KNIME Other Advice

Hansong Choi - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Customer Analytics at American International Group

I rate this solution a nine out of ten. 

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AP
Consultant at World Media Group, LLC

If you're evaluating KNIME, make sure to use a comprehensive use case. Sometimes, users might not find the nodes they need in the libraries, but most likely, it's due to improper searching. KNIME offers a unique platform with a wide range of nodes, so thorough exploration is essential to fully benefit from its capabilities.

Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten because I have not yet tried every feature. Otherwise, KNIME is really a great product.

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Daniel Cob - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, Global Internal Audit at BACARDI CANADA, INC.

I'd recommend it, but it comes with a trade-off that you need to spend a lot of time on your own to understand how it works. It's user-friendly, but the fact is that I downloaded it by myself, so I didn't have any formal support on how to use it. It was used in my previous company. They had the license and they encouraged us to use it. That's how I know it.

I'd rate it an eight out of ten because I am not able to do some of the things, which could be because of my lack of knowledge, but it's a very good product. I see the benefit in terms of efficiency.

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KNIME
March 2024
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LM
Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

I'm unwilling to give anything a ten because everything can be improved. But it's been very useful so far to me and has saved me many hours of work. I could have written it all in Python if necessary, but it would have taken me weeks for what would be a few days of work.

My advice is to just download it and use it. The documentation is pretty good. There are many good videos online for it. If you go to YouTube, you can get pages and pages of KNIME tutorials. They're pretty clear, and they are produced by people who've used it. It's not just company advertising, as far as I can see.

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Yasin Sarı - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

KNIME is a perfect solution for small and big companies, especially people who are using Excel. KNIME is very easy to learn and implement, and doctors and lab personnel can use it. Lots of companies are supporting KNIME and writing their own extensions. Data analysts and data scientists are using the solution for ETI processes.

Overall, I rate KNIME an eight out of ten.

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EP
Professor of Digital Production at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

I like it a lot. I would advise that you shouldn't be afraid of data science. It's actually straightforward.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

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AL
Professor at Mines Rabat

I would recommend it, especially for those who prefer not to program or have limited coding intervention. Overall, I would rate it nine out of ten.

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ZR
Customs officer at Mauritius Revenue Authority

I have not received any response from my company, though I had proposed to my organization to buy KNIME so that we can use it on the servers since, right now, it is like a standalone tool used on my personal computer only. I am just a basic and not an advanced user of KNIME. I find KNIME to be a very useful tool.

Speaking about the maintenance phase of the product, I would like to say that I cannot update the solution. If a new version is released, I cannot update the product. I always have to request my organization and the IT team to download and install the product's new version for me.

I recommend others to use KNIME. I have recommended KNIME to my colleagues.

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

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Uzair Faruqi - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Analytics at Mjunction Services

My advice to those who are new to data science and don't have any coding experience would be to use KNIME, along with some other programming languages. KNIME is great for creating visualizations and dashboards, and I have advised a few of my colleagues to use it for their own projects.

I rate KNIME a seven out of ten.

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KV Subbaiah Setty - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at DTCinfotech

We usually only use the coding methods using Python. When people don't have much experience with coding, then we always recommend they choose the concepts of analytics and machine learning, mainly a no-code tool, such as KNIME or Alteryx. They become close to citizen developers. We will teach them coding aspects later. They always start with a no-code or a low-code tool, such as KNIME and Alteryx. Once they learn slowly, we switch them over to coding access.

I would recommend this solution for use cases that has a small amount of data and not a lot of code needed.

I rate KNIME a six out of ten.

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AV
SAP Fi Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Overall, I would rate KNIME a seven out of ten because we faced a problem with the integration with other products, like SAP.

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BL
Asst Professor at Women's christian college

At the moment, only ten students use KNIME. The course just started.

In my three months of experience with KNIME, it's an eight out of ten.

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LM
Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

My advice to others starting out with the solution is for them to look up videos on the solution because there are hundreds of them, but start with the small ones.

You can begin using KNIME with a one-hour introduction, which provides enough knowledge to complete most research tasks, but it does not cover all the fine details of the platform. KNIME offers tens of thousands of packages, or nodes, that are available for download to perform various tasks such as text processing or regression. It is not possible to learn all of it at once, it's best to start with analyzing data that interests you and then expanding your knowledge as you go along. The platform is reliable, as new features are thoroughly tested and it has never failed me in the many times that I have used it.

I rate KNIME a nine out of ten.

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NagendraVuppala - PeerSpot reviewer
Tax Manager at RSM

Small, medium, or enterprise businesses can use KNIME. You have to be more careful in downloading because it is an open-source solution, and anybody can even spread a virus. It's up to the users whether they want to take that risk. But I don't see such problems working with the Alteryx community, where all the information is much safe to download and upload.

