IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] Reviews

Vendor: IBM

3.8 out of 5

7 reviews
83% willing to recommend

What is IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL]?

IBM BigInsights delivers a rich set of advanced analytics capabilities that allows enterprises to analyze massive volumes of structured and unstructured data in its native format. The software combines open source Apache Hadoop with IBM innovations including sophisticated text analytics, IBM BigSheets for data exploration, IBM Big SQL for SQL access to data in Hadoop, and a range of performance, security and administrative features. The result is a cost-effective and user-friendly solution for complex, big data analytics.

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Featured IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] reviews

it_user743022

BigData Consultant at Cognizant

* The UI was not interactive: Responses used to be very slow and hang up at times. * The UI was not really helping to track the real-time jobs and its logs. * You can bring in a better UI for job management and health checks. * Developer API documentation needs improvement.

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solution306072

Business Unit technical Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have found a lot of issues in Fluid Query and BigInsights Applications to move data in the enterprise version. I have several tickets on these with IBM as they need to be addressed to have a solid implementation. Fortunately none of these are stopping the implementation of BigInsights. Ambari integration with GPFS monitoring is non-existant. We had network issues which caused GPFS to require recovery. We had no notice from Ambari. MTR for GPFS took several days with only 30% of space in use. In order for this to be more production ready IBM needs to make this better. Way too long.

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it_user198933

Chief Data Architect at Lucid Technologies & Solutions

At the time when we tried this product (six months ago), there was lack of technical depth within IBM to support with queries. The service was used from the Bluemix platform and that was also undergoing several changes by the day. We had issues of lockout, service had to be re-configured etc which was more a problem of Bluemix platform stabilizing I think. We were trying to use the IBM Accelerator for Social Data Analytics that came as part of BigInsights. Initially we tried this with a trial version in our local environment but later for customer POC wanted to move to Bluemix platform. Bluemix at that time offered BigInsights as a service. The interface did not have much of documentation to configure and debug. Later we used a combination of JAQL scripts and BigSheets to do some basic analysis. The Bluemix platform was changing with new services getting added every day and the site also changing. We used to get mails asking us to back up the data else we could lose it as services were re-published. In essence, the approach IBM took to simplify social media analytics through accelerators was brilliant. Unfortunately the stability of the platform was an issue. Haven't worked on Bluemix recently but presume things will be more stable now. I did see lot more documentation when I searched for this accelerator few days ago.

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Valuable Features

"InfoSphere Streams was the one core product from the platform in which we were using. We were building a real-time response system and we built it on InfoSphere Streams."

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"The UI was not interactive: Responses used to be very slow and hang up at times."

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IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] was previously known as InfoSphere BigInsights.

IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] customers

Coherent Path Inc., Optibus, Delhaize America, Diyotta Inc., Ernst & Young, Teikoku Databank Ltd., NCSU, Vestas

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IBM InfoSphere BigInsights [EOL] Reviews Summary
Author info	Rating	Review Summary
BigData Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees	3.0	No summary available
Business Unit technical Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees	4.0	No summary available
Chief Data Architect at Lucid Technologies & Solutions		No summary available
Senior IT Consultant at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees	4.5	No summary available
BigData Senior Consultant (Telco) / Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees	4.0	No summary available
Data Scientist with 1,001-5,000 employees	3.5	No summary available
Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees	4.0	No summary available

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