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Altair Knowledge Studio vs IBM Watson Explorer vs KNIME Business Hub comparison

 

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Mindshare comparison

Data Science Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Altair Knowledge Studio1.5%
Databricks8.3%
Dataiku5.9%
Other84.3%
Data Science Platforms
Data Mining Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Watson Explorer2.9%
IBM SPSS Modeler17.4%
IBM SPSS Statistics17.2%
Other62.5%
Data Mining
Data Mining Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
KNIME Business Hub11.7%
IBM SPSS Modeler17.4%
IBM SPSS Statistics17.2%
Other53.7%
Data Mining
 

Featured Reviews

LS
Account Manager at JegaSure
Advanced decision trees and seamless data pattern analysis transform data preparation
One of the most valuable features of Altair Knowledge Studio is its decision trees, which are quite advanced and popular compared to other tools. The Segment Viewer is another unique feature that provides a comprehensive view of data patterns and helps identify anomalies before creating decision trees. Additionally, the ability to export code in the language of SAS is valuable, and the tool's drag-and-drop functionality makes it accessible to business users without a coding background.
it_user1319820 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
A data analysis tool that is scalable and includes keyword search functionality
The solution is used for a government company for data collection and analysis I have found the auto-generated document very useful as well as the main keywords that are highlighted, which are used for the search functionality within IBM Watson Explorer. I have been using the solution for five…
NataliaRaffo - PeerSpot reviewer
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
Workflow automation has accelerated advanced analytics and machine learning delivery
Sometimes it is a little bit difficult to use some nodes when we have many large-scale data, for example, CSV files with a large amount of data. It is sometimes difficult to try to import the data in KNIME Business Hub nodes because I think that some features that are in the CSV in text, for example, large text, is difficult for KNIME Business Hub to import these fields. I don't know why, but it is very difficult. We need to try to use different nodes for importing the data, such as File Reader and CSV Reader. However, I think that it is always the features that have much text, it is difficult for KNIME Business Hub to understand and import this information. I don't know why, or maybe I don't know if we don't know what the better option is to configure the node to import all the CSV or the data set. However, we have always had this problem. In some nodes, sometimes it is the same because sometimes, for example, I have a CSV and in my CSV, I have a feature that is, for example, a date. When I import this data set in the File Reader node, I have problems with this field because it is a date, but the problem is that it imports it as text, for example. We try to use their nodes that convert text to date, but sometimes it is difficult, and it is not immediate to transform the text into a date. So we needed to convert the text into a date in the CSV, and then import it again in the KNIME Business Hub node and try to have a good read of this field. I know that KNIME Business Hub has some nodes to convert text to date and others, but sometimes it is difficult to use these nodes. I don't know why. Maybe it needs a specific format for the date and we need to transform our feature in this option. So sometimes it is a large process to convert these features. However, sometimes we need to investigate and search for other nodes, and try with other nodes to import these cases.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"One of the most valuable features of Altair Knowledge Studio is its decision trees, which are quite advanced and popular compared to other tools."
"What impressed me more about Watson is that it is easy to use it, not for the technical people, but for business people."
"The main use case is FAQ for the user; it works for almost 80% of the use case coverage."
"The ability to easily pull together lots of different pieces of information and drill down in a smarter way than has been possible with other analytics tools is key."
"Previously we'd have a set of health and safety analysts who would be the key focal points for doing work to understand health and safety risks; so a very small number of people, but through WEX and through our Watson HSEQ solution, we've managed to get engagement across at least one-third of our workforce, so over 1,300 people, and a 25% reduction in health and safety incidents."
"The ability to easily pull together lots of different pieces of information and drill down in a smarter way than has been possible with other analytics tools is key. Watson is all based on a set of AI and deep learning, machine-learning capabilities, and it is looking behind the scenes at some relationships that you likely would not have spotted on your own. It's pulling things together, categorizing some things, that are not something that you might have seen on your own."
"I really can't talk enough about the team."
"For me, as a user, the most valuable feature is the ability to ingest and then retrieve information from a range of separate sources; the ability to dissect questions in context and actually answer them."
"IBM has been working with Bradesco since 1968, I think, and the support is very good, with a team of 10 IBM employees working every day, 24 hours, inside the bank in Sao Paolo."
"It is a complete data science platform and especially good at scaling up data preparation and wrapping."
"It also has very good fundamental machine learning. It has decision trees, linear regression, and neural nets. It has a lot of text mining facilities as well. It's fairly fully-featured."
"I've never had any problems with stability."
"The solution allows one to do many things, including data preparation, and I was able to apply basic algorithms through just dragging and dropping, in contrast to Python and other solutions, which involve much coding."
"We have been able to appreciate the considerable reduction in prototyping time."
"It's a very powerful and simple tool to use."
"The solution allows for sharing model designs and model operations with other data analysts."
"I am very happy with the product and it would be hard to find something better in the market."
 

