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KNIME Primary Use Case

Laurence Moseley - PeerSpot reviewer
Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research at University of South Wales

I use KNIME for a wide variety of purposes. Most recently, I employed it in a survey and experiment to explore different teaching methods, specifically using software to help nurses learn drug dose calculations. This became particularly important during the pandemic when there was an urgent need to reskill healthcare professionals rapidly.

During the early days of the pandemic, no one knew how to treat COVID-19, and it was a dire situation with high mortality rates. The healthcare system had to adapt quickly, with retired nurses and doctors being called back into service and nursing students stepping up to meet the demand. A program I had previously worked on, which taught drug dose calculations, became crucial again. Nurses had to familiarize themselves with a whole new set of drugs.

I analyzed the data from this program using KNIME. I handled various statistical analyses, including mean, standard deviations, regression, correlation, and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests.

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DG
BI Analyst at a photography company with 11-50 employees

I primarily use KNIME for ETL, extracting data from different sources. I extract data from endpoints of Drupal created for me by developers, then transfer this data into Oracle. After extracting, I create a model in Oracle with ETL, which is used by Power BI. Following this, I create a star schema of the data.

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JL
Senior Consultant at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

KNIME is an analytics platform. We use the tool for prototyping solutions by using flat files without database connections. We use it for the decision tree models.

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Shyam_Sridhar - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Rather than specific use cases, I've used it in different sectors. Mostly education. For example, we've used it to predict the kinds of courses or degrees students should pursue based on their skill set and learning capability.

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Nattawat Choosuwan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Consultant at a government with 11-50 employees

It is suitable for various industries, including government, enterprise business, product manufacturing, and banking and finance. KNIME provides effective solutions for data-related tasks.

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AP
Consultant at World Media Group, LLC

KNIME is an excellent product, and I've used many other platforms like Google Collab, Azure, and even AWS. However, KNIME, especially for AI and machine learning, is very different. It's almost no-code. You can add code if needed, but it's not necessary.

KNIME has hundreds, maybe even thousands of modules, which are called nodes. These nodes, along with their libraries, are essential for solving specific issues or problems. You can select the nodes you need, and they come pre-recorded as visual boxes. You just need to assemble the nodes required for your solution. As mentioned earlier, you can search for libraries and select the appropriate nodes, then combine them to form your entire workflow. KNIME supports coding in Python and other languages, but you can assemble the nodes visually without writing code. Each node has a specific function, and if one node doesn't suit your needs, you can easily replace it with a different one.

Additionally, each node has inputs and outputs, and you can configure them based on your requirements. Once the nodes are set up, you can attach the data and let it flow through the nodes to execute your workflow.

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NagendraVuppala - PeerSpot reviewer
Tax Manager at RSM

We use KNIME for tax technology. We want to implement technology in our tax domain.

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reviewer2382516 - PeerSpot reviewer
Student at a performing arts with 201-500 employees

I use KNIME to simplify the modeling process. 

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AT
Student at ISCTE - INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA

I use KNIME for my academic works.

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Laurence Moseley - PeerSpot reviewer
Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research at University of South Wales

I am promoting the use of KNIME because of my background as a computer scientist and my experience programming in languages, such as Pascal, Python, and R. Many of my junior colleagues at the university lack proficiency in computing, and KNIME is an effective tool for introducing beginners to programming. The platform is user-friendly and does not require coding, making it accessible for those who can learn the basics in just an hour through video tutorials.

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Hansong Choi - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Customer Analytics at American International Group

I manage our data analytics team for a client in the insurance industry and we use the solution for cancelation probation campaigns, ratio modeling, and automatic claim models. 

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AltanAtabarut - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Consulting, Growth, Analytics at Akinon

We use KNIME for a lot of predictive modeling. We use it to grab data, prepare it for modeling, do automated machine learning analysis, sometimes forecasting, and then try to deploy the models into production.

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Yasin Sarı - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use KNIME for analyzing data, for ETLs, and analyzing for machine learning.

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Laurence Moseley - PeerSpot reviewer
Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research at University of South Wales

We have been using the most recent version. It's version 4.6.

