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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Joule

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AJoule is an AI copilot that’s grounded in an organization's business data and infused with AI agents. It proactively assists employees in every cloud application they use while automating complex processes.N/A

    KNIME Analytics Platform

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AKNIME enables users to analyze, upskill, and scale data science without any coding. The platform that lets users blend, transform, model and visualize data, deploy and monitor analytical models, and share insights organization-wide with data apps and services.

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    JouleKNIME Analytics Platform
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    KNIME Community Hub Personal Plan
    $0
    KNIME Analytics Platform
    $0
    KNIME Community Hub Team Plan
    €99
    per month 3 users
    KNIME Business Hub
    From €35,000
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JouleKNIME Analytics Platform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsJoule Base Joule Base is a no-cost entitlement of SAP cloud products that enables teams to navigate SAP systems more easily, find the right information more quickly, and complete everyday tasks faster. Joule Premium Joule Premium extends Joule Base with more powerful AI, including advanced Joule skills, premium embedded AI scenarios, and Joule Agents. Joule Premium capabilities are accessed through the purchase of AI units. Visit the pricing page linked above to learn more about Joule Premium capabilities.—
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    Community Pulse
    JouleKNIME Analytics Platform
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
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    KNIME
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    111 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    16 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    77 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    85%
    Happy with the feature set
    103 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    74%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    76%
    Implementation went as expected
    68 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    JouleKNIME Analytics Platform
    Platform Connectivity
    Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of Joule and KNIME Analytics Platform
    Feature
    Joule
    -
    Ratings
    KNIME Analytics Platform
    9.2
    19 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Connect to Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings9.619 Ratings
    Extend Existing Data Sources00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Automatic Data Format Detection00 Ratings9.119 Ratings
    MDM Integration00 Ratings7.98 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of Joule and KNIME Analytics Platform
    Feature
    Joule
    -
    Ratings
    KNIME Analytics Platform
    8.1
    18 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Visualization00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
    Interactive Data Analysis00 Ratings8.118 Ratings
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of Joule and KNIME Analytics Platform
    Feature
    Joule
    -
    Ratings
    KNIME Analytics Platform
    8.3
    19 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment00 Ratings9.019 Ratings
    Data Transformations00 Ratings9.519 Ratings
    Data Encryption00 Ratings7.47 Ratings
    Built-in Processors00 Ratings7.48 Ratings
    Platform Data Modeling
    Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of Joule and KNIME Analytics Platform
    Feature
    Joule
    -
    Ratings
    KNIME Analytics Platform
    8.0
    18 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools00 Ratings9.517 Ratings
    Automated Machine Learning00 Ratings8.117 Ratings
    Single platform for multiple model development00 Ratings9.318 Ratings
    Self-Service Model Delivery00 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Model Deployment
    Comparison of Model Deployment features of Joule and KNIME Analytics Platform
    Feature
    Joule
    -
    Ratings
    KNIME Analytics Platform
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Flexible Model Publishing Options00 Ratings8.611 Ratings
    Security, Governance, and Cost Controls00 Ratings5.94 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    JouleKNIME Analytics Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (110 ratings)
    9.6
    (22 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (108 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.3
    (4 ratings)
    9.3
    (6 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.4
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    JouleKNIME Analytics Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    Joule explained ATC findings, including root cause, business impact, recommended APIs, and examples of fixes for S/4HANA readiness checks. Joule today is a point-in-time assistant — great for one question, one generation, one explanation at a time. It is not yet capable of owning a full development flow.
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    KNIME
    KNIME Analytics Platform is excellent for people who are finding Excel frustrating, this can be due to errors creeping in due to manual changes or simply that there are too many calculations which causes the system to slow down and crash. This is especially true for regular reporting where a KNIME Analytics Platform workflow can pull in the most recent data, process it and provide the necessary output in one click. I find KNIME Analytics Platform especially useful when talking with audiences who are intimidated by code. KNIME Analytics Platform allows us to discuss exactly how data is processed and an analysis takes place at an abstracted level where non-technical users are happy to think and communicate which is often essential when they are subject matter experts whom you need for guidance. For experienced programmers KNIME Analytics Platform is a double-edged sword. Often programmers wish to write their own code because they are more efficient working that way and are constrained by having to think and implement work in nodes. However, those constraints forcing development in a "KNIME way" are useful when working in teams and for maintenance compared to some programmers' idiosyncratic styles.
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    Pros
    SAP
    • Users can prompt Joule to create business partners in MDG.
    • The change process for Business partner (Customers/Suppliers) updation is made easy, particularly for updating data such as address and communication details.
    • The workflow process has been simplified by Joule agents, such as identifying the high-priority task and sharing it with the end user.
    • Improved data quality to almost 30%~50% in the CR creation process, which is a significant milestone for us.
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    KNIME
    • Summarize instrument level financial data with relevant statistics
    • Map transactions from core extracts to groups of like transactions using rule engines
    • Machine learning using random forests and other techniques to analyze data and identify correlations for use in predictive models
    • Fill out sampling data from averages.
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    Cons
    SAP
    • In SuccessFactors Joule should have more tools out of the box.
    • There should be more examples on what is possible to do with Joule or Joule Studio in Successfactors, all available examples seem to focus only on Payroll or Inventory management leaving the HR behind.
    • Document Grounding should be easier to implement, and should be possible to have some kind of permissions per couuntry / user group for specific documents. The implementation with Sharepoint makes it harder to complete because normally we need some extra team to join and help and until now, I always had issues implementing it. I believe that it would make it much easier if the documents could be stored and managed inside SuccessFactors.
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    KNIME
    • It does not have proper visualization.
    • Some other BI tools (QlikView) have much easier functions for data interaction.
    • Some other BI tools (Tableau) can be set up much faster.
    • It is not an easy tool to use for non-tech savvy staff.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SAP
    As we explore, we can learn more. As i believe, we can only learn to live and live to learn stuffs. So as well AI does the same and improve itself. By trying and prompting joule more, we can use it in better ways. I would definitely wait and use the new versions shared in SAP Teched on Joule with more LLM involved
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    KNIME
    We are happy with Knime product and their support. Knime AP is versatile product and even can execute Python scripts if needed. It also supports R execution as well; however, it is not being used at our end
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    Usability
    SAP
    I would rate Joule’s overall usability a 10 out of 10 because it makes interacting with SAP incredibly simple, intuitive, and fast. The conversational interface removes the complexity normally associated with navigating SAP modules, running transactions, or building reports. Even non-technical users can get meaningful insights within seconds just by asking natural language questions.
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    KNIME
    KNIME Analytics Platform offers a great tradeoff between intuitiveness and simplicity of the user interface and almost limitless flexibility. There are tools that are even easier to adopt by someone new to analytics, but none that would provide the scalability of KNIME when the user skills and application complexity grows
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    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    as its cloud based, as of now, we see it available all the time and havent faced any issues while accessing. Not sure if this has high availability and Disaster recovery features got set up already with the default version that we are using at our organization. no issues so far.
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    KNIME
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    Performance
    SAP
    SAP Joule's pages load quickly and it does display the information on what we are looking for w.r.to the knowledge base or the SAP articles.
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    KNIME
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    Support Rating
    SAP
    Usually support for Joule takes longer than normal, and the correct answer always takes a long time to get, or we just don't get it at all, and we fix ourselves.
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    KNIME
    KNIME's HQ is in Europe, which makes it hard for US companies to get customer service in time and on time. Their customer service also takes on average 1 to 2 weeks to follow up with your request. KNIME's documentation is also helpful but it does not provide you all the answers you need some of the time.
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    Implementation Rating
    SAP
    Joule implementation was easy but it has too many steps, it would be nice if part of the steps could be done automatically.
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    KNIME
    KNIME Analytics Platform is easy to install on any Windows, Mac or Linux machine. The KNIME Server product that is currently being replaced by the KNIME Business Hub comes as multiple layers of software and it took us some time to set up the system right for stability. This was made harder by KNIME staff's deeper expertise in setting up the Server in Linux rather than Windows environment. The KNIME Business Hub promises to have a simpler architecture, although currently there is no visibility of a Windows version of the product.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SAP
    Joule is better because it doesn't take only data available on the web, but combines that with data provided directly by the game publisher through API to us which includes every single match played = all data points from all of those matches. That means that for us Joule gives deeper insights than any online AI chat agent could do
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    KNIME
    Having used both the Alteryx and [KNIME Analytics] I can definitely feel the ease of using the software of Alteryx. The [KNIME Analytics] on the other hand isn't that great but is 90% of what Alteryx can do along with how much ease it can do. Having said that, the 90% functionality and UI at no cost would be enough for me to quit using Alteryx and move towards [KNIME Analytics].
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    Scalability
    SAP
    Yes as sap is used widely across organisation
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    KNIME
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    SAP
    • Allow us to have everyday operations smoother by automating repetitive tasks and reducing manual efforts, which saves time and improves efficiency.
    • Facilitate effortless information access, since it allows us to search and receive instant responses.
    • Reduces the complexity of SAP by pulling data from different modules and making it clear quickly.
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    KNIME
    • It is suited for data mining or machine learning work but If we're looking for advanced stat methods such as mixed effects linear/logistics models, that needs to be run through an R node.
    • Thinking of our peers with an advanced visualization techniques requirement, it is a lagging product.
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    ScreenShots

