We performed a comparison between IBM Watson Machine Learning and TensorFlow based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two AI Development Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has improved self-service and customer satisfaction."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution's the cost and human labor savings."
"I was particularly interested in trying the AutoML feature to see how it handles data and proposes new models. The variety of models it provides is impressive."
"The solution is very valuable to our organization due to the fact that we can work on it as a workflow."
"It is has a lot of good features and we find the image classification very useful."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution ten out of ten."
"Optimization is very good in TensorFlow. There are many opportunities to do hyper-parameter training."
"Edge computing has some limited resources but TensorFlow has been improving in its features. It is a great tool for developers."
"It's got quite a big community, which is useful."
"It is also totally Open-Source and free. Open-source applications are not good usually. but TensorFlow actually changed my view about it and I thought, "Look, Oh my God. This is an open-source application and it's as good as it could be." I learned that TensorFlow, by sharing their own knowledge and their own platform with other developers, it improved the lives of many people around the globe."
"The most valuable features are the frameworks and the functionality to work with different data, even when we have a certain quantity of data flowing."
"Our clients were not aware they were using TensorFlow, so that aspect was transparent. I think we personally chose TensorFlow because it provided us with more of the end-to-end package that you can use for all the steps regarding billing and our models. So basically data processing, training the model, evaluating the model, updating the model, deploying the model and all of these steps without having to change to a new environment."
"It is open-source, and it is being worked on all the time. You don't have to pay all the big bucks like Azure and Databricks. You can just use your local machine with the open-source TensorFlow and create pretty good models."
"The most valuable feature of TensorFlow is deep learning. It is the best tool for deep learning in the market."
"Scaling is limited in some use cases. They need to make it easier to expand in all aspects."
"In future releases, I would like to see a more flexible environment."
"If I consider how we want to use it in our organization, certain areas of improvement can be addressed. For instance, we want to use it with Generative AI, not like ChatGPT, but in a way intended for industrial use."
"They should add more GPU processing power to improve performance, especially when dealing with large amounts of data."
"Honestly, I haven't seen any comparative report that has run the same data through two different artificial intelligence or machine learning capabilities to get something out of it. I would love to see that."
"The supporting language is limited."
"It would be nice to have more pre-trained models that we can utilize within layers. I utilize a Mac, and I am unable to utilize AMD GPUs. That's something that I would definitely be like to be able to access within TensorFlow since most of it is with CUDA ML. This only matters for local machines because, in Azure, you can just access any GPU you want from the cloud. It doesn't really matter, but the clients that I work with don't have cloud accounts, or they don't want to utilize that or spend the money. They all see it as too expensive and want to know what they can do on their local machines."
"There are a lot of problems, such as integrating our custom code. In my experience model tuning has been a bit difficult to edit and tune the graph model for best performance. We have to go into the model but we do not have a model viewer for quick access."
"However, if I want to change just one thing in the implementation of TensorFlow functions I have to copy everything that they wrote and I change it manually if indeed it can be amended. This is really hard as it's written in C++ and has a lot of complications."
"I would love to have a user interface like a programming interface. You need to have a set of menus where you can put things together in a graphical interface. The complete automation of the integration of the modules would also be interesting. It’s more like plumbing as opposed to a fully automated environment."
"TensorFlow deep learning takes a lot of computation power. The more systems you can use, the easier it is. That's a good ability, if you can make a system run immediately at the same time on the same task, it's much faster rather than you having one system running which is slower. Running systems in parallel is a complex situation, but it can improve. There is a lot of work involved."
"It would be cool if TensorFlow could make it easier for companies like us to program for running it across different hyperscalers."
"For newcomers to the field, the learning curve can be steep, often requiring about a year of dedicated effort."
"There are connection issues that interrupt the download needed for the data sets. We need to prepare them ourselves."
IBM Watson Machine Learning is ranked 9th in AI Development Platforms with 6 reviews while TensorFlow is ranked 4th in AI Development Platforms with 16 reviews. IBM Watson Machine Learning is rated 8.0, while TensorFlow is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM Watson Machine Learning writes "A highly efficient solution that delivers the desired results to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TensorFlow writes "Effective deep learning, free to use, and highly stable". IBM Watson Machine Learning is most compared with Google Cloud AI Platform and Azure OpenAI, whereas TensorFlow is most compared with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Google Vertex AI, OpenVINO, Hugging Face and Google Cloud AI Platform. See our IBM Watson Machine Learning vs. TensorFlow report.
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