"It is quite useful and powerful."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"Once you have Infosphere up and running properly, it is stable."
"Offers great flexibility."
"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."
"It's a robust solution."
"The most valuable feature is the data integration for data warehousing."
"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."
"The solution offers very good integration capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the ETL functionality."
"Its integration capabilities and the data migration capabilities are the most valuable. It is very good for SAP and non-SAP tools. It has very good integration with SAP, but it also has the capabilities to connect to other systems. We find it very helpful and stable."
"Data Services' table comparison mechanism is very powerful. It's pretty hard to find a similar feature in other solutions."
"We can extract data at a table level, extract data at the ETL level, and we can extract data at an ODP level."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"It would be useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java."
"Currently lacking virtualization ability."
"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 response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"The setup is extremely difficult."
"The pricing should be lower."
"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."
"There should be some kind of enhancement that can be done on the admin side of certain sites where we can assign the roles and responsibilities. We should be able to control who is using the tool and how."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
"Source code control is another headache. When your source code base gets too large, managing the source code becomes cumbersome."
"They could make it easier to work with web services."
"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 6th in Data Integration Tools with 8 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 8th in Data Integration Tools with 5 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.6, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere DataStage writes "Robust, easy to use, has a simple error logging mechanism, and works very well for huge volumes of data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "It's a powerful tool that does a lot, but it has its annoyances". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, Talend Open Studio, Azure Data Factory, Informatica PowerCenter and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Palantir Foundry, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS and Talend Data Management Platform. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. SAP Data Services report.
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