IBM App Connect and Fivetran compete in the integration tools market. Fivetran seems to have the upper hand in user-friendliness and ease of setup.
Features: IBM App Connect is known for its complex integration handling, diverse adapters, and middleware capabilities that facilitate seamless connectivity. It ensures robust security and scalability, particularly when operating within IBM environments. Fivetran offers simplicity and ease of ETL management with managed pipelines, detailed logging, and effective cloud deployment, particularly emphasizing rapid setup and maintenance.
Room for Improvement: IBM App Connect could benefit from better cloud instance features, faster support response times, and more user-friendly interfaces. Users also recommend easier configuration and enhanced error-handling. Fivetran requires better data pipeline observability, more diverse connectors, improved logging, and more affordable options for handling high-volume data.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM App Connect supports multiple deployment environments, including on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid models, but needs improvement in support consistency and response times. Fivetran focuses on cloud deployment with hybrid options, offering generally well-rated support, although users seek faster and more insightful customer service.
Pricing and ROI: IBM App Connect's complex licensing and high costs affect smaller enterprises, with ROI reliant on skilled personnel. Fivetran also faces pricing challenges, especially for large data volumes, requiring clearer cost structures. Both could enhance pricing transparency to cater to a wider range of businesses.
It saves us the effort of having one to two data engineers managing the tasks that Fivetran handles.
The technical support provided by Fivetran has generally been good, with a response time and competence that I would rate as good.
When opening a ticket with the global team, problems are resolved promptly and effectively.
The technical support from IBM is good.
IBM App Connect demonstrates good scalability.
I would rate the scalability of IBM App Connect as nine out of ten.
During the duration of the time that we used Fivetran, it was highly stable.
IBM App Connect occasionally crashes for various reasons, requiring problem-solving intervention.
From a cost perspective, if the number of connectors is lesser, then Fivetran is not the most cost-efficient option.
Improvement in existing connectors with new features is desirable.
I find it particularly good for on-premises and now cloud use.
Version 13 includes around 200 features with cloud platform compatibility.
Our current yearly contract for Fivetran is approximately $70,000.
For insurance companies with simple JDBC connections, the process is straightforward.
The most valuable feature of Fivetran is its built-in connectors for a wide range of data sources.
The ability to seamlessly integrate with a large variety of data sources is valuable.
The features I find most valuable are message routing, message transformation, and protocol translation.
File operations are simple to execute, and converting between XML to JSON formats is effortless with IBM App Connect.
Fivetran, the global leader in data movement, is trusted by companies like OpenAI, LVMH, Pfizer, Verizon and Spotify to centralize data from SaaS applications, databases, files, and other sources into cloud destinations, including data lakes. With high-performance pipelines, seamless interoperability, and enterprise-grade security, Fivetran empowers organizations to modernize their data infrastructure, power analytics and AI, ensure compliance, and achieve transformative business outcomes. Learn more at Fivetran.com
Rapidly connect public clouds, private clouds and on-premises application
App Connect Professional is IBM’s cloud integration offering which delivers an integration solution
• With ease-of-use, flexibility and increased responsiveness to the evolving business needs, while removing the daunting complexities of integration.
• Provides the powerful combination of a ‘simple integration experience’ for business users looking to automate how their applications talk to each other; coupled with a ‘configuration based integration’ approach for IT.
• App Connect Professional is for the teams and integration developers who need to solve more complex problems and need powerful tooling for integration scenarios
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