Compared to other solutions like Alteryx, RapidMiner stands out for its ease of installation, abundance of online resources, and affordability. However, it may lack some advanced features found in other tools.

I have also used KNIME and IBM SPSS Modeler (formerly Clementine).

I used IBM Modeler for a very big project that involved building a rule-based system for controlling sewage. We experienced the knowledge acquisition bottleneck during the interview process, as we interviewed experts and they could not tell us what the rules were. If we asked them what to do if the sewage became smelly and the water stopped flowing, they could not tell us a specific solution such as "If this chemical is a certain level and the temperature is above a certain value and the slope or the ground is more than a certain amount...", etc. Rather, they would give us anecdotal examples such as "Last week, we had this case where..." Using all of these examples, we were able to generate rules using machine learning.

We have also used VisiRule in several projects, which is an expert system building tool. We are thinking about using it again now, and I contacted them only a month ago. They can take a PMML file and turn it into an expert system. The question was whether they could take a dataset and create a PMML file, and with RapidMiner, I could.

The main competitor to RapidMiner is KNIME and it is much more cumbersome when you have to read SPSS files. You would first need to put in some R code in order to do that.

I have also used another solution in the past. RapidMiner is more robust. 

I have previously used other solutions, such as KNIME, Weka, and Orange. I use whatever solution is best for the use case. They all have some advantages.

I had previously used other solutions but not as a part of this company. It was a matter of who I was working for.  

I used a small visualization tool. 

I used to use Excel. It was horrid.

I have used many different tools and have experience with a lot of different software, and I can say that RapidMiner is very easy to use.

I use several solutions 

Before using this solution, we were mostly working on a native R and Python-based platform. It was more of an open-source tool. This is the first commercial tool we have used.