We performed a comparison between Boomi AtomSphere Integration, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, and Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"This is a fairly easy-to-use tool for integration which can be self-taught for those with a bit of a technical background."
"The best features are that it is a cloud-based and a multi-tenant tool."
"Very effective with its drag-and-drop feature."
"It has been a stable product."
"I like the tool's optimization feature."
"AtomSphere Integration will suit those looking for small automation and simple integrations."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its monitoring part to debug certain issues and find problems."
"The iPaaS functionality is very mature. The browser based IDE is also very mature and stable."
"The user interface which is very easy to use if we have any problems to solve."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The product is scalable and excellent for enterprise-level organizations."
"The most valuable feature is the building of mockups and tasks."
"Whether we need data cleansing or data mastering, we get it all in one platform."
"The solution is straightforward."
"The features I find most valuable is the synchronization, verification, functionalities and all the data integration features."
"The mass ingestion functionality and the elasticity of the solution are great."
"It makes it pretty simple to do some fairly complicated things. Both I and some of our other BI developers have made stabs at using, for example, SQL Server Integration Services, and we found them a little bit frustrating compared to Data Integration. So, its ease of use is right up there."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to create many API integrations. I'm always working with advertising agents and using Facebook and Instagram to do campaigns. We use Pentaho to get the results from these campaigns and to create dashboards to analyze the results."
"The solution has a free to use community version."
"Pentaho Data Integration is quite simple to learn, and there is a lot of information available online."
"We use Lumada’s ability to develop and deploy data pipeline templates once and reuse them. This is very important. When the entire pipeline is automated, we do not have any issues in respect to deployment of code or with code working in one environment but not working in another environment. We have saved a lot of time and effort from that perspective because it is easy to build ETL pipelines."
"Its drag-and-drop interface lets me and my team implement all the solutions that we need in our company very quickly. It's a very good tool for that."
"We also haven't had to create any custom Java code. Almost everywhere it's SQL, so it's done in the pipeline and the configuration. That means you can offload the work to people who, while they are not less experienced, are less technical when it comes to logic."
"The fact that it enables us to leverage metadata to automate data pipeline templates and reuse them is definitely one of the features that we like the best. The metadata injection is helpful because it reduces the need to create and maintain additional ETLs. If we didn't have that feature, we would have lots of duplicated ETLs that we would have to create and maintain. The data pipeline templates have definitely been helpful when looking at productivity and costs."
"The product could be a little bit more user-friendly."
"There are very few string handling functions and few mathematical functions are available."
"We would like to see more involvement between Dell Boomi and the end-users to help improve the customer experience."
"They need to introduce more configurable functions to remove scripting or coding. Scripting should be minimized. It should have exhaustive functions. Currently, it lacks in this aspect."
"There are still some areas that need improvement. For example, when updates are going on, the product becomes very slow."
"It is a costly platform. Its pricing could be better."
"It crashes if we run high-volume integration."
"In my experience, I haven't encountered any major issues with the tool. However, there could be a learning curve for new users, especially depending on which tool you're using. For example, I've used MuleSoft in the past, which is more code-oriented and requires knowledge of Java. Transitioning to Boomi AtomSphere Integration took me a couple of months because of differences in terminology."
"The integration process is not easy."
"The regions in which the data resides are still limited. This could be an issue in terms of the data residency laws of some of the countries. They should get more regions."
"The vendor should have more training resources: online classes, free tutorial videos, etc."
"Its pricing model can be improved. The response time from technical support can also be improved."
"The cloud version could be better in terms of pricing."
"Certain shortcomings in the product's UI make it an area where improvements are required."
"Connectivity could be improved, it can be a little slow."
"Certain applications are not being synced with the ION."
"In the Community edition, it would be nice to have more modules that allow you to code directly within the application. It could have R or Python completely integrated into it, but this could also be because I'm using an older version."
"I work with the Community Edition, therefore I do not have support. There was an issue that I could not resolve with community support."
"I work with different databases. I would like to work with more connectors to new databases, e.g., DynamoDB and MariaDB, and new cloud solutions, e.g., AWS, Azure, and GCP. If they had these connectors, that would be great. They could improve by building new connectors. If you have native connections to different databases, then you can make instructions more efficient and in a more natural way. You don't have to write any scripts to use that connector."
"The performance could be improved. If they could have analytics perform well on large volumes, that would be a big deal for our products."
"Since Hitachi took over, I don't feel that the documentation is as good within the solution. It used to have very good help built right in."
"The product needs more plugins."
"I would like to see support for some additional cloud sources. It doesn't support Azure, for example. I was trying to do a PoC with Azure the other day but it seems they don't support it."
"The support for the Enterprise Edition is okay, but what they have done in the last three or four years is move more and more things to that edition. The result is that they are breaking the Community Edition. That's what our impression is."
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