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"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.""Language support and the ability to build a natural language of speech recognition are the most valuable features.""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."

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"Provides the ability to control how indexing and searching perform and controls how the scoring for search results is done, letting you customize the search experience according to your needs.""The valuable features are automation and multiple connectors available out of the box. It is simple to manage and easier to use for all users."

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"There are probably other chatbots out there that were built for specific use cases and are easier to deploy than this. Having said that, Watson is way more flexible. While it may require a greater amount of effort, it is not substantially more than some of the other ones that are kind of prebuilt for a specific use case. It would be good to have more prebuilt and specific use cases and specific business models. It can have better phone integration, even though I think that it is actually becoming less of an issue. Most people are online nowadays.""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.""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."

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"Having some kind of prebuilt client UI will be helpful.""The solution could improve by adding more AI and natural language processing."

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  • "Cost-wise, it is very reasonable because it is cloud-based."
  • "IBM Watson Discovery is an expensive product."
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  • "The price of the solution is a little high and the downside is there is not a perpetual license available. I have to renew it annually. The price of Lucidworks can be difficult for some of my clients to afford."
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    Overview

    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.

    Lucidworks builds AI-powered search and discovery applications for some of the world's largest brands. Fusion, Lucidworks' advanced development platform, provides the enterprise-grade capabilities needed to design, develop and deploy intelligent search apps at any scale.

    Sample Customers
    Prudential, Bradesco, Woodside
    Wells Fargo, Cisco, Nike, Target, Verizon, Hortonworks
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Government17%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Retailer9%
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    Financial Services Firm30%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Computer Software Company8%
    Energy/Utilities Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    IBM Watson Discovery is ranked 2nd in Indexing and Search with 4 reviews while Lucidworks is ranked 8th in Indexing and Search. IBM Watson Discovery is rated 7.8, while Lucidworks is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Watson Discovery writes "Beneficial accuracy reports, highly scalable, and simple initial setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Lucidworks writes "Provides the ability to control how indexing and searching perform". IBM Watson Discovery is most compared with Elastic Search and Microsoft FAST, whereas Lucidworks is most compared with Elastic Search and Coveo.

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