    Joule Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Joule AI agent that helps a production supervisor respond faster, avoid delays, and handle shop-floor disruptions to keep production running at maximum efficiency.Screenshot of how Joule can deliver insights grounded in business data, empowering employees to make faster, data-driven decisions.Screenshot of Joule's AI assistance that helps employees work faster by guiding them to the SAP applications and screens where they can complete their next task.Screenshot of Generative AI assisted code development with Joule that helps teams deploy custom applications and extensions faster.Screenshot of Joule Studio, where teams can build custom skills and AI agents to address any specific business needs.

    KNIME Analytics Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of the KNIME Modern UI. This is the the new user interface for the KNIME Analytics Platform that is available with improved look and feel as the default interface, from KNIME Analytics Platform version 5.1.0 release.Screenshot of the KNIME Analytics Platform user interface - the KNIME Workbench - displays the current, open workflow(s). Here is the general user interface layout — application tabs, side panel, workflow editor and node monitor.Screenshot of the KNIME user interface elements — workflow toolbar, node action bar, rename components and metanodes.Screenshot of the entry page, which is displayed by clicking the Home tab. From here users can; check out example workflows to get started, access a local workspace, or even start a new workflow by clicking the yellow plus button.Screenshot of the status of a KNIME node, which shows whether it's configured, not configured, executed, or has an error.Screenshot of the KNIME node action bar, which can be used to configure, execute, cancel, reset, and - when available - open the view.