I would suggest KNIME to someone with a low budget looking for a cost-effective solution. However, I would also give a disclaimer that they should be careful while downloading the connectors from the KNIME community because it's more open. Since it is an open-source solution, there are high chances of having some security issues.

Overall, I rate KNIME seven out of ten.

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HL
Data Scientist at sina

You must have the essential knowledge to solve the solution's compliance issues. It could be easier to use and integrate with other products.

I recommend the solution to others and rate it as a seven.

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VS
Data Analytics Consultant at Optivia

If you need a good Visualisation functionality, you should use Tableau or something of that caliber. However, the data prep can be done KNIME, which would give you extra confidence that what goes into your Visualisation layer is correct.

Overall, KNIME is definitely worth considering.

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SE
Software developer at MTNIrancell

I would rate the overall solution an eight out of ten. I would suggest this application to individuals involved in auditing. It's user-friendly and makes it easy to initiate model creation.

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COULIBALY ZOUMANA - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity web editor at Cyberdefbox

It is a good tool and easy to learn. We do not need to know the codes before using the solution.

Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. 

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TL
Business Analyst - Asia Pacific at Richemont

I would rate KNIME a seven on a scale of one to ten.

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KS
Crystallization Lab Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

My advice to others is to start out slow and gradually increase operations. 

I rate KNIME an eight out of ten.

There are other applications that I've used that make collecting the data and interpreting it a lot easier. If they could improve this my rating would increase.

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HA
Senior Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I am quite supportive of this product. It has been helpful in automating a few of my accounting activities.

Digital groups such as Knime have great potential, but there needs to be more aggressiveness with marketing. There are many executives that do not know what Knime is.

My journey starts by explaining what Knime is and what the functionalities are.

I like Knime, and I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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GM
Senior Data Scientist at a recreational facilities/services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I’ve been using KNIME for more than four years now. I started using it in the company I was working for in Rome (Paddy Power Italy), then I moved to headquarters in Dublin (Paddy Power Ireland/UK) and started using it for their business. Eventually, I moved to the United States and started using it for my current company (TVG-Betfair) and it is currently the main analytics tool in both our offices (New Jersey and Los Angeles).

I would definitely rate it a nine out of 10. I am very happy with the product and it would be hard to find something better in the market.

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Lasse Seppänen - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Lecturer at HAMK

You should do the KNIME courses, particularly the first two courses.
They would give you a very good base to make KNIME work nicely, and you would also know how it really works.

It is a really good system, and on a scale from one to ten, I would rate it at ten.

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SJ
Vice President Business Transformation at AJA

For anybody who is looking for a new data science platform, KNIME is a product that I can recommend.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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AB
STI Data Leader at grupo gtd

We use the community version; the enterprise version is expensive for us. If we need better support or have other requirements we might need to move to the enterprise version. 

I rate this product nine out of 10. 

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BS
CEO at SMH - Schwaiger Management Holding GmbH

We are KNIME partners and also provide KNIME training to clients as well.

We're a startup, and we're in the startup phase, however, we are working to build more business relationships with KNIME.

In my previous company, we were also partnered with KNIME. Currently, I'm working as a consultant and we have a customer who is using SAP Analytics, however, I am interested in learning more about the differences between KNIME and SAP Analytics. That's something I'm looking at right now.

We would definitely recommend this solution to other organizations.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. I don't know if there's a tool better than this particular product, however, there's always room for improvement on any technology.

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KH
Trainer at a government with 10,001+ employees

I would recommend Knime to others who are interested in using it.

Students can use Kmine for their research.

I would rate Knime an eight out of ten.

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AL
Professor at Mines Rabat

The best way to use the solution is to dive in, get practice and use it more. 

I rate KNIME as a nine out of ten. 

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DE
Business Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Do training up front to make building workflows clean and easy from the start.

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SN
Solutions Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The solution is good for small scale implementation. Other solutions should be considered for enterprise level implementation. 

I rate KNIME as a five or six out of ten. 

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AL
Head Of Business Solutions | Unmanned Shop | Automated Retail | AI | IoT | Robotic | Data Science at Smart Retail

Official and structural online training is a must, which is now not enough. Or you can start something simple very easily but stuck to go deeper. However KNIME response is very prompt.

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AK
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have done a few projects with some of our clients in KNIME. In these cases, we mainly used KNIME because of its ability to work in a data center environment in an enterprise system. This was one of the most important things that we were looking for. The second point was that KNIME is an open-source analytics platform. The point is that if some client has less data or a relatively small database, then we can use the open-source platform instead of using Alteryx, which is fairly expensive. These are the options we advise our clients about.  

