We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and webMethods Integration 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."The product is easy to deploy."
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"The most valuable feature is the product's versatility to inject data."
"In IBM DataStage, the Transformer is the most valuable feature for me. It enables me to apply complex transformations, generate the gateway key, and map source tables into the session table."
"The concept of integration is a valuable feature of the product."
"As a data integration platform, it is easy to use. It is quite robust and useful for volumetric analysis when you have huge volumes of data. We have tested it for up to ten million rows, and it is robust enough to process ten million rows internally with its parallel processing. Its error logging mechanism is far simpler and easier to understand than other data integration tools. The newer version of InfoSphere has the data catalog and IDC lineage. They are helpful in the easy traceability of columns and tables."
"When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses."
"It is quite useful and powerful."
"We have a reusable code that we can replicate for any new interfaces."
"The solution's ease-of-use is its most valuable feature, in which complex issues may be resolved."
"I like the stability of the webMethods Integration Server."
"How simple it is to create new solutions."
"webMethods platform is used to build an EAI platform, enabling communication between many internal systems and third-party operators."
"They are the building blocks of EAI in SAG products, and they offer a very good platform."
"It’s fairly easy to view, move, and mange access across different components. Different component types are categorized and can be viewed in a web based administration console."
"The Software AG Designer has been great. It's very intuitive."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
"Reduced cost would allow more customers to choose the product. It's quite expensive in relation to the cost of other similar solutions."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"It would be great if they can include some basic version of data quality checking features."
"It would be useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java."
"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 interface needs improvement. It is really too technical. That is the main problem."
"So, there are some features that are missing. If I compare DataStage to Talend, Talend allows you to write custom code in Java or use these tools in your applications as well if you are building a job application. But in DataStage, it does not allow you to write custom code for any component."
"This solution could be improved by offering subscription based licensing."
"Forced migration from MessageBroker to Universal Messaging requires large scale reimplementation for JMS."
"Support is expensive."
"It would be nice if they had a change management system offering. We built our own deployer application because the one built into webMethods couldn't enforce change management rules. Integration into a change management system, along with the version control system, would be a good offering; it's something that they're lacking."
"The deployment should be simplified."
"I would like to have a dashboard where I can see all of the communication between components and the configuration."
"Need to see more API portal features like monetizing APIs and private cloud readiness."
"The solution has big instances when deployed under microservices or in a containerized platform. They need to improve that so that it is competitive with other integration solutions, like Redis and Kafka. Deployments under microservices with those solutions are much more lightweight, in the size of the runtime itself, compared with Software AG."
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IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while webMethods Integration Server is rated 8.0. 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 webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Boomi iPaaS. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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