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We performed a comparison between Cloudera Data Science Workbench and IBM Watson Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"I appreciate CDSW's ability to logically segregate environments, such as data, DR, and production, ensuring they don't interfere with each other. The deployment of machine learning is fast and easy to manage. Its API calls are also fast.""The Cloudera Data Science Workbench is customizable and easy to use."

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"The system's ability to take a look at data, segment it and then use that data very differently.""It is a very stable and reliable solution.""The main benefit is the ease of use. We see a lot of engineers in our site and customers that really like the way the tools are able to work with the people.""The scalability of IBM Watson Studio is great.""Stability-wise, it is a great tool.""Technical support is great. We have had weekly teleconferences with the technical people at IBM, and they have been fantastic.""It is a stable, reliable product.""It stands out for its substantial AI capabilities, offering a broad spectrum of features for crafting solutions that meet specific requirements."

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Cons
"The tool's MLOps is not good. It's pricing also needs to improve.""Running this solution requires a minimum of 12GB to 16GB of RAM."

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"We would like to see it more web-based with more functionality.""It's sometimes easy to get lost given the number of images the solution opens up when you click on the mouse and the amount of different tabs.""The main challenge lies in visibility and ease of use.""I think maybe the support is an area where it lacks.""I want IBM's technical support team to provide more specific answers to queries.""We would like to see it less as one big, massive product, but more based on smaller services that we can then roll out to consumers.""Watson Studio would be improved with a clearer path for the deployment of docker images.""Some of the solutions are really good solutions but they can be a little too costly for many."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Watson Studio's pricing is reasonable for what you get."
  • "IBM Watson Studio is a reasonably priced product"
  • "IBM Watson Studio is an expensive solution."
  • "The pricing is generally reasonable and straightforward but can vary significantly depending on the specific workloads in use."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I appreciate CDSW's ability to logically segregate environments, such as data, DR, and production, ensuring they don't interfere with each other. The deployment of machine learning is fast and easy to… more »
    Top Answer:The tool's MLOps is not good. It's pricing also needs to improve.
    Top Answer:We have different use cases. Our banking use case uses machine learning to identify customer life events and recommend the best-suited card products. These machine-learning models are deployed in our… more »
    Top Answer:From an improvement perspective, I would say that if the deployment environment and IBM Watson Studio's environment are separated, then it would be good. I would like them to be one and offer users a… more »
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    CDSW
    Watson Studio, IBM Data Science Experience, Data Science Experience, DSx
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    Overview

    Cloudera Data Science Workbench (CDSW) makes secure, collaborative data science at scale a reality for the enterprise and accelerates the delivery of new data products. With CDSW, organizations can research and experiment faster, deploy models easily and with confidence, as well as rely on the wider Cloudera platform to reduce the risks and costs of data science projects. Access any data anywhere – from cloud object storage to data warehouses, CDSW provides connectivity not only to CDH but the systems your data science teams rely on for analysis.

    IBM Watson Studio provides tools for data scientists, application developers and subject matter experts to collaboratively and easily work with data to build and train models at scale. It gives you the flexibility to build models where your data resides and deploy anywhere in a hybrid environment so you can operationalize data science faster.

    Sample Customers
    IQVIA, Rush University Medical Center, Western Union
    GroupM, Accenture, Fifth Third Bank
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm31%
    Healthcare Company10%
    Computer Software Company8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Manufacturing Company22%
    Insurance Company11%
    Marketing Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Educational Organization8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise80%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Cloudera Data Science Workbench is ranked 18th in Data Science Platforms with 2 reviews while IBM Watson Studio is ranked 10th in Data Science Platforms with 13 reviews. Cloudera Data Science Workbench is rated 7.0, while IBM Watson Studio is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cloudera Data Science Workbench writes "Useful for data science modeling but improvement is needed in MLOps and pricing ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Watson Studio writes "A highly robust and well-documented platform that simplifies the complex world of AI". Cloudera Data Science Workbench is most compared with Databricks, Amazon SageMaker, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Dataiku Data Science Studio and KNIME, whereas IBM Watson Studio is most compared with Databricks, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Google Vertex AI and IBM SPSS Modeler.

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