We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Informatica PowerExchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is very easy to use."
"The ETL tools are probably the most valuable feature. It has an IBM tool, a friendly UI and it makes things more comfortable."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the product's versatility to inject data."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"Finding logs is very easy on the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the data integration for data warehousing."
"We are mostly using transmission rules. It has a lot of functions and logic related to transmission. It is a user-friendly tool with in-built functions."
"From the product feature or product capability perspective, the aspects around integration, transformation, and standardization are valuable. It's fairly easy to use. It has a GUI-based interface."
"The data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"It is a scalable and versatile solution."
"Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation."
"The user interface and user experience are perfectly all right."
"Mainstream integration and real-time integration are the best features."
"Overall, it's a good tool. It's currently number one on the market. It pretty much has all the necessary capabilities to pull the incremental data from the source system, technically speaking."
"The solution can connect to different systems i.e. mainframe, IMS or AS/400 Legacy Systems."
"The template mapping could be easier."
"I want the tool to continue with the on-prem version, not the cloud one."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"The graphical user interface (GUI) feels a lot like the interfaces from the 1980s."
"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 terms of intermediate storage, we have some challenges, especially with customers who store data in intermediate locations."
"It would be useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"Pushdown optimization could be improved."
"V10.2 is very stable, but we are still struggling to make V10.5 stable. We found services that were down, and PowerExchange stopped working."
"Informatica is very expensive in all aspects, so the pricing is something that could be improved."
"The product's high costs can be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"Technical support can be improved with respect to delays in ticket response time."
"The connectivity with T24 core banking could be improved."
"The solution needs better integration with other tools."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Informatica PowerExchange report.
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