We performed a comparison between Talend Open Studio and WhereScape RED based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."I didn't have many problems installing it. It seemed very straightforward to me."
"You can use Talend as a stand-alone application without customization to collect data and generate reports over dashboards. It's got great functionality."
"The most valuable feature of Talend Open Studio is the tMap component. There is a lot of functionality in one component."
"The product is easy to install and configure. It is one of the best tools for data integration."
"Talend Open Studio is easy to create jobs. We use the basic functionality and it is very good."
"The rapidity of integration with data may be one of the valuable features."
"The best thing I have found with Talend Open Studio is their major support for the lookups."
"The most valuable features are definitely data integration, data preparation, and data stewardship."
"The most valuable feature is the metadata generated code."
"RED has provided us the ability to integrate, stage, and transform data from diverse sources into an enterprise-grade data warehouse which meets the needs of my organization, but it also enables us to easily and quickly make ETL or DW changes."
"I found the initial setup very easy."
"Naturally produces a way to easily debug your DW data solutions."
"Their support staff are very knowledgeable, courteous, and professional. I feel their support staff go above and beyond to assure their customers are satisfied."
"The tool supports multiple target update methods."
"WhereScape RED has improved our business's ability to generate needed reporting without requiring a large team of developers to manually code all of the necessary plumbing."
"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."
"The technical support and documentation need a lot of work to come up to standard."
"The price for Talend Data Integration should be less expensive."
"The high price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The pricing could be lower. They should work to make it more affordable."
"I think my biggest problem with the tool is that the errors are very hard to debug."
"As for improvement or additional features, I would like to know how to use Java in Talend and also how to use Talend in the cloud or in big data. I would prefer to have storage directly on Talend."
"It is not as visually appealing as some of the other tools."
"It is complicated to understand the configuration process for email components."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
"Technical support isn't the best."
"Improve the object renaming ability (it works, but it could be more automated)."
"No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded ."
"The ability to execute SSIS projects within WhereScape would be nice because we have a lot of packages that are too cumbersome to recreate."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."
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Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 47 reviews while WhereScape RED is ranked 48th in Data Integration. Talend Open Studio is rated 8.0, while WhereScape RED is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Talend Open Studio writes "An open-source ETL tool, when deployed on-premises, requiring an easy installation phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhereScape RED writes "Quick to set up, flexible, and stable". Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Talend Data Fabric, Talend Data Management Platform and AWS Glue, whereas WhereScape RED is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Matillion ETL and Denodo.
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