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this product as an eight out of ten. I honestly do not feel familiar enough with this product that my rating is accurate as I need to be more familiar with it over time. On the other hand, I have used KNIME and other tools in a similar category — like Informatica and Alteryx. Informatica is purely a data warehouse software. Alteryx is something we use frequently. So I have used three ETL tools. If I compared KNIME with Alteryx which are the most similar of the three, then I think KNIME is much better for our purposes. Strictly as a comparison with Alteryx, I would rate KNIME as an eight.  

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it_user461148 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner, Turkey and The Netherlands at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Data Science requires freedom for creativity. Sometimes you need to crawl data from the web or social media. Sometimes you need to blend different sources like NoSQL MongoDB and Excel files, etc. It is not only algorithms and data extraction, visualization and preparation steps are important as at least algorithms.

Don't go with software that has complex and hidden licensing costs, which will kill your flexibilty and creativity. Also, interoperability brings the advantage of limitlessness.

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VR
CEO at Alpha Analytics

I rate KNIME nine out of 10. I would recommend it. I think KNIME is an excellent solution.

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Gergely Tamás - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Applied Logic Laboratory

For experimental work, KNIME is a good solution. However, for special task oriented developments, it's not the best.

Considering this, I would rate KNIME at seven on a scale from one to ten.

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SS
BI Solutions Developer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I am both consultant and a vendor right now. We do a bit of consultant work for some of our clients and we give the tutorials to them. We typically get in touch with them, and they send what they need and we do the distribution for them.

I'd recommend new users have their requirements sorted out first so that they know what they need out of the tool. If that is clear, they can install the custom content required in KNIME to get their analytics done correctly. If that is there, then it's a piece of cake.

Overall, I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. If the user interface was better and it offered better technical support, I would rate it higher.

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LL
Intern at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I would rate it at nine out of 10. It's good, it makes thing easier.

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TB
VP, Software and IT Service at ITZone LLC

Many of our customers have streaming data and want to use an AI model. We do not yet know whether KNIME will handle live-streaming and it is something that we intend to test.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

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AK
Solution Integrator at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

If you like data analysis, KNIME is the best option. It's free and easy to set up.

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it_user837522 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Science Consultant

I used it quite intensively for 10 months, long enough get familiar with it, to follow training, to use it in in several projects, to ask questions on the user forum.

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it_user837516 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

I rate it a seven out of 10. It's very useful but needs polish and improved UX and UI in several areas.

For quick adoption, either get KNIME to provide training, or have a local knowledge expert on hand who is well versed with data workflow tools, and databases if necessary.

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MM
Teacher at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Some of the samples are outdated but my advice to someone considering KNIME is to use their samples. 

I would rate KNIME an eight out of ten. 

In the next release, the should have more comprehensive samples.

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VR
CEO at Alpha Analytics

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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P?
Test Engineer at ProData Consult

I am considering further courses and maybe some certification in the next year.

I would strongly recommend KNIME. It's a modeling or statistics product that can be used by almost anyone with knowledge in the field. It works almost out of the box.

For starters, it's approximately two hours of watching videos and/or reading the documentation, and then off you go.

I built my first working model in two days when I started using KNIME, and it only needed to be tweaked. It was impressive.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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DT
Associate Analyst at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is best one for harmonizing data with no cost included.

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SG
Research Analyst at a university with 51-200 employees

This is a very handy tool and I use it quite interactively. I am not an expert-level user and it pretty much has everything that I need.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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AltanAtabarut - PeerSpot reviewer
ECommerce Growth Analytics at Akinon

The solution is very essential when we require an explainable data modeling pipeline. We can show the workflows of KNIME to our customers and talk about it instead of showing the code and expecting them to read, which they can never do.

The process of providing KNIME to the client, how it works, where we get the data, what the initial data statistics were, and what we get in return are pretty explainable. We worked on multiple retail projects and insurance scoring projects.

KNIME is perfect for data pre-processing projects. The important thing is that when someone builds a KNIME workflow, we can quickly onboard and change it for something else. It means that we don't need to read and understand the code. It means that it's replicable and reusable.

If somebody does something, somebody else can quickly onboard and enhance, improve, or totally change the workflow from scratch. It's pretty hard and time-consuming for typical use cases where we utilize coding. KNIME's open-source nature has a good impact on our analytics work.

Recently, KNIME added something relevant to generative AI integration, which was a good move. Alteryx is slightly more powerful than KNIME, and Dataiku is more powerful than both KNIME and Alteryx. I sometimes work with the on-premises version of KNIME and sometimes the cloud version. The solution does not need any maintenance.

Users should quickly start using KNIME for whatever they want to do, and they'll learn it on the go easily. I would recommend the solution to other users.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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Buyer's Guide
KNIME
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about KNIME. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.