H2O.ai vs IBM Watson Studio comparison

H2O.ai and IBM are both solutions in the Data Science Platforms category. H2O.ai is ranked #22, while IBM is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.2. H2O.ai holds a 1.5% mindshare in Data Science Platforms, compared to IBM’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of H2O.ai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between H2O.ai and IBM Watson Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Science Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Data Science Platforms category, the mindshare of IBM SPSS Statistics is 2.8%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of H2O.ai is 1.5%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Watson Studio is 2.1%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

AbakarAhmat

Software Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees

Enhancing survey analysis that provides valued insightfulness

I used traditional tools where I would prepare data, click through menus, and use SQL Server for data visualization. We switched to IBM SPSS because it offers strong certification and aligns well with the standards we prioritize in our surveys. In terms of popularity, it stands out as the top choice in the market, especially in the research and university domains. Many different organizations and institutions use SPSS for statistical analytics. While there are other tools like MCLab and similar options available, SPSS is the most renowned and widely used among them.

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Kashif Yaseen

Trainee Decision Scientist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Plug-and-play convenience enhances productivity but needs better multimodal support

We mostly used the solution in the domain that I'm working. We had most of the use cases around chatbots and conversational BI The solution was plug-and-play, meaning most of the components were handled by the solution itself rather than building them from scratch. This was useful for our banking…

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Abilio Duarte

Senior Solutions Architect at Self-employed

A highly robust and well-documented platform that simplifies the complex world of AI

The main challenge lies in visibility and ease of use. Providing training sessions can be immensely helpful in helping users navigate and understand the tool's potential. This approach would empower users to explore and make the most of the tools and technologies at their disposal. Another area where IBM could enhance its offering is by providing more visibility to end users regarding the vast potential that Watson offers.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The features that I have found most valuable are the Bayesian statistics and descriptive statistics."

"The most valuable features are the small learning curve and its ability to hold a lot of data."

"SPSS can handle whatever you throw at it, whether your data set contains 10,000, 100,000, or a million objects. It's like the heavy artillery of analytical tools."

"Custom tables and macros: They allow us to create useful reports quickly for a broad audience."

"I've found the descriptive statistics and cross-tabs valuable. The very simple correlations and regressions are as well."

"The most valuable feature is the user interface because you don't need to write code."

"You can quickly build models because it does the work for you."

"The solution is very comprehensive, especially compared to Minitabs, which is considered more for manufacturing. However, whatever data you want to analyze can be handled with SPSS."

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"Fast training, memory-efficient DataFrame manipulation, well-documented, easy-to-use algorithms, ability to integrate with enterprise Java apps (through POJO/MOJO) are the main reasons why we switched from Spark to H2O."

"The most valuable features are the machine learning tools, the support for Jupyter Notebooks, and the collaboration that allows you to share it across people."

"AutoML helps in hands-free initial evaluations of efficiency/accuracy of ML algorithms."

"The most valuable feature of H2O.ai is that it is plug-and-play."

"It is helpful, intuitive, and easy to use. The learning curve is not too steep."

"The ease of use in connecting to our cluster machines."

"One of the most interesting features of the product is their driverless component. The driverless component allows you to test several different algorithms along with navigating you through choosing the best algorithm."

"The system's ability to take a look at data, segment it and then use that data very differently."

"The solution is very easy to use."

"It stands out for its substantial AI capabilities, offering a broad spectrum of features for crafting solutions that meet specific requirements."

"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 scalability of IBM Watson Studio is great."

"Stability-wise, it is a great tool."

"For me, the valuable feature of the solution is the one that I used, which was Jupyter notebooks."

"IBM Watson Studio consistently automates across channels."

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Cons

"The solution could improve by providing a visual network for predictions and a self-organizing map for clustering."

"Each algorithm could be more adaptable to some industry-specific areas, or, in some cases, adapted for maintenance."

"Most of the package will give you the fixed value, or the p-value, without an explanation as to whether it it significant or not. Some beginners might need not just the results, but also some explanation for them."

"The product should provide more ways to import data and export results that are user-friendly for high-level executives."

"It could allow adding color to data models to make them easier to interpret."

"SPSS is a tool that's been around since the late 60s, and it's the universal worldwide standard for quantitative social science data analysis. That said, it does seem a bit strange to me that the graphical output functions are so clunky after all these years. The output of charts and graphs that SPSS produces is hideous."

"In developing countries, it would be beneficial to provide certain features to users at no cost initially, while also customizing pricing options."

"I feel that when it comes to conducting multiple analyses, there could be more detailed information provided. Currently, the software gives a summary and an overview, but it would be beneficial to have specific details for each product or variable."

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"On the topic of model training and model governance, this solution cannot handle ten or twelve models running at the same time."

"I would like to see more features related to deployment."

"Referring to bullet-3 as well, H2O DataFrame manipulation capabilities are too primitive."

"The model management features could be improved."

"The interpretability module has room for improvement. Also, it needs to improve its ability to integrate with other systems, like SageMaker, and the overall integration capability."

"H2O.ai can improve in areas like multimodal support and prompt engineering."

"It needs a drag and drop GUI like KNIME, for easy access to and visibility of workflows."

"It lacks the data manipulation capabilities of R and Pandas DataFrames. We would kill for dplyr offloading H2O."

