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    IBM Watson Discovery

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIBM offers Watson Discovery, a natural language processing (NLP) application with options to measure sentiment, detect entities, semantic roles, and other concepts.N/A

    SmartScout

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASmartScout is a software tool that provides a top to bottom analysis of Amazon. SmartScout breaks down the top 20 categories and 43,000 subcategories, brand market share, and provides key metrics on ASIN performance to support data-driven decisions to either grow a brand or find profitable resell opportunities. SmartScout also shows ASIN traffic data to build advertising campaigns that drive results. SmartScout also has a database of every seller and their resell history.

    $97

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    IBM Watson DiscoverySmartScout
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    $97
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    $187
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    IBM Watson DiscoverySmartScout
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Up to 20% discount available for annual subscription.
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    Would buy again
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    IBM Watson DiscoverySmartScout
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (26 ratings)
    10.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
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    Usability
    4.8
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    Support Rating
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Watson DiscoverySmartScout
    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.
    Incentivized
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    SmartScout
    If your target client or active client sells on Amazon it's a game changer. You will come to the table as a brand expert if you utilize search engine prior to client interaction. In sales and marketing, it's our go to tool. I use it to craft professional brand market share analysis as "lead magnet" with great success
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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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    SmartScout
    • Market share analysis
    • Competitor analysis
    • Revenue analysis
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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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    SmartScout
    • Numbers not always 100% accurate
    • Query search could be improved
    • Some brands do not show up
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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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    SmartScout
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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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    SmartScout
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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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    SmartScout
    We utilize Keepa and Amazon Seller Central to help with our research and inhouse AI software to level the playing field. I start with SmartScout to qualify the brand. I also prepare for introductions and discovery calls with the tool. It has been a great help prior to trade shows to funnel the attendees to a solid target list
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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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    SmartScout
    • ROI on SmartScout phenomenal
    • Brand expert prior to discovery call with quick search with tool.
    • Owner and staff high caliber professionals
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    Screenshot of All of the brands on Amazon in a database with brand-specific filters.Screenshot of Expand a brand's offerings and profits with in-depth analyses of products and brands on Amazon.Screenshot of Uncover the metrics behind each competitor's search terms.Screenshot of A Traffic Graph that shows where product traffic is coming and going.Screenshot of A searchable geographical map of all of the Amazon sellers across the world.Screenshot of Plug any product into this calculator to ensure the highest ROI with Amazon FBA products.