We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and IBM InfoSphere Information Server 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."IBM is stable and accurate to monitor. It's easy to understand to monitor the data lineage from source to target."
"Once you have Infosphere up and running properly, it is stable."
"Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."
"The solution's scalability is really good...we are using multi-instance jobs where you can scale them easily."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"Finding logs is very easy on the solution."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"This solution is extremely flexible and scalable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"IBM InfoSphere Information Server is stable."
"The integration with different technologies is the most valuable feature."
"In terms of intermediate storage, we have some challenges, especially with customers who store data in intermediate locations."
"It would be great if they can include some basic version of data quality checking features."
"I want the tool to continue with the on-prem version, not the cloud one."
"The documentation and in-application help for this solution need to be improved, especially for new features."
"Currently lacking virtualization ability."
"The setup is extremely difficult."
"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"IBM InfoSphere Information Server should be more scalable. It should have the option to change the configuration to run on a single, non-multiple node, or multi-threading processing."
"Their technical support needs improvement."
"There are certain shortcomings in the cloud side of the solution, where improvements are required."
"This solution would benefit from the engine being made more lightweight."
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IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while IBM InfoSphere Information Server is ranked 36th in Data Integration with 7 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while IBM InfoSphere Information Server is rated 8.4. 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 IBM InfoSphere Information Server writes "Prompt support, reliable, but lacking scalability". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and AWS Glue, whereas IBM InfoSphere Information Server is most compared with Qlik Replicate, IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Oracle GoldenGate and Alation Data Catalog. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. IBM InfoSphere Information Server report.
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