Cons

"It would be beneficial if Altair Knowledge Studio could offer a more unified platform that includes data preparation, predictive modeling, and model exportation."
"More cognitive feedback would be good. The natural language analysis is great, the sentiment analyzers are great. But I would just like to see more... innovation done with the Watson platform."
"Much of IBM operates this way, where they have sets of tools that are in the middleware space, and it becomes the customer's responsibility or the business partner's responsibility to develop full solutions that take advantage of that middleware."
"The solution is expensive."
"More cognitive feedback would be good. The natural language analysis is great, the sentiment analyzers are great, but I would just like to see more innovation done with the Watson platform."
"Stability is actually one of the areas that could use improvement. Setting it up is always tough. Setting Explorer requires experts, but also the underlying platform is not that stable. So it really needs a good expert to keep it running."
"No, it's not yet stable."
"Stability is actually one of the areas that could use improvement. Setting it up is always tough; setting Explorer requires experts, and the underlying platform is not that stable, so it really needs a good expert to keep it running."
"The solution is expensive."
"To enhance accessibility and user-friendliness, there is a need for improvements in the interface and usability of deep learning and large-scale learning languages."
"The diversity of native algorithms could be improved."
"The overall user experience feels unpolished. In particular: Data field type conversion is a real hassle, and date fields are a hassle; documentation is pretty poor; user community is average at best."
"Data visualization needs improvement."
"It could input more data acquisitions from other sources and it is difficult to combine with Python."
"The ability to handle large amounts of data and performance in processing need to be improved."
"The most difficult part of the solution revolves around its areas concerning machine learning and deep learning."
"If they had a more structured training model it would be very helpful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is expensive."
"This is an open-source solution that is free to use."
"This is a free open-source solution."
"KNIME is a cost-effective solution because it’s free of cost."
"The client versions are mostly free, and we pay only for the KNIME server version. It's not a cheap solution."
"We're using the free academic license just locally. I went for KNIME because they have a free academic license."
"It's an open-source solution."
"KNIME is a cheap product. I currently use KNIME's open-source version."
"The price of KNIME is quite reasonable and the designer tool can be used free of charge."
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Financial Services Firm
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Performing Arts
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University
9%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
8%
Educational Organization
7%
 

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Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise31
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Altair Knowledge Studio?
The licensing is straightforward, and we have not encountered any pushbacks from our procurement team. The pricing is...
What needs improvement with Altair Knowledge Studio?
It would be beneficial if Altair Knowledge Studio could offer a more unified platform that includes data preparation,...
What is your primary use case for Altair Knowledge Studio?
I used Altair Knowledge Studio ( /products/altair-knowledge-studio-reviews ) mainly for data preparation and creating...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for KNIME?
I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
What needs improvement with KNIME?
Regarding integration capabilities, I do not think it is that easy to integrate KNIME Business Hub with another produ...
What is your primary use case for KNIME?
My use case for KNIME Business Hub includes automation, querying from the database, and outputting to Excel and creat...
 

Also Known As

Angoss KnowledgeSTUDIO
IBM WEX
KNIME Analytics Platform
 

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Sample Customers

HSBC, MBNA, US Ban Corp, MasterCard Worldwide, Invesco, Citi Bank, ATB Financial, PayPal, Bajaj Finserv
RIMAC, Westpac New Zealand, Toyota Financial Services, Swiss Re, Akershus University Hospital, Korean Air Lines, Mizuho Bank, Honda
Infocom Corporation, Dymatrix Consulting Group, Soluzione Informatiche, MMI Agency, Estanislao Training and Solutions, Vialis AG
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