Item: IBM watsonx.governance
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM watsonx.governance

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM watsonx.governance as part of our AI/ML model development and governance framework. It helps is to monitor our AI models and ensure it meets the compliance and strict controls required in the financial industry. It helps us identify and reduce bias and with explainability of the AI models.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Identify and notify about potential bias in model
Helps with explainable AI - which in turn helps promote models into production quicker
Monitors models and provides a framework for model governance

Cons

Needs lot of time initially to setup and get going
documentation and tutorials are lacking
pricing is on higher side, which can be an issue for smaller organizations without benefit of scale

Return on Investment

Improved POC timelines by 20%. Helped us with fail fast
Helped us move models to production faster as it helps speed up discussions with compliance and data governance
On the negative side, AI is prone to errors and one still needs to be careful and monitor the tool itself. Hence a certain expertise is required on how to use this tool effectively

Usability

A very effective tool that tries to do a lot of things in the AI model development pipeline. While it works for most simple use cases, it can get trickier to configure it for more complex models using reinforcement learning or time series etc. Also as the tool is new and less that a year old -there is not an active community of users to collaborate and help with issues

Alternatives Considered

Comet ML

IBM watsonx.governance works well with other IBM tools already in use by our organization. It excels in data insights and handling of data. It helps automate and document model experiments effectively and provides traceability to explain model output.

Key Insights

Do you think IBM watsonx.governance delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM watsonx.governance's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM watsonx.governance live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM watsonx.governance go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM watsonx.governance again?

Yes

Other Software Used

IBM AIOps Insights, Comet ML

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM watsonx.governance is well suited for initial model development and build proof of concept solutions. It works great across all kinds of projects - including generative AI solutions. It works in regulated business like banking to ensure AI models comply with corporate, local and state laws and provides a governance tool to compliance to monitor AI models

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Great AI governance tool