We performed a comparison between Alteryx Designer and IBM InfoSphere DataStage 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 functionality of drag and drop is the most valuable. It is a very user-friendly tool that can be understood easily. My teams also work with other solutions, such as Integration Services, and these solutions are very difficult for people who don't have technical knowledge."
"The most valuable features are the integrated properties and integrated connectivity."
"Workflow automation, in general, is valuable."
"Alteryx is quite easy to use, learn, and understand as a product."
"Alteryx Designer is stable."
"It has an easy setup process."
"The product is very stable. The performance is reliable."
"I like Alteryx Designer's drag-and-drop feature, where you drag a component, configure it and quickly run it."
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"It works with multiple servers and offers high availability."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"The concept of integration is a valuable feature of the product."
"The product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed."
"I am impressed with the tool's ETL tracing."
"Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."
"Improving the key-based sign-on process and making it more user-friendly would be a benefit."
"The only thing is sometimes it can be a bit slow."
"We need more documentation."
"It is challenging to view the data using Alteryx Designer."
"Optimizing processing times is one area I would like to see improved in Alteryx Designer. Sometimes, the workflows take an extremely long time to run. There are days when I have had to wait two to three hours for a single process to complete. There needs to be a functionality to split the processes."
"When it comes to the pivoting part, the drill-through option is not there in Alteryx."
"Based on my experience, the tool could be improved by providing sample reports or pre-configured workflows tailored to specific industries, like finance. It needs to integrate an AI chatbot as well."
"It would be simpler if they provided a component where you could simply enter some parameters and see the results."
"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."
"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."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"What needs improvement in IBM InfoSphere DataStage is its pricing. The pricing for the solution is higher than its competitors, so a lot of the clients my company has worked with prefer other tools over IBM InfoSphere DataStage because of the high price tag. Another area for improvement in the solution stems from a lot of new types of databases, for example, databases in the cloud and big data have become available, and IBM InfoSphere DataStage is working on various connectors for different data sources, but that still isn't up-to-date, meaning that some connectors are missing for modern data sources. The latest version of IBM InfoSphere DataStage also has a complex architecture, so my team faced frequent outages and that should be improved as well."
"The pricing should be lower."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"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."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
Alteryx Designer is ranked 9th in Data Integration with 27 reviews while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews. Alteryx Designer is rated 8.0, while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alteryx Designer writes "An easy-to-use automation solution with satisfying customer support". On the other hand, 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". Alteryx Designer is most compared with Azure Data Factory, FME, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS and Zapier, whereas IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory and Talend Open Studio. See our Alteryx Designer vs. IBM InfoSphere DataStage report.
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