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IBM Streams pros and cons

Vendor: IBM
4.1 out of 5
 

IBM Streams Pros review quotes

it_user352455 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior BI Consultant at a retailer with 51-200 employees
Jan 9, 2016
Easy development and deployment, Java implementation features, and the real time analyser and alarm function are the most valuable features for us.
it_user700095 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Jul 10, 2017
As a result, the TELCO company was able to cut down the time it took to respond to customer needs and there were fewer complaints.
it_user700131 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Product Development at a healthcare company
Jul 10, 2017
The OEM Solution (Excel-medical.com) running on top of IBM Streams provides real-time clinical algorithms that can give better insight into the patient's acuity, thus cutting off time to discharge patients and inversely making sure that sick patients don't get discharged until ready.
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it_user701478 - PeerSpot reviewer
President
Jul 12, 2017
The product has enabled us to create solutions to client problems that would have either been impossible or very expensive/difficult using other technologies.
 

IBM Streams Cons review quotes

it_user352455 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior BI Consultant at a retailer with 51-200 employees
Jan 9, 2016
The development IDE sometimes crashes and freezes.
it_user700095 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Jul 10, 2017
We had some stability issues where we used embedded Zookeeper in production.
it_user700131 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Product Development at a healthcare company
Jul 10, 2017
The price and versatility of this product need to improve - it is not inexpensive.
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it_user701478 - PeerSpot reviewer
President
Jul 12, 2017
I’d like to see a tool kit specifically targeted at incremental machine learning. It’s already great for scoring previously trained models, but dynamically updating models is currently more of a 'grow your own' kind of thing.