2020-05-27T16:23:39Z

What advice do you have for others considering IBM Cloud Pak for Data?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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KR
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2023-08-21T12:13:10Z
Aug 21, 2023

I was not fully part of the core team or implementation. The solution is suitable for data analytics and digital transformation. People considering the solution must decide their use case before exploring the tool’s functionalities or components. Typically, people use an IT-heavy approach, adopting functionalities first and then looking for use cases. I would advise them to do the exact opposite. Whatever we do should be in line with the business purpose and the business vision. We must be mindful of the business model and the organization's maturity to consume the insights. These technologies are targeted towards delivering the right decision-making aids. We should not make it an IT agenda. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

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HM
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2023-06-15T15:20:13Z
Jun 15, 2023

You need to have sufficient funds and experienced personnel because it is a highly technical solution. It's not something that can be easily implemented without proper knowledge and expertise. For management, I would suggest taking smaller steps and gradually adapting the product within the company. Starting with smaller projects rather than diving into a major implementation. The solution has a lot of potential, so I would rate it a nine out of ten.

PS
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2023-04-24T12:27:00Z
Apr 24, 2023

My suggestion for those considering using IBM Cloud Pak for Data is to evaluate it based on their own organization's policies and standards. While the product may be technically sound, its fit within the organization's system is the key factor to consider. In our case, the solution has the potential to be beneficial due to its scalability and use of different NFA's, which align with our organization's IT success. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

Drew Collins - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-03-21T14:38:52Z
Mar 21, 2023

I recommend IBM Cloud Pak for Data to others who want to use it. Additionally, I suggest that those who plan to use the solution should train their staff properly. The performance and integration of the solution are fine. Overall, I rate the solution probably a six or seven out of ten.

Nagy Fathy - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-01-11T14:34:02Z
Jan 11, 2023

I would 100% recommend Cloud Pak and would rate it eight out of ten.

Jacek Wróż - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-12-06T19:48:28Z
Dec 6, 2022

I rate the solution a nine out of ten and recommend it to others.

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Murali B - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-10-25T17:39:04Z
Oct 25, 2022

I'm an expert on IBM InfoSphere, but now, I'm working on IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Approximately five thousand people use IBM Cloud Pak for Data within the company. My advice to others looking into implementing IBM Cloud Pak for Data is that it's helpful if you want to do AI. IBM has a package, but it would also depend on the number of mappings you have for the transformations. Ninety percent can be easily migrated, and the remaining ten percent tends to be more complicated. Right now, my company has five hundred thousand mappings, so the remaining ten percent is a considerable number, fifty thousand. It depends on the number of mappings you have. If you have a minimal number of mappings, you can find an alternative solution versus IBM Cloud Pak for Data. If you have poor centralization in mappings or a lot of mappings, IBM Cloud Pak for Data is an excellent solution to try. IBM Cloud Pak for Data is a good solution, so I'm rating it nine out of ten. It has more enhanced logging, cataloging, and other features, so as a solution, IBM Cloud Pak for Data is good. My company is a customer of IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

PS
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2022-05-15T17:07:36Z
May 15, 2022

I rate Cloud Pak for Data eight out of 10. It's an excellent tool that offers us many valuable features, but you have to understand how the solution will affect your operational model and rethink the way you deal with data. You're not only implementing a new tool but also an operational model.

MR
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2022-03-30T20:10:54Z
Mar 30, 2022

IBM Cloud Pak for Data is a very useful tool because it has the entire gamut of tools. Starting from collecting the data from various sources using direct integration or through data virtualization and then organizing it into catalogs and applying their organization's policies or if they have other enforcement policies on top of that. We can build the model from that data because you can refine the data. There is a lot of AI inside this single solution, we could bring a lot of homogeneity into the organization. The data discovery process and the finding of the right set of data for the right problem will become much easier because it's a very good solution. I rate IBM Cloud Pak for Data a seven out of ten. The main problem that happens in machine learning projects is that people come in and then work on making the models, and then the model is deployed in production. However, I find that there is a bias in collecting the model, and the model has to be more advanced. The model which you have built, it's very much dependent on the data from which the model was built. Most of the solutions have features for this in the new version of the model, while they don't provide support for the version of the data or the parameters of the data on which the model was built. When a new person joins the organization, or if the engineer who has worked on it has left the organization, if a new person comes in, and they don't have that reference data on which the model was built then we have to start from scratch. This is an area where many of the solutions which are on the market don't have a solution. This is where IBM should focus more on providing a solution. It is a major area that not only IBM but other vendors, should start working on to provide a solution. I understand Microsoft is working on a solution for this, and they have a new concept that they are introducing which is called Machine Teaching. If there is only a partial resolution or solution for this problem to structure data, they have to focus more on bringing new, innovative solutions.

EV
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2020-05-27T16:23:39Z
May 27, 2020

I would rate this solution a five out of ten.

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