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."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."
"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."
"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"Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated.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."
"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."
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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