KNIME Reviews

It is suitable for various industries, including government, enterprise business, product manufacturing, and banking and finance. KNIME provides effective solutions for data-related tasks.

It takes and improves performance analytics.

It offers a node-based data integration and processing system connected through a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface. This makes it an excellent choice for data analytics and engineering tasks. We focus on integrating important features with a strong emphasis on security.

The current UI is primarily in English. Analyzing data in local languages might present challenges or issues.

I have been using KNIME as a partner for three years.

I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.

It lacks third-party connections that influence scalability. 3 people are using this solution. It is suitable for small to medium.

I rate the solution’s scalability a six out of ten.

KNIME offers online training, which is quite effective. The training includes various modules, and completing them can lead to certification.

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The server versions have no designated hardware requirements for initial installation and configuration. This can lead to difficulties, such as errors related to hardware and sizing. Providing the right hardware and understanding the setup requirements is crucial for proper configuration.

I rate the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy.

I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

KNIME offers a free starter tool with a desktop version that allows you to manage the entire data lifecycle and build data pipelines. This is suitable for small data science or engineering teams. However, if you need to deploy KNIME at an enterprise level or require advanced features, you must purchase a license. The pricing is reasonable compared to alternative tools, but it might be beneficial if there were more affordable options for small businesses or SMEs.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We use KNIME for tax technology. We want to implement technology in our tax domain.

KNIME is very fast and scalable. There are a lot of connectors available in KNIME.

KNIME is less secure than Alteryx. KNIME's documentation is not strong. I cannot make good documentation on a KNIME workflow like in Alteryx. Alteryx has more color options where I can put tools into different containers and write some annotations. I felt that was missing in KNIME.

I have worked with KNIME for one year.

KNIME is a stable solution. However, you have to be mindful while working with any open software because it's open to anything.

KNIME is very easy to scale because it's an open source solution. There are a lot of professionals who continuously put some effort into introducing scripts because it is easy to integrate with other technologies. So the add-ons are easily available for KNIME.

KNIME's customer support is good. In three and a half years, I found solutions to 99% of my questions.

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KNIME's installation is very easy. All you have to do is log on to the website, check for the latest version, and hit the download button to get it.

KNIME's deployment takes around five to ten minutes. Maintaining the designer version of KNIME is more or less the same as maintaining Alteryx.

KNIME is a cost-effective solution because it’s free of cost.

Small, medium, or enterprise businesses can use KNIME. You have to be more careful in downloading because it is an open-source solution, and anybody can even spread a virus. It's up to the users whether they want to take that risk. But I don't see such problems working with the Alteryx community, where all the information is much safe to download and upload.

I would suggest KNIME to someone with a low budget looking for a cost-effective solution. However, I would also give a disclaimer that they should be careful while downloading the connectors from the KNIME community because it's more open. Since it is an open-source solution, there are high chances of having some security issues.

Overall, I rate KNIME seven out of ten.

I use KNIME to simplify the modeling process. 

The tool's analytic capabilities are good. 

I wish there were more video training resources for KNIME. The current videos are very short, and most learning is text-based. Longer training sessions would be helpful, especially for complex flowchart use cases. Webinars focusing on starting projects and analyzing data would also be beneficial.

The solution is scalable. 

I haven't contacted the tool's support yet. 

The tool's deployment is easy. 

I use the tool's free version. 

It takes some time to get familiar with it. I'm not sure how long it will take in the meantime. If one person learns it but the whole institution doesn't use it, that's a problem. Some people in our department use QuickSight, I use Tableau. We speak different languages, and it's hard for us to work together. Some use KNIME. We use it and then stop. We switched to Tableau, but it's expensive, so they're trying QuickSight. I don't know which platform we'll end up using.

We're still exploring KNIME for data manipulation, though Tableau or Power BI might be more convenient. I've used Alteryx before, and KNIME seems similar. I mainly use KNIME for machine learning, not as much for data manipulation.

I rate the overall product a seven out of ten.

I use KNIME for my academic works.

KNIME is more intuitive and easier to use, which is the principal advantage.

For graphics, the interface is a little confusing. So, this is a point that could be improved.

I have been using KNIME for six months.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

We use KNIME for analyzing data, for ETLs, and analyzing for machine learning.

KNIME is easy to learn. You can code with KNIME using the visual coding platform if you know how to code. If you're working in an account management or financial department, you can use KNIME to work with a huge amount of data quickly. You can use KNIME to schedule your workflows, send emails, and write codes.

The main issue with KNIME is that it sometimes uses too much CPU and RAM when working with large amounts of data.

I have been using KNIME for eight years.

KNIME is a stable solution. In the previous version, sometimes KNIME would get stuck, and we had to restart the server too many times. Sometimes, we faced a lack of memory issues with the solution.

I rate KNIME an eight out of ten for stability.

Less than ten users are using KNIME in our organization.

I rate KNIME an eight out of ten for scalability.

KNIME’s technical support team responds quickly. You can write your problems in the solution's forum, and they will answer you.

KNIME's initial setup is not easy and needs someone who knows Linux to do it.

A Linux engineer can deploy KNIME quickly, whereas someone who doesn't know Linux will take longer.

There is no cost for using KNIME because it is an open-source solution, but you have to pay if you need a server.

