IBM SPSS Modeler Room for Improvement
Levi Dovillaire
Senior Paper Technology Manager, EMEA at Valmet
I work with many data and tags. The product does not have a search function for tags. I cannot search for the name of the tag. I need to go through a list to find it. The software is old. The solution must be updated. It should also be a little bit faster. If we change the name of a field, the change should reflect in all the nodes we use later.
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Abel Georges
Principal Scientist I at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Speaking about the room for improvement, I can say the solution is outdated.
It would be good if there was potentially some space in the solution for open-source languages like Python or other coding languages associated with analytics, PySpark, or Python.
EzzAbdelfattah
Associate Professor of Statistics at KAU
The time series should be improved. The time series is a very important issue, however, it is not given its value in the package as it should be. They have only maybe one or two nodes. It needs more than that. Also, it needs to be easier to use, for instance, you have, for the regression techniques, an assembled way for the automation that the model can detect the type of the logistic regression. If it is binary or multinomial or whatever. For the time field, they have an expert model, however, it is not as strong as regression techniques. Therefore, they need to work more on the time series.
Right now, with the Modeler, using unstructured data means needing to pay attention to IBM Modeler, including how to deal with the pictures. Currently the data, in the beginning, was structured, like an organized spreadsheet, however, now, you have to use unstructured data like pictures, voice, even location maps. This area needs improvement. If they can add this to the Modeler, it would be number one around the world.
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EzzAbdelfattah
Associate Professor of Statistics at KAU
It is not free to use.
The forecasting could be a bit easier. They should include more recent techniques.
A lot of competition is currently being built. IBM needs to increase its capabilities. Otherwise, it will be overtaken by other options.
Sometimes IBM gives you the graphs only. There needs to be more visualizations for non-technical people.
Giovanni Cervellati
Research Manager at IDC Corporate
The integration with sources and visualisation needs some improvement. The scalability needs improvement.
EzzAbdelfattah
Associate Professor of Statistics at KAU
Time Series or forecasting needs to be easier. It is a very important feature, and it should be made easier and more automated to use. For instance, for logistic regression, binary or multinomial is used automatically based on the type of the target variable. I wish they can make Time Series easier to use in a similar way.
Javier Segovia
Professor of Data Mining at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Neural networks are quite simple, and now neural networks are evolving to these architecture related to deep learning, etc. They didn't incorporate this in IBM SPSS Modeler.
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Associate Professor of Statistics at KAU
Dimension reduction is very important, especially if you are working with millions of recordings and thousands of variables. It exists already, but it should be classified separately. The solution could be improved by adding a feature for statistical analysis like processes. They have some in the output, but not in the modes itself. I hope they can add statistical knowledge to the solution.
Anton Nenov
Credit Risk Manager at ITF Group JSC
The platform's cloud version needs improvements. The process to access workflow could be user-friendly. It could be easier to log in and manage security levels. Additionally, it needs to be more popularized and introduce customization options for small companies along with enterprises.
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it_user840873
Analyst at American Airlines
We're still learning, the beginning of the application. We haven't played with all the features to be able to say.
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Peter Huo
Application Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees
This is an expensive predicament software solution. Currently, the terminals offer the tools for the data analytics, but it needs development. There's a limit to the license. For the data analytics, it's very similar to Tableau. The solution has lots of branches, departments and the teams - that makes it quite a complex solution. We don't always use or need the major developmental version. We care about the KPI. We only care about the KPI reporting so it would be helpful if things were simplified.
it_user840852
Director of Engineering at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like better integration into the Weather Company solution. I have raised a couple of concerns about this integration and having more time series capabilities.
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Clinical Assistant Professor at a university
I am really happy with it right now, which is why I still use it. I think it is just fine the way that it is, but again, I'm not really using it to deploy real solutions. It is just for prototyping and academic kind of stuff.
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AltanAtabarut
Solution Consulting, Growth, Analytics at Akinon
- Formula writing is not straightforward for an Excel user. Totally new set of functions, and it takes time to learn and teach.
- Automating procedures: Writing macros is not easy and difficult to learn.
- It is not integrated with Qlik, Tableau, and Power BI. Unfortunately…
- Expensive to deploy solutions. You need to buy an extra deployment unit.
it_user840903
Enterprise analytics manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The biggest issue with the visual modeling capability is that we can't extract the SQL code under the hood. We have a lot of non-technical analysts that develop streams, then when we want to translate it to native SQL, we can't extract it without opening up each node.
