We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and IBM InfoSphere DataStage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Provides good security features."
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"Very scalable, flexible, and user-friendly."
"When using IBM stacks, IBM App Connect is suitable and integrates well with other IBM products like WebSphere."
"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"It can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process."
"I would say that the most valuable feature is the array of connectors and integration tools."
"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."
"I am impressed with the tool's ETL tracing."
"The most valuable feature is the product's versatility to inject data."
"It is quite useful and powerful."
"Compared to other ETL tools, DataStage has excellent debugging and development capabilities. And the availability of connectors, even though we sometimes have to opt for specific ones. Also, the availability of patches is good."
"IBM is stable and accurate to monitor. It's easy to understand to monitor the data lineage from source to target."
"Finding logs is very easy on the solution."
"We like the flexibility of modeling."
"The most valuable feature for our data processing needs is IBM InfoSphere DataStage's capability to handle ETL tasks with large record volumes."
"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"The product should improve its support."
"IBM App Connect is scalable. From the administration side, they need to improve the RBAC model, as well as the clustering of this product. It will be good if we can start up the cluster, via IBM Connect Console. Some other products like MuleSoft, are providing this type of administration. MuleSoft is easy to use and user friendly."
"The setup time for App Connect could be improved."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
"It is not easy to deploy. It requires someone with a high level of knowledge in the solution to deploy it, not just anyone can do it."
"IBM App Connect should improve security features."
"DataStage is quite expensive. It is too hard to find a consultant using DataStage in Turkey."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"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."
"In the future, I would like to see more integration with cloud technologies."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"It doesn't have any big data connections. It would be good to have them because most of the systems are moving towards big data. There should also be a user-friendly way to interact with the cloud. Its loading process is very slow. It takes a lot of time for around 5 or 6 million records, and we are not able to provide real-time data to the vendors due to this delay. Its performance needs to be improved. It is also like a legacy system. It is not updated much. In higher versions, they only do small changes. We would like to have new features and new technologies."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"Its documentation is not up to the mark. While building APIs, we had a lot of problems trying to get around it because it is not very user-friendly. We tried to get hold of API documentation, but the documentation is not very well thought out. It should be more structured and elaborate. In terms of additional features, I would like to see good reporting on performance and performance-tuning recommendations that can be based on AI. I would also like to see better data profiling information being reported on InfoSphere."
IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Very flexible and user-friendly; embeds with other technologies; no dependency on queue manager". 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". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, TIBCO BusinessWorks and SAP Process Orchestration, whereas IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Alteryx Designer. See our IBM App Connect vs. IBM InfoSphere DataStage report.
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