IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding vs. IBM watsonx Assistant

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding
Score 9.0 out of 10
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IBM offers Watson Natural Language Understanding, an NLP application supplying interpretation of unstructured textual data and language concept models.N/A
IBM watsonx Assistant
Score 9.0 out of 10
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IBM offers watsonx Assistant, an AI and natural language driven chatbot designed to allow anyone to deploy a chatbot in an app or website.
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Editions & Modules
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$140
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IBM Watson Natural Language UnderstandingIBM watsonx Assistant
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details—Billing for the use of Watson Assistant is managed through an IBM Cloud® account. The metrics that are used for billing purposes differ based on the plan type. The plan can be billed based on the number of API calls made to a service instance or on the number of active users who interact with the instance.
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IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding

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IBM watsonx Assistant
Chose IBM watsonx Assistant
WA unifies several features of the products presented above, in a way that simplifies the creation of a bot that uses conversational features. Compared to competing products, WA presented more features compatible with my needs, which include variable responses depending on the …
Chose IBM watsonx Assistant
We haven't pursued any similar products and have been happy with Watson Assistant.
Chose IBM watsonx Assistant
Discovery is an NLP tool best suited to the scenario where you need to look for information in documents rather than conversation-type interaction.
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User Ratings
IBM Watson Natural Language UnderstandingIBM watsonx Assistant
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(86 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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9.0
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Usability
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8.7
(73 ratings)
Availability
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9.1
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Performance
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9.1
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Support Rating
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9.0
(9 ratings)
In-Person Training
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
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9.0
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Implementation Rating
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9.0
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Configurability
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9.1
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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9.1
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Ease of integration
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9.1
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Product Scalability
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9.1
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Professional Services
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9.1
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Vendor post-sale
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9.1
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Vendor pre-sale
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9.1
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User Testimonials
IBM Watson Natural Language UnderstandingIBM watsonx Assistant
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding is a Swiss Army knife that can be used in many scenarios. An extensive list of easy to use APIs is provided making it very easy to integrate it in any environment. The text analysis is decent and above market average. It generates results in many forms to suit may scenarios (important keywords, concepts, sentiment analysis, etc.).
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IBM
In scenarios requiring highly specialized technical support, where deep domain expertise is necessary, a virtual assistant may lack the specific knowledge needed to address complex technical issues, It's important to note that the effectiveness of virtual assistants depends on factors such as the quality of training data, customization, and ongoing improvement efforts.
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Pros
IBM
  • Easy to use and extensive APIs.
  • Decent accuracy.
  • It recognizes concepts and semantic roles.
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IBM
  • Provides fast and accurate responses to our customers.
  • Learns and adapts, continually improving its responses and recommendations as it interacts with customers.
  • Integrates seamlessly with our internal systems and databases.
  • We can customize and adjust the virtual assistant's responses and recommendations to suit our customers' specific needs.
  • It provides valuable information about our customers' needs and preferences.
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Cons
IBM
  • Improve Sentiment Analysis accuracy.
  • Prevent having conflicting results (sad and happy, etc.).
  • Foreign names detection.
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IBM
  • Watson Assistant requires some improvement in the way it deals with multimedia content when displayed on the assistant. As of now, IBM Watson Assistant has issues displaying technical diagrams on a small chat window. This is definitely something that needs some improvement.
  • It is sometimes hard and time-consuming to create some advanced actions while creating the virtual assistant so I suggest that the IBM Watson Assistant development team would work on creating sample templates for some simple to advanced actions according to industry to help kick-start the process of creating the initial virtual assistant.
  • IBM Watson Assistant is great, but it is not magic on its own; it requires more extensions which, in my opinion, are very limited to a few possibilities. Enhancing the extensions with other products, including open-source solutions, ought to be a priority for the Watson Assistant development team.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
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IBM
Currently we are using to develop chatbots based on client provided flow what kind chatbot required for client either button or free text chatbots. we will decided accordingly flow and develop chatbot using IBM Watson. We will integrated custom components if required which is not present in library.
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Usability
IBM
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IBM
IBM Watson assistant has come a long way in last few years, and is handling the generative AI chatbot building really well. It is of immense importance to sales strategists like me who are average in coding but have real world cases of lead qualification for sales. IBM Watson is also very intuitively designed with the amazing drag and drop feature. Testing is easy, deployment is pretty straightforward. I could have worked with a little more sales support, but then the whole point of making a conversational AI chatbot is to reduce the sales support intervention - so I guess I will live with that
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Performance
IBM
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IBM
To develop chatbots based on client provided flow what kind chatbot required for client either button or free text chatbots. we will decided accordingly flow and develop chatbot using IBM Watson. We will integrated custom components if required which is not present in library. IBM Watson library anyone can easily learn and develop chatbots.
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Support Rating
IBM
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IBM
We've rarely had to engage support, but they've always been prompt in responding and very attentive. Support experiences have been extremely positive (but we're mostly happy that we just don't have any cause to routinely need support in the first place!).
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Online Training
IBM
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IBM
Excellent course material.
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Implementation Rating
IBM
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IBM
Overall the implementation was simple.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
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IBM
IBM Watson Assistant provides a highly intuitive and user-friendly interface, making it accessible to non-technical users to easily create and deploy conversational agents. Additionally, being a cloud-based platform, it eliminates the need for manual retraining of the bot after each modification, saving time and resources for businesses. This combination of user-friendliness and automation makes watsonx Assistant an ideal choice for building conversational agents at scale.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
IBM
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IBM
To develop chatbots based on client provided flow what kind chatbot required for client either button or free text chatbots. we will decided accordingly flow and develop chatbot using IBM Watson. We will integrated custom components if required which is not present in library. IBM Watson library anyone can easily learn and develop chatbots.
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Scalability
IBM
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IBM
Over All good
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Reduced development time.
  • Increased solution efficiency in understanding the user.
  • Increased solution scalability.
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IBM
  • Setting up automated tasks has helped my team to have a cut on time leading in a dynamic change and this service has taken it down by 30%
  • Chatbots are a way forward, using this product we receive more queries most of which lead to qualification
  • The data provided based on user interactions is so valuable that now we easily know what the intents are and where we can improve with our pitches
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