabling users to explore and visualize data. Users can build real-time notebook-style reports directly in a web browser with JavaScript and SQL with direct and live connections to data. Filter and query data with an SQL database embedded in the client, without network…
$0
single user
Pricing
IBM Analytics EngineRational BI
Editions & Modules
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Free
$0
single user
Professional
$129
single user
Enterprise
Varies
single user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Analytics EngineRational BI
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsAdditional cost per extra user (varies by edition)
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Community Pulse
IBM Analytics EngineRational BI
Features
IBM Analytics EngineRational BI
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
IBM Analytics Engine
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Ratings
Rational BI
8.3
4 Ratings
3% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.63 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.74 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
IBM Analytics Engine
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Ratings
Rational BI
8.3
4 Ratings
6% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
IBM Analytics Engine
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Ratings
Rational BI
9.0
4 Ratings
10% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
IBM Analytics Engine
-
Ratings
Rational BI
8.2
4 Ratings
6% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.93 Ratings
Best Alternatives
IBM Analytics EngineRational BI
Small Businesses

No answers on this topic

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Supermetrics
Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cloudera Manager
Cloudera Manager
Score 9.9 out of 10
Supermetrics
Supermetrics
Score 9.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Azure Data Lake Storage
Azure Data Lake Storage
Score 8.5 out of 10
IBM Analytics Engine
IBM Analytics Engine
Score 7.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Analytics EngineRational BI
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(9 ratings)
7.7
(4 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Analytics EngineRational BI
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
  • 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.
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Rational BI
Definitely well suited for small companies, but again many of their competitors are also well suited in this segment. We were in general happy with the solution provided, but I'm not blown away by their solution or support. If you want to get more data-driven visual boards with data displayed in nice graphics is in my opinion a good start, and here Rational BI delivers what it should.
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Pros
IBM
  • 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.
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Rational BI
  • Arrange data.
  • Dashboard.
  • Automatic reports.
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Cons
IBM
  • 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.
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Rational BI
  • Not seeing anything at this time, comprehensive product.
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Usability
IBM
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Rational BI
Overall Rational BI is a valuable enterprise reporting tool for any data driven organization. It offers great depth and breadth of features for reporting and analytics that can lead to better business outcomes. Its easy to use and highly configurable to evolve to changing reporting needs of organizations of any scale.
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Support Rating
IBM
No answers on this topic
Rational BI
I haven't used the support myself, but my colleagues have been satisfied with the support. As I have understood from my colleagues the support is as you could expect. Still, the documentation could be better and that could avoid the need to contact their support, but overall we're still happy with the support as well.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
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.
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Rational BI
Rational BI allows a deeper data analysis with respect to the other software I experimented with. The velocity to perform the analysis is similar to the other one. The predictive analysis could be very useful, but at the moment I do not use it in my activities. Dashboards are nice and easy to understand.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • 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.
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Rational BI
  • Allows folks to work on other items as reporting is done in the background.
  • Scheduling and delivery of reports with one click.
  • Single pane of management.
  • Ease of use.
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ScreenShots

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