KNIME is a perfect solution for small and big companies, especially people who are using Excel. KNIME is very easy to learn and implement, and doctors and lab personnel can use it. Lots of companies are supporting KNIME and writing their own extensions. Data analysts and data scientists are using the solution for ETI processes.

Overall, I rate KNIME an eight out of ten.

We use KNIME for a lot of predictive modeling. We use it to grab data, prepare it for modeling, do automated machine learning analysis, sometimes forecasting, and then try to deploy the models into production.

Since KNIME is a no-code platform, it is easy to work with. You don't have to write any codes and try to fix all the bits and pieces of coding or the intricacies of the programming language. Instead, getting a quick data prep or big data and eventually running it through your hypothesis is pretty fast. It's not ideal for huge data sets worth gigabytes, but it's okay since very few people have big data sets.

KNIME is not good at visualization. I would like to see NLQ (Natural language query) and automated visualizations added to KNIME.

I have been using KNIME for two to three years.

Unless you are working with terabytes worth of data, KNIME is a stable solution.

The solution is scalable and can be used up to terabytes of data. Around two to three people are using the solution in our organization.

The solution’s initial setup is quick and easy.

One person can deploy the solution within ten minutes.

The solution is very essential when we require an explainable data modeling pipeline. We can show the workflows of KNIME to our customers and talk about it instead of showing the code and expecting them to read, which they can never do.

The process of providing KNIME to the client, how it works, where we get the data, what the initial data statistics were, and what we get in return are pretty explainable. We worked on multiple retail projects and insurance scoring projects.

KNIME is perfect for data pre-processing projects. The important thing is that when someone builds a KNIME workflow, we can quickly onboard and change it for something else. It means that we don't need to read and understand the code. It means that it's replicable and reusable.

If somebody does something, somebody else can quickly onboard and enhance, improve, or totally change the workflow from scratch. It's pretty hard and time-consuming for typical use cases where we utilize coding. KNIME's open-source nature has a good impact on our analytics work.

Recently, KNIME added something relevant to generative AI integration, which was a good move. Alteryx is slightly more powerful than KNIME, and Dataiku is more powerful than both KNIME and Alteryx. I sometimes work with the on-premises version of KNIME and sometimes the cloud version. The solution does not need any maintenance.

Users should quickly start using KNIME for whatever they want to do, and they'll learn it on the go easily. I would recommend the solution to other users.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

It's for big data or descriptive analytics involving data manipulation, formatting, and formulas.

Automation is most valuable. It allows me to automatically download information from different sources, and once I create a workflow, I can apply it anytime I want. So, there is efficiency at the same time.

It's like an Excel on drugs. It's more powerful than Excel, and it allows me to do macros easily.

I downloaded KNIME myself, and it's for self-learning. It's difficult to provide input on the improvement area because it's more of self-learning. However, there are times when I am not able to do certain things. I don't know if it's because the solution doesn't allow me or if it's because of the lack of knowledge.

I've been using this solution for about three years. I last used it in my previous company about two months ago. We are not using it in my current company, but I'm using it for self-learning.

It's stable. I'd rate it a nine out of ten in terms of stability because when I load huge data, it sometimes takes a while and crashes. If I don't load it much, it works fine, but if I overload it, it crashes.

It seems scalable.

It involved just downloading the app from the web. I didn't have any interaction with them. I just downloaded the free version.

They have different versions, but I am using the open-source one.

I'd recommend it, but it comes with a trade-off that you need to spend a lot of time on your own to understand how it works. It's user-friendly, but the fact is that I downloaded it by myself, so I didn't have any formal support on how to use it. It was used in my previous company. They had the license and they encouraged us to use it. That's how I know it.

I'd rate it an eight out of ten because I am not able to do some of the things, which could be because of my lack of knowledge, but it's a very good product. I see the benefit in terms of efficiency.

We are using KNIME for price prediction, privacy missions, the commander model, ETL, and a couple of algorithms we've developed.

One of the greatest advantages of KNIME is that it can be used by those without any coding experience. Even those with no coding background can use it. 

KNIME can be used by people without coding experience. It can be used by people who don't have an IT background and don't have coding knowledge. This is different from Python or R, which require coding experience to use.

When deploying models on a regular system, it works fine. However, when accuracy is a priority, hyperparameter tuning is necessary. Currently, KNIME doesn't have the best tools for this which they could improve in this area.

I have been using KNIME for approximately one month.

I'm not sure if it is stable, we'll have to see how KNIME performs with larger amounts of data, as I have heard it is not very reliable. With smaller data sets, however, it seems to be stable.

We will use this solution more in the future when we do not need people with coding experience.

We have two people who are using this solution in my organization.

I have not used the support from KNIME.

I used the open-source package and started experimenting with it in Python, R, and KNIME. For KNIME, I had to go through the KNIME forum for troubleshooting. I didn't get a response for any of the issues I encountered on the KNIME forum. As for other open-source languages, I haven't received a response for any of the issues I faced either.

The initial setup of KNIME is easy. It can be done with the interface within half an hour.

I had taken some online courses and read about KNIME, and I wanted to try out a drag-and-drop software. I was interested in evaluating KNIME, and this is why I am using it.

My advice to those who are new to data science and don't have any coding experience would be to use KNIME, along with some other programming languages. KNIME is great for creating visualizations and dashboards, and I have advised a few of my colleagues to use it for their own projects.

I rate KNIME a seven out of ten.