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IBM watsonx

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4.3
2025
Market Presence: Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms (Transitioning to AI Platforms For Data Science and Machine Learning), AI in CSP Customer and Business Operations

Overview

Product Information on IBM watsonx

Updated 13th October 2025

What is IBM watsonx?

IBM watsonx is a software platform designed to facilitate the development, training, and deployment of artificial intelligence models and applications. The software provides tools for foundation model management, generative AI workflows, and data governance, allowing organizations to build custom AI solutions tailored to specific business needs. It supports data preparation, model lifecycle management, and observability, aiming to address challenges related to scalable AI implementation and compliance. By integrating capabilities for accessing structured and unstructured data, IBM watsonx seeks to streamline workflows in environments that require automation, decision support, and advanced analytics, assisting organizations in managing the complexities associated with operationalizing artificial intelligence.

IBM watsonx Pricing

IBM watsonx software follows a consumption-based pricing model where charges are based on usage, typically measured in units such as model inference, training time, or compute resources. The software may also offer tiered plans or subscriptions, with pricing varying according to selected features, scale, and support requirements. Custom enterprise agreements are available for larger deployments.

Overall experience with IBM watsonx

ENGINEER
30B + USD, Banking
FAVORABLE

“Solid Product with Features out of the box”

4.0
Jun 23, 2025
Out of the box has a lot of useful functionality. Administratively not too many controls as it's managed by the central IBM IAM.
R&D Engineer
10B - 30B USD, Telecommunication
CRITICAL

“Advantages and Disadvantages of IBM Watson studio!”

3.0
Dec 27, 2023
Overall Experience has been good as it provides suitable tools for the team to collaboratively work on models and scale them with big datasets. It is able to predict and analyze the data to get patterns.

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Gartner Peer Insights recognizes vendors who meet or exceed both the market average Overall Experience and the market average User Interest and Adoption score through a Customers’ Choice distinction.
2025
For Market:
AI in CSP Customer and Business Operations

About Company

Company Description

Updated 15th January 2024

IBM is a well-established entity focused on technology and development. The primary mission revolves around fostering technological growth and enhancing infrastructure, achieved through focused developments and consulting services. By encouraging inventiveness and innovation, it is geared towards facilitating the transition of theoretical ideas into practical realities, thus improving global functionalities. IBM brings about transformation by creating advanced solutions that reshape and redefine the world.

Company Details

Updated 15th January 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1911
Head office location
Armonk, New York, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
http://www.ibm.com

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IBM watsonx Likes & Dislikes

Like

Ease of use and collaboration aspects. Able to share data and project assets through catalog.

Like

1. As data is really important in today's world the studio helps to analyze the datasets which helps in decision making. 2. AutoAI helps to automates the process of AI model developments. 3. Efficient with data modeling and scaling it.

Like

IBM watsonx is out as a large AI platform that has multiple features of the entire AI workflow. Easly.ai is an all-in-one environment that allows users to prepare data, build machine learning models and practice with generative AI tools easily. Creating attractive prompts for different tasks like text summarization, tokenization, code generation using IBM built in models like granite, meta etc. Deployment of the models using the API key locally is easy. Data preparation, data preprocessing, data security in one platform.

Dislike

Someone unstable at times. Inability to upload larger data files and the need to resort to data chunking.

Dislike

1. Complex to start with for beginners it is little tuff in the beginning so would need peer support. 2. For small users it is little more expensive. 3. No offline access.

Dislike

The IBM watsonx platform has many advanced features, but for beginners, understanding and navigating all the features and all the tools, especially in Watsonx.ai, governance can be a bit of a challenge. Some workflows and features feel rigid, making it hard to customize them for specific tasks or real-time projects. Tracking and managing AI models with governance tools can be time consuming when working on multiple projects or parallelly

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Peer Discussions

What Your Peers Are Saying About IBM watsonx

HR Manager
What do you think about IBM Watsonx Orchestrate used for Talent Management processes? Is it better than implementing an all - in - one Suite? What are the alternatives?
HR Manager
Unfortunately, I have never used it.  I have used SAP SuccessFactors for Talent Management and bonus and it worked well.
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14 Mar 2025867 Views1 Comment
Engineering Manager
Which Data Lakehouse platform or product would be better for the Data hub Architecture implementation? Looking forward to the comparative analysis of the key vendors, especially the MS Fabric (OneLake), IBM (WatsonX stack), SAP (if they have this capability)?  Any thoughts or recommendations, based on your Org experience would be appreciated.
Chief Data Officer
I think you must consider Databricks Lakehouse, MS Fabric and Snowflake Lakehouse Architectures.  With the recent advancements in storage and compute technologies, Lakehouse is a destination to be. The recommendations highly depends on the use cases problem you are trying to solve at your organization.  Which problem has a higher priority to be solved! 
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23 Jan 20251.7k Views2 Comments

IBM watsonx Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 110 ratings and reviews for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms (Transitioning to AI Platforms For Data Science and Machine Learning) market. View all 206 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.3

(110 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
48%
4 Star
36%
3 Star
13%
2 Star
2%
1 Star
1%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.2

Service & Support

4.2

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • ENGINEER
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Solid Product with Features out of the box

    4.0
    Jun 23, 2025
    Out of the box has a lot of useful functionality. Administratively not too many controls as it's managed by the central IBM IAM.
  • SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Driving AI Innovation with IBM Watsonx: An Insight

    5.0
    Jan 17, 2025
    The IBM Watsonx platform is very easy to work with, even for those not deeply technical, and it has helped me save time by automating tasks that used to take longer. Collaboration features, shared workspaces and real-time updates make team work much easier. Mostly I like the machine learning and AI features. Watsonx platform having built-in machine learning models that can be used for real time projects directly for integration and deployment. Within one platform it has Data, AI, and Govern features for data analysis and prediction for feature. AI engineers and data scientists can use this platform to Build machine learning models, develop foundation models and manage the AI lifecycle to train, validate and deploy AI models in an easy way. Evaluate model output to help select the champion model or the best model out of all models. Creating chatbots is very easy and effective Create prompts to generate, summarize, and extract meaning from your unstructured data.
  • NETWORK ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    about ibm watson studio

    4.0
    Mar 7, 2024
    i like it because of it can provide a smooth and collaboratively work with our data in my enviroment.
  • System Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    The easiest way to implement AI and ML

    4.0
    Mar 1, 2024
    With IBM Watson Studio, AI and ML can be implemented quickly and easily.
  • PRE SALES
    50M-1B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    data analysis to obtain better business results

    4.0
    Jan 25, 2024
    it is a platform that helps to better interpretthe analysis of company data and thus make better decisions
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