We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and WhereScape RED 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 most valuable feature is the ability to transfer information via notes."
"The most valuable feature is the product's versatility to inject data."
"Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."
"The product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"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."
"Once you have Infosphere up and running properly, it is stable."
"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."
"I found the initial setup very easy."
"WhereScape's deployment package is a fantastic feature. The application allows for selecting specific objects that you would like to deploy from one environment to another rather than deploying the entire database."
"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."
"Data transformations and rollups are easy to accomplish."
"Their support staff are very knowledgeable, courteous, and professional. I feel their support staff go above and beyond to assure their customers are satisfied."
"Quickly develops a data warehouse for our organization with documentation and can track back/forward features."
"RED generates comprehensive documentation and regenerates it as quickly as things changes, but it also provides impact documentation."
"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 great if they can include some basic version of data quality checking features."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"The template mapping could be easier."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"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."
"It would be useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java."
"The graphical user interface (GUI) feels a lot like the interfaces from the 1980s."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"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."
"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."
"Customization could be better."
"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 ."
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IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while WhereScape RED is ranked 48th in Data Integration. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while WhereScape RED is rated 8.2. 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 WhereScape RED writes "Quick to set up, flexible, and stable". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas WhereScape RED is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Matillion ETL and Denodo. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. WhereScape RED report.
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