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it_user845664 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We actually had nothing before this. People had a business problem, and they came to us, and this was available, part of a suite, and we started using it.

Our most important criterion when selecting a vendor is the supportability; long-term, like in a brand name, that they actively support it, and I know they'll stand behind it. It's not that you'll go with it and they change in a couple of years from now, or the company is not there at all. That's not something we should be a part of.

We went with IBM primarily because Watson Explorer is a bit differentiated. I don't think the others have that kind of deep analytics. If you have that, in a developer community in the space, it can really go even further. For our specific use case, IBM was the right fit.

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it_user845667 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We have been using a paid index from a company called Xlibris. We saw that we needed to buy or build our own solution. We chose Watson because it has federated search and automated color. These are the main features that we needed. We also chose it because of the support in Brasil.

In terms of the decision-making process to go with Watson, I only recommended it, and they accepted the idea of using it.

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it_user845682 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

In terms of going with this solution, in our country it's an easy choice because Watson Explorer supports our language. It's one of the only solutions they can select.

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