BMC AMI DevX vs Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics comparison

The compared BMC and Hitachi Vantara solutions aren't in the same category. BMC is ranked #4 in TDM , with an average rating of 7.8, and holds a 12.3% mindshare in the category. Hitachi Vantara is ranked #9 in DI , with an average rating of 7.8, and holds a 1.7% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Hitachi Vantara users who would recommend it.

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Review summaries and opinions

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ROI

Sentiment score

1.0

BMC AMI DevX boosts efficiency by improving documentation, reducing development time by 30%, and protecting organizational investments.

Sentiment score

7.1

Pentaho streamlines data integration, reducing costs and development time, with savings up to $75,000 annually and improved efficiency.

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I have seen a return on investment; my team was able to stay extremely small even though we had a lot of data integrations with many companies.

Michelle Lawson

Principal Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I can testify to the return on investment with metrics regarding time saved; we have increased our efficiency by about 20 to 30 percent due to the swift migration processes facilitated by the tool.

AmolDhormare

Data Integration Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have noticed a return on investment with Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics in terms of time savings and staff reduction.

Adrián Moreiras

Data Analyst at Telefonica Digital

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.0

BMC AMI DevX customer service is praised for responsiveness and problem-solving with generally high satisfaction ratings.

Sentiment score

5.1

Users find community resources and forums helpful for Pentaho support, but complex issues sometimes require paid assistance.

Every time I open a case, I get an immediate response.

Abulfazal Irfan

Devops Engineer / Ispw Admin at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

BMC AMI DevX's technical support responds very well and takes all cases seriously.

Jeemit Zaveri

Mainframe Modernization Co E & Transformation Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I think the hybrid CI/CD integration with existing enterprise DevOps tools in BMC AMI DevX is very good.

Wisdom Mbiza

Product Engineer at Absa Group

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24/7 assistance is available for the Enterprise Edition.

Jayakrishnanmg MG

Data architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

take the time to understand our business requirements, offering appropriate recommendations.

AmolDhormare

Data Integration Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Communication with the vendor is challenging

Jefferson Hernandez

Data Architecture and Engineering Specialist at coprocenva

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.4

BMC AMI DevX is scalable, effectively managing diverse setups with robust capabilities, requiring specific configurations for optimal performance.

Sentiment score

7.2

Pentaho Data Integration scales effectively for large datasets, though massive environments may challenge performance without cloud deployment.

From my perspective, I haven't seen BMC AMI DevX struggle in terms of workloads where it needs to be scaled up or scaled down.

Wisdom Mbiza

Product Engineer at Absa Group

BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline runs on one LPAR, and no matter where someone is in the world, they have to use it on that LPAR.

Abulfazal Irfan

Devops Engineer / Ispw Admin at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

BMC AMI DevX is absolutely scalable.

Jeemit Zaveri

Mainframe Modernization Co E & Transformation Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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It can be scaled well until you reach a point where you need to perform a lot of operations, and the issue arises when it runs out of memory to handle some data.

reviewer2787603

Data engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Its ability to scale horizontally in cloud-native architectures or for massive real-time processing is limited.

Adrián Moreiras

Data Analyst at Telefonica Digital

Pentaho Data Integration handles larger datasets better.

Jefferson Hernandez

Data Architecture and Engineering Specialist at coprocenva

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.6

BMC AMI DevX is stable post-configuration, despite occasional initial issues and challenges with integration or new releases.

Sentiment score

7.3

Pentaho Data Integration's stability varies, with reliability for small tasks but struggles with massive data and occasional bugs.

I would rate BMC AMI DevX as a stable solution that I have been using for years and find working fine.

Jeemit Zaveri

Mainframe Modernization Co E & Transformation Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

BMC AMI DevX is very stable for a modern application processing huge workloads.

Wisdom Mbiza

Product Engineer at Absa Group

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Performance issues arise due to reliance on a flowchart-based mechanism instead of scripts, which can lead to longer execution times.

Jayakrishnanmg MG

Data architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I find that version 3.1 is the most stable version I have ever used.

Alberto Pedro

Founder-CEO at Ubuntu Analytica

It's pretty stable, however, it struggles when dealing with smaller amounts of data.

Jefferson Hernandez

Data Architecture and Engineering Specialist at coprocenva

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Room For Improvement

BMC AMI DevX users desire better integration, documentation, testing tools, pricing, UI, Eclipse compatibility, support, and cloud/AI integration.

Pentaho Data Integration needs improved performance, scalability, cloud integration, real-time processing, updated interface, and better documentation and support.

I have to put my cursor on the field and tap it to bring focus there, or use the tab key multiple times to get to a field on the screen.

Abulfazal Irfan

Devops Engineer / Ispw Admin at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

To improve BMC AMI DevX, consideration should be given to cloud-style provisioning and development models, as well as integration of more AI capabilities.

