We performed a comparison between Alteryx Designer and IBM InfoSphere DataStage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like Alteryx Designer's drag-and-drop feature, where you drag a component, configure it and quickly run it."
"Alteryx Designer's user interface is great, as it is very user-friendly."
"The product offers very good analytics."
"When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis."
"I like Alteryx's browser tool because you can view how your data is handled live. There are many other valuable tools like transpose and the crosstab. You can quickly pivot your data, and there are connections throughout the database. It's so easy to create a connection. If you connect to sign apps or a more complex database, the tool contains all the tools you need."
"The functionality of drag and drop is the most valuable. It is a very user-friendly tool that can be understood easily. My teams also work with other solutions, such as Integration Services, and these solutions are very difficult for people who don't have technical knowledge."
"Workflow automation, in general, is valuable."
"The product is intuitive and easy to use."
"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 best feature of IBM InfoSphere DataStage for me was that it was very much user-friendly. The solution didn't require that much raw coding because most of its features were drag and drop, plus it had a large number of functionalities."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"I am impressed with the tool's ETL tracing."
"ETL is the most valuable feature."
"It is quite useful and powerful."
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"Sometimes, while getting data from a third-party product, the solution works slowly."
"It would be simpler if they provided a component where you could simply enter some parameters and see the results."
"The product could offer more connectors and more databases with support for the in-database function."
"Its cost can sometimes be a drawback."
"I would like to be able to include small snippets of code inside of the solution. The tool has only drag-and-drop features to make it easy to use, but sometimes I feel like this makes it more complicated."
"Alteryx Designer's cost should be improved."
"When it comes to the pivoting part, the drill-through option is not there in Alteryx."
"Alteryx Designer overall should be easier to use."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"I really like this tool, but the administration should be on the same client application because a lot of administration features are not on the client-side, and they usually need to have administrative access. It's quite complicated to force IT teams to have separate administrative access from the developers."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"So, there are some features that are missing. If I compare DataStage to Talend, Talend allows you to write custom code in Java or use these tools in your applications as well if you are building a job application. But in DataStage, it does not allow you to write custom code for any component."
"I want the tool to continue with the on-prem version, not the cloud one."
"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
"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."
"Reduced cost would allow more customers to choose the product. It's quite expensive in relation to the cost of other similar solutions."
Alteryx Designer is ranked 9th in Data Integration with 26 reviews while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews. Alteryx Designer is rated 8.0, while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alteryx Designer writes "An easy-to-use automation solution with satisfying customer support". 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". Alteryx Designer is most compared with Azure Data Factory, FME, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), whereas IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory and Talend Open Studio. See our Alteryx Designer vs. IBM InfoSphere DataStage report.
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