Watson vs. DATA
May 08, 2018

Watson vs. DATA

Isaiah King | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Watson Studio (formerly IBM Data Science Experience)

Watson Studio is used within Manifest Life Inc to help gather, process, and visualize various amounts of data. We use Watson Studio throughout our data management lifecycle and view it as the best all-in-one data management offering within the market. Watson Studio has helped our organization manage our data operations more fluidly through the offerings ease of use and minimal learning barrier. This product from IBM works like a charm and is flexible in small and/or large business environments. Data sets of all size can be easily cleaned, processed and leveraged in order to help meet our business objectives and create new opportunities.

Pros

  • Cloud-based file sharing helped our organization stay up to date when managing assets, new or old.
  • Watson studio does a fantastic job visualizing outcome data which enabled our organization to easily create a narrative based on what we were able to see.
  • Particularly within our organization, Watson Studio strength was noticed in its ability to processes enormous amounts of data in such a short amount of time.

Cons

  • Watson Studio could used improvement in its user-based community. I'd like to see more local and remote events showcasing its potential.
  • Watson Studio could improve by providing its users, use-cases that leverage data in unusual ways.
  • We think Watson studio could also improve by decreasing its price in order to capture new talent in the data industry.
  • Watson Studio has allowed our organization leverage open data to create new streams of revenue that previously could not be tapped into.
  • Watson Studio has allowed us to conduct business without the need of additional third party vendors.
  • Watson Studio has allowed us to see a ROI where previously there was none.
Watson Studio was our choice in data management because its "all-in-one" packaging. Watson studio also stood out to us because it was more affordable and free for our organization to try out. We also greatly value the open source ecosystem Watson Studio has fostered.
Watson Studio (formerly IBM Data Science Experience), Watson Knowledge Catalog, IBM Cloud PaaS (formerly IBM Bluemix - PaaS), IBM Cloud IaaS (formerly IBM Bluemix - IaaS)
We would highly recommend Watson Studio to any of our colleagues interested in combining machine learning and data management due to its wide range of capabilities and ease of use.

Using Watson Studio (formerly IBM Data Science Experience)

The UI flawlessly merges this offering by providing a neat, minimal, responsive interface.
ProsCons
Like to use
Easy to use
Well integrated
Quick to learn
Feel confident using
Unnecessarily complex
Requires technical support
Inconsistent
Cumbersome
Lots to learn
  • Data cleansing
  • Data visualizing
  • Data sharing
  • Understanding ML feature
  • Using algorithms
  • Features including spark

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