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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Sitecore Search

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASitecore Search (or Sitecore Discover, formerly Reflektion), is a customer centric personalization platform that optimizes customer experiences on an individual basis in real time.N/A
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    IBM Watson Content AnalyticsSitecore Search
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    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Watson Content AnalyticsSitecore Search
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    IBM Watson Content AnalyticsSitecore Search
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Watson Content AnalyticsSitecore Search
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Sitecore
    Reflektion is very well suited for ecommerce sites that are looking to provide their customers meaningful product recommendations tailored to their specific user experience on our site. We are also beginning to use Reflektion for search results. If you find that your customer base uses your search bar or is having issues with their search experience, Reflektion offers a great auto complete search results feature. We have a sister site that only offers a small catalog of products and we do no use the auto search results feature on this site. If your company has a small catalog the search results tool may not be as effective. I cannot think of a scenario in which an ecommerce site would not find it helpful to provide customized product recommendations to their customers.
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    Pros
    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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    Sitecore
    • Reflektion provides individualized results based off each customer's unique browse experience on the site. This is beneficial because it gets more accurate results than segmenting customers by certain behaviors consistent with other customers.
    • Reflektion is responsive to our business. They treat each request with professionalism and work to find solutions quickly.
    • Reflektion has several beneficial features to further enhance the customer experience through a learning environment. Reflektion learns synonyms and is able to adjust for more accurate results. They also provide full page results with faceted navigation which leverages the individualized learning into the product results specific for each customer in a seamless integration with the site.
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    Cons
    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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    Sitecore
    • While I mentioned that training our team in using the Reflektion dashboard was quite pain free, the dashboard can get a little overwhelming to a first time user. There are a lot of options and customization features available that can be intimidating at first.
    • There isn't really too much for us to criticize with Reflektion. As I said, we switched from another product to Reflektion and so far have had almost no issues. When they do come up, the Reflektion team has been very helpful.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Sitecore
    Reflektion is a very cost-effective, complete solution providing individualization for preview search, product recommendations, full page search, and content. Compared to the other services they offered more features utilizing SOLR results but with continued learning. Other services didn't have the full list of capabilities or were much more expensive.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • It has provided a positive work environment.
    • Since its easy and understandable good amount of team communication improved.
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    Sitecore
    • Increasing conversion rate is almost always the goal when we start a new project and it is safe to say that Reflektion has helped us increase conversion rate for customers clicking through product recommendations.
    • With our previous recommendations engine, tweaking and customizing the recommendations on our site was not nearly as effective or easy as it is with Reflektion. This has saved us countless hours in dev and manual operations work.
    • We have not seen any negative impacts of Reflektion and hope this continues.
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