IBM Watson Discovery vs. Inbenta Enterprise Search

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Watson Discovery
Score 8.8 out of 10
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IBM offers Watson Discovery, a natural language processing (NLP) application with options to measure sentiment, detect entities, semantic roles, and other concepts.N/A
Inbenta Enterprise Search
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Inbenta is a conversational intelligence technology provider headquartered in Sunnyvale. Inbenta Search is a search tool built with the vendor’s Symbolic AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) that aims to help the user reduce support cost by understanding customers’ questions and quickly delivering the most relevant answers, providing a self-service solution to customer support.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional DetailsInbenta is a scalable solution. The vendor charges based on the number of sessions or searches that occur on the user's support site. The vendor also offers free trials with certain partner integrations including Zendesk and Salesforce Desk.com.
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Small Businesses
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Enterprises
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Usability
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User Testimonials
IBM Watson DiscoveryInbenta Enterprise Search
Likelihood to Recommend
Whether using it as a standalone search tool, integrating with other IBM Watson products, or using the API to integrate with proprietary or third-party systems and applications, Watson Discovery addresses these and many other scenarios where document search is required -- understand- if here documents can be pdf, doc, txt files, websites, among other formats --, don't confuse Watson Discovery with EDRMS (Electronic document and records management system) software, Discovery goes further, allowing text search to be done within a context using natural language (NLU) and returning not only the search term but also insights and related issues. File indexing works very well, and training Discovery so that documents and technical terms are learned a bit of work, but it can be reduced by using some of the learning models already trained and available for use.
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If you are looking for an enterprise search platform that offers an easy to use interface and if high performance is not really your priority, then I believe Inbenta Enterprise Search would fit your use case. For most other situations, I would recommend using a tried and tested search platform like Apache Solr.
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Pros
  • Help us analyse and extract useful data points and insights.
  • Powerful API which is both fast and accurate.
  • Can analyse almost every type of file including word, pdf, excel, txt etc.
  • No need to hire anyone or a freelancer to extract the data.
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  • Fairly easy to use interface.
  • Quick to onboard new users, both in terms of access as well as training.
  • The NLP-based semantic search feature is quite impressive.
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Cons
  • I believe AI should be more flexible about providing data. However, it's understandable that you need to provide the details you need in a more specific and detailed way.
  • The interface could use more tweaking. Being new to the program, it was kind of hard to navigate.
  • Luckily, there was a customized feature of the dashboard that I could set up, and having something that you know where you are placed always feels familiar and comfortable.
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  • It is a fairly new tool in the market, so not much market feedback exists for this. This made us apprehensive in using it.
  • The documentation and online forums are bare minimum.
  • Quite buggy when working with multiple sources.
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Usability
IBM Watson Discovery has the best user capabilities and easily transform business decision-making portfolio. The automation system saves time used in data analysis as opposed to manual research that consumes a lot of time. The visualization across the dashboard enables my team to interpret complex data and use it to make reliable marketing decisions.
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Support Rating
Similar to all IBM Watson and Salesforce product solutions, the overall support would be a 10/10. Their provided FAQ's help with frequently experienced issues and if still unable to figure something out, their customer service representatives are always super responsive. With instant chat functions available, it is easy to ask a quick question rather than sitting on hold.
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Alternatives Considered
To be entirely honest, in my review, I have used Elasticsearch in the past, but not in a way similar to that I am using Discovery, and I cannot honestly say that I can compare the two because I used Elasticsearch in infrastructure management and monitoring setup while using the ELK stack (Elasticsearch - Logstash and Kibana).
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Apache Solr to Inbenta is like Java to Python. Apache Solr is powerful and handles complex search platforms well. Inbenta, on the other hand, is meant to be easy to use and does not lay too much emphasis on performance. If you are a small or medium business, Inbenta may suit your needs better. However, if you wish to manage a large and complex search platform, Solr is the way to go.
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Return on Investment
  • IBM Watson Discovery has had only positive impacts on our overall business objective of providing quality customer service and timely resolutions for our clients.
  • The use of this integration has made life easier for our customer service team, who can now resolve cases for customers quicker and easier.
  • Our company prides itself on the service and expertise we're able to provide for our customers and IBM Watson Discovery has only made that task easier for our employees to perform.
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  • Enabled our developers to quickly deploy changes to the search model.
  • NLP-powered semantic search feedback provides good actionable insights.
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