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"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.""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.""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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"Microsoft FAST is quite robust. Our clients are quite happy with it."

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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 support from IBM Watson Discovery is good but could improve to make it great.""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."

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"If there is any change in a system or a configuration or an update, we might face some issues."

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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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    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.

    Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint combines the power of FAST with the simplicity of SharePoint. FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint delivers an exceptional intranet and people search experience and a platform for building custom search-driven applications.
    Sample Customers
    Prudential, Bradesco, Woodside
    Moffitt Cancer Center, Hitachi Solutions, Manupatra Information Solutions, Unique World, _KODA AUTO a.s., MindTree Ltd, Mississippi Department of Transportation
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Government17%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Retailer9%
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    Computer Software Company24%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Energy/Utilities Company9%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Company Size
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    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise65%

    IBM Watson Discovery is ranked 2nd in Indexing and Search with 4 reviews while Microsoft FAST is ranked 4th in Indexing and Search. IBM Watson Discovery is rated 7.8, while Microsoft FAST is rated 9.0. 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 Microsoft FAST writes "Robust solution with good value". IBM Watson Discovery is most compared with Elastic Search, whereas Microsoft FAST is most compared with Lookeen, Elastic Search, Lucene, Google Search Appliance and Coveo.

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