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Data preparation is an iterative and agile process for finding, combining, cleaning, transforming and sharing curated datasets for various data and analytics use cases including analytics/business intelligence (BI), data science/machine learning (ML) and self-service data integration.

Data preparation tools promise faster time to delivery of integrated and curated data by allowing business users including analysts, citizen integrators, data engineers and citizen data scientists to integrate internal and external datasets for their use cases. Furthermore, they allow users to identify anomalies and patterns and improve and review the data quality of their findings in a repeatable fashion. Some tools embed ML algorithms that augment and, in some cases, completely automate certain repeatable and mundane data preparation tasks. Reduced time to delivery of data and insight is at the heart of this market.

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IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Infosphere Advanced Data Preparation

Senior Data Architect

Working with Watson Knowledge Catalog: 
Extremely poor UI makes it very difficult to populate the catalog ramp up new users. Online documentation is poorly organized and written. Lack of training materials. Poor design of data management within the project leads to slow performance and the need for larger hardware (which makes for higher license costs.) Using the newest version 3.0.1 but still encountering unexplained errors that appear to be server-generated due to unstable interactions with the UI. 
Trying to overcome the many fundamental difficulties in order to actually benefit from the more advanced features that seem to be available in the tool - but it's hard slogging. Would not recommend this tool or the Cloud Pak for Data suite.

50M - 250M USD

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1B - 3B USD

Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees

Senior Engineer

Maintaining and managing data efficiently is a big deal and the software helps a lot to do so. Since the competition is tight considering Google and others, tool is getting better day by day.

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A "Promising" Cloud Native Data Platform

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Avoid Watson Knowledge Catalog (or test it thoroughly hands-on before buying)!

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