We performed a comparison between Alteryx Designer 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."I have been using Alteryx Designer only for data modeling and data structuring."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx Designer is its ability to select all the inputs and formulas."
"The functionality of drag and drop is the most valuable. It is a very user-friendly tool that can be understood easily. My teams also work with other solutions, such as Integration Services, and these solutions are very difficult for people who don't have technical knowledge."
"It helps them to create customized workflows, transform data, perform calculations, and consolidate multiple data sources into a target database."
"I like Alteryx Designer's drag-and-drop feature, where you drag a component, configure it and quickly run it."
"I like Alteryx's browser tool because you can view how your data is handled live. There are many other valuable tools like transpose and the crosstab. You can quickly pivot your data, and there are connections throughout the database. It's so easy to create a connection. If you connect to sign apps or a more complex database, the tool contains all the tools you need."
"It has great UI."
"The features I found most valuable are the preparation features – the Join and the Transform."
"The Software AG Designer has been great. It's very intuitive."
"It is a very stable product."
"What I like best about webMethods Integration Server is its portfolio of connectors."
"What I found most valuable in webMethods Integration Server is that it's a strong ESB. It also has strong API modules and portals."
"Application integrations are offered out-of-the-box, and that is extremely important to us. This is one of the main use cases that we have for it. It is about 60 to 70 percent of the workload in our application today."
"The MFT component of webMethods, for example, is easy to set up and convenient to use. It handles files very efficiently and it is easy to automate tasks with complex schedules. Monitoring is centralized to MWS which can be used to monitor other products as well (Trading Networks, BPM, MFT, etc.)"
"Best feature is Insight for monitoring, and as a debugging tool. It has saved us a lot of time during crisis situations."
"Most of the work in our organization can be more easily done using the tool."
"It is challenging to view the data using Alteryx Designer."
"When configuring the Logix, the UA could be improved."
"I would like to be able to include small snippets of code inside of the solution. The tool has only drag-and-drop features to make it easy to use, but sometimes I feel like this makes it more complicated."
"It would be simpler if they provided a component where you could simply enter some parameters and see the results."
"Improving the key-based sign-on process and making it more user-friendly would be a benefit."
"Alteryx needs to improve its web governance. The gallery you use to filter the data is something else that could use some work. For instance, if you have a report connected to a database and want to filter a specific user, you should be able to suggest a specific region or a particular year. I know that the Alteryx isn't designed for data governance, but that would be great to think about."
"The only thing is sometimes it can be a bit slow."
"The actual usage part of it needs to be explained more. It's too vague right now."
"The patching of infrastructure is not very smooth and improved authentication should be added in the next feature."
"For code version control, you need to use some external software."
"The product must add more compatible connectors."
"webMethods Integration Server needs to add more adapters."
"When migration happens from the one release to an upgraded release from Software AG, many of the existing services are deprecated and developers have to put in effort testing and redeveloping some of the services. It would be better that upgrade releases took care to support the lower-level versions of webMethods."
"The stability of the various modules of the product suite have been a bit of a concern lately. Though their support team is always easy to reach out to, I would prefer it not come to that."
"Version control is not very easy. The packages and the integration server are on Eclipse IDE, but you can't compare the code from the IDE. For example, if you are working on Java code, doing version control and deployment for a quick comparison between the code isn't easy. Some tools or plug-ins are there, such as CrossVista, and you can also play with an SVN server where you have to place your package, and from there, you can check, but you have to do that as a separate exercise. You can't do it from the IDE or webMethods server. You can't just right-click and upload your service."
"The orchestration is not as good as it should be."
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Alteryx Designer is ranked 9th in Data Integration with 28 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. Alteryx Designer is rated 8.0, while webMethods Integration Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx Designer writes "An easy-to-use automation solution with satisfying customer support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". Alteryx Designer is most compared with Azure Data Factory, FME, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter and SAP Data Services, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Boomi iPaaS. See our Alteryx Designer vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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