We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Mule Anypoint Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a robust solution."
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"DataStage works better with Linux operating systems when the application services are hosted on Linux system equipment, but it's powerful on Windows too."
"The most valuable feature is the product's versatility to inject data."
"The ETL tools are probably the most valuable feature. It has an IBM tool, a friendly UI and it makes things more comfortable."
"The best feature of IBM InfoSphere DataStage for me was that it was very much user-friendly. The solution didn't require that much raw coding because most of its features were drag and drop, plus it had a large number of functionalities."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses."
"The integration potential is excellent."
"The solution's deployment and proxy processes are very good."
"The product’s ability to seamlessly translate protocols is great."
"The monitoring capabilities of this product are very good because of the feedback it supplies in statistics."
"We are very satisfied with the DevOps support."
"The exchange and API management features are the best in the market."
"The API toolkit is the solution's most valuable aspect at this time, for our organization."
"The most valuable feature is their integrations and very good API management."
"Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated.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 solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"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 response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"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 setup is extremely difficult."
"It should give better control over account management."
"The platform's data integration tools need improvement on the processing side."
"What I hear from my customers is that it's very expensive compared to the cost of other integration suites. The cost keeps increasing. MuleSoft should come up with customization factors by using a different way of getting the cost-related stuff to attract customers. That is, they should come up with some cost optimizations."
"Better documentation, in particular with respect to the initial setup, would be helpful."
"Adding connectors for new upcoming applications would add extra value to this product."
"Mule should have better B2B integration."
"The price could be improved."
"This becomes an expensive solution over time."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 3rd in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Mule Anypoint Platform is rated 8.2. 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 Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SAP Process Orchestration and SAP Cloud Platform. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Mule Anypoint Platform report.
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