We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and WhereScape RED based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."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."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"IBM is stable and accurate to monitor. It's easy to understand to monitor the data lineage from source to target."
"The solution is stable."
"The ETL tools are probably the most valuable feature. It has an IBM tool, a friendly UI and it makes things more comfortable."
"Once you have Infosphere up and running properly, it is stable."
"The solution's scalability is really good...we are using multi-instance jobs where you can scale them easily."
"Offers great flexibility."
"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."
"Their support staff are very knowledgeable, courteous, and professional. I feel their support staff go above and beyond to assure their customers are satisfied."
"The most valuable feature is the metadata generated code."
"I like the data vault implementations."
"Data transformations and rollups are easy to accomplish."
"WhereScape's deployment package is a fantastic feature. The application allows for selecting specific objects that you would like to deploy from one environment to another rather than deploying the entire database."
"Quickly develops a data warehouse for our organization with documentation and can track back/forward features."
"RED has provided us the ability to integrate, stage, and transform data from diverse sources into an enterprise-grade data warehouse which meets the needs of my organization, but it also enables us to easily and quickly make ETL or DW changes."
"Working with some of the big data components is good, but I can see improvements are needed."
"In the future, I would like to see more integration with cloud technologies."
"The documentation and in-application help for this solution need to be improved, especially for new features."
"In terms of intermediate storage, we have some challenges, especially with customers who store data in intermediate locations."
"The template mapping could be easier."
"The graphical user interface (GUI) feels a lot like the interfaces from the 1980s."
"I want the tool to continue with the on-prem version, not the cloud one."
"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 scheduled jobs which are run by the WhereScape scheduler seem to be a strangely separate animal. Unlike all other WhereScape objects, jobs cannot be added to WhereScape projects. Also, unlike all other objects, jobs also cannot be deleted using a WhereScape deployment application."
"Technical support isn't the best."
"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"Improve the object renaming ability (it works, but it could be more automated)."
"Customization could be better."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
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IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while WhereScape RED is ranked 48th in Data Integration. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while WhereScape RED 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 WhereScape RED writes "Quick to set up, flexible, and stable". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas WhereScape RED is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter, Matillion ETL and Denodo.
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