We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and IBM InfoSphere DataStage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the adapters. The adapters help us achieve scalability. If you want to connect to SAP, there's an adapter. Salesforce? There's an adapter. You want to connect to another system? There's likely an adapter for that."
"It can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process."
"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."
"It's stable to use, connect with the cloud, and to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."
"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."
"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"ETL is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"IBM is stable and accurate to monitor. It's easy to understand to monitor the data lineage from source to target."
"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."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
"The interface could be better."
"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."
"The user interface of IBM App Connect can be a little bit more user-friendly, I would say because the first-time developer is onboarded while using IBM App Connect, he or she may get a little intimidated or daunted looking at all the options available or the pipelines, et cetera."
"One more important point is that if IBM improves its CI/CD capabilities, it will make a big difference. Right now, I have to create my own CI/CD setup from scratch for every client, which is inefficient."
"IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement."
"The template mapping could be easier."
"I want the tool to continue with the on-prem version, not the cloud one."
"It would be great if they can include some basic version of data quality checking features."
"The graphical user interface (GUI) feels a lot like the interfaces from the 1980s."
"The interface needs improvement."
"I really like this tool, but the administration should be on the same client application because a lot of administration features are not on the client-side, and they usually need to have administrative access. It's quite complicated to force IT teams to have separate administrative access from the developers."
"The pricing should be lower."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 21 reviews while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Offers flexible adapters, good scalability but logging can be difficult at times". 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". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, TIBCO BusinessWorks and SAP Process Orchestration, 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 IBM App Connect vs. IBM InfoSphere DataStage report.
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