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IBM has some OK offerings but they've really screwed themselves with all this hyped up marketing around Watson. They've become somewhat of a joke within the rea
by code4tee 9y ago
IBM has some OK offerings but they've really screwed themselves with all this hyped up marketing around Watson. They've become somewhat of a joke within the real data science community and business executives are also increasingly becoming disillusioned when projects based on IBMs mystery black boxes fail to deliver.
The MD Anderson situation was a debacle of monumental proportions. Such claims on cancer care are quite unethical in my view given that it gave a lot of very sick people false hopes and diverted a lot of hospital attention and funding away from stuff that actually works.
- carlmr 9y agoWe have a lot of IBM tools at my company, and they're all terrible. I always heard these great things about Watson. Thank you for setting this straight. My world view is healed.
- moocowtruck 9y agoLots of IBM where I work too, can't say a single good thing either.. honestly Watson being a bust is not very surprising! The people who pay the bills get taken to fancy parties and dinners by IBM, they give us free "trainings"(sales pitches) where they try to convince us to use something that management has already bought into... Honestly it's all very terrible :( My sentiment of IBM these days is they sell software which is purposely made bad...and people buy it because, well no one ever got fired for going with IBM.
- virmundi 9y agoIBM workflow was surprisingly well thought out. You could model fluid flows through humans and services. Had a good deployment model I that the flows were scripts unlike IBM WPS 7 which had them embedded in EARs.
- fredley 9y agoThe pattern I've seen: IBM sells things that underdeliver, the solution is always to buy more IBM to fix the inadequacies of whatever it is you've bought already. The go-to line is "Oh that's a know problem with X 3.4, if you upgrade to X 4.5 with Y 2.7 that will fix that problem". This process never stops.
- kiddico 9y agoWhich is partly due to their actual problem solving strategy. Instead of fix the problem with X 3.4, they bought the company that makes Y so they could use that solution. But Y has it's own problems of course. And even if it didn't X should have just been developed along with something like Y. Though it's unlikely that X was even made by IBM anyways.
- JPKab 9y agoWhat's been crazy to me has been discussions with dudes I know who work there telling me that Watson branding has encroached on Cognos offerings and even disrupted sales.
- mipmap04 9y agoThey've been putting Watson on everything. Even Silverpop now looks like a Watson product.