We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere Datastage and Talend Open Studio based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users feel that IBM Infosphere DataStorage needs to have a stronger focus on cloud technologies to be a more considerable option in today’s marketplace. In addition, its reviewers do not mention an ROI, whereas Talend Open Studio users report a positive one. For these reasons, Talend Open Studio wins out in this comparison.
"We like the flexibility of modeling."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"The best feature of IBM InfoSphere DataStage for me was that it was very much user-friendly. The solution didn't require that much raw coding because most of its features were drag and drop, plus it had a large number of functionalities."
"When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses."
"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."
"The concept of integration is a valuable feature of the product."
"The solution has improved the time it takes to perform tasks related to batch applications."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"We're sold on the customization part of the solution."
"The most interesting aspect of the solution for us is that Talend Open Studio has a good balance between the features and the cost of the data management platform."
"The most valuable features are definitely data integration, data preparation, and data stewardship."
"The data integration aspect of the solution is excellent."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The best thing I have found with Talend Open Studio is their major support for the lookups."
"Talend Open Studio's installation process is easy. One just needs to install Java before installing the product"
"Talend can connect to multiple data sources, including relational data sources, ERP, CRM, and others."
"The documentation and in-application help for this solution need to be improved, especially for new features."
"In the future, I would like to see more integration with cloud technologies."
"Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated.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."
"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
"The interface needs work to be more user-friendly."
"The pricing should be lower."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"It would be great if they can include some basic version of data quality checking features."
"I would say that writing to JSON is kind of a pain. It reads from a JSON file pretty well, but writing to a JSON file is not so great because its components are not good."
"When faced with a challenge, such as the necessity to link up with an unconventional data source like the legacy Cyprus Vision database that wasn't inherently supported by Talend, I had to resort to writing Python code to establish the connection."
"The only other thing is that you have to integrate into an API gateway. We're in Azure, so we use Microsoft Azure Gateway. It doesn't come with its own gateway, which is another sort of big plus side that we saw in Boomi. Talend isn't quite there yet with the API gateway."
"I rate Talend Open Studio's stability an eight out of ten. Talend has some problems sometimes."
"Talend should improve the log and error handling to better track the errors you find during development. Sometimes it's challenging to see what's causing an issue, and tracking that on Talend is complicated."
"If I compare Open Studion to other solutions, their interface is robust but not so fancy looking. This is an area that could use improvement. I would like to see an updated interface."
"In version 6.2 we did encounter issues with the job servers and specifically with ESB. Version 6.3 is better but large jobs can cause the MDM server to fall over, requiring a reboot."
"Talent consumes a lot of resources on my PC."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 48 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Talend Open Studio 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 Talend Open Studio writes "Intuitive interface and documentation make it simple to build jobs and APIs and logging helps pinpoint and resolve issues quickly". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Informatica PowerCenter and IBM InfoSphere Information Server, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, Talend Data Fabric, Talend Data Management Platform, Informatica PowerCenter and AWS Glue. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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