We performed a comparison between Boomi iPaaS and IBM InfoSphere DataStage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's very user-friendly and designed to be easy to use for the end user."
"This is a fairly easy-to-use tool for integration which can be self-taught for those with a bit of a technical background."
"The solution has a lot of connectors, which is quite helpful."
"We work on the flow between systems and the most valuable features for that purpose are the mapping of data, interface mapping, and data integration."
"The connection configuration part and the drag-and-drop integration module are the most valuable features for me."
"Low-code development is the most valuable feature."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The platform is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the data integration for data warehousing."
"Offers great flexibility."
"The concept of integration is a valuable feature of the product."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to transfer information via notes."
"It is quite useful and powerful."
"The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"The ETL tools are probably the most valuable feature. It has an IBM tool, a friendly UI and it makes things more comfortable."
"The solution has improved the time it takes to perform tasks related to batch applications."
"There are still some areas that need improvement. For example, when updates are going on, the product becomes very slow."
"The solution is complex. There's a few items and features that are hard to understand. They should work to simplify the functionality so new users don't struggle."
"There is no validation in the mapping profile custom scripting, such as IntelliSense or advanced error checking."
"Boomi AtomSphere Integration should scale up on the migration area."
"We would like to see more involvement between Dell Boomi and the end-users to help improve the customer experience."
"They need to introduce more configurable functions to remove scripting or coding. Scripting should be minimized. It should have exhaustive functions. Currently, it lacks in this aspect."
"Boomi AtomSphere Integration is not yet exposed to the world as a good product owing to certain shortcomings in the area of marketing where improvements are required."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
"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 error messaging needs to be improved."
"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."
"The graphical user interface (GUI) feels a lot like the interfaces from the 1980s."
"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."
"Reduced cost would allow more customers to choose the product. It's quite expensive in relation to the cost of other similar solutions."
"The interface needs improvement."
Boomi iPaaS is ranked 5th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 25 reviews while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews. Boomi iPaaS is rated 7.8, while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Boomi iPaaS writes "Stable product, suitable for limited integrations and lacks flexibility ". 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". Boomi iPaaS is most compared with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, webMethods Integration Server, SSIS, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and AWS Glue, whereas IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter. See our Boomi iPaaS vs. IBM InfoSphere DataStage report.
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