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We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and TIBCO BusinessWorks 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.
To learn more, read our detailed IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. TIBCO BusinessWorks Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"Offers great flexibility.""The Hierarchical Data Stage is good.""It works with multiple servers and offers high availability.""The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms""The concept of integration is a valuable feature of the product.""The most valuable feature for our data processing needs is IBM InfoSphere DataStage's capability to handle ETL tasks with large record volumes.""The product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed.""Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."

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"The solution is stable. We haven't had any serious technical issues.""The OSGI console is available to debug different issues and get low level informations on the applications development, like bundle, dependencies, etc.""The Business Studio interface based on SCA Standards helps to show the business logic at first look and improve code maintenance.""XML to JSON transformations, out-of-the-box, helps to build REST services.""Good TIBCO BusinessWorks features are the admin console and the ability to roll back to the previous version.""The initial setup of TIBCO BusinessWorks was straightforward since we have used the solution in our organization for a long time.""One of the most valuable features is that it's a simple development. It takes a short time to get services to work.""The most valuable feature is the low-code platform."

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Cons
"The troubleshooting guide is very bad.""The interface needs improvement.""Improvements for DataStage could include better integration with modern data sources like cloud solutions and documents, along with enhancing its capability to handle non-structured data.""So, there are some features that are missing. If I compare DataStage to Talend, Talend allows you to write custom code in Java or use these tools in your applications as well if you are building a job application. But in DataStage, it does not allow you to write custom code for any component.""Currently lacking virtualization ability.""Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated. The solution could also be improved if they could integrate the data pipeline scheduling part of their interface.""There could be more customization options for the product.""The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."

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"The initial setup is not easy.""The Business Studio tool can be improved, which is the tool for designing the processes. Improving the Business Studio tool will make this solution more stable. It has a steep learning curve, and it is pretty tough to learn.""Its price can be improved. For medium enterprises, it is a very expensive tool. In the market, you won't get many resources for this solution. You won't find many developers in the market very easily. The latest version of TIBCO (6.4 or 6.x) is not very stable. It has got many issues. We have raised this with TIBCO, and they are taking a lot of time to come up with a fix, which is making us move away from this product. Some of the performance-tuning aspects are also missing in version 6. They should provide performance-related fixes, which will be helpful for the customers. If you are migrating from the current version to the container-supported version, it is quite expensive. The product has evolved, but it is very pricey. That's one of the challenges. They have provided all the features that are there in other products, but this is a platform upgrade. The platform has completely been changed from 5.x to 6.x, and we can't use the same environment. We can't run both versions on the same server as VM. The development environment is entirely different. In version 5.x, there was a proprietary designer. Now, it has common plug-ins developed on top of Eclipse.""Scaling with the solution is costly because if we need to scale up, we have to buy more memory. That means more money. Solutions like Camel or Pulsar come with built-in options to scale horizontally, vertically, region-wide or country-wide.""The cost of this product is too expensive for smaller companies or those with a small number of integrations.""They don't support out of the box - you have to buy adapters or you have to have the technology.""Cloud fitness is lacking""There is room for improvement on the learning side."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "High-cost of ownership: They could take a page from open source software."
  • "Pricing varies based on use, and it is not as costly as some competing enterprise solutions."
  • "Small and medium-sized companies cannot afford to pay for this solution."
  • "The cost is too high."
  • "It's very expensive."
  • "Our internal team takes care of group licensing and cost. We don't have individual licenses. We have group licensing at the company level. Usually, IBM doesn't charge anything separately on the licensing side. For storage and everything else, we are paying around $6,000 per month, which is not very high. It includes Linux data storage, execution, and licensing. They're charging $40 for one-hour execution. Based on that, we are spending around $2,000 on the production environment and $1,000 on the lower environment for testing and development-side executions. For the mainframe, we are using the Db2 mainframe database, and we are spending around $1,000 on the Db2 mainframe database as well. All this comes out to be around $6,000. We, however, would like to have some cost reduction."
  • "The price is expensive but there are no licensing fees."
  • "It is quite expensive."
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  • "My understanding is that the licensing is very costly."
  • "It is a bit expensive for medium-sized companies. If you are migrating from the current version to the container-supported version, it is quite expensive. The existing licensing will not work because the product platform itself is different."
  • "Its price policy has changed quite a lot in the last two years. It was extremely expensive previously. Nowadays, you can buy a license for BusinessWorks for €2000. Looking at what you get in return in terms of support, TIBCO community, and stability, it is fairly reasonable. It is not too expensive."
  • "I think BusinessWorks is more expensive compared to other products. We have the ELA, so at least we have some sort of bargain or discount with that. But for a start-up, it's very expensive compared to other ESBs."
  • "Licensing scheme is too rigid"
  • "I don't have the prices of the products, but I know that TIBCO is not a cheap solution. I think that this solution is more suitable for large companies because I don't think that small- or medium-sized companies would have the money for this solution. WSO2 has the community version for free, so many of the smaller companies can use it. I'm not sure what the prices are for support, though, so I suppose the support for WSO2 is not cheap either."
  • "The solution is too expensive. It's one of the most expensive solutions out there, particularly because there are so many open-source competitors on the market. I don't know the exact numbers, however."
  • "I give the cost of the solution a four out of ten."
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    Top Answer: My company currently uses the free version of the product, and we are definitely switching to a paid one. We needed a tool that can help us not only integrate our data but use it effectively. For the… more »
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    Top Answer:The ability to link to different technologies is valuable to us.
    Top Answer:The product is not cheap. However, the pricing is reasonable.
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    Overview

    IBM InfoSphere DataStage is a high-quality data integration tool that aims to design, develop, and run jobs that move and transform data for organizations of different sizes. The product works by integrating data across multiple systems through a high-performance parallel framework. It supports extended metadata management, enterprise connectivity, and integration of all types of data.

