"Ab Initio reaches the highest performance and is very flexible in processing huge amounts of data."
"SSIS is an easy way to do data integration from various data sources. It doesn't matter whether it's a database, flat files, XML, or Web API. It can talk to the and join them all together."
"The most valuable features of SSIS are that it works with the query language and it can import data from different sources."
"The most valuable thing is that it is easy to connect with Microsoft tools. In Europe, particularly in France, a lot of companies use Excel, SQL Server, and other Microsoft tools, and it is easier to connect SSIS with Microsoft tools than other products."
"It is also easy to learn and user-friendly. Microsoft is also good in terms of technical support. They have built a large community all over the world."
"Built in reports show package execution and messages. Logging can also be customized so only what is needed is logged. There is also an excellent logging replacement called BiXpress that provides both historical and real-time monitoring which is more efficient and much more robust than the built-in logging capabilities. And none of this requires custom coding to make it useful unlike many other ETL tools."
"The debugging capabilities are great, particularly during data flow execution. You can look into the data and see what's going on in the pipeline."
"The technical support is very good."
"The UI is very user-friendly."
"An awesome improvement would be big data solutions, for example, implementing some kind of business intelligence or neural networks for artificial intelligence."
"Sometimes we need to connect to AWS to get additional data sources, so we have to install some external LAN and not a regular RDBMS. We need external tools to connect. It would be great if SSIS included these tools. I'd also like some additional features for row indexing and data conversion."
"It should have other programming languages supported as well from a scripting perspective. Currently, only C# and VB.NET are supported, which limits it to .NET. It should have Java support as well."
"I would like to see more features in terms of the integration with Azure Data Factory."
"It's a legacy tool, that is nearing the end of its useful life."
"SSIS can improve by the minimum code requirements in stored procedures and exporting data is difficult. They could make it easier, it should be as easy as it is to import data."
"It would be nice if you could run SSIS on other environments besides Windows."
"The security could be improved, as it is more important in our context."
"The solution could improve on integrating with other types of data sources."
Ab Initio Co>Operating System is ranked 23rd in Data Integration Tools with 1 review while SSIS is ranked 3rd in Data Integration Tools with 16 reviews. Ab Initio Co>Operating System is rated 10.0, while SSIS is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Ab Initio Co>Operating System writes "High performance and flexible solution for companies with large amounts of data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SSIS writes "SSIS 2016 - The good, the bad, and the ugly". Ab Initio Co>Operating System is most compared with Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Talend Data Management Platform, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Talend Open Studio, whereas SSIS is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Talend Open Studio, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), IBM InfoSphere DataStage and AWS Glue.
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