Great tool if you're looking for proof-of-concept real-time applications
May 07, 2021

Great tool if you're looking for proof-of-concept real-time applications

Tsun Chow | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Streaming Analytics (Cloud Version)

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Streaming Analytics

I use IBM Streaming Analytics as a data analytics tool for a graduate class for business students in my university's college of business. It is used as a tool to teach big data analysis for data in motion. These students have no prior programming experience. The tool offers a visual programming interface that is very intuitive to learn so the user can focus more on business applications. After only one tutorial session, students are able to use the tool in building an application for monitoring the bike distractions in the city of Chicago using DIVVY datasets. It is a part of a class business project for improving business shares and efficiency for DIVVY.
  • Intuitive Visual Programming Interface
  • Integration with other analytics via Watson Studio
  • Very vibrant user communities for sharing ideas for applications
  • Can use more default settings for some of the parameters
  • Include more tutorials for cross-data analytic services applications
  • Low learning curve for non-programmers
  • Accessible to big data platform
  • Accessible to other data analytic services under one roof
There are well explained tutorials to get the user started. If you are looking for business application ideas, the user community offers a diversity of applications. It is very easy to launch applications on the cloud and can integrate with other analytic tools available on Watson Studio. It takes away the burden of the technology so that users can focus on business innovations.

Do you think IBM Streams delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Streams's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Streams live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM Streams go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Streams again?

Yes

Great for end-user computing so that business professionals can try out different ideas firsthand for proof-of-concept experiments. Can be scaled up later by IT professionals. If you want to use other machine learning tools, IBM streaming is well integrated with other analytic services so that you don't have to leave IBM Watson Studio. Personally, I have not stressed testing real big data applications using this tool.

IBM Streams Feature Ratings

Real-Time Data Analysis
8
Visualization Dashboards
10
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources
9
Low Latency
Not Rated
Integrated Development Tools
8
Data wrangling and preparation
8
Linear Scale-Out
Not Rated
Machine Learning Automation
9
Data Enrichment
7