"Watson Studio would be improved with a clearer path for the deployment of docker images."

"I think maybe the support is an area where it lacks."

"We would like to see it less as one big, massive product, but more based on smaller services that we can then roll out to consumers."

"Some of the solutions are really good solutions but they can be a little too costly for many."

"I want IBM's technical support team to provide more specific answers to queries."

"So a better user interface could be very helpful"

"The decision making in their decision making feature is less good than other options."

"The main challenge lies in visibility and ease of use."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"More affordable training for new staff members."

"The pricing of the modeler is high and can reduce the utility of the product for those who can not afford to adopt it."

"SPSS is an expensive piece of software because it's incredibly complex and has been refined over decades, but I would say it's fairly priced."

"The price of IBM SPSS Statistics could improve."

"The price of this solution is a little bit high, which was a problem for my company."

"While the pricing of the product may be higher, the accompanying service and features justify the investment."

"It's quite expensive, but they do a special deal for universities."

"I rate the tool's pricing a five out of ten."

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"We have seen significant ROI where we were able to use the product in certain key projects and could automate a lot of processes. We were even able to reduce staff."

"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 an expensive solution."

"IBM Watson Studio is a reasonably priced product"

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

University

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

University

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM SPSS Statistics?

The software offers consistency across multiple research projects helping us with predictive analytics capabilities.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM SPSS Statistics?

The cost of IBM SPSS Statistics is managed by organizations, not individual researchers. It is a very expensive produ...

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What needs improvement with IBM SPSS Statistics?

IBM SPSS Statistics does not keep you close to your data like KNIME. In KNIME, at every stage, you can see the result...

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What do you like most about IBM Watson Studio?

Stability-wise, it is a great tool.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Watson Studio?

IBM Watson Studio is an expensive solution.

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What needs improvement with IBM Watson Studio?

From an improvement perspective, I would say that if the deployment environment and IBM Watson Studio's environment a...

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Overview

IBM SPSS Statistics is a powerful data mining solution that is designed to aid business leaders in making important business decisions. It is designed so that it can be effectively utilized by organizations across a wide range of fields. SPSS Statistics allows users to leverage machine learning algorithms so that they can mine and analyze data in the most effective way possible.

IBM SPSS Statistics Benefits

Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by choosing to deploy IBM SPSS Statistics include:

Ease of use. SPSS Statistics enables users to simply and intuitively take control of their statistical needs. The solution is designed so that analysts who do not know how to code can easily make full use of the various tools and capabilities that SPSS Statistics has to offer. Its command language is so straightforward that it does not require users to undergo special training before they use it.

Comprehensive and flexible build. SPSS Statistics is designed to be both a comprehensive and highly flexible analytics solution. It enables users to utilize a variety of integrations that make it easy for users to add features that they might feel they are missing.

Automation. SPSS Statistics makes it simple for users to automate basic tasks that they might otherwise devote too much time worrying about. Tasks like calculation or data gathering can be delegated to the system while more conceptual tasks like data analysis are given to an organization’s analysts to handle.

IBM SPSS Statistics Features

Intuitive user interface. SPSS Statistics enables users to deploy an intuitive interface that makes the process of system management simple. Among the other components of this interface is a drag-and-drop feature that makes analysis and management possible for anyone who wants to use it.

Advanced data visualizations. Analysts that employ SPSS Statistics gain access to tools that empower them to create and export data visualizations. These visualizations can be formatted in many different ways depending on what the user needs.

Local data storage. SPSS Statistics has the ability to securely store data on a user’s computer. This enables them to add layers of security that would not necessarily be present if the data was stored in the cloud.

Reviews from Real Users

IBM SPSS Statistics is a highly effective solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Two major advantages it offers are the wealth of functionalities that it provides and its high level of accessibility.

An Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research at a university writes, "The most valuable feature of IBM SPSS Statistics is all the functionality it provides. Additionally, it is simple to do the five-way analysis that you can in a multidimensional setup space. It's the multidimensional space facility that is most useful."

A Director of Systems Management & MIS Operations at a university, says, “The SPSS interface is very accessible and user-friendly. It's really easy to get information from it. I've shared it with experts and beginners, and everyone can navigate it.”

H2O is a fully open source, distributed in-memory machine learning platform with linear scalability. H2O’s supports the most widely used statistical & machine learning algorithms including gradient boosted machines, generalized linear models, deep learning and more. H2O also has an industry leading AutoML functionality that automatically runs through all the algorithms and their hyperparameters to produce a leaderboard of the best models. The H2O platform is used by over 14,000 organizations globally and is extremely popular in both the R & Python communities.

IBM Watson Studio provides tools for data scientists, application developers and subject matter experts to collaboratively and easily work with data to build and train models at scale. It gives you the flexibility to build models where your data resides and deploy anywhere in a hybrid environment so you can operationalize data science faster.

Sample Customers

LDB Group, RightShip, Tennessee Highway Patrol, Capgemini Consulting, TEAC Corporation, Ironside, nViso SA, Razorsight, Si.mobil, University Hospitals of Leicester, CROOZ Inc., GFS Fundraising Solutions, Nedbank Ltd., IDS-TILDA

poder.io, Stanley Black & Decker, G5, PWC, Comcast, Cisco

GroupM, Accenture, Fifth Third Bank

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