We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and WhereScape RED 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 user-friendliness of the application."
"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."
"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."
"Very scalable, flexible, and user-friendly."
"When using IBM stacks, IBM App Connect is suitable and integrates well with other IBM products like WebSphere."
"It has an efficient design flow."
"We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications."
"WhereScape's deployment package is a fantastic feature. The application allows for selecting specific objects that you would like to deploy from one environment to another rather than deploying the entire database."
"The tool supports multiple target update methods."
"WhereScape is really helpful in terms of architecture data. Everything is one of automation. Two people can do thousands of tables in one day or two. It saves a lot of time."
"RED generates comprehensive documentation and regenerates it as quickly as things changes, but it also provides impact documentation."
"I found the initial setup very easy."
"I like the data vault implementations."
"Data transformations and rollups are easy to accomplish."
"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."
"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."
"The setup time for App Connect could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors."
"More connectors could be available for the product as some of the third-party software doesn't have default connectors."
"The installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."
"The product should improve its support."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
"IBM App Connect should improve security features."
"The ability to execute SSIS projects within WhereScape would be nice because we have a lot of packages that are too cumbersome to recreate."
"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."
"Customization could be better."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
"Technical support isn't the best."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."
"Improve the object renaming ability (it works, but it could be more automated)."
Earn 20 points
IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews while WhereScape RED is ranked 48th in Data Integration. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while WhereScape RED is rated 8.2. 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 WhereScape RED writes "Quick to set up, flexible, and stable". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and TIBCO BusinessWorks, whereas WhereScape RED is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter, Matillion ETL and Denodo. See our IBM App Connect vs. WhereScape RED report.
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