We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and Workato 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."Data Factory's best feature is the ease of setting up pipelines for data and cloud integrations."
"We use the solution to move data from on-premises to the cloud."
"Data Factory's most valuable feature is Copy Activity."
"One advantage of Azure Data Factory is that it's fast, unlike SSIS and other on-premise tools. It's also very convenient because it has multiple connectors. The availability of native connectors allows you to connect to several resources to analyze data streams."
"The solution is okay."
"The solution has a good interface and the integration with GitHub is very useful."
"It makes it easy to collect data from different sources."
"The most valuable feature is the copy activity."
"Their automation and workflows are very strong, and you can build the workflows very easily and quickly."
"The most valuable features are easy integration, quick tab to develop, quick tab to market, and interactive integration platform."
"It's easy to understand, makes flows and is efficient."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is easier to use than other technical open-source technologies."
"Workato is low code, intuitive, and easy to use."
"It is very easy to use. It takes complex workloads away, and it provides very smooth integration. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box connectors. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box APIs, which makes it really easy to integrate with applications for different use cases, whether it is in finance, HR, or customer operations. It is by far our favorite integration product."
"Integration of data lineage would be a nice feature in terms of DevOps integration. It would make implementation for a company much easier. I'm not sure if that's already available or not. However, that would be a great feature to add if it isn't already there."
"Azure Data Factory uses many resources and has issues with parallel workflows."
"Data Factory would be improved if it were a little more configuration-oriented and not so code-oriented and if it had more automated features."
"I would like to be informed about the changes ahead of time, so we are aware of what's coming."
"The need to work more on developing out-of-the-box connectors for other products like Oracle, AWS, and others."
"The Microsoft documentation is too complicated."
"Data Factory has so many features that it can be a little difficult or confusing to find some settings and configurations. I'm sure there's a way to make it a little easier to navigate."
"Data Factory's cost is too high."
"A limitation is that their cloud presence is only in North America and Europe."
"The only minor drawback would be if there was a UI at the front of it, for apps and for a portal as well, it would make it really easy. It would be really useful if there were more apps capabilities."
"It is tedious to make a tailor-fit function."
"I would like to see the dashboarding and reporting processes improved."
"The management dashboard in the solution is an area with shortcomings that needs improvement."
"Workato's Extract, transform, and load (ETL) and extract, load, and transform (ELT) are not very strong and could be improved for very complex transformations."
"From the deployment point of view, our customers encounter platform downtime where it does not serve the actual request on the systems."
Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while Workato is ranked 8th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 9 reviews. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while Workato is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Data Factory writes "The data factory agent is quite good but pricing needs to be more transparent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Workato writes " Great automation and strong workflows useful for integration". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer, Snowflake and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Workato is most compared with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, MuleSoft Composer, Oracle Integration Cloud Service, Alteryx Designer and Fivetran. See our Azure Data Factory vs. Workato report.
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