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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Azure

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

    $29

    per month

    RapidMiner

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ARapidMiner is a data science and data mining platform, from Altair since the late 2022 acquisition. RapidMiner offers full automation for non-coding domain experts, an integrated JupyterLab environment for seasoned data scientists, and a visual drag-and-drop designer. RapidMiner’s project-based framework helps to ensure that others can build off their work using visual workflows or automated data science.

    $7,500

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    Microsoft AzureRapidMiner
    Editions & Modules
    Developer
    $29
    per month
    Standard
    $100
    per month
    Professional Direct
    $1000
    per month
    Basic
    Free
    per month
    Professional
    $7,500.00
    Per User Per Month
    Enterprise
    $15,000.00
    Per User Per Month
    AI Hub
    $54,000.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft AzureRapidMiner
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThe free tier lets users have access to a variety of services free for 12 months with limited usage after making an Azure account.—
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft AzureRapidMiner
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    Chose RapidMiner
    • IBM SPSS Statistics: RapidMiner is much better at statistical analysis.
    • Knime it’s much better than RapidMiner when the project
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    34 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    31 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    35 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    34 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Microsoft AzureRapidMiner
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Microsoft Azure and RapidMiner
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure
    8.4
    27 Ratings
    2% above category average
    RapidMiner
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.725 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing8.624 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates8.225 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.326 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.424 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support8.926 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls8.626 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation8.224 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Connectivity
    Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of Microsoft Azure and RapidMiner
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure
    -
    Ratings
    RapidMiner
    9.5
    2 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Connect to Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Extend Existing Data Sources00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Automatic Data Format Detection00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    MDM Integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of Microsoft Azure and RapidMiner
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure
    -
    Ratings
    RapidMiner
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Visualization00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Interactive Data Analysis00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of Microsoft Azure and RapidMiner
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure
    -
    Ratings
    RapidMiner
    8.8
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Data Transformations00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Data Encryption00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Built-in Processors00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Platform Data Modeling
    Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of Microsoft Azure and RapidMiner
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure
    -
    Ratings
    RapidMiner
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Automated Machine Learning00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Single platform for multiple model development00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Self-Service Model Delivery00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Model Deployment
    Comparison of Model Deployment features of Microsoft Azure and RapidMiner
    Feature
    Microsoft Azure
    -
    Ratings
    RapidMiner
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Flexible Model Publishing Options00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Security, Governance, and Cost Controls00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Microsoft AzureRapidMiner
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Jupyter Notebook
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Anaconda
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Watson Studio
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft AzureRapidMiner
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (96 ratings)
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (17 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (36 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (27 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft AzureRapidMiner
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Azure is particularly well suited for enterprise environments with existing Microsoft investments, those that require robust compliance features, and organizations that need hybrid cloud capabilities that bridge on-premises and cloud infrastructure. In my opinion, Azure is less appropriate for cost-sensitive startups or small businesses without dedicated cloud expertise and scenarios requiring edge computing use cases with limited connectivity. Azure offers comprehensive solutions for most business needs but can feel like there is a higher learning curve than other cloud-based providers, depending on the product and use case.
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    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    RapidMiner is really fantastic to perform fast ETL processes and work on your data as you want, no matter what is the source. You will really save a lot of time when you learn how to use it. You can create mining analysis with several algorithms, and thanks to add-ons, you can apply a lot of techniques. It will not replace a business intelligence dashboard but it allows to create great datamarts for your BI tools. One negative thing is that It's no easy to share your outputs.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Microsoft Azure is highly scalable and flexible. You can quickly scale up or down additional resources and computing power.
