We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SAP Process Orchestration 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."When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses."
"IBM is stable and accurate to monitor. It's easy to understand to monitor the data lineage from source to target."
"The solution has improved the time it takes to perform tasks related to batch applications."
"We are mostly using transmission rules. It has a lot of functions and logic related to transmission. It is a user-friendly tool with in-built functions."
"The product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed."
"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 ability to transfer information via notes."
"The concept of integration is a valuable feature of the product."
"The monitoring tools are the most valuable feature."
"The monitoring is one of the greatest features in Process Orchestration because it is user-friendly and easy for somebody who is not experienced."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Process Orchestration is its flexibility in being able to build integrations with SAP systems and non-SAP systems."
"The most valuable features of SAP Process Orchestration are its system monitoring and alerts."
"In my opinion, SAP PO is the most mature suite of tools to integrate processes across SAP environments at this moment. It's really unbeatable because it allows you to integrate whatever scenarios you can imagine."
"The main benefit is that the solution is low maintenance. Moreover, it's the license cost is very low because it's part of the package. The maintenance is standard maintenance. And the updates are regular. So there's a regular update and you can choose whether you want to do those updates or not."
"The solution is stable."
"It is strategically focused to forecast a global integration platform for our business."
"The documentation and in-application help for this solution need to be improved, especially for new features."
"I want the tool to continue with the on-prem version, not the cloud one."
"The graphical user interface (GUI) feels a lot like the interfaces from the 1980s."
"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
"We would be happy to see in next versions the ability to return several parameters from jobs. Now, jobs can return just one parameter. If they could return several parameters, that would be great."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"I really like this tool, but the administration should be on the same client application because a lot of administration features are not on the client-side, and they usually need to have administrative access. It's quite complicated to force IT teams to have separate administrative access from the developers."
"SAP Process Orchestration could improve from an API standpoint. This is not an API management tool, which is one of its drawbacks. However, SAP has released an SAP Cloud Platform Integration which has all of the features, such as API management along with process integration to replace what they had previously."
"The older version of the solution will no longer be supported."
"I think the main area that SAP PO should improve on is offering pre-delivered content like they do when you use SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI). SAP should not forget that they still have a lot of customers using Process Orchestration and they should focus more on providing pre-delivered content in SAP PO."
"The responsiveness of technical support needs to be improved."
"This is an on-premise platform and one area they can improve on is having the ability to work with SaaS solutions."
"The monitoring governance offered by SAP is too technical and needs to be geared more toward business users."
"It would be beneficial to enhance the ease of implementing new projects and improve overall stability in our implementations."
"In terms of technical support, it would be helpful if they handled the tickets a bit faster when queries are sent to them."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while SAP Process Orchestration is ranked 1st in Business-to-Business Middleware with 28 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while SAP Process Orchestration 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 SAP Process Orchestration writes "A tool that can be useful for small integrations and large integrations". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas SAP Process Orchestration is most compared with Mule Anypoint Platform, SAP Data Services, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, webMethods Integration Server and IBM B2B Integrator. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. SAP Process Orchestration report.
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