    The solution is the data integration component of IBM InfoSphere Information Server, providing a graphical framework for moving data from source systems to target systems. IBM InfoSphere DataStage can deliver data to data warehouses, data marts, operational data sources, and other enterprise applications. The tool works with various types of patterns - extract, transform and load (ETL), and extract, load, and transform (ELT). The scalability of the platform is achieved by using parallel processing and enterprise connectivity.

    The solution has various versions, catering to different types of companies, which include the Server Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the MVS Edition. Depending on which version a company has bought, different goals can be achieved. They include the following:

    • Designing data flows to extract information from multiple sources, transform the data, and deliver it to target databases or applications.

    • Delivery of relevant and accurate data through direct connections to enterprise applications.

    • Reduction of development time and improvement of consistency through prebuilt functions.

    • Utilization of InfoSphere Information Server tools for accelerating the project delivery cycle.

    IBM InfoSphere DataStage can be deployed in various ways, including:

    • As a service: The tool can be accessed from a subscription model, where its capabilities are a part of IBM DataStage on IBM Cloud Park for Data as a Service. This option offers full management on IBM Cloud.

    • On premises or in any cloud: The two editions - IBM DataStage Enterprise and IBM DataStage Enterprise Plus - can run workloads on premises or in any cloud when added to IBM DataStage on IBM Cloud Pak for Data as a Service.

    • On premises: The basic jobs of the tool can be run on premises using IBM DataStage.

    IBM InfoSphere DataStage Features

    The tool has various features through which users can integrate and utilize their data effectively. The components of IBM InfoSphere DataStage include:

    • AI services: The tool offers services such as data science, event messaging, data warehousing, and data virtualization. It accelerates processes through artificial intelligence (AI) and offers a connection with IBM Cloud Paks - the cloud-native insight platform of the solution.

    • Parallel engine: Through this feature, ETL performance can be optimized to process data at scale. This is achieved through parallel engine and load balancing, which maximizes throughput.

    • Metadata support: This feature of the product uses the IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog to protect companies' sensitive data and monitor who can access it and at what levels.

    • Automated delivery pipelines: IBM InfoSphere DataStage reduces costs by automating continuous integration and delivery of pipelines.

    • Prebuilt connectors: The feature for prebuilt connectivity and stages allows users to move data between multiple cloud sources and data warehouses, including IBM native products.

    • IBM DataStage Flow Designer: This feature offers assistance through machine learning design. The product offers its clients a user-friendly interface which facilitates the work process.

    • IBM InfoSphere QualityStage: The tool provides a feature that automatically resolves data quality issues and increases the reliability of the delivered data.

    • Automated failure detection: Through this feature, companies can reduce infrastructure management efforts, relying on the automated detection that the tool offers.

    • Distributed data processing: Cloud runtimes can be executed remotely through this feature while maintaining its sovereignty and decreasing costs.

    IBM InfoSphere DataStage Benefits

    This solution offers many benefits for the companies that utilize it for data integration. Some of these benefits include:

    • Increased speed of workload execution due to better balancing and a parallel engine.

    • Reduction of data movement costs through integrations and seamless design of jobs.

    • Modernization of data integration by extending the capabilities of companies' data.

    • Delivery of reliable data through IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

    • Utilization of a drag-and-drop interface which assists in the delivery of data without the need for code.

    • Effective data manipulation allows data to be merged before being mapped and transformed.

    • Creating easier access of users to their data by providing visual maps of the process and the delivered data.

    Reviews from Real Users

    A data/solution architect at a computer software company says the product is robust, easy to use, has a simple error logging mechanism, and works very well for huge volumes of data.

    Tirthankar Roy Chowdhury, team leader at Tata Consultancy Services, feels the tool is user-friendly with a lot of functionalities, and doesn't require much coding because of its drag-and-drop features.

    TIBCO BusinessWorks allows to connect applications, whether on-premises or in the cloud, providing proven reliability and scalability, out-of-the-box. With a drag-and-drop graphical development environment, TIBCO BusinessWorks eliminates the pain and cost of point-to-point application integration, connecting and unifying business processes across applications, data sources, and APIs, with access to real-time data across all your platforms.
    Sample Customers
    Dubai Statistics Center, Etisalat Egypt
    Euler Hermes, QSuper, Scandinavian Airlines
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company54%
    Transportation Company8%
    Healthcare Company8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm26%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Insurance Company8%
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    Financial Services Firm37%
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Transportation Company16%
    Insurance Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Energy/Utilities Company5%
    Company Size
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    Small Business46%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise48%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise74%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise64%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise76%
    Buyer's Guide
    IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. TIBCO BusinessWorks
    March 2024
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    IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 36 reviews while TIBCO BusinessWorks is ranked 17th in Data Integration with 23 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while TIBCO BusinessWorks is rated 8.0. 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 TIBCO BusinessWorks writes "Reliable integration solution with robust communication capabilities and good scalability". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas TIBCO BusinessWorks is most compared with webMethods Integration Server, Mule Anypoint Platform, Spring Cloud Data Flow and Confluent. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. TIBCO BusinessWorks report.

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