    • You have no longer upfront investments for hardware. You only pay for the use of your computing power, storage space, or services.
    • The uptime that can be achieved and guaranteed is very important for our company. This includes the rapid maintenance for security updates that are mostly carried out by Microsoft.
    • The wide range of capabilities of services that are possible in Microsoft Azure. You can practically put or create anything in Microsoft Azure.
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    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • I am very impressed at how easily you can work within RapidMiner without much data analytics training. Plus with the help of the crowd, you can see what steps others have taken with their data analytics projects.
    • Text mining was simple and clean. We used this for our call transcription problem where we didn't have the resources to listen to each call. We needed to qualify each call based on some key phrases.
    • Our direct mail program was large and not very targeted. Using RapidMiner, we were able to isolate a predictive level we felt comfortable with and decided not to send to anyone below that level. We saved quite a bit of money.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • The cost of resources is difficult to determine, technical documentation is frequently out of date, and documentation and mapping capabilities are lacking.
    • The documentation needs to be improved, and some advanced configuration options require research and experimentation.
    • Microsoft's licensing scheme is too complex for the average user, and Azure SQL syntax is too different from traditional SQL.
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    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • I hope RapidMiner would be the first data science platform that allows data scientists to change the behaviour of a machine learning algorithm that already exists in the repository. For example, I want to be able to change the way a genetic algorithm mutates.
    • Automatic programming: One day, I hope RapidMiner can automatically generate codes in any 4th generation programming language based on the developed model.
    • More tutorials/samples needed: Why doesn't RapidMiner becomes the next 'UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository'? Provide real examples and real cases for users to study and understand the best practices in modelling. RapidMiner already has some datasets for a tutorial. Besides the existing samples, I hope RapidMiner can provide more sample data and examples.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    Moving to Azure was and still is an organizational strategy and not simply changing vendors. Our product roadmap revolved around Azure as we are in the business of humanitarian relief and Azure and Microsoft play an important part in quickly and efficiently serving all of the world. Migration and investment in Azure should be considered as an overall strategy of an organization and communicated companywide.
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    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    Very fast and user-friendly tool
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    As Microsoft Azure is [doing a] really good with PaaS. The need of a market is to have [a] combo of PaaS and IaaS. While AWS is making [an] exceptionally well blend of both of them, Azure needs to work more on DevOps and Automation stuff. Apart from that, I would recommend Azure as a great platform for cloud services as scale.
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    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    Very use to use and learn
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    It has proven to be unreliable in our production environment and services become unavailable without proper notification to system administrators
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    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    We were running Windows Server and Active Directory, so [Microsoft] Azure was a seamless transition. We ran into a few, if any support issues, however, the availability of Microsoft Azure's support team was more than willing and able to guide us through the process. They even proposed solutions to issues we had not even thought of!
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    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    As I have mentioned before the issue with my Oracle Mismatch Version issues that have put a delay on moving one of my platforms will justify my 7 rating.
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    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    As I continue to evaluate the "big three" cloud providers for our clients, I make the following distinctions, though this gap continues to close. AWS is more granular, and inherently powerful in the configuration options compared to [Microsoft] Azure. It is a "developer" platform for cloud. However, Azure PowerShell is helping close this gap. Google Cloud is the leading containerization platform, largely thanks to it building kubernetes from the ground up. Azure containerization is getting better at having the same storage/deployment options.
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    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    We tried different data tools and we figured we give RapidMinder Studio a shot as one of our employees had experience with it, and when compared to some of the other tools that we used it was the best fit among the test group that we used. Overall it was a little more fluid and user-friendly.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • For about 2 years we didn't have to do anything with our production VMs, the system ran without a hitch, which meant our engineers could focus on features rather than infrastructure.
    • DNS management was very easy in Azure, which made it easy to upgrade our cluster with zero downtime.
    • Azure Web UI was easy to work with and navigate, which meant our senior engineers and DevOps team could work with Azure without formal training.
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    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • Thanks to the patters that RapidMiner has detected, we have been able to follow clues in the right direction, both for the Protein Interaction Network Analysis and for the Epilepsy Research
    • Students and participants of the machine learning workshops have learned about this technology and about the tool
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