We performed a comparison between Altair Monarch and IBM InfoSphere DataStage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Alteryx, SAS, Quest Software and others in Data Preparation Tools."Monarch lets you quickly extract in your preferred format."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"DataStage works better with Linux operating systems when the application services are hosted on Linux system equipment, but it's powerful on Windows too."
"The product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The solution's scalability is really good...we are using multi-instance jobs where you can scale them easily."
"The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"I rate Altair Monarch seven out of 10 for affordability. Recently, the pricing model changed from end-user licensing to a concurrent licensing model."
"The troubleshooting guide is very bad."
"Improvements for DataStage could include better integration with modern data sources like cloud solutions and documents, along with enhancing its capability to handle non-structured data."
"The pricing should be lower."
"Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated. The solution could also be improved if they could integrate the data pipeline scheduling part of their interface."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"Its documentation is not up to the mark. While building APIs, we had a lot of problems trying to get around it because it is not very user-friendly. We tried to get hold of API documentation, but the documentation is not very well thought out. It should be more structured and elaborate. In terms of additional features, I would like to see good reporting on performance and performance-tuning recommendations that can be based on AI. I would also like to see better data profiling information being reported on InfoSphere."
"It takes a lot of time to actually trigger your job and then go into the logs and other stuff. So all of this is really time-consuming."
"The interface needs work to be more user-friendly."
Altair Monarch is ranked 4th in Data Preparation Tools with 1 review while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews. Altair Monarch is rated 9.0, while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Altair Monarch writes "In 10 minutes, I can do work that would take me two or three hours in another solution. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere DataStage writes "User-friendly with a lot of functions for transmission rules, but has slow performance and not suitable for a huge volume of data". Altair Monarch is most compared with Alteryx, SAS Enterprise Guide and ETL Solutions Transformation Manager, whereas IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter.
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