We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."It has built-in connectors for more than 100 sources and onboarding data from many different sources to the cloud environment."
"The solution is okay."
"Data Flow and Databricks are going to be extremely valuable services, allowing data solutions to scale as the business grows and new data sources are added."
"The most valuable feature is the copy activity."
"I can do everything I want with SSIS and Azure Data Factory."
"We use the solution to move data from on-premises to the cloud."
"ADF is another ETL tool similar to Informatica that can transform data or copy it from on-prem to the cloud or vice versa. Once we have the data, we can apply various transformations to it and schedule our pipeline according to our business needs. ADF integrates with Databricks. We can call our Databricks notebooks and schedule them via ADF."
"Data Factory's best feature is the ease of setting up pipelines for data and cloud integrations."
"I have worked with DB2's great features in the last five years. The IDAA feature transformed the vision of warehousing, business analytics, and big data at my bank. Besides the mainframe, I saw that this solution was evolutionary. It gives real-time information."
"BMC Data Management improved our data recovery process by simplifying it."
"When the record fails, it's tough to identify and log."
"Lacks in-built streaming data processing."
"You cannot use a custom data delimiter, which means that you have problems receiving data in certain formats."
"The initial setup is not very straightforward."
"If the user interface was more user friendly and there was better error feedback, it would be helpful."
"A room for improvement in Azure Data Factory is its speed. Parallelization also needs improvement."
"Data Factory's performance during heavy data processing isn't great."
"Lacks a decent UI that would give us a view of the kinds of requests that come in."
"DB2 is a hard tool to grasp. It's hard for users to learn how to use it. It's not easy to see how it works."
"One area for improvement with this product could be in providing clearer guidance and tools for disaster recovery planning and execution."
Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is ranked 21st in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Data Factory writes "The data factory agent is quite good but pricing needs to be more transparent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS writes "Improves disaster recovery processes and offers an efficient CPU cycle optimization ". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer, Snowflake and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Dataloader.io and IBM App Connect.
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