10 August 2023 - It has now been upgraded to 5.0 and is, if anything, even more impressive, especially in its ability to use Python and its libraries.

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reviewer2332260 - PeerSpot reviewer
Professor of Digital Production at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'm a professor at the local university. So, I used it to train virtual students in mechanical engineering.

I'm training a class for mechanical engineers on factory utilization and the basics of data science. That's what I use it for.

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AL
Professor at Mines Rabat

As a university professor instructing courses on data mining and machine learning, I incorporate both KNIME and another software application into my teaching. This approach allows me to demonstrate various use cases effectively. I actively engage my students by having them utilize both software applications, providing practical hands-on experience in the areas of data mining and machine learning.

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ZR
Customs officer at Mauritius Revenue Authority

I use KNIME for analysis-related purposes. I am currently in the process of developing some models for analysis.

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Daniel Cob - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, Global Internal Audit at BACARDI CANADA, INC.

It's for big data or descriptive analytics involving data manipulation, formatting, and formulas.

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reviewer2230581 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Fi Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's mostly data preprocessing, handling, and processing (ETL) processes, as well as expanding the transport load. 

Additionally, we also work on various machine learning tasks, such as regression models and other small topics related to machine learning.

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BL
Asst Professor at Women's christian college

I'm a professor, and I learned about KNIME from a data science course. I use KNIME for data visualization, manipulation, and generation.

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Uzair Faruqi - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Analytics at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We are using KNIME for price prediction, privacy missions, the commander model, ETL, and a couple of algorithms we've developed.

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reviewer1515237 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution for data analytics and logic design.

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SE
Software developer at MTNIrancell

I encountered a problem that I managed to resolve effectively. I documented the issue in a paper and aimed to determine if the issue was due to normal network behavior or an anomaly. To investigate, I employed machine learning models and used the KNIME’s database. I gathered a significant amount of data and extensively applied machine learning models. Ultimately, I achieved improved data accuracy, especially in the context of network data.

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Júlio César Gomes Fonseca - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at Orys

We used the product to prepare data for our team. I would prepare SQLs and check them in Oracle Developer, then create workflows in KNIME to manage and process the data, creating specific tables for modeling.

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COULIBALY ZOUMANA - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity web editor at Cyberdefbox

I am an intern. I am pursuing my master’s degree. I use this solution to propose a solution for accreditation review. I needed a tool to automate this task for my sources. This solution has helped me to do that.

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HL
Data Scientist at sina

We used the solution for data analysis. With the help of its graphical workflow interface, we were able to identify the exact logic behind the source code.

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KV Subbaiah Setty - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at DTCinfotech

KNIME is mainly used for developing workflows for machine learning and VA. We are using integrated Python scripts.

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AB
STI Data Leader at grupo gtd

We use this solution primarily for automation processing, source data, and for data lake or databases. 

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TL
Business Analyst - Asia Pacific at Richemont

We use KNIME for data and manipulation.

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reviewer1257420 - PeerSpot reviewer
Crystallization Lab Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

KNIME is used for collecting data for data science.

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SJ
Vice President Business Transformation at AJA

We are users of KNIME and we also resell this product.

The primary use case is for data analysis.

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HA
Senior Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I am a basic user, doing a data science course.

I am using Knime more from a study perspective, rather than a practical work application.

I am fairly competent with creating workflows and automating some basic things in Knime.

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Test Engineer at ProData Consult

I am advocating the use of this solution in my organization. I use it personally for my purposes and for the company, I use it for internal data science with very good results.

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BS
CEO at SMH - Schwaiger Management Holding GmbH

We primarily use the solution as an ETL - to Extract, Transform, Load topics.

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VS
Data Analytics Consultant at Optivia

This solution is primarily used for various data analytics in an enterprise environment. 

The reality of any data analytics project including Data Science is that 90% of the effort goes into data sourcing and preparation. Data usually comes from multiple sources including data warehouses, web scraping, Excel input, free text, etc. KNIME allows you to do the 90% plus other predictive functionality.

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VR
CEO at Alpha Analytics

Some of the projects that require KNIME are related to sales or the supply chain. We use it to aggregate data from diverse sources rather than predictive analytics. It's primarily for data collection, management, and preparation.

