IBM Watson Discovery Reviews

Vendor: IBM

3.9 out of 5

4 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is IBM Watson Discovery?

Watson Discovery is an award-winning enterprise search and AI search technology that breaks open data silos and retrieves specific answers to your questions while analyzing trends and relationships buried in enterprise data. Watson Discovery applies the latest breakthroughs in machine learning, including natural language processing capabilities, and is easily trained on the language of your domain. Unlike competitors, Watson Discovery can be deployed on any cloud or on-premises environment.

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IBM Watson Discovery is the #5 ranked solution in top Indexing and Search solutions. PeerSpot users give IBM Watson Discovery an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. IBM Watson Discovery is most commonly compared to Elastic Search: IBM Watson Discovery vs Elastic Search.

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May 2025

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Featured IBM Watson Discovery reviews

Geraldo Lima

Sales Director at Kukac

The total time it takes to deploy IBM Watson Discovery depends on the documents you'll be working with. For example, I was in a situation where I was working with some painting files and folders for a painting store. The store had PDF documents, but the information was mixed up, so I had to treat the documents on IBM Watson Discovery, and discovering and understanding each PDF file took longer. The process is more straightforward for plain documents, and you have to work with questions that will help IBM Watson Discovery understand the documents. The time to deploy the product depends on the quantity and type of documents you'll be working with.

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Roger Itai

Founding partner at Proxima TI

Being able to have some rules to extract the entities is valuable. The capability to crawl external sites and internal documents, and then draw internal information with external contents is also valuable It needs a lot of memory. Our index is very big. It is around 100 gigabytes. So, we need…

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reviewer1323990

Research at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features of IBM Watson Discovery are the integration with the rest of the Watson Suite and the Watson Assistant capability. If you use Watson Assistant, the ability for it to be able to determine the accuracy of your voice models and your voice response systems is a benefit.

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IBM Watson Discovery mindshare

As of June 2025, the mindshare of IBM Watson Discovery in the Indexing and Search category stands at 4.8%, up from 4.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The most valuable feature of IBM Watson Discovery is testing, mainly because the product applies conversational AI, which means I can ask questions to get the information I want from a specific test area."
"The most valuable features of IBM Watson Discovery are the integration with the rest of the Watson Suite and the Watson Assistant capability. If you use Watson Assistant, the ability for it to be able to determine the accuracy of your voice models and your voice response systems is a benefit."
"Being able to have some rules to extract the entities is valuable. The capability to crawl external sites and internal documents, and then draw internal information with external contents is also valuable."

Room for Improvement

"The pricing is an area for improvement in IBM Watson Discovery because the customer initially used the free version. Still, when he needed more questions and documents, he had to move to a different version, which was paid and cost $500 per month. That change in pricing made my company lose many customers."
"The support from IBM Watson Discovery is good but could improve to make it great."
"It needs a lot of memory. Our index is very big. It is around 100 gigabytes. So, we need more than 100 gigabytes of memory to use Watson."