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IBM StoredIQ vs OpenText Knowledge Discovery (IDOL) comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

IBM StoredIQ
Ranking in Indexing and Search
22nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
eDiscovery (25th)
OpenText Knowledge Discover...
Ranking in Indexing and Search
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of IBM StoredIQ is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Knowledge Discovery (IDOL) is 6.4%, down from 9.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search
 

Featured Reviews

GB
Helps with GDPR compliance through data discovery and management
We knew that we have a lot of scanned docs inside our repositories, but there was a big issue where we needed to know which content was really an image. Because of the OCR made at runtime during the scan, now we know exactly the data we have. When you have zipped documents the scan will unzip them and find the data inside.
ERICK RAMIREZ - PeerSpot reviewer
Scales linearly and vertically; primarily used in AI
If I am not wrong, IDOL is working to release improvements in new capabilities in the next six months. There is room for improvement in some very important capabilities in visual analytics. They have been focusing on improving the face recognition algorithm. The accuracy of object detection could be improved as well and I know they are working on that at the moment. I would like to see some machine learning capabilities added to the next release.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"IBM StoredIQ Suite helps to address problems like data discovery, records management, compliance activities, storage optimization, and data migration initiatives."
"IDOL has several important visual analytics, like face recognition and object detection and recognition."
 

Cons

"The product was born and designed to be used inside the IT department, but it would be improved by allowing end-users to search for info related to specific needs."
"There is room for improvement in some very important capabilities in visual analytics. They have been focusing on improving the face recognition algorithm. The accuracy of object detection could be improved as well and I know they are working on that at the moment."
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Top Industries

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Government
24%
Transportation Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Also Known As

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Micro Focus IDOL, HPE Autonomy IDOL, HPE IDOL
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

J.B. Hunt Transport, BBVA Compass
RTVE, Krungthai Bank, Kainos, Capax Discovery
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