IBM Watson Explorer pros and cons

Vendor: IBM

4.2 out of 5

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it_user840831

President at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Mar 27, 2018

The ability to easily pull together lots of different pieces of information and drill down in a smarter way than has been possible with other analytics tools is key. Watson is all based on a set of AI and deep learning, machine-learning capabilities, and it is looking behind the scenes at some relationships that you likely would not have spotted on your own. It's pulling things together, categorizing some things, that are not something that you might have seen on your own.

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it_user840897

Head of Commercialization at Woodside Energy

Mar 27, 2018

For me, as a user, the most valuable feature is the ability to ingest and then retrieve information from a range of separate sources; the ability to dissect questions in context and actually answer them.

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SalesEnge92b

Sales Engineer at GitHub

Mar 27, 2018

We take natural language that was happening in our repositories and our application and then feed it to the Watson APIs. We receive JSON payloads as an API response to get cognitive feedback from the repository data.

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it_user845682

Technical Director at Datera

Mar 27, 2018

The valuable feature of Watson Explorer for us is data entities, and to see the hidden insights from within unstructured data.

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reviewer1319820

Lead Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Dec 23, 2020

I have found the auto-generated document very useful as well as the main keywords that are highlighted, which are used for the search functionality within IBM Watson Explorer.

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DevopsEn35ff

Devops Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 27, 2018

It is a little bit tricky to get used to the workflow of knowing how to train Watson, what can be provided, what can't be, how to provide it, how to import, export, and what it means every time you have to add a new dictionary

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it_user845664

Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 27, 2018

I would say, give some kind of a community edition, a free edition. A lot of companies do, even Amazon gives you some kind of trial and error opportunities. If they could provide something like that, it would be good.

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it_user840831

President at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Mar 27, 2018

Much of IBM operates this way, where they have sets of tools that are in the middleware space, and it becomes the customer's responsibility or the business partner's responsibility to develop full solutions that take advantage of that middleware. I think IBM's finding itself in that spot with Watson-related technologies as well, where the capabilities to do really interesting and useful things for customers is there, but somebody still has to build it. Is that going to be the customer? Are they going to be willing to take on that responsibility themselves

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SalesEnge92b

Sales Engineer at GitHub

Mar 27, 2018

More cognitive feedback would be good. The natural language analysis is great, the sentiment analyzers are great. But I would just like to see more... innovation done with the Watson platform.

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it_user845682

Technical Director at Datera

Mar 27, 2018

It needs better language support, to include some other languages. Also, they should improve the user interface.

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reviewer1319820

Lead Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Dec 23, 2020

The solution is expensive.

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