We performed a comparison between Quest SharePlex and SSIS 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."I like SharePlex's Compare and Repair tool."
"The core features of the solution we like are the reliability of the data transfer and the accuracy of data read and write. The stability of the solution is also excellent."
"The core replication and its performance. Performance is crucial, and SharePlex is by far the fastest. The way it handles replication to multiple targets along with basic filtering, as well as from multiple sources to a single target, is very efficient."
"Because of the volume of the transactions, we heavily use a feature that allows SharePlex to replicate thousands of transactions. It's called PEP, Post Enhancement Performance, and that has helped us scale tremendously."
"There are some capabilities within SharePlex where you can see how the data is migrating and if it still maintains good data integrity. For example, if there are some tables that get out of sync, there are ways to find them and fix the problem on the spot. Since these are very common issues, we can easily fix these types of problems using utilities, like compare and repair. So, if you find something is out of sync, then you can just repair that table. It basically syncs that table from source to target to see if there are any differences. It will then replicate those differences to the target."
"The technical support is very good."
"The main value of any Microsoft product is the ease of use. You can achieve more with less time. That's what's beneficial for me. With many competitors, you might need to spend more time coming up with a solution because you have to focus on taking care of the product."
"The performance is good."
"Like most Microsoft products, SSIS is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The most valuable features for our company are the flexibility and the quick turn around time in producing simple ETL solutions."
"We like that this solution includes a developer edition, free of charge, to allow for training."
"The most valuable feature of SSIS is that you can take data from other servers which are not MS SQL Server or Oracle."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"I don't know how easy it would be to change the architecture in an already implemented replication. For example, if we have a certain way of architecting for a particular database migration and want to change that during a period of time, is that an easy or difficult change? There was a need for us to change the architecture in-between the migration, but we didn't do it. We thought, "This is possibly complicated. Let's not change it in the middle because we were approaching our cutover date." That was one thing that we should have checked with support about for training."
"I would like the solution to have some kind of machine learning and AI capabilities. Often, if we want to improve the performance of posting, we have to bump up a parameter. That means we need to stop the process, come up with a figure that we want to bump the parameter up to, and then start SharePlex. Machine learning and AI capabilities for these kinds of improvement would tremendously help boost productivity for us."
"The reporting features need improvement. It would be very good for users to have a clear understanding of the status of replication."
"I would like more ability to automate installation and configuration in line with some of the DevOps processes that are more mature in the market. That would be a considerable improvement."
"For its function in relation to replication (i.e. filtering), I'd give it a six or seven out of 10. GoldenGate has much more functionality by comparison."
"SSIS can improve by the minimum code requirements in stored procedures and exporting data is difficult. They could make it easier, it should be as easy as it is to import data."
"It hangs a lot of the time."
"There was also not enough instructions from Microsoft in regards to this application or this technology, which can easily be improved upon."
"Microsoft should offer an on-premises support warranty for those using that deployment. They seem to be withdrawing from on-premises options."
"Improving the login procedure would make our reporting easier on monitoring our ETL processes."
"Generic processes should be used instead of custom code for each table."
"SSIS should be made a little bit more intuitive and user-friendly because it needs an expert-level person to work on it."
"We're in the process of switching to Informatica, and we need to work out data lineage and data profiling and to improve the quality of our data. SSIS, however, is not that compatible with Informatica. We managed to connect it to Informatica Metadata Manager, but we don't get good lineage, so we have to redo all our ETLs using the Informatica process in order to accept the proper data lineage."
Quest SharePlex is ranked 24th in Data Integration with 5 reviews while SSIS is ranked 2nd in Data Integration with 69 reviews. Quest SharePlex is rated 9.0, while SSIS is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Quest SharePlex writes "It reduces the downtime and migration time exponentially". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SSIS writes "Maintaining the solution and contacting its support team is easy". Quest SharePlex is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Oracle Enterprise Manager and Fivetran, whereas SSIS is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Talend Open Studio, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and AWS Glue. See our Quest SharePlex vs. SSIS report.
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