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reviewer1488837 - PeerSpot reviewer
Trainer at a government with 10,001+ employees

Knime is used for data analytics.

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reviewer1174158 - PeerSpot reviewer
Research Analyst at a university with 51-200 employees

I primarily use this product for data engineering and data wrangling.

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VR
CEO at Alpha Analytics

Our analysts use Knime in the company for data modeling, data wrangling, and data preparation. We have a good amount of data that we work with.

I do not personally use the product, but I am familiar with its usage through my analysts.

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TB
VP, Software and IT Service at ITZone LLC

We are a solution provider and KNIME is a product that we are working on reselling to our customers. We sell BI tools such as Tableau and many of our customers that are using these tools need to have an AI solution. They have lots of use cases for AI including, for example, those from the financial sector would like to use AI for credit scoring. We also have government clients who will have their own specific use cases.

We have not yet sold it to any of our customers because they are still using the free tools and we are promoting it based on that.

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MM
Teacher at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

I use KNIME for clustering data analysis. 

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AL
Head Of Business Solutions | Unmanned Shop | Automated Retail | AI | IoT | Robotic | Data Science at Smart Retail

Our primary use case for this solution is shopping-basket analysis.

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AK
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using KNIME for basic analytics to reduce the amount of processing time. We found that it takes a lot of time for scripting on the cloud, so we have been using it locally on our PCs.  

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it_user912570 - PeerSpot reviewer
Intern at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I am just considering whether to use it or not. I am trying it to determine whether it is helpful or not. So far, it can solve my data analysis problems and I think it's a powerful data analysis tool.

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it_user837522 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Science Consultant

I mainly used it to perform predictive modeling projects, such as customer-churn predictions and HR attrition predictions. The environments are mainly SQL-databases or CSV files.

The installation I worked with to perform the analyses was a regular laptop with no computational server behind it, which may have an impact on the capacity of the program handling very large databases or files.

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GM
Senior Data Scientist at a recreational facilities/services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use KNIME for two main reasons:

Automation: The main purpose of our utilization it to run scheduled workflows (such as CRM campaigns, business reports, etc.) on a recurrent basis. We have created ETLs to automate most of the recurrent tasks and we let it run via batch files.

Ad-hoc business cases: We leverage KNIME flexibility in order to query data from our database and manipulate them for any ad-hoc business case, before presenting results to stakeholders.

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it_user837516 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

All analytics individuals use KNIME to integrate multiple sources of data (SQL, excel, etc.) and prep the data for static reporting.

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EO
Business Intelligence Manager at Telecoms

Primarily used for advanced analytics, include designing and running predictive models, and conducting segmentation analysis. With KNIME, I connect to different data sources but usually need to conduct some data transformations before the main task is carried out. My results are usually written to a database, then I use a different tool for data visualization

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DE
Business Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I write weekly articles breaking down the previous week's Green Bay Packers' game. My main use for KNIME at this time is a workflow that takes play-by-play data from a CSV and puts it into a multi-tabbed Excel document, with all the stats I need for the week.

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AK
Solution Integrator at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

Providing the right solutions and consulting in revenue management requires rapid and comprehensive analysis in all areas. Such analysis makes it easier to look for patterns, where and when the cause of a problem is, especially when the solution has hundreds or more servers of different types and characteristics.

I use KNIME as a tool (ETL) in processing various logs and data (structured and unstructured format) then analyze and store the information in a database. This makes it easier to do the analysis and saves me time.

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PD
Data Scientist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have used KNIME for text processing, specifically for leveraging the text processing features for entity extraction, document classification, relationship extraction, and other such NLP tasks.

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it_user461148 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner, Turkey and The Netherlands at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

In demand forecasting projects to extract, to clean and to transform data from various resources. Also some clustering and classification techniques are used for behavioural clustering and classification according to attributes.

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reviewer2404269 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

At our company, we provide consultation services to federal institutions, and in some cases, we recommend KNIME to clients and have also implemented the solution for a few projects. 

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Learn what your peers think about KNIME. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2025.
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