We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and FME 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."For developers that are very accustomed to the Microsoft development studio, it's very easy for them to complete end-to-end data integration."
"The solution is okay."
"The feature I found most helpful in Azure Data Factory is the pipeline feature, including being able to connect to different sources. Azure Data Factory also has built-in security, which is another valuable feature."
"Data Factory's most valuable feature is Copy Activity."
"I like its integration with SQL pools, its ability to work with Databricks, its pipelines, and the serverless architecture are the most effective features."
"The solution includes a feature that increases the number of processors used which makes it very powerful and adds to the scalability."
"We haven't had any issues connecting it to other products."
"One advantage of Azure Data Factory is that it's fast, unlike SSIS and other on-premise tools. It's also very convenient because it has multiple connectors. The availability of native connectors allows you to connect to several resources to analyze data streams."
"All spatial features are unrivaled, and the possibility to execute them based on a scheduled trigger, manual, e-mail, Websocket, tweet, file/directory change or virtually any trigger is most valuable."
"It has a very friendly user interface. You don't need to use a lot of code. For us that's the most important aspect about it. Also, it has a lot of connectors and few forms. It has a strong facial aspect. It can do a lot of facial analysis."
"We make minor subtle changes to the workbenches to improve it. We can share the workbenches. We don't have to use GitHub or anything else."
"The most valuable feature of FME is the graphical user interface. There is nothing better. It is very easy to debug because you can see all steps where there are failures. Overall the software is easy to optimize a process."
"It has standard plug-ins available for different data sources."
"The solution needs to be more connectable to its own services."
"The initial setup is not very straightforward."
"There is no built-in pipeline exit activity when encountering an error."
"There should be a way that it can do switches, so if at any point in time I want to do some hybrid mode of making any data collections or ingestions, I can just click on a button."
"If the user interface was more user friendly and there was better error feedback, it would be helpful."
"Data Factory's monitorability could be better."
"Azure Data Factory should be cheaper to move data to a data center abroad for calamities in case of disasters."
"There's space for improvement in the development process of the data pipelines."
"To get a higher rating, it would have to improve the price and the associated scalability. These are the main issues."
"Improvements could be made to mapping presentations."
"FME's price needs improvement for the African market."
"FME can improve the geographical transformation. I've had some problems with the geographical transformations, but it's probably mostly because I'm not the most skilled geographer in-house. The solution requires some in-depth knowledge to perform some functions."
"The one thing that always appears in the community is the ability to make really easy loops to loop through data efficiently. That needs to be added at some point."
Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while FME is ranked 24th in Data Integration with 5 reviews. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while FME 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 FME writes "Great for handling large volumes of data, but it is priced a bit high". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer and Snowflake, whereas FME is most compared with Alteryx Designer, Talend Open Studio, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter and SAP Data Services. See our Azure Data Factory vs. FME report.
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