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IBM Analytics Engine vs. Roambi (discontinued)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Analytics Engine

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AIBM BigInsights is an analytics and data visualization tool leveraging hadoop.N/A

    Roambi (discontinued)

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ARoambi was a cloud-based solution designed specifically for mobile data consumers, used to create touch-based data visualizations. It was acquired by SAP in 2016 for the SAP Analytics portfolio, and has since been discontinued as a standalone product.

    $10

    per user per month

    Pricing
    IBM Analytics EngineRoambi (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $10
    per user per month
    Business
    $39
    per user per month
    Enterprise
    $59
    per user per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Analytics EngineRoambi (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Features
    IBM Analytics EngineRoambi (discontinued)
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of IBM Analytics Engine and Roambi (discontinued)
    Feature
    IBM Analytics Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Roambi (discontinued)
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    Apache Spark
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Analytics EngineRoambi (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Analytics EngineRoambi (discontinued)
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Getting Roambi up to speed in your company certainly is a quick win. After just a few days, several of our reports were mobilized, interactive and automatically updated. Building Roambi reports is not hard to do; the intuitive interface allows virtually any type of user to create his or her own reports.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Report templates that are easy to learn, use, update and maintain.
    • Great looking reports that stay up-to-date with what Apple is producing. When Apple rolled out the new look and feel to their iOS7 release, Roambi created a brand new set of reports within two weeks to go along with the iOS7 changes.
    • Seamless integration with our existing BI environment, SAP Business Objects XI, 3.1. This drastically reduced the time from purchase to client-ready roll out from months to weeks.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • cardex type of presentation is already innovated in roambi in 2012, even iOS safari browser idea was created from this cardex style
    • blink view is only available for sap and ms sql
    • roambi publisher is very user-friendly and understandable for non technical person as well
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    I would definitely use Roambi again because of its ease-of-use, but its lack of customization ability makes it difficult to recommend to businesses as business needs are always changing. People are picky, and on the Roambi project, we were not able to fully live up to the customer's expectations, limited by Roambi's preset limitations.
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    Usability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    VERY easy to use. Only limited by how the graphs and data is initially set up.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    We have compared Roambi against Business Objects, Reporting Services (on tablet) and Cubeware Cockpit. All those solutions lack in support of touch capabilities and responsiveness. Roambi "feels" just right. There is no training required and users love to explore the application. Compared to Roambi all other solutions feel very technical and hard 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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Increased insights on customer success metrics (using a Layers report).
    • Higher motivation of employees, better communication towards employees, tighter bonds with the company - because of Roambi Flow. Periodic Flow magazines with analytic capabilities are sent out to the employees, as we value frequent and meaningful contact - both ways.
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