Azure AI Language vs. IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure AI Language
Score 7.8 out of 10
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Azure AI Language (formerly Azure Cognitive Service for Language) is a managed service to add natural language capabilities, from sentiment analysis and entity extraction to automated question answering. Users can identify key terms and phrases, understand sentiments, and build conversational interfaces into applications. Annotate, train, evaluate, and deploy customizable models without machine-learning expertise.N/A
IBM Watson Studio
Score 9.1 out of 10
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IBM Watson Studio enables users to build, run and manage AI models, and optimize decisions at scale across any cloud. IBM Watson Studio enables users can operationalize AI anywhere as part of IBM Cloud Pak® for Data, the IBM data and AI platform. The vendor states the solution simplifies AI lifecycle management and accelerates time to value with an open, flexible multicloud architecture.N/A
Pricing
Azure AI LanguageIBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Azure AI LanguageIBM Watson Studio
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Azure AI LanguageIBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
Azure AI LanguageIBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
Platform Connectivity
Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of Product A and Product B
Azure AI Language
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Ratings
IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
8.1
22 Ratings
4% below category average
Connect to Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
Extend Existing Data Sources00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
Automatic Data Format Detection00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
MDM Integration00 Ratings6.414 Ratings
Data Exploration
Comparison of Data Exploration features of Product A and Product B
Azure AI Language
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IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
10.0
22 Ratings
17% above category average
Visualization00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
Interactive Data Analysis00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
Data Preparation
Comparison of Data Preparation features of Product A and Product B
Azure AI Language
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IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
9.5
22 Ratings
14% above category average
Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
Data Transformations00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
Data Encryption00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
Built-in Processors00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
Platform Data Modeling
Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Azure AI Language
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IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
9.5
22 Ratings
11% above category average
Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
Automated Machine Learning00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
Single platform for multiple model development00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
Self-Service Model Delivery00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
Model Deployment
Comparison of Model Deployment features of Product A and Product B
Azure AI Language
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IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
8.0
22 Ratings
7% below category average
Flexible Model Publishing Options00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
Security, Governance, and Cost Controls00 Ratings7.022 Ratings
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User Ratings
Azure AI LanguageIBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
Likelihood to Recommend
6.5
(2 ratings)
8.0
(65 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Usability
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9.6
(2 ratings)
Availability
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8.2
(1 ratings)
Performance
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(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
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8.2
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
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8.2
(1 ratings)
Online Training
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(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
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(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure AI LanguageIBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Best suited for large organizations, availability of usage of more than one language in a specific API call. Moderately suited for small and mid sized organizations as the pricing is on a higher end
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IBM
It has a lot of features that are good for teams working on large-scale projects and continuously developing and reiterating their data project models. Really helpful when dealing with large data. It is a kind of one-stop solution for all data science tasks like visualization, cleaning, analyzing data, and developing models but small teams might find a lot of features unuseful.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • The data is pre configured that means the AI models that are used by features are not customizable. One needs to send data and have to use the output of the feature in our application
  • Availability of customizations in order to adjust some specific requirements
  • Availability of Language studio so that one can avoid coding
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IBM
  • Integration of IBM Watson APIs such as speech to text, image recognition, personality insights, etc.
  • SPSS modeler and neural network model provide no-code environments for data scientists to build pipelines quickly.
  • Enforced best-practices set up POCs for deployment in production with a minimum of re-work.
  • Estimator validation lets data scientists test and prove different models.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • The application is hard to use for new users
  • Data Integration is complex in nature
  • For Mid - sized organizations, the pricing is on higher end
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IBM
  • The cost is steep and so only companies with resources can afford it
  • It will be nice to have Chinese versions so that Chinese engineers can also use it easily
  • It takes a while to learn how to input different kinds of skin defects for detection
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
IBM
because we find out that DSX results have improved our approach to the whole subject (data, models, procedures)
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Usability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
IBM
The UI flawlessly merges this offering by providing a neat, minimal, responsive interface
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
IBM
From time to time there are services unavailable, but we have been always informed before and they got back to work sooner than expected
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Performance
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
IBM
Never had slow response even on our very busy network
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Support Rating
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
IBM
I received answers mostly at once and got answered even further my question: they gave me interesting points of view and suggestion for deepening in the learning path
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In-Person Training
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
IBM
The trainers on the job are very smart with solutions and very able in teaching
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Online Training
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
IBM
The Platform is very handy and suggests further steps according my previous interests
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
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IBM
It surprised us with unpredictable case of use and brand new points of view
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
We haven't used other products. Our experience with Azure, whilst not meeting our needs this time around, was positive, educational and insightful. This was the first time that we had considered using an AI tool to manage and manipulate our data and we were unsure of the capabilities.
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IBM
The main reason I personally changed over from Azure ML Studio is because it lacked any support for significant custom modelling with packages and services such as TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit and Spark ML. IBM Watson Studio provides these services and does so in a well integrated and easy to use fashion making it a preferable service over the other services that I have personally used.
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Scalability
Microsoft
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IBM
It helped us in getting from 0 to DSX without getting lost
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Usage of more than one language in one specific API call
  • Question Answering Feature
  • Key Phrase Extraction, hence one need to read the entire phrase to understand the context
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IBM
  • Could instantly show data driven insights to drive 20% incremental revenue over existing results
  • Still don't have a real use case for unstructured data like twitter feed
  • Some of the insights around user actions have driven new projects to automate mundane tasks
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