We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Tungsten RPA 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 most valuable feature is the product's versatility to inject data."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"The ETL tools are probably the most valuable feature. It has an IBM tool, a friendly UI and it makes things more comfortable."
"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."
"I am impressed with the tool's ETL tracing."
"The product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed."
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"The concept of integration is a valuable feature of the product."
"The most valuable feature is the robotic process."
"The best part of Kofax is that they have a whole concept. It's one product, but also has extra elements that can be integrated."
"The most valuable feature of Kofax RPA is the simplicity of automating tasks."
"The solution is scalable."
"Kofax handles UIs via the browser well. If it's not possible, they have other features like modeling screen scrapes, etc."
"You can automate browsing tasks without needing a server connection. The platform provides its browser, allowing you to run anything inside it."
"The drag and drop functionality is quite good."
"The most valuable features are workflow and process automation."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"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."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"I want the tool to continue with the on-prem version, not the cloud one."
"Working with some of the big data components is good, but I can see improvements are needed."
"Reduced cost would allow more customers to choose the product. It's quite expensive in relation to the cost of other similar solutions."
"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."
"Kofax RPA's UI could be more user-friendly."
"The process discovery could be a bit better."
"This product has room for improvement in support of aviation. The interface could be improved in the next release."
"Automation with the latest websites is not effective. The support of newer websites developed using new technologies would improve this solution."
"The product has some constraints and performance issues."
"The product should improve desktop automation, which is hard to configure. It needs to have custom connectors. It is the only advantage that Microsoft Power Platform has over Kofax RPA. It has more than 800 custom connectors."
"There is really nothing special about the capabilities of this product."
"It needs a free training portal for anybody on the internet to use so that they can get an idea of what the possibilities are."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Tungsten RPA is ranked 12th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 24 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Tungsten RPA is rated 7.4. 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 Tungsten RPA writes "A stable product that provides end-to-end solutions for different business problems". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas Tungsten RPA is most compared with UiPath, Microsoft Power Automate, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere (AA) and SAS Data Management. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Tungsten RPA report.
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