We would like to see better visualizations and easier integration with Cognos Analytics for reporting.
it_user841950
Vp, Data And Analytics at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
New features are always welcome, but I’m not the core person. A separate team can comment on this, but not me.
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Miguel Villalobos
Director - Institute of Advanced Analytics at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
I understand that it takes some time to incorporate some of the new algorithms that have come out in the last few months, in the literature. For example, there is an algorithm based on how ants search for food. And there are some algorithms that have now been developed to complement rules. So that's one of the things that we need to have incorporated into it.
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Dealer Analytics Product & Services Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I really can't think of anything off the top of my head because I feel like I'm under utilizing it as it is, because we're doing specific things. Two or three years ago, I would've said R and Python integration, but they've done that.
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Business Intelligence Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Like I said, I'm really excited about the enhanced visualization that I know is coming down the pipeline. That, to me, has always been the biggest flaw in using this. It's very difficult to get good visualization.
I think mapping for geographic data would also be a really great thing to be able to use.
Also, I think it could be marketed better, actually. I think there's a lot of confusion among customers about whether they should be using SPSS Modeler, or DSX. And even some of the partners I've spoken to about it, they've given me some conflicting opinions on which one I should be using at my level of scale.
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Senior Operations Manager – Serviceablity and Insights at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Easier coding language that is more flexible with other platforms. More server capabilities. More graphics.
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UnitMana92c0
Unit Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It would be helpful if SPSS supported open-source features, for example, embedding R or Python scripts in SPSS Modeler. We don't need that now, but in the future it may be useful.
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Charles-Antoine Drouin
Bi Analyst at Health Canada
I do not know yet what areas of improvement there might be.
I can't say what additional features that I would like to see in the future.
it_user766575
Research Assistant
If IBM could add some of the popular models into the SPSS for further analysis, like popular regression models, I think that would be a helpful improvement.
I would also like have more options to manipulate the interface of the report, as well as to be able to customize it and make it more personalized. Right now, SPSS doesn't give me that ability to do that.
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reviewer1428942
Contracts Manager at a program development consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
I think that Modeler needs to be more commercially effective because, of the competing tools, some of them are free and others are available at a very nominal cost.
When you are not using the product, such as during the pandemic where we had worldwide lockdowns, you still have to pay for the licensing. It is just wasting the term and they should have suspended the fees and extended the licensing timeline. Essentially, you can't stop it, even if you're not using it, and it is a little difficult to accept the cost in such situations.
What we really need is some flexible terms with respect to the renewal or a break from the strict license timeline.
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IT Specialist at a government with 51-200 employees
The platform that you can deploy it on needs improvement because I think it is Windows only. I do not think it can run off a Red Hat, like the server products. I am pretty sure it is Windows and AIX only. Every company is looking at solutions that go towards Red Hat, so if that is not offered, that would be one thing.
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Analyst at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The speed of the system could be improved, but I think that will be fixed once we get our data in line.
I do not what additional features that I would like to see in the next release as I am still learning the features in this release!
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Quantitative Researcher at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It would be beneficial if the tool would include more well-known machine learning algorithms. However, IBM already started to include several of these algorithms by implementing Python code. Plus, each user is capable of implementing his/her own machine learning algorithm in either Python or R.
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Ritchie Poon
Program Director at ABRS
Weak documentation and user guide.
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Suebkul Kanchanasuk
Lecturer at School of Science, University of Phayao
Data encoding is friendly for UTF-8. The unstructured data is not appropriate for SPSS Modeler. Finally, the standard package (personal) is not supported for database connection.
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reviewer1264065
Graduate Teaching Assistant at a non-profit with 5,001-10,000 employees
I actually think it is a great product. Maybe there could be some enhancement with more extensive help built into the interface. This could help end-users to understand the features as well as how to use them. Apart from that, it is a great product.
it_user766578
Product Team at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees
When I do clustering, I want to try a different stream, but currently the only thing that I can really pick is averaging. There are no other options. I would like to see more options added and some modeling things.
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BI Expert at a university with 501-1,000 employees
The software is quite expensive and IBM is currently marketing its other digital dashboard tools such as IBM cognos, now we aren't sure on the plans of IBM integrating these two softwares.
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it_user766611
Graduate Assistant
I would like see more programming languages added, like MATLAB. That would be better.
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Altan Atabarut
Founding Partner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
- Formula writing is not straightforward for an Excel user. Totally new set of functions, which takes time to learn and teach.
- Automating procedures: Writing macros is not easy and very hard to learn.
- Unfortunately, it’s not integrated with Qlik, Tableau, and Power Bi.
- Expensive to deploy solutions. You need to buy an extra deployment unit.
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