Jeemit Zaveri

Mainframe Modernization Co E & Transformation Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The startup of BMC AMI DevX takes a long time to start up before it loads. It takes a good solid two to three minutes before it's ready so that you can work on it.

Wisdom Mbiza

Product Engineer at Absa Group

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We should also explore more effective partitioning for parallel processing and fine-tuning database connections to reduce load times and improve ETL speed.

AmolDhormare

Data Integration Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics can be improved by working with different environments, specifically the possibility to change the variables, meaning I write my variables only once and can change them for different environments such as production or development.

Alberto Pedro

Founder-CEO at Ubuntu Analytica

Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics could have real-time processing and automatic alerting, having alerts or automatic notifications when a job fails or when certain data doesn't meet certain rules.

Adrián Moreiras

Data Analyst at Telefonica Digital

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Setup Cost

BMC AMI DevX users prefer seat-based licensing for cost-effectiveness, with Topaz's integration enhancing investment value despite licensing challenges.

Pentaho provides cost-effective data integration and analytics with a free Community Edition and a competitively priced Enterprise Edition.

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I use the community version of Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics, and I do not need additional costs.

JuanCarlosMartinezLara

Project Manager at Laberit

The setup cost was minimal, and the pricing experience was pretty good.

reviewer2787603

Data engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

The company covered it and they had no problem paying for it because they saw that it was cost-effective in terms of performance afterwards.

Adrián Moreiras

Data Analyst at Telefonica Digital

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Valuable Features

BMC AMI DevX enhances productivity with debugging, code management, easy GUIs, data tools, and supports modern development environments.

Pentaho Data Integration is user-friendly, versatile, and integrates well with data sources, supporting automation and minimal coding for efficiency.

The CI/CD offering allows integration of quality checks and unit test processes into the pipeline, which improves compliance and enhances productivity, enabling developers to focus on development while the pipeline automates integration.

Jeemit Zaveri

Mainframe Modernization Co E & Transformation Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

BMC AMI DevX's tools have affected my developers' productivity and efficiency by helping with the speed.

Wisdom Mbiza

Product Engineer at Absa Group

With ISPW, developers can back out the entire release or entire package.

Abulfazal Irfan

Devops Engineer / Ispw Admin at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

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Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics has positively impacted my organization because it meant we didn't have to write a lot of custom API back-end processing logic; it did the majority of that heavy lifting for us.

Michelle Lawson

Principal Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It automates the data workflow, including extraction, cleansing, and loading into warehouses for BI reporting purposes, while also removing duplicates, validating data, and standardizing formats, enabling real-time decision-making.

AmolDhormare

Data Integration Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics has positively impacted my organization because it is easier to use, and my knowledge about this work facilitates the translation from the source to my final system.

JuanCarlosMartinezLara

Project Manager at Laberit

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Categories and Ranking

BMC AMI DevX

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Configuration Management (1st), Debugging (4th), Database Development and Management (14th), Mainframe Application Development (1st), Test Data Management (4th), Mainframe Testing Tools (1st), Data Masking (4th), AI Software Development (190th)

Pentaho Data Integration an...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (9th)

Mindshare comparison

BMC AMI DevX and Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. BMC AMI DevX is designed for Test Data Management and holds a mindshare of 12.3%, up 4.9% compared to last year.
Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics, on the other hand, focuses on Data Integration, holds 1.7% mindshare, down 1.7% since last year.

Test Data Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
BMC AMI DevX	12.3%
Perforce Delphix	17.3%
Broadcom Test Data Manager	13.9%
Other	56.5%

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Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics	1.7%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	3.7%
SSIS	3.7%
Other	90.9%

Data Integration

Featured Reviews

Wisdom Mbiza

Product Engineer at Absa Group

Modern tools have boosted mainframe file extraction speed and simplified everyday workflows

I definitely think BMC AMI DevX could be improved or enhanced in terms of the logging in features. BMC AMI DevX's logging in feature is not so great. Whenever you try to log in, it always prompts you for passwords. Then when you have to switch sessions, because we usually have to switch between production and UAT, there's no quick way of switching between the two. Every time you try to switch, it prompts you to log in. Additionally, there's a pop-up that I always receive. When you click X on it, it doesn't disappear. Eventually, I just end up minimizing it. Furthermore, the startup of BMC AMI DevX takes a long time to start up before it loads. It doesn't just immediately start up and it's ready. It takes a good solid two to three minutes before it's ready so that you can work on it. BMC AMI DevX's logins and the other ones I can understand because security has to be there, but I do feel that once I've logged in, I shouldn't need to log in again. The startup problem is the annoying one because if I want to do something, I need to open it two or three minutes earlier to give it time to load up. The startup problem is the one that definitely needs to be addressed.

