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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM watsonx Orchestrate

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AIBM® watsonx™ Orchestrate® leverages AI to automate complex workflows. The solution helps build, deploy, and manage AI assistants and agents. It offers a catalogue of pre-built agents and tools, low-code agent builder, multi-agent collaboration capabilities, and integrations with enterprise apps.

    $530

    per month

    SAP Conversational AI (discontinued)

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/ASAP Conversational AI was a platform used to build chatbots and digital assistants in SAP integration. Starting January 2023, SAP Conversational AI, SAP’s chatbot building platform has been set to maintenance mode. Existing customers can continue to use the enterprise edition of the product until the end of their contract.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM watsonx OrchestrateSAP Conversational AI (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Essential
    $500
    per month per subscription
    Essentials
    $500
    per month Per subscription
    Standard
    Enterprise
    Standard
    Enterprise
    per month Per subscription
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM watsonx OrchestrateSAP Conversational AI (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsIBM watsonx Orchestrate can be deployed and run on IBM Cloud, AWS, or on-premises. Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.
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    Community Pulse
    IBM watsonx OrchestrateSAP Conversational AI (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Watsonx Assistant is distinguished by its ability to understand natural language and its ability to adapt and learn over time. This allows for a more natural and personalized interaction with customers, enhancing the user experience. In addition, Watson Assistant offers a wide …
    Incentivized
    SAP
    Chose SAP Conversational AI (discontinued)
    Our scenario was pretty clear. We looked for an enterprise chatbot platform that could support SAP ERP like S/4HANA. Recent features make going with SAP CAI the clear choice for someone who wants to build bots around S/4HANA.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Conversational AI (discontinued)
    The easy implementation of SAP Conversational AI makes it stand out against any other tool. In turn, the free implementation for a PoC opens the game to give demos to promote its use to potential customers. Recently they launched the web client to implement a bot in SAP Cloud …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Conversational AI (discontinued)
    I selected CAI because it performs better in the NLU, plus the connector is super easy to use. I haven't tried the bot builder but I saw it's super intuitive, which is great for linear conversational experiences. Also the pricing model allows us to try it risk free with the …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
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    94%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    91%
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    Happy with the feature set
    99%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
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    94%
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    111 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    24 Answers
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    ZoomInfo Chat
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    AWS Chatbot
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM watsonx OrchestrateSAP Conversational AI (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (133 ratings)
    7.4
    (37 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.5
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (79 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (10 ratings)
    6.5
    (32 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    For starters, most enterprise-grade organizations and Customers struggle to align their current IT estate and landscape with fast-moving, agile, AI-driven automation and development initiatives. All tooling, governance, structure, and frameworks available to support and facilitate the incorporation of this new but still cross-system technology layer are essential to minimize the risks of data leaks, unauthorized access, unbridled token consumption, and other issues. For some businesses and organizations with a handful of systems or a smaller footprint, the platform could be a bit too complex.
    Incentivized
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    SAP
    It would be most suitable to help you attain swift conversation flows as you engage with your audiences. The bots are also of indispensable value in handling repetitive tasks around the firm such as automated HR resourcing expeditions or marketing campaigns or any other important but monotonous tasks. I however admit that analyzing the bot's performance is quite complex, have an RPA specialist around.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • New and improved natural language processing yielding better results helps the assistants understand the intention behind the query.
    • Preserves context of communication, allowing the customers to establish inquiries on the website and continue on the mobile app without having extra informational input.
    • Intelligent conversations mean that complex paths that are branched based on the user's inputs allow for a much more natural flow of the conversation than fixed scripts.
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    SAP
    • SAP has helped me manage my teams cost in material management.
    • SAP Conversational AI has provided with the goal of developing bot analytics to respond to common user face issues when reporting troubleshooting issues with software equipment as well as technical equipment.
    • Has helped deploy new bots to increase response time to employees who require assistance with ordering equipment software as well as application development in software ordering.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • I think that it needs to be able to integrate better with the knowledge catalogs. It currently provides a default database, which isn't quite large enough for enterprise use. We can connect that then to an external source, but it'd be nice if we could able just to instantiate one straight away.
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    SAP
