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Wolfram Mathematica

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What is Wolfram Mathematica?

Wolfram's flagship product Mathematica is a modern technical computing application featuring a flexible symbolic coding language and a wide array of graphing and data visualization capabilities.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Wolfram Mathematica has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 30 ratings of Wolfram Mathematica's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Customizable dashboards

    Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.

    Category average: 8.7

  • Report Formatting Templates

    Category average: 8.4

  • Drill-down analysis

    Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Publish to PDF

    Category average: 8.9

  • Report Delivery Scheduling

    Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.

    Category average: 8

  • Delivery to Remote Servers

    Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

    Category average: 8.5

Reviews

What users are saying about Wolfram Mathematica.
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Wolfram Mathematica - The Leading Knowledge Engine with Associations

Steffen JäschkeView profile
Projektspezialist bei Steffen Jäschke EinzUnt Physik, Berechnungen in Corporate at Selbstständig (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Wolfram Mathematica is great in AI and KI data analysis.
  • Wolfram Mathematica is great in solving of any kind of mathematical problem for examples PDEs.
  • Wolfram Mathematica has efficient and versatile feature for visualization problems.
  • Wolfram Mathematica offers a selection of the efficients programming paradigms is therefore one of the first choices for programming on the 5th level of programming languages.

Cons

  • The notebook interface is a to strict choice for the in and out paradigma. Hidding information may be a better choice sometimes for a better understanding. It is not well MathML friendly.
  • Mathematica is too properitary. Other venturers are able to integrate user initiative better into the corpui the represent. It is too slow for many information innovation and in part to restricted to a tough internet integration. Efforts for integration of for example information markups from standards of the ISOOSI stack and else are missing or to tedious to program from scratch.
  • Mathematica is not very well at import and export. Too many formats of interest are missing and there is much knowledge hidden behind for a better efficiency.
  • Mathematica focusses to much on properitary formats like notebook and cdf. Microsoft is far ahead and has survived the fears hidden behind that behaviour.
  • Other decision are not handed open enough to the users of Wolfram Mathematica for example with the integrated use of standards in Mathematics.

Return on Investment

  • Buying Wolfram Mathematica is expense and there is vast amount of general content with that purchase.
  • Wolfram Mathematica cost of two orders of magnitude more than comparable systems with extension libraries except the direct contrahents and has therefore to deliver much more in return. That is really hard to achieve for everybody.
  • Wolfram Mathematica is in need to be customized for business standards but offer best mathematical and programming standards. Many field are just waiting for the change to Wolfram Mathematica.
  • Wolfram Mathematica is not the choice of several leaders in there markets. Following this leaders in hard and expensive despite it might result in highest ROis. Properitaries are always a drawback for high and efficient ROIs.
  • Wolfram Mathematica needs efficient workarounds and deep knowledge to reproduce well known and established methodologies in knowledge centerer market.

Alternatives Considered

Maple

Other Software Used

Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

Mathematica: great for Origami

Incentivized
Robert J. LangView profile
Artist/Consultant at Langorigami.com (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • It allows straightforward integration of analytic analysis of algebraic expressions and their numerical implemented.
  • Supports varying programmatic paradigms, so one can choose what best fits the problem or task: pure functions, procedural programming, list processing, and even (with a bit of setup) object-oriented programming.
  • The extensive and rich tools for graphical rendering make it very easy to not just get 2D and 3D renderings of final output, but also to do quick-and-dirty 2D and 3D rendering of intermediate results and/or debugging results.

Cons

  • It is, unfortunately, quite slow compared to, say, C code implementation of numerical routines. (However, getting a routine up and running is still vastly faster in Mathematica, so the tradeoff is worth it.)
  • New functionality is sometimes not implemented as fully as it could be: MeshRegions are still fairly limited.
  • The underlying core doesn't work equally well across platforms: things that run fine on Mac crash on Windows.

Return on Investment

  • It lets me solve many of the origami-related problems that I've taken on.

Alternatives Considered

MATLAB

Mathematica Cloud - have you used it?

Incentivized
Yaj Bhattacharya
Director in Research & Development at Info-Tech Research Group (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Analytic Calculus and Algebra
  • Complex Equation Solving
  • Data Analytics
  • Reference for definitions and data standards

Cons

  • Mathematica forum is often cold and unresponsive
  • Mathematica online forum is not handled professionally by moderators - lacks warmth
  • Mathematica official support is cold and curt

Return on Investment

  • No other single product matches the capabilities of Mathematica in terms of breadth of scope.
  • Rather sharp learning curve, and takes years to master.
  • Once mastered (learning curve), yields excellent ROI if leveraged properly.

Alternatives Considered

MATLAB

Wolfram Mathematica is the platform of choice for solving insanely hard problems

Incentivized
George DannerView profile
Founder | President in Corporate at Business Laboratory LLC | Solving Complex Business Problems With Science (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • You can stay in one environment as you progress from idea to prototype to production code to deployment; this hastens the development cycle at every step along the way
  • You can take advantage of the thousands (> 6000) functions that perform many math and logic transformations that are common to analysis today
  • The notebook interface is a very natural way to program, and allows code to be interwoven with explanatory text.
  • Mathematica is one of the most stable software platforms in the world, in existence for 30 years.

Cons

  • Depending on the size of the application, the cost of licenses can be prohibitive in some cases, especially for Wolfram Private Cloud.

Return on Investment

  • Mathematica is our "go to" environment for developing solutions for our clients, so I suppose you could say that it is solely responsible for our revenues. On occasion we do use other platforms but Mathematica is a core component of our offer to clients.

Amazing mathematical computation tool

Incentivized
Rounak JangirView profile
Ab Initio Developer in Research & Development at Tata Consultancy Services (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Mathematica performs well when it comes to solve the mathematical problem specifically from calculus.
  • You can ask mathematica in natural English language and it will understand and will give you answers.
  • It has been good while performing analysis on data. It's easy to plot nice graphs/plot with this tool.
  • Also, the way it solves the problem and represents the solution is just amazing. You can see step by step solutions.

Cons

  • It is not easy to use this tool as it has it's own scripting language and learning that is not straight forward.
  • On machine learning part of it, I think it should and can improve as there are other tool as well like TensorFlow, Keras which are doing very good.
  • It's a very heavy tool to install on community system and will be good if we can integrate this other tool like tensorflow, python.

Return on Investment

  • It has been very good for solving mathematical problems.
  • Visualising data with it is also amazing.
  • It is difficult to learn its language so it takes time to start with this tool.
  • It is costly to use it's APIs.

Alternatives Considered

TensorFlow and Keras

Other Software Used

Splunk Cloud, Datadog, New Relic