We performed a comparison between Ab Initio Co>Operating System and IBM InfoSphere DataStage 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."Ab Initio reaches the highest performance and is very flexible in processing huge amounts of data."
"Co>Operating System's most valuable feature is its ability to process bulk data effectively."
"The concept of integration is a valuable feature of the product."
"Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."
"When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses."
"The most valuable feature is the data integration for data warehousing."
"It works with multiple servers and offers high availability."
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"ETL is the most valuable feature."
"An awesome improvement would be big data solutions, for example, implementing some kind of business intelligence or neural networks for artificial intelligence."
"Co>Operating System would be improved with more integrations for less well-known technologies."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
"It takes a lot of time to actually trigger your job and then go into the logs and other stuff. So all of this is really time-consuming."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"The documentation and in-application help for this solution need to be improved, especially for new features."
"It would be useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java."
"The template mapping could be easier."
"In terms of intermediate storage, we have some challenges, especially with customers who store data in intermediate locations."
"The troubleshooting guide is very bad."
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Ab Initio Co>Operating System is ranked 28th in Data Integration with 2 reviews while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews. Ab Initio Co>Operating System is rated 9.6, while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Ab Initio Co>Operating System writes "Excellent bulk data processing for large enterprises". On the other hand, 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". Ab Initio Co>Operating System is most compared with SSIS, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), whereas IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter. See our Ab Initio Co>Operating System vs. IBM InfoSphere DataStage report.
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