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IBM SPSS Modeler vs IBM Smart Analytics comparison

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Smart Analytics
Ranking in Data Mining
8th
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM SPSS Modeler
Ranking in Data Mining
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Data Science Platforms (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Data Mining category, the mindshare of IBM Smart Analytics is 4.8%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM SPSS Modeler is 14.9%, down from 15.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Mining Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM SPSS Modeler14.9%
IBM Smart Analytics4.8%
Other80.3%
Data Mining
 

Featured Reviews

RH
Program Manager - Enterprise Command Center at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Adding LA on top of a well deployed & working Tivoli Framework opens up a flood of native logged data points. The visual presentation layer of LA is less than cutting edge.
The IBM monitoring software products (Tivoli) are not easy to instrument and require many separate pieces of the total framework to be operationally functional and useable. That said, adding LA on top of a well deployed & working Tivoli Framework opens up a flood of native logged data points for unstructured search & query. My team had a special need to implement custom alerting on 10s of thousands of MQ channels in a short amount of time, and the traditional approach (also w a Tivoli product) would have been very costly (labor) and time consuming (requiring individual app review). As an alternative, we had a new event stream create to track all MQ channels to generate logs and then used LA to visualize the behavior trends for review, reporting and eventually alerting. The effort took longer than I hoped ~6 months, but the traditional approach would have taken 2+ yrs to review and implement app by app.
RB
Business Owner at SASS GmbH
Support and flexibility enable effective project initiation and meet customer needs but deployment requires enhancement
The customer comes to you and says they want to deploy it and make a production out of this, which is very difficult and expensive with IBM SPSS Modeler. With MATLAB, there is no problem. I have a solution, and then I convert my MATLAB solution to C programming language. This I can deploy, and I can check it, and it is MISRA compatible. It is very easy to deploy it, to go from MATLAB to C or C++, which is actually needed in the car industry. In the car industry, they want to have it in the hardware. You cannot put MATLAB or IBM SPSS Modeler in the hardware of a car, but with C, there is no problem with a microcontroller. They can shoot it into the microcontroller, and I can check it with Polyspace, and it is MISRA compatible, which is an industrial standard. There is nothing similar in IBM SPSS Modeler. I made solutions with IBM SPSS Modeler, and then the customer said they wanted to make a production out of it, and it was not possible. I stopped with IBM SPSS Modeler 18. It is now 18.6 from what I know at the moment. I do not believe that there is a possibility to design a graphic user interface with it. It is itself a graphic user interface, where you put all sorts of little icons into the display.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Log Analytics (LA) allows a user to see patterns of behavior and isolate issues quickly, without the need to manually access individual systems and parse logs manually."
"It is a pretty stable solution, the end-users and other people with hands-on experience are very happy with this tool, it has not let us down in the past, and we have not really experienced any downtime."
"Most of the other solutions are trying to imitate IBM Modeler."
"We are using it either for workforce deployment or to improve our operations."
"It makes pretty good use of memory. There are algorithms take a long time to run in R, and somehow they run more efficiently in Modeler."
"New algorithms are added into every version of Modeler, e.g., SMOTE, random forest, etc. The Derive node is used for the syntax code to derive the data."
"We have a local representative who specializes in SPSS. He will help us do the PoC."
"The benefits are that this product makes us a more efficient sales staff, reducing the inefficiencies in the buying patterns of our customers by calling them when we know they're ready to order, instead of waiting for them to call us."
"I was familiar with using IBM SPSS Modeler separately in the private sector before that. It's a good tool for extracting data from data warehouses, creating streams, and manipulating logic to extract final data."
 

Cons

"The indexing engine (proprietary build of LogStash) is well... very LogStash'ish... It requires more work to normalize the log feeds than competing products."
"This tool has a lot of bugs."
"It would be helpful if SPSS supported open-source features, for example, embedding R or Python scripts in SPSS Modeler."
"There are performance issues. Extracting data from many combined tables can take hours and occasionally crash the server due to memory leaks. This performance problem bothers people. The performance issue seems to be related to the server. We design streams on the client and submit them to the server, which generates a large SQL statement. There are two potential bottlenecks: one in the server and another in data extraction. I'm unsure about the exact mechanics of data splitting when fetching from the database."
"If IBM could add some of the popular models into the SPSS for further analysis, like popular regression models, I think that would be a helpful improvement."
"We would like to see better visualizations and easier integration with Cognos Analytics for reporting."
"Dimension reduction is very important, especially if you are working with millions of recordings and thousands of variables."
"The product does not have a search function for tags."
"Weak documentation and user guide."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Having in mind all four tools from Garner’s top quadrant, the pricing of this tool is competitive and it reflects the quality that it offers."
"I am using the free version of IBM SPSS Modeler, it is the educational edition version."
"If you are in a university and the license is free then you can use the tool without any charges, which is good."
"It got us a good amount of money with quick and efficient modeling."
"Its price is okay for a company, but for personal use, it is considered somewhat expensive."
"When you are close to end of quarter, IBM and its partners can get you 60% to 70% discounts, so literally wait for the last day of the quarter for the best prices. You may feel like you are getting robbed if you can't receive a good discount."
"This tool, being an IBM product, is pretty expensive."
"It is an expensive product."
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Government
8%
Construction Company
8%
 

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Midsize Enterprise4
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM SPSS Modeler?
The government has funds and a budget, it's hard to say if it's expensive or cheap. In Canada, they have a yearly budget. They used to encourage people to use the modeler for development. If ten us...
What needs improvement with IBM SPSS Modeler?
The customer comes to you and says they want to deploy it and make a production out of this, which is very difficult and expensive with IBM SPSS Modeler. With MATLAB, there is no problem. I have a ...
What is your primary use case for IBM SPSS Modeler?
I have been using IBM SPSS Modeler for a long time. I am using IBM SPSS Modeler mainly for ETL. Sometimes I use it to compare the results of the modeling as compared to MATLAB. MATLAB is the main t...
 

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