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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Watson Studio

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM Watson Studio enables users to build, run and manage AI models, and optimize decisions at scale across any cloud. IBM Watson Studio enables users can operationalize AI anywhere as part of IBM Cloud Pak® for Data, the IBM data and AI platform. The vendor states the solution simplifies AI lifecycle management and accelerates time to value with an open, flexible multicloud architecture.N/A

    TensorFlow

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ATensorFlow is an open-source machine learning software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. It was originally developed by Google.N/A
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    IBM Watson StudioTensorFlow
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    IBM Watson StudioTensorFlow
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    IBM Watson StudioTensorFlow
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Watson Studio

    SAP Leonardo : Still too young and very hard to use. Besides it doesn’t had maximization tools

    Oracle R : They were the only ones that were actually able to replicate the DSX capabilities, but they lacked the team to do so.

    Google TensorFlow : impossible for programming and very …

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    Chose IBM Watson Studio
    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.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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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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    Features
    IBM Watson StudioTensorFlow
    Platform Connectivity
    Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data and TensorFlow
    Feature
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    8.1
    22 Ratings
    3% below category average
    TensorFlow
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    Connect to Multiple Data Sources8.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Extend Existing Data Sources8.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic Data Format Detection10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    MDM Integration6.414 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data and TensorFlow
    Feature
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    10.0
    22 Ratings
    18% above category average
    TensorFlow
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    Visualization10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive Data Analysis10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data and TensorFlow
    Feature
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    9.5
    22 Ratings
    15% above category average
    TensorFlow
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    Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Encryption8.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Built-in Processors10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Data Modeling
    Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data and TensorFlow
    Feature
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    9.5
    22 Ratings
    13% above category average
    TensorFlow
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    Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Machine Learning10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single platform for multiple model development10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Service Model Delivery8.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model Deployment
    Comparison of Model Deployment features of IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data and TensorFlow
    Feature
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    8.0
    22 Ratings
    6% below category average
    TensorFlow
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    Flexible Model Publishing Options9.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security, Governance, and Cost Controls7.022 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Anaconda
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Watson StudioTensorFlow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (65 ratings)
    6.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Watson StudioTensorFlow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    It has a lot of features that are good for teams working on large-scale projects and continuously developing and reiterating their data project models. Really helpful when dealing with large data. It is a kind of one-stop solution for all data science tasks like visualization, cleaning, analyzing data, and developing models but small teams might find a lot of features unuseful.
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    TensorFlow is great for most deep learning purposes. This is especially true in two domains: 1. Computer vision: image classification, object detection and image generation via generative adversarial networks 2. Natural language processing: text classification and generation. The good community support often means that a lot of off-the-shelf models can be used to prove a concept or test an idea quickly. That, and Google's promotion of Colab means that ideas can be shared quite freely. Training, visualizing and debugging models is very easy in TensorFlow, compared to other platforms (especially the good old Caffe days). In terms of productionizing, it's a bit of a mixed bag. In our case, most of our feature building is performed via Apache Spark. This means having to convert Parquet (columnar optimized) files to a TensorFlow friendly format i.e., protobufs. The lack of good JVM bindings mean that our projects end up being a mix of Python and Scala. This makes it hard to reuse some of the tooling and support we wrote in Scala. This is where MXNet shines better (though its Scala API could do with more work).
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Integration of IBM Watson APIs such as speech to text, image recognition, personality insights, etc.
    • SPSS modeler and neural network model provide no-code environments for data scientists to build pipelines quickly.
    • Enforced best-practices set up POCs for deployment in production with a minimum of re-work.
    • Estimator validation lets data scientists test and prove different models.
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    • A vast library of functions for all kinds of tasks - Text, Images, Tabular, Video etc.
    • Amazing community helps developers obtain knowledge faster and get unblocked in this active development space.
    • Integration of high-level libraries like Keras and Estimators make it really simple for a beginner to get started with neural network based models.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • The cost is steep and so only companies with resources can afford it
    • It will be nice to have Chinese versions so that Chinese engineers can also use it easily
    • It takes a while to learn how to input different kinds of skin defects for detection
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    • RNNs are still a bit lacking, compared to Theano.
    • Cannot handle sequence inputs
    • Theano is perhaps a bit faster and eats up less memory than TensorFlow on a given GPU, perhaps due to element-wise ops. Tensorflow wins for multi-GPU and “compilation” time.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    because we find out that DSX results have improved our approach to the whole subject (data, models, procedures)
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    Usability
    IBM
    The UI flawlessly merges this offering by providing a neat, minimal, responsive interface
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    Open Source
    Support of multiple components and ease of development.
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    From time to time there are services unavailable, but we have been always informed before and they got back to work sooner than expected
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    Performance
    IBM
    Never had slow response even on our very busy network
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    I received answers mostly at once and got answered even further my question: they gave me interesting points of view and suggestion for deepening in the learning path
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    Open Source
    Community support for TensorFlow is great. There's a huge community that truly loves the platform and there are many examples of development in TensorFlow. Often, when a new good technique is published, there will be a TensorFlow implementation not long after. This makes it quick to ally the latest techniques from academia straight to production-grade systems. Tooling around TensorFlow is also good. TensorBoard has been such a useful tool, I can't imagine how hard it would be to debug a deep neural network gone wrong without TensorBoard.
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    In-Person Training
    IBM
    The trainers on the job are very smart with solutions and very able in teaching
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    Online Training
    IBM
    The Platform is very handy and suggests further steps according my previous interests
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    It surprised us with unpredictable case of use and brand new points of view
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    Open Source
    Use of cloud for better execution power is recommended.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    The main reason I personally changed over from Azure ML Studio is because it lacked any support for significant custom modelling with packages and services such as TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit and Spark ML. IBM Watson Studio provides these services and does so in a well integrated and easy to use fashion making it a preferable service over the other services that I have personally used.
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    Open Source
    Keras is built on top of TensorFlow, but it is much simpler to use and more Python style friendly, so if you don't want to focus on too many details or control and not focus on some advanced features, Keras is one of the best options, but as far as if you want to dig into more, for sure TensorFlow is the right choice
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    Scalability
    IBM
    It helped us in getting from 0 to DSX without getting lost
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Could instantly show data driven insights to drive 20% incremental revenue over existing results
    • Still don't have a real use case for unstructured data like twitter feed
    • Some of the insights around user actions have driven new projects to automate mundane tasks
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    Open Source
    • Learning is s bit difficult takes lot of time.
    • Developing or implementing the whole neural network is time consuming with this, as you have to write everything.
    • Once you have learned this, it make your job very easy of getting the good result.
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