We performed a comparison between Boomi iPaaS and IBM InfoSphere DataStage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The platform is user-friendly."
"AtomSphere Integration will suit those looking for small automation and simple integrations."
"Extremely flexible for any kind of integration between systems."
"This is a fairly easy-to-use tool for integration which can be self-taught for those with a bit of a technical background."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"We work on the flow between systems and the most valuable features for that purpose are the mapping of data, interface mapping, and data integration."
"This solution has a user-friendly interface and very good documentation with solutions that helped us in working with the tool efficiently."
"The best features are that it is a cloud-based and a multi-tenant tool."
"The solution's scalability is really good...we are using multi-instance jobs where you can scale them easily."
"The most valuable feature is the data integration for data warehousing."
"Once you have Infosphere up and running properly, it is stable."
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"It is quite useful and powerful."
"It's a robust solution."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"As a data integration platform, it is easy to use. It is quite robust and useful for volumetric analysis when you have huge volumes of data. We have tested it for up to ten million rows, and it is robust enough to process ten million rows internally with its parallel processing. Its error logging mechanism is far simpler and easier to understand than other data integration tools. The newer version of InfoSphere has the data catalog and IDC lineage. They are helpful in the easy traceability of columns and tables."
"In day-to-day operations, tracking transactions is a major challenge. It takes hours to track a single transaction. It is not a straightforward process."
"Boomi AtomSphere Integration is not yet exposed to the world as a good product owing to certain shortcomings in the area of marketing where improvements are required."
"They should create a custom connector option. With this, they could improve where the user can create the connector, based on their usage."
"There are very few string handling functions and few mathematical functions are available."
"We encountered stability issues occasionally, one to two times a year."
"They are lacking in some streaming features, and messaging features from a listener's point of view."
"It is a costly platform. Its pricing could be better."
"The product could be a little bit more user-friendly."
"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."
"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
"The troubleshooting guide is very bad."
"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."
"Working with some of the big data components is good, but I can see improvements are needed."
"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."
"What needs improvement in IBM InfoSphere DataStage is its pricing. The pricing for the solution is higher than its competitors, so a lot of the clients my company has worked with prefer other tools over IBM InfoSphere DataStage because of the high price tag. Another area for improvement in the solution stems from a lot of new types of databases, for example, databases in the cloud and big data have become available, and IBM InfoSphere DataStage is working on various connectors for different data sources, but that still isn't up-to-date, meaning that some connectors are missing for modern data sources. The latest version of IBM InfoSphere DataStage also has a complex architecture, so my team faced frequent outages and that should be improved as well."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
Boomi iPaaS is ranked 5th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 25 reviews while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews. Boomi iPaaS is rated 7.8, while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Boomi iPaaS writes "Stable product, suitable for limited integrations and lacks flexibility ". 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". Boomi iPaaS is most compared with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, webMethods Integration Server, SSIS, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and AWS Glue, whereas IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter. See our Boomi iPaaS vs. IBM InfoSphere DataStage report.
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