IBM Watson Discovery vs. Island

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Watson Discovery
Score 9.1 out of 10
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IBM offers Watson Discovery, a natural language processing (NLP) application with options to measure sentiment, detect entities, semantic roles, and other concepts.N/A
Island
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Island is an Enterprise Browser platform. Island also gives organizations control, visibility, and governance over security and search.N/A
Pricing
IBM Watson DiscoveryIsland
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Watson DiscoveryIsland
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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IBM Watson DiscoveryIsland
Small Businesses
Yext
Yext
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Yext
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Guru
Guru
Score 9.6 out of 10
Guru
Guru
Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Guru
Guru
Score 9.6 out of 10
Guru
Guru
Score 9.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Watson DiscoveryIsland
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(26 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
5.8
(3 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Watson DiscoveryIsland
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
Overall, IBM Watson Discovery is an amazing technology that we use with our clients to address various business problems, but the biggest challenge has always been about ingesting, analyzing, enriching, and searching huge collections of documents and allowing our end users and SMEs to be able to search for what they need to reduce the time and efforts spent daily on a manual search through various collections of documents. We have successfully managed to reduce manual work by over 80%, and now our SMEs are being used for the skills they have to gather insights rather than do manual work.
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Island
The only reason I didn't gave the maximum rating is because it's not cheap, if you have a smaller company you can use some plugins instead depending on what you need. But I completely understand it's not safer than the Island browser. However, it would be great to have a simpler version for small companies too, that wouldn't require much testing to setup. Besides that, Island is my first choice when thinking about safety for remote workers.
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Pros
IBM
  • It is an excellently fast platform with documents and the answers to queries.
  • With automation learning beneficial as it saves time.
  • When searching for a document, everything stays located and easy to find.
  • Acceptance of various documents.
  • It has a quite comfortable Technical support, always available when required.
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Island
  • The agent can still see the customer's data that they need to help the customers, but without the ability to screenshot, copy and download outside the Island browser, that also prevent data leaks
  • The organization also saves money without the need of hiring only local employees, people can download it on their personal desktops
  • Can replace setups with VPN that are expensive or virtual desktops
  • Blocks unsafe websites that can also copy the client and customer data
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Cons
IBM
  • I believe AI should be more flexible about providing data. However, it's understandable that you need to provide the details you need in a more specific and detailed way.
  • The interface could use more tweaking. Being new to the program, it was kind of hard to navigate.
  • Luckily, there was a customized feature of the dashboard that I could set up, and having something that you know where you are placed always feels familiar and comfortable.
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Island
  • Sometimes the advisors may experience some glitches to copy and paste the information they need even if they're still inside the Island browser
  • Sometimes some apps don't behave exactly the same and they would in other browsers
  • It takes some time to setup it accordingly with what the company needs and it requires some tests
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Usability
IBM
IBM Watson Discovery has the best user capabilities and easily transform business decision-making portfolio. The automation system saves time used in data analysis as opposed to manual research that consumes a lot of time. The visualization across the dashboard enables my team to interpret complex data and use it to make reliable marketing decisions.
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Island
It requires some training but it's very easy to use, as it's much like other famous browsers and it behave just as them. Even if it needs to be set up, you can set different policies for different users, that can be quite useful for bigger companies. However, some employees can feel a bit restricted as it has it's limitations to download or copy and paste
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Support Rating
IBM
Similar to all IBM Watson and Salesforce product solutions, the overall support would be a 10/10. Their provided FAQ's help with frequently experienced issues and if still unable to figure something out, their customer service representatives are always super responsive. With instant chat functions available, it is easy to ask a quick question rather than sitting on hold.
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Island
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
Discovery differs from its competitors due to the better ease of implementation and the high level of natural language recognition, it is equal in integration resources such as API and workflow or process pipeline, but it loses in the price for a high volume of documents and/or research. If you own or plan to use other services from the IBM Watson family, there is no doubt that Watson discovery is your best option. Another important point is if you plan to use a cloud or on-premise service (local server or private cloud).
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Island
Chrome Remote Desktop is a good option to access the company desktop remotely, but it doesn't reduce the costs of the company since you'll still need to have two machines for it to work, you'll also need the same amount of IT staff and mantain a physical address. It can be a good option to companies that have only few agents remote but it's not good for hybrid or remote only employees
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • We find its Enterprise plan expensive for a country of LATAM. For US or Europe based businesses, looks great.
  • A Big Data and massive queries based company would find the service expensive. Maybe a flat price plan would be helpful.
  • Have you thought in making a cheaper plan where you take the learning from your customer's data to enrich your AI tool?
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Island
  • There is some costs to training people to use Island, and also to test and setup the browser, if you're initiating a business, this should be considered
  • Some advisors may not have a compatible hardware, this can add to the migration costs
  • No need to have a physical address or servers, since everything is managed from the clould it can significantly lower the costs
  • You can reduce the IT staff and maintenance costs too
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