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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Watson Studio

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM Watson Studio enables users to build, run and manage AI models, and optimize decisions at scale across any cloud. IBM Watson Studio enables users can operationalize AI anywhere as part of IBM Cloud Pak® for Data, the IBM data and AI platform. The vendor states the solution simplifies AI lifecycle management and accelerates time to value with an open, flexible multicloud architecture.N/A

    Microsoft Access

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Access is a database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.

    $139.99

    per PC

    Pricing
    IBM Watson StudioMicrosoft Access
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft Access
    $139.99
    per PC
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Watson StudioMicrosoft Access
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Watson StudioMicrosoft Access
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Watson Studio
    The mix of proprietary and open-source benefits that DSx offers gives me more flexibility than any other options I have encountered. I have the custom program building capability of Anaconda with the built-in predictive models of SPSS Modeler. I have more visualization …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Watson Studio
    It is the first product we tried.
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    29 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    Features
    IBM Watson StudioMicrosoft Access
    Platform Connectivity
    Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data and Microsoft Access
    Feature
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    8.1
    22 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Microsoft Access
    -
    Ratings
    Connect to Multiple Data Sources8.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Extend Existing Data Sources8.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic Data Format Detection10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    MDM Integration6.414 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data and Microsoft Access
    Feature
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    10.0
    22 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Microsoft Access
    -
    Ratings
    Visualization10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive Data Analysis10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data and Microsoft Access
    Feature
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    9.5
    22 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Microsoft Access
    -
    Ratings
    Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Encryption8.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Built-in Processors10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Data Modeling
    Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data and Microsoft Access
    Feature
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    9.5
    22 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Microsoft Access
    -
    Ratings
    Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Machine Learning10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single platform for multiple model development10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Service Model Delivery8.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model Deployment
    Comparison of Model Deployment features of IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data and Microsoft Access
    Feature
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    8.0
    22 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Microsoft Access
    -
    Ratings
    Flexible Model Publishing Options9.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security, Governance, and Cost Controls7.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data and Microsoft Access
    Feature
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Access
    7.7
    3 Ratings
    5% below category average
    ACID compliance00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Database locking00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Disaster recovery00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
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    Anaconda
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Watson StudioMicrosoft Access
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (65 ratings)
    7.4
    (102 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Watson StudioMicrosoft Access
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    As a Material Purchasing/Planning/inventory tracking application, Microsoft Access serves its purpose well. It's presentation is clean, data entry is simple and the ability to customize search fields is welcome. It does, however, come with some caveats; namely, when setting search filters and the need arises to back up a step or two, with Microsoft Access you have to reset, or "clear all", adding extra steps/time to a query.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    IBM
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • Very easy to create entity-relationship diagrams for various tables and designing mock layouts.
    • Really easy to navigate as it hold[s] the classic Microsoft UI. Another good thing is that it comes with the complete MS Office Suite.
    • It is really fast when joining multiple tables no matter what type of join.
    • Works on pretty much same SQL scripts so no need to learn a new language!
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    IBM
    • 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
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • Microsoft Access has not really changed at all for several years. It might be nice to see some upgrades and changes.
    • The help info is often not helpful. Need more tutorials for Microsoft Access to show how to do specific things.
    • Be careful naming objects such as tables, forms, etc. Names that are too long can get cut off in dialog boxes to choose a table, form, report, etc. So, I wish they would have resizable dialog boxes to allow you to see objects with long names.
    • I wish it could show me objects that are not in use in the database for current queries, tables, reports, forms, and macros. That way unused objects can be deleted without worrying about losing a report or query because you deleted the underlying object.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    because we find out that DSX results have improved our approach to the whole subject (data, models, procedures)
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    I and the rest of my team will renew our Microsoft Access in the future because we use and maintain many different applications and databases created using Microsoft Access so we will need to maintain them in the future. Additionally, it is a standard at our place of work so it is at $0 cost to us to use. Another reason for renewing Microsoft Access is that we just don' t have the resources needed to extend into a network of users so we need to remain a single-desktop application at this time.
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    Usability
    IBM
    The UI flawlessly merges this offering by providing a neat, minimal, responsive interface
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Access is easy to use. It is compatible with spreadsheets. It is a very good data management tool. There is scope to save a large amount of data in one place. For using this database, one does not need much training, can be shared among multiple users. This database has to sort and filtering features which seem to be very useful.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    From time to time there are services unavailable, but we have been always informed before and they got back to work sooner than expected
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    I don't think the program has ever failed me. It is one of those programs where there is always a solution if you know where to look.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    IBM
    Never had slow response even on our very busy network
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    IBM
    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
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    While I have never contacted Microsoft directly for product support, for some reason there's a real prejudice against MS Access among most IT support professionals. They are usually discouraging when it comes to using MS Access. Most of this is due to their lack of understanding of MS Access and how it can improve one's productivity. If Microsoft invested more resources towards enhancing and promoting the use of MS Access then maybe things would be different.
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    In-Person Training
    IBM
    The trainers on the job are very smart with solutions and very able in teaching
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    IBM
    The Platform is very handy and suggests further steps according my previous interests
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    It surprised us with unpredictable case of use and brand new points of view
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    Microsoft
    there is no key idea, since it is easy to implement Microsoft Access
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    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.
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    Microsoft
    Excel is a fantastic - robust application that can do so much so easily. Its easy to train and understand. However - excel does not provide a reporting function and that is typically where we will suggest a move to [Microsoft] Access. [Microsoft] Access requires a little more knowledge of data manipulation.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    IBM
    It helped us in getting from 0 to DSX without getting lost
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • 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
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    Microsoft
    • Not having to recreate queries or reports every time you want to use them.
    • Once an item is created and saved as part of the database, you save manpower by not having to recreate them.
    • ROI from a usability standpoint is great. Solid product with great functionality that requires low maintenance usually.
    Incentivized
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