I have a friend that works at a famous credit checking company in their data research team, here in Latin America. He told me that IBM's data service (ie Watso

I have a friend that works at a famous credit checking company in their data research team, here in Latin America. He told me that IBM's data service (ie Watson) was not at all impressive. At the time (about a year ago) their service was not worth the pay. He told me all the solutions they provided, and the techniques they used (in terms of algorithms and infrastructure) were very easy to implement themselves (I mean, it was an internal data research team). But, in our conversation, he told me that there were reasons to go for some AWS dervices (such as integration and provided apis) or Google (the amount of data their stuff in trained on, the infrastructure they have) could be pointed out as reasons to hire AWS or Google. He couldn't find any that suggested hiring Watson.