    • SAP can certainly provide better and more clear documentation on how to customize and deploy the chatbot/use SAP Conversational AI.
    • There is lot less developer community around SAP Conversational AI so it is hard to get help from outside developers and experts on best practices, hacks and existing applications/integrations.
    • It is hard to use SAP Conversational AI outside SAP S/4HANA Cloud, for example on AWS or GCP or in a multi cloud environment.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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. Action flow and dialog flow we are currently in chatbot.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    IBM
    With the growing use of AI and chatbots, it's very easy to use, and the conversational language makes it easier than keyword searches in a document. The contextual language processing is impressive. It's easy to integrate into our internal portal. The use of this tool would depend on each company's security and data sensitivity.
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    SAP
    Chatbots have already acquired most of the market and are still trending with the needs of changing market everyday. It will keep evolving with AI and NLP more to offer for improvements. SAP CAI is a good product to add to an enterprise using SAP ERP Suite
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Never had an issue. SAP CAI shares the same platform as any other product hosted on SAP Cloud Platform (aka BTP) and depends on your hosting (US, Europe, Asia). Maintenance modes are planned and customers are aware of it well in advance in order to mitigate potential impacts on the service offering.
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    Performance
    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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    SAP
    It's a pure SaaS platform hosted on SAP Cloud Platform (aka BTP). The experience is pretty much seamless with minimum loadings or noticeable lags. The hosting depends on your location so you may want to make sure the instance is available on a server close to you, such as the USA, Europe or Asia.
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    Support Rating
    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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    SAP
    Great support from the people of SAP Conversational AI as of the community. Sometimes it takes a little while for folks of the SAP Conversational AI team to answer but this has mostly to do with the overload of questions and users the product has. The gold-support channel within Slack that SAP Conversational AI has, is a great help to distinguish more professional usage and therefore more urgent questions.
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    Online Training
    IBM
    Excellent course material.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    Overall the implementation was simple.
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    SAP
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    Strong ITSM and HR workflow automation with governance, ServiceNow excels in IT/HR but lacks flexibility for cross-departmental use cases such as demand planning, finance close, or procurement analytics. Orchestrate supports a broader set of enterprise functions beyond IT service automation. So, watsonx is a better approach than any other available tool in the market as of now, based on the use cases I've encountered and my efforts to understand the essence of the service.
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    SAP
    The platforms have similarities in terms of making the organization more data-driven. However, the use cases are different. SAP Analytics Cloud is used for reporting, deploying dashboards, and scheduling timely delivery of reporting and analytics. SAP Conversational AI is a more front-end product that end users can directly use to navigate the web application better. Both have strengths in their respective areas. Conversational AI is more recent and cutting edge.
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    Scalability
    IBM
    From past 3+ years I am using IBM Watson in our current project easily can implement and manage and monitor user how their using. Is there and update also just update dialog is just enough to change no need to touch any other templates. Multiple language will support, and action and dialog speak recognize chatbot we can create as per client requirement. Overall, as of now good experience with IBM Watson.
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    SAP
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • As a very small team WxO give us more time back and handles manual tasks.
    • WxO helps us reduce manual errors (and the time it takes to find and resolve.)
    • WxO, as a task scheduler and reminder system, helps us not forget certain key events with time-dependent requirements.
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    SAP
    • The impact has been very positive for our business objectives. Through the chatbot, our clients can have an immediate response to any of their requests without the need of an intervention of a person or without the use of the telephone or email. Customer satisfaction has been much higher.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM watsonx Orchestrate Screenshots

    Screenshot of IBM® watsonx Orchestrate® homepage UI when you enter into the product.Screenshot of Catalog of AI agents and tools in different domains from multiple partnersScreenshot of Creating agents - from scratch or using a pre-built templateScreenshot of Multi Agent Collaboration - Employee Support Manager AgentScreenshot of IT domain agents from IBM and other partnersScreenshot of Integrations from multiple common applications

    SAP Conversational AI (discontinued) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Transform your customer and employee experience with SAP Conversational AI, which combines a powerful bot building platform and a digital assistant nicknamed CoPilot.Screenshot of Bot Training – Plug human-like understanding in your chatbots.Screenshot of Bot Builder – Build adaptable conversational flows through a powerful and visual tool.Screenshot of SAP Conversational AI provides a powerful building platform that allows the building of end-to-end chatbots as well as the customization of your digital assistant.Screenshot of Leverage the power of our highly performing NLP technology capable of building human-like AI chatbots in any language.Screenshot of Understand how your chatbot is used and leverage that data to improve the performance of your dataset.