Likelihood to Recommend It has a lot of features that are good for teams working on large-scale projects and continuously developing and reiterating their data project models. Really helpful when dealing with large data. It is a kind of one-stop solution for all data science tasks like visualization, cleaning, analyzing data, and developing models but small teams might find a lot of features unuseful.
Read full review MATLAB really does best for solving computational problems in math and engineering. Especially when you have to use a lot of functions in your solving process, or if you have a nonlinear equation that must be iteratively solved. [MATLAB] can also perform things like integration and derivation on your equations that you put into it.
Read full review Pros Integration of IBM Watson APIs such as speech to text, image recognition, personality insights, etc. SPSS modeler and neural network model provide no-code environments for data scientists to build pipelines quickly. Enforced best-practices set up POCs for deployment in production with a minimum of re-work. Estimator validation lets data scientists test and prove different models. Read full review It has a very user friendly library which helps users learn this software fairly quickly in a short span of time. The graphical user interface provided by the software is really good. The code that a person writes allows options for debugging. One can visualize the flow of control of their code inside MATLAB. Read full review Cons The cost is steep and so only companies with resources can afford it It will be nice to have Chinese versions so that Chinese engineers can also use it easily It takes a while to learn how to input different kinds of skin defects for detection Read full review MatLab is pricier than most of its competitors and because of this reason, many organizations are moving towards cheaper alternatives - mostly Python. MatLab is inefficient when it comes to performing a large number of iterations. It gets laggy and often crashes. Python is better in this regard. There is a limited number of hardware options (mostly NI) that can be connected directly to the data acquisition toolbox. Read full review Likelihood to Renew because we find out that DSX results have improved our approach to the whole subject (data, models, procedures)
Read full review Usability The UI flawlessly merges this offering by providing a neat, minimal, responsive interface
Read full review MATLAB is pretty easy to use. You can extend its capabilities using the programming interface. Very flexible capabilities when it comes to graphical presentation of your data (so many different kinds of options for your plotting needs). Anytime you are working with large data sets, or with matrices, MATLAB is likely to be very helpful.
Read full review Reliability and Availability From time to time there are services unavailable, but we have been always informed before and they got back to work sooner than expected
Read full review Performance Never had slow response even on our very busy network
Read full review Support Rating I received answers mostly at once and got answered even further my question: they gave me interesting points of view and suggestion for deepening in the learning path
Read full review The built-in search engine is not as performing as I wish it would be. However, the YouTube channel has a vast library of informative video that can help understanding the software. Also, many other software have a nice bridge into MATLAB, which makes it very versatile. Overall, the support for MATLAB is good.
Read full review In-Person Training The trainers on the job are very smart with solutions and very able in teaching
Read full review Online Training The Platform is very handy and suggests further steps according my previous interests
Read full review Implementation Rating It surprised us with unpredictable case of use and brand new points of view
Read full review Alternatives Considered The main reason I personally changed over from Azure ML Studio is because it lacked any support for significant custom modelling with packages and services such as TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit and Spark ML. IBM Watson Studio provides these services and does so in a well integrated and easy to use fashion making it a preferable service over the other services that I have personally used.
Read full review How MATLAB compares to its competition or similar open access tools like R (programming language) or SciLab is that it's simply more powerful and capable. It embraces a wider spectrum of possibilities for far more fields than any other environment. R, for example, is intended primarily for the area of statistical computing. SciLab, on the other hand, is a similar open access tool that falls very short in its computing capabilities. It's much slower when running larger scripts and isn't documented or supported nearly as well as MATLAB.
Read full review Scalability It helped us in getting from 0 to DSX without getting lost
Read full review Return on Investment Could instantly show data driven insights to drive 20% incremental revenue over existing results Still don't have a real use case for unstructured data like twitter feed Some of the insights around user actions have driven new projects to automate mundane tasks Read full review MATLAB helps us quickly sort through large sets of data because we keep the same script each time we run an analyzation, making it very efficient to run this whole process. The software makes it super easy for us to create plots that we can then show to investors or clients to display our data. We are also looking to create an app for our product, and we will not be able to do that on MATLAB, therefore creating a limiting issue and a new learning curve for a programming language. Read full review ScreenShots