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Michelle Lawson

Principal Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Streamlines complex data workflows and has supported automated customer payment notifications

I haven't used Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics in a couple of years, so I don't know how it can be improved. I was pretty pleased with it and was self-taught on it, working a lot with their team at various times, but they were surprised that I was able to learn it all by myself. The documentation is not bad, and documentation is the main thing that any product can do to make themselves better because the easier it is to find examples of what you're trying to do improves the learning curve. I think it took me the longest to learn how to do the asynchronous processing and have things wait for other things to finish processing before continuing on in the workflow. I choose 8 out of 10 because the one reason that it's been rejected at T-Mobile is that everything has to go through a provisioning process and has to get approved, meaning the actual code base has to be investigated by T-Mobile before they'll allow us to use tools of that nature. For whatever reason, we just haven't been able to get that approval; I don't know if it's on Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics' side or if it's on our side. The more you can make it easier for companies to feel comfortable that your product is secure, robustly tested and bug-free, and free of any other kind of negative hacks, the more quickly it will get accepted.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

33%

Insurance Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Educational Organization

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	18

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	18
Midsize Enterprise	17
Large Enterprise	32

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC Compuware Topaz Enterprise Data?

I don't directly deal with the pricing side of the solution.

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What needs improvement with BMC AMI DevX?

To improve BMC AMI DevX, consideration should be given to cloud-style provisioning and development models, as well as integration of more AI capabilities. Enhancements in VS Code extensions to deve...

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What is your primary use case for BMC AMI DevX?

BMC AMI DevX solutions are primarily used for mainframe-based resources and application development, encompassing not only COBOL but also Workbench and VS Code for various purposes. Data management...

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Which ETL tool would you recommend to populate data from OLTP to OLAP?

Hi Rajneesh, yes here is the feature comparison between the community and enterprise edition : https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/pdf/brochure/leverage-open-source-benefits-with-assurance-of-hita...

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What do you think can be improved with Hitachi Lumada Data Integrations?

In my opinion, the reporting side of this tool needs serious improvements. In my previous company, we worked with Hitachi Lumada Data Integration and while it does a good job for what it’s worth, ...

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What do you use Hitachi Lumada Data Integrations for most frequently?

My company has used this product to transform data from databases, CSV files, and flat files. It really does a good job. We were most satisfied with the results in terms of how many people could us...

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Also Known As

File-AID, Data for Db2, Code Debug, Data Studio, Workbench for Eclipse, Code Pipeline

Hitachi Lumada Data Integration, Kettle, Pentaho Data Integration

Overview

BMC AMI DevX is a mainframe DevOps platform for IBM Z environments that helps development and platform engineering teams increase release velocity, reduce change risk, and build a sustainable mainframe developer workforce.

Whether the priority is attracting the next generation of mainframe talent, safely evolving decades of business-critical code, accelerating release velocity, or demonstrating development ROI to leadership — BMC AMI DevX is designed to address all on a single platform. Teams can connect existing tools and adopt capabilities incrementally using an open-borders integration approach.

A 2025 Forrester Total Economic Impact study found that customers using BMC AMI DevX onboarded developers 50% faster, completed code changes 33% faster, increased release frequency by 50%, and reduced change failure rate by 33%.

Key capabilities:

Modern IDE integration (VS Code, Eclipse) with a unified development environment that reduces context switching
AI-powered code analysis including dependency mapping, impact analysis, and runtime execution path visualization
Automated unit, functional, integration, and performance testing with code coverage analysis
Git-compatible CI/CD integration with event-driven webhooks and an open plug-in library
DORA metrics and DevOps KPI tracking with AI/ML anomaly detection across the mainframe SDLC

BMC

Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics offers an intuitive platform for data workflows, enabling users to easily manage ETL processes across diverse data formats, ensuring seamless automation and development.

With its drag-and-drop interface, Pentaho allows for efficient ETL workflows without extensive coding. It supports a multitude of data formats and sources such as SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, CSV, and JSON. Advanced features like metadata injection and API integration enable seamless automation. However, improvements in big data performance, better cloud service integration, and enhanced real-time processing capabilities can enhance user experience. Additional connectors and improved documentation are sought after by many. Providing support for more programming languages and optimizing memory usage also presents opportunities for enhancement.

What are the key features of Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics?

Drag-and-Drop Interface: Simplifies building workflows without coding.
Broad Data Support: Accommodates SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, CSV, and JSON.
Advanced Automation: Leverages metadata injection and API integration.
Cost-Effectiveness: Offers value with comprehensive big data support.

What benefits should be evaluated in Pentaho reviews?

Versatility: Supports both on-premises and cloud solutions.
Data Integration: Facilitates seamless connection of disparate data sources.
Transparency: Enhances data management and reporting.
Scalability: Adapts to the growing data needs of organizations.

Pentaho is employed across finance, healthcare, and retail industries for ETL processes. It's instrumental in integrating data from ERP, SAP systems, Excel, and APIs to develop comprehensive reports and data models. Companies rely on its capabilities for both on-premises and cloud deployments, improving data transparency and management.

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