IBM Watson Analytics

[Samantha Smith]

Has anyone had any experience of using IBM Watson Analytics with their IPB community?  We're currently using Google Analytics, but my boss quite likes the idea of what IBM Watson can offer. Does anybody know whether IPB actually supports the IBM product?

Thanks,
Samantha

 

[The Jimmo]

From what I am reading, Watson Analytics is more for business analytical needs rather than web analytics. There does not appear to be a tracking code, like Google Analytics, that will track visitors, page views, etc... so the two are not comparable. Watson looks like you provide them data (spreadsheet or database) and they break it down and allow you to analyze it via their service. Which in it's own light is interesting and maybe able to connect to the IPS database to analyze certain trends but it is not a comparable product to Google Analytics as it does not actually do the visitor tracking, you would still need some sort of service to perform this.