BMC AMI DevX vs Toad Data Point comparison

The compared BMC and Quest Software 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. Quest Software is ranked #19 in DI , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

BMC AMI DevX

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100% willing to recommend

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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

5.5

Users experienced over 100% ROI with Toad Data Point due to time savings, improved efficiency, and enhanced data reliability.

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If they contain duplicate counts or null records or improper data, those records would not be reliable.

AdityaTiwari

Business Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Financially, I understand that teams often see a return on investment of one hundred percent plus annually from Toad Data Point through time savings and tool consultation;

Sudunagunta Bhavya Lekha

Junior Data Analyst at Lumendata

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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

6.0

Toad Data Point's customer service is praised for responsiveness, active bug fixing, and strong community support, despite lacking AI agents.

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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The quality of their support is excellent, and the speed is very good, too.

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They resolved my issue within a day which was specifically around licensing.

Aaron Payne

ERP Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Overall, the service is excellent.

Mir Sayeed Hassan

Senior Oracle Database Administrator at ODB Training and Software Services LLP

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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

6.8

Toad Data Point is scalable and efficient for databases, despite memory load issues and licensing costs, especially on Mac.

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 does not scale well when considering the high cost of the Mac license.

Aaron Payne

ERP Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Some aspects, like scalability, could be improved to avoid writing different codes for each database.

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Scalability has not been an issue because so far we have dumped about a billion records per year, and I do not see any issues as such.

Srinivasan Devadas

Senior Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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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

7.7

Toad Data Point is stable but faces local performance issues and update lags; new problems are quickly resolved.

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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I often feel instability locally because it is a heavy application, and I feel some slowness in the response of the user interface.

Srinivasan Devadas

Senior Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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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.

Toad Data Point needs interface improvements, enhanced features, AI assistance, scalability, and better collaboration to address user concerns.

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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Better data visualization tools, improved integrations with modern tools, and enhanced collaboration features such as shared query libraries and real-time collaborations would be beneficial.

Mir Sayeed Hassan

Senior Oracle Database Administrator at ODB Training and Software Services LLP

Toad Data Point should include more features for utilizing AI, which can automatically perform many tasks.

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The application is heavy on my local PC; however, if I connect to a remote server, I think it works better.

Srinivasan Devadas

Senior Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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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.

Toad Data Point pricing is reasonable, but Mac version costs deter adoption; Microsoft rivalry impacts licensing choices.

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The Mac licenses are expensive, costing 1,600 dollars each.

Aaron Payne

ERP Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The pricing for Toad Data Point is where it gets into trouble.

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The pricing is cost-effective; it is neither too cheap nor too expensive, it's a good value.

Mir Sayeed Hassan

Senior Oracle Database Administrator at ODB Training and Software Services LLP

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Valuable Features

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

Toad Data Point offers cross-database queries, automation, AI-assisted analysis, and drag-and-drop management for streamlined data productivity.

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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I am able to have cross-connection queries, blend and join data from multiple different databases in a single query, with data profiling, automation and scheduling, and export and reporting tools.

Sudunagunta Bhavya Lekha

Junior Data Analyst at Lumendata

I utilize automations in my database with Ansible automations, performing automation data processing units and deployment, which has a positive impact, increasing efficiency and reducing human error, as well as saving time, thus improving productivity and scalability compared to human errors.

Mir Sayeed Hassan

Senior Oracle Database Administrator at ODB Training and Software Services LLP

There is a feature called Toad Automation, which is a valuable tool.

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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)

Toad Data Point

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (19th), Data Preparation Tools (4th)

Mindshare comparison

BMC AMI DevX and Toad Data Point 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.
Toad Data Point, on the other hand, focuses on Data Integration, holds 0.8% mindshare, up 0.5% 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%

Test Data Management

Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Toad Data Point	0.8%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	3.7%
SSIS	3.7%
Other	91.8%

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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Sudunagunta Bhavya Lekha

Junior Data Analyst at Lumendata

Drag-and-drop workflows have accelerated cross-database analysis and simplified daily reporting

I consider user interface modernization in Toad Data Point to be an area for improvement; it could be enhanced with a more modern, web-based look and smoother navigation, focusing on better UX and dashboard customization. Real-time collaboration could benefit from trying Git-style integration, which would strengthen team collaboration features. Performance with large data sets sometimes slows down our workflows, so implementing a better optimization engine specifically for big data workflows could enhance functionality, along with improvements in cloud-native deployment for better browser access. For the dashboarding feature, I believe Toad Data Point could improve by offering more interactive dashboards and advanced visualizations beyond the current basic charts and pivots. Implementing capabilities such as drill-down, interactive filters, and dynamic parameter selections would align more with BI-style interactivity. Visualizations compared to tools such as Microsoft Power BI or Tableau are quite limited, so enhancing this area with cloud-hosted interactive dashboards and seamless auto-refresh options would greatly improve user experience.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

33%

Insurance Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Construction 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	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Toad Data Point?

The pricing is cost-effective; it is neither too cheap nor too expensive, it's a good value.

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What needs improvement with Toad Data Point?

Areas for improvement in Toad Data Point usage could include a better UI interface, building in AI assistance, and faster performance for large databases, especially since accessing a terabyte of d...

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What is your primary use case for Toad Data Point?

My use case is mainly for business analysis, and I also use it for some parts of machine learning and AI, and in some cases, I use it for healthcare purposes.

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Also Known As

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

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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

Toad Data Point offers a user-friendly platform for streamlined database management, providing effective tools for data integration and analysis across multiple databases.

With a focus on enhancing database management efficiency, Toad Data Point facilitates smooth SQL querying and data preparation for organizations. Its seamless integration with different databases like Oracle, DB2, and MySQL allows for effective data analysis and workflow automation. Users benefit from drag-and-drop query building and AI-assisted analysis, enhancing productivity while enabling data-driven decision-making.

What are the key features of Toad Data Point?

Easy Learning Curve: Quick adoption with an intuitive interface.
Extensive Data Connectivity: Supports connections to multiple databases including Oracle and MySQL.
Automation Tools: Automates workflows and data migration tasks efficiently.
Drag-and-Drop Query Builder: Simplifies query creation without extensive coding.
AI-Assisted Analysis: Augments analysis with artificial intelligence.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Time Savings: Reduces time spent on routine tasks with powerful automation.
Data Connectivity: Facilitates seamless connections to diverse databases.
Enhanced Decision Making: Supports data-driven insights for business strategies.
Machine Learning Support: Aids in implementing AI and machine learning projects.

In industries requiring extensive data analysis and reporting, Toad Data Point is deployed to streamline operations. Businesses engage it for SQL queries, data preparation, and cross-database analysis, which are critical for sectors reliant on accurate data and timely insights.

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NRB, Iberdrola, Consorzio Servizi Bancari

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