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IBM Watson Studio vs Momento comparison

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

Categories and Ranking

IBM Watson Studio
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Data Science Platforms (12th), AI Development Platforms (11th)
Momento
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2715654 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director and Marketing Consultant at a non-tech company with 1-10 employees
Collaborative analytics workspace has improved campaign insights and saves weekly manual effort
One of the best features IBM Watson Studio offers is the ability to collaborate across teams using a centralized workspace. The centralized workspace helps my team collaborate because we did not need to spend excessive time on manual processes. This helped us collaborate across teams by selecting which data and which channels should be reflected in IBM Watson Studio. In this way, we saved time and could easily see campaign outcomes and make better data-driven marketing decisions. IBM Watson Studio has positively impacted my organization by being time-efficient and enabling collaboration, as we can see everything in one screen. It helped improve our efficiency and provided deeper customer insights that enable better decision-making. It definitely helped our weekly time efficiency by saving manual workload because we have a lot of work going on. It really helped us in analyzing the data and analytics.
reviewer2867238 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Caching has reduced API latency and saves costs while current analytics remain basic
The best features Momento offers are serverless cache support, which eliminates the need to provision a cluster as required for Redis, and automatic scaling to handle traffic spikes, along with built-in time to live functionality. Automatic scaling stands out as the most valuable feature in my day-to-day work because this cache functionality is the most useful. Momento is also highly available, so since our application has been deployed in different AWS regions, we can access it with very little downtime or latency. Momento has positively impacted our organization by improving API response time, reducing external calls, and thus saving costs. The API calls have improved from two seconds down to two hundred milliseconds, and external costs such as those for weather APIs provided by IBM have been cached, resulting in hundreds of dollars being saved for the organization.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It has a lot of data connectors, which is extremely helpful."
"Watson Studio is the most complete tool for AI projects."
"The scalability of IBM Watson Studio is great."
"The most important thing is that it's a multi-faceted solution. It's a kind of specialist, not a generalist. It can produce very specific information for the customer. It's totally different from Google or any search engine that produces generic information. It's specialty is that it's all on video."
"The best features in IBM Watson Studio for me personally are moving away from the alarm dictionary or moving away from the rule-based alarms to more the AI Ops portion where you have IBM Watson Studio with some of the machine learning to do the correlations and learning seasonality, et cetera."
"Technical support is great. We have had weekly teleconferences with the technical people at IBM, and they have been fantastic."
"The main benefit is the ease of use. We see a lot of engineers in our site and customers that really like the way the tools are able to work with the people."
"The most valuable feature is the system's ability to take a look at data, segment it and then use that data very differently."
"Momento has positively impacted our organization by improving API response time, reducing external calls, and thus saving costs."
 

Cons

"One area that could be improved is the backup and restoration of the database and the overall database configuration."
"More features in data virtualization would be helpful. The solution could use an interactive dashboard that could make exploration easier."
"IBM Watson Studio, while powerful, lacks user-friendliness. It is not easy to use, particularly for medium or small enterprises or less experienced staff."
"It's sometimes easy to get lost given the number of images the solution opens up when you click on the mouse and the amount of different tabs."
"Some of the solutions are really good solutions but they can be a little too costly for many."
"The initial setup was complex."
"Initially, it was quite complex. For us, it was not only a matter of getting it installed, that was just a start. It was also trying to come up with a standard way of implementing it across the entire organization, which had been a challenge."
"It might be easy for someone to lose their way around the system."
"Momento could provide better cache analytics to identify which keys are frequently accessed, which keys are stale, and which consumers use the most memory."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is generally reasonable and straightforward but can vary significantly depending on the specific workloads in use."
"Watson Studio's pricing is reasonable for what you get."
"IBM Watson Studio is a reasonably priced product"
"IBM Watson Studio is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
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Company Size

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Small Business
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Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise11
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Watson Studio?
My thoughts about licensing cost are that it is a bit of a tricky question to be honest, because it depends on what you compare it to. For the product suite, I think we have negotiated a good price...
What needs improvement with IBM Watson Studio?
I face some difficulties and room for improvement in IBM Watson Studio. A lot of the functions they did bring in are what we asked for, and I think a lot of them are roadmap items, but perhaps tigh...
What is your primary use case for IBM Watson Studio?
I have been in IT in this particular sphere for my whole career, basically spanning over 20 years. I remember approximately how much time deployment for IBM Watson Studio required, and it was a cou...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Momento?
In terms of pricing, setup cost, and licensing, there is nothing to manage for setup infrastructure as it has been provisioned. There is a certain cost for creating an account and generating an API...
What needs improvement with Momento?
Momento could provide better cache analytics to identify which keys are frequently accessed, which keys are stale, and which consumers use the most memory. It could also support richer data structu...
What is your primary use case for Momento?
Momento serves as an alternative to Redis as a serverless distributed cache where we store frequently used data and access it instead of hitting the database directly. For example, if our microserv...
 

Also Known As

Watson Studio, IBM Data Science Experience, Data Science Experience, DSx
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Sample Customers

GroupM, Accenture, Fifth Third Bank
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