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    IBM Watson Explorer

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AIBM Watson Explorer supports enterprise search with unstructured data analysis, machine learning, and content analysis to improve decision-making, support customer service or serve other business needs.N/A

    Vendasta

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AVendasta headquartered in Saskatoon provides a white-label local marketing platform aimed at agencies and marketers supporting brick and mortar franchises with local business online toolkits, and their platform that they describe as an end-to-end commerce platform designed for businesses at every stage of growth.

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    IBM Watson ExplorerVendasta
    Editions & Modules
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    Startup
    $49
    per month
    Partner Strategy Consulting
    $150
    per session
    Additonal Markets
    $240
    per month
    Essentials
    $345
    per month
    Agecny Website
    $360
    one-time fee
    Growth
    $575
    per month
    Scale
    1,150
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Watson ExplorerVendasta
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    IBM Watson ExplorerVendasta
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
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    Usability
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    8.5
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Watson ExplorerVendasta
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    The Watson Explorer is great because it potentially replaces a meriad of other low-level analytics products that we would need to use for data analytics and data mining. WEX isn't really suitable much beyond doing text and data analytics and performing machine learning, so if your team doesn't really have a use-case that fits all of these categories, it is worth looking at an alternative.
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    Vendasta
    Vendasta is perfect for solo digital marketing agencies that are looking to scale up their business. I've already recommended them to several other marketers, and they profusely thanked me for doing so! As far as acquiring new customers, we've found Vendasta to be a perfect solution for businesses that do not have their own internal marketing department, typically SBAs that only have a Marketing Director, or even just the business owner who wears too many hats. When we've bumped into larger companies that already have their own marketing suite and software set up, then they're usually less interested in adopting our platform.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Free to try - It's possible to use most of the useful features of Watson Explore on their trial/demo accounts.
    • Super well-designed data analytics tool - Most of the tools and features of the explorer are really useful, and truly help you fully understand the depth of any format of textual data.
    • Extensive sources compatibility - WEX can retrieve data from a large range of sources, and the compatibility there is quite good as well.
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    Vendasta
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Support is just OK, like most of the other IBM Watson products. The setup/integration is really hands-on, but it's also problematic because support later may take a considerable amount of time.
    • UI could still use a little more improvement - part of the administration and sources dashboards are hard to navigate.
    • The Application Builder is a great part of the product, but hard to learn/understand - this is where we needed the most support from IBM and tutorials/documentation.
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    Vendasta
    • Their team is so large that sometimes I end up communicating with people who have no familiarity with BRN and our clients, so I end up having to repeat a lot of things to make sure we're on the same page.
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    Usability
    IBM
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    Vendasta
    The usability continues to improve. Adding a true mobile app for client use would be a great next step.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    Google Cloud offers a Natural Language product, but it is just an API. This API doesn't offer the useful visualizations of relations, analytics, and graphs that IBM Watson Explorer offers on their interface. For this reason, we chose to go with IBM WEX. For later stages of our production, we decided to use Google's NLP API because we found that it was quick to integrate into production after studying data and developing models using IBM WEX.
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    Vendasta
    I don't find anything in your listings that I have used. I have run ads myself. I have built websites myself. I have run email campaigns with other autoresponders myself. Vendasta beats all those.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Positive - Trial/demo period. This was really useful for us to figure out what features of WEX we liked most and how difficult it would be to integrate WEX into our workflow.
    • Negative - On-boarding was long and almost always requires support from IBM support, unlike most other products this advanced.
    • Positive - WEX replaced a large selection of alternative products we would have to use for the same functionality, and having all of that function in one place was definitely helpful.
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    Vendasta
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