We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and TIBCO Spotfire 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."It works with multiple servers and offers high availability."
"Compared to other ETL tools, DataStage has excellent debugging and development capabilities. And the availability of connectors, even though we sometimes have to opt for specific ones. Also, the availability of patches is good."
"In IBM DataStage, the Transformer is the most valuable feature for me. It enables me to apply complex transformations, generate the gateway key, and map source tables into the session table."
"DataStage works better with Linux operating systems when the application services are hosted on Linux system equipment, but it's powerful on Windows too."
"The concept of integration is a valuable feature of the product."
"Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."
"The solution has improved the time it takes to perform tasks related to batch applications."
"IBM is stable and accurate to monitor. It's easy to understand to monitor the data lineage from source to target."
"From a scalability standpoint, I would say it's pretty fantastic."
"It's scalable."
"This solution allows us to integrate data from across all client departments, for effective reporting via a single dashboard."
"The most valuable features of TIBCO Spotfire are visualization. It's very nice, clear, and, flexible. You can analyze many data types and the user interface is very good."
"Spotfire is excellent for scientific applications, especially because of its integration with RNG."
"The ability to connect to many different data sources is one of the key features. The other would then be the different ways in which that data can be visualized."
"One of the main features is integrated statistical analysis."
"The solution is an affordable one."
"It would be great if they can include some basic version of data quality checking features."
"I really like this tool, but the administration should be on the same client application because a lot of administration features are not on the client-side, and they usually need to have administrative access. It's quite complicated to force IT teams to have separate administrative access from the developers."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"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."
"The documentation and in-application help for this solution need to be improved, especially for new features."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"I would like to see the visualization library in this solution expanded, so that I can increase what I can offer to our clients."
"The number of charts available out of the box in Spotfire can be enhanced."
"Personalising Spotfire, as a whole, is painful and is something that could be made easier."
"We would like to see some improvement in the default properties of the solution, so that there is less need for us to spend our time coding."
"The handling and consumption of realtime data could be improved."
"The way TIBCO Spotfire is designed, in my opinion, is the reason why it lags a bit, especially compared to other BI tools like Qlik."
"The Text Area feature needs to be more user-friendly. It is a little clunky to use, and it is difficult to consistently format text."
"We would like to see some development in the visualization aspect of this solution, as they can currently only be configured in the cloud, which limits us to one endpoint. It would be helpful if this could be integrated with other tools."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 13th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 66 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.2. 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 Spotfire writes "A robust BI tool, with good dashboard features and adverse event tracking". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Sense, QlikView and Amazon QuickSight. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. TIBCO Spotfire report.
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