We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and IBM InfoSphere Information 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."The best feature of IBM InfoSphere DataStage for me was that it was very much user-friendly. The solution didn't require that much raw coding because most of its features were drag and drop, plus it had a large number of functionalities."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"The solution's scalability is really good...we are using multi-instance jobs where you can scale them easily."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"The solution has improved the time it takes to perform tasks related to batch applications."
"The product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed."
"The integration with different technologies is the most valuable feature."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"This solution is extremely flexible and scalable."
"IBM InfoSphere Information Server is stable."
"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."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
"Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated. The solution could also be improved if they could integrate the data pipeline scheduling part of their interface."
"The documentation and in-application help for this solution need to be improved, especially for new features."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"Its documentation is not up to the mark. While building APIs, we had a lot of problems trying to get around it because it is not very user-friendly. We tried to get hold of API documentation, but the documentation is not very well thought out. It should be more structured and elaborate. In terms of additional features, I would like to see good reporting on performance and performance-tuning recommendations that can be based on AI. I would also like to see better data profiling information being reported on InfoSphere."
"It would be useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"There are certain shortcomings in the cloud side of the solution, where improvements are required."
"This solution would benefit from the engine being made more lightweight."
"Their technical support needs improvement."
"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."
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IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while IBM InfoSphere Information Server is ranked 36th in Data Integration with 7 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while IBM InfoSphere Information Server is rated 8.4. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere Information Server writes "Prompt support, reliable, but lacking scalability". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), whereas IBM InfoSphere Information Server is most compared with Qlik Replicate, IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Oracle GoldenGate and IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. IBM InfoSphere Information Server report.
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