We performed a comparison between Microsoft FAST and OpenText IDOL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Elastic, IBM, OpenText and others in Indexing and Search."Microsoft FAST is quite robust. Our clients are quite happy with it."
"IDOL has several important visual analytics, like face recognition and object detection and recognition."
"If there is any change in a system or a configuration or an update, we might face some issues."
"There is room for improvement in some very important capabilities in visual analytics. They have been focusing on improving the face recognition algorithm. The accuracy of object detection could be improved as well and I know they are working on that at the moment."
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Microsoft FAST is ranked 4th in Indexing and Search while OpenText IDOL is ranked 3rd in Indexing and Search with 5 reviews. Microsoft FAST is rated 9.0, while OpenText IDOL is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft FAST writes "Robust solution with good value". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText IDOL writes "Scales linearly and vertically; primarily used in AI". Microsoft FAST is most compared with Elastic Search, Lookeen, Lucene and IBM Watson Discovery, whereas OpenText IDOL is most compared with Elastic Search, Lucene and Google Search Appliance.
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