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We performed a comparison between Google Cloud AI Platform and IBM Watson Studio 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Google Cloud AI Platform vs. IBM Watson Studio Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The solution is able to read 90% of the documents correctly with a 10% error rate.""I think the user interface is quite handy, and it is easy to use as compared to the other cloud platforms.""Since the model could be trained in just a couple of hours and deploying it took only a few minutes, the entire process took less than an hour.""Some of the valuable features are the vast amount of services that are available, such as load balancer, and the AI architecture.""On GCP, we are exposing our API services to our clients so that they send us their information. It can be single individual records or it can be a batch of their clients.""The initial setup is very straightforward.""A range of a a wide range of algorithms, EIM voice mails, which can be plugged in right away into your solution into into into our solution, and then have platform that provides know, to to come up with an operational solution really quick."

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"The most important thing is that it's a multi-faceted solution. It's a kind of specialist, not a generalist. It can produce very specific information for the customer. It's totally different from Google or any search engine that produces generic information. It's specialty is that it's all on video.""It has a lot of data connectors, which is extremely helpful.""Technical support is great. We have had weekly teleconferences with the technical people at IBM, and they have been fantastic.""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.""It has greatly improved the performance because it is standardized across the company.""IBM Watson Studio consistently automates across channels."

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Cons
"The initial setup was straightforward for me but could be difficult for others.""I think it's the it it also has has evolved quite a bit over the last few years, and Google Cloud folks have been getting, more and more services. But I think from a improvement standpoint, so maybe they can look at adding more algorithms, so adding more AI algorithms to their suite.""The solution can be improved by simplifying the process to make your own models.""One thing that I found is that Azure ML does not directly provide you with features on Google Cloud AI Platform, whereas Vertex provides some features of the platform.""It could be more clear, and sometimes there are errors that I don't quite understand.""At first, there were only the user-managed rules to identify the best attributes of the individual. Then, we came up with a truth set and developed different machine learning models with the help of that truth set, so now it's completely machine learning.""Customizations are very difficult, and they take time."

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"So a better user interface could be very helpful""We would like to see it more web-based with more functionality.""I want IBM's technical support team to provide more specific answers to queries.""I think maybe the support is an area where it lacks.""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.""Watson Studio would be improved with a clearer path for the deployment of docker images.""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.""More features in data virtualization would be helpful. The solution could use an interactive dashboard that could make exploration easier."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The price of the solution is competitive."
  • "For every thousand uses, it is about four and a half euros."
  • "The solution has an attractive starting program, which costs only 300 USD for a duration of three months. During this period, one can accomplish a lot of work on the solution."
  • "The licenses are cheap."
  • "The pricing is on the expensive side."
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  • "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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    Top Answer:A range of a a wide range of algorithms, EIM voice mails, which can be plugged in right away into your solution into into into our solution, and then have platform that provides know, to to come up… more »
    Top Answer:It's a host of use cases depending on, again, the the client requirement.
    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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    Watson Studio, IBM Data Science Experience, Data Science Experience, DSx
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    Overview

    Google AI Platform is a managed service that enables you to easily build machine learning models, that work on any type of data, of any size. Create your model with the powerful TensorFlow framework that powers many Google products, from Google Photos to Google Cloud Speech.

    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
    Carousell
    GroupM, Accenture, Fifth Third Bank
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    University9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company22%
    Insurance Company11%
    Marketing Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Educational Organization8%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise64%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise66%
    Buyer's Guide
    Google Cloud AI Platform vs. IBM Watson Studio
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Google Cloud AI Platform vs. IBM Watson Studio and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    768,857 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Google Cloud AI Platform is ranked 6th in AI Development Platforms with 7 reviews while IBM Watson Studio is ranked 7th in AI Development Platforms with 13 reviews. Google Cloud AI Platform is rated 7.8, while IBM Watson Studio is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Google Cloud AI Platform writes "An AI platform AI Platform to train your machine learning models at scale, to host your trained model in the cloud, and to use your model to make predictions about new data". 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". Google Cloud AI Platform is most compared with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, IBM Watson Machine Learning, Google Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI and Hugging Face, whereas IBM Watson Studio is most compared with Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI and Amazon Comprehend. See our Google Cloud AI Platform vs. IBM Watson Studio report.

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