We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) 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 integration with different technologies is the most valuable feature."
"IBM InfoSphere Information Server is stable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"This solution is extremely flexible and scalable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Easy to understand, very developer-friendly, and has a big forum community and lots of documentation for support."
"In our DW/BI solution, ODI is the main tool to integrate the data in a daily batch way."
"It's scalable."
"It can integrate with more recent databases like Cassandra, Hadoop, and other more recent Big Data databases."
"ODI's best features are customization, integration with other versioning tools, and the ability to define new knowledge modules."
"ODI significantly improves data integration and management by allowing customization of data types from various sources like SQL Server databases."
"ODI is a very accessible tool, especially since the mapping functionality has been added."
"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."
"This solution would benefit from the engine being made more lightweight."
"Their technical support needs improvement."
"There are certain shortcomings in the cloud side of the solution, where improvements are required."
"It needs easier security."
"Stability could be improved because some operators have issues."
"Overall the product is fine, but sometimes its reports unknown errors while we compile ETL scripts."
"The initial setup is complex, especially if you also have to install a console."
"There are certain things where it can be improved. Initial solution setup seems a bit complex at the start, it should be improved because it becomes bit tough for a novice to get started on this. Sometimes error description is not helpful to understand the problem it gives some generic type of errors which are at times not that helpful to understand the underlying root cause of the issue."
"An area for improvement would be the lack of SQL compatibility - ODI has no ability to interact with SQL unstructured types and data types."
"The performance of the user interface is in need of improvement."
"The stability of the software could be improved. Sometimes, the software just crashes. "
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IBM InfoSphere Information Server is ranked 36th in Data Integration with 7 reviews while Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is ranked 4th in Data Integration with 67 reviews. IBM InfoSphere Information Server is rated 8.4, while Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere Information Server writes "Prompt support, reliable, but lacking scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) writes "Straightforward to implement, scalable, and has good stability and documentation, but technical support could still be improved". IBM InfoSphere Information Server is most compared with IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Qlik Replicate, IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog, IBM Cloud Pak for Data and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is most compared with Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory and Oracle GoldenGate. See our IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) report.
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