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    Amazon Alexa for Business

    Score4.9 out of 10
    N/AAlexa for Business is a service that enables organizations and employees to use Alexa to get more work done. With Alexa for Business, employees can use Alexa as their intelligent assistant to be more productive in meeting rooms, at their desks, and with Alexa devices. IT and facilities managers can also use Alexa for Business to measure and increase the utilization of the existing meeting rooms in their workplace.

    $3

    per month per user

    IBM watsonx Orchestrate

    Score8.7 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.

    $500

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon Alexa for BusinessIBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Editions & Modules
    Enrolled users
    $3
    per month per user
    Shared devices
    $7
    per month per device
    Essential
    $500
    per month per subscription
    Essentials
    $500
    per month Per subscription
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    Enterprise
    Standard
    Enterprise
    per month Per subscription
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Alexa for BusinessIBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    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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    Amazon Alexa for BusinessIBM watsonx Orchestrate
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    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    Chose IBM watsonx Orchestrate
    We have existing licenses with IBM for other products, so it was easier to integrate, and it had the features we needed.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Alexa for BusinessIBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (95 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (80 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    9.1
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon Alexa for BusinessIBM watsonx Orchestrate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Virtual assistants at work are still new features and have a lot to improve. 
    The more features we have, the more we want new features.
    In small environments we have "noise" between virtual assistants, making use inappropriate.
    But in more distributed environments it is very good.
    We still have a lot to learn (both, us and our Alexas).
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    IBM
    In our case, it is well-suited for workday integration, which allows us to automate the entire workflow. However, we are still working on the O9 platform integration, which we feel is less appropriate, and integrating the workflow into the platform.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Communication between people on the team.
    • Interactive personal assistant.
    • Better workspace management.
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Could have a feature for group chats.
    • Alexa has some problems hearing nearby voices.
    • Website suggestions are irrelevant sometimes (should have user evaluation functionality for the answer, improving accuracy).
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    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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
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    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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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
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    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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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
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    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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    Online Training
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Excellent course material.
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    Implementation Rating
    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    Overall the implementation was simple.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    We looked at two other alternatives: Google Nest and Apple. But Alexa already has popular devices that many people on the team already had in their homes. And it would be easier to integrate into the professional environment. The cost of Amazon products is also much lower, which makes the product more competitive.
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    IBM
    Make has more community of workflows to follow that have been redeveloped and are available for download. Selecting WxO is based on our trust level with IBM and the propositions of the Granite model being less biased, more business trained, and the ecosystem allowing for expansion with Assistant and Discovery.
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Difficulties with technology integration.
    • Identify all possible uses.
    • We still lost a lot of time making new settings.
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    IBM
    • By automating tasks that would otherwise require human intervention, organizations may achieve cost savings in terms of labor, especially for handling large volumes of routine inquiries.
    • Virtual assistants can handle a large number of simultaneous interactions, making them scalable to accommodate growing customer bases and increasing workloads without a linear increase in staffing.
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