We performed a comparison between Actian Pervasive Data Integrator [EOL], SSIS, and webMethods Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."There were no concerns with the stability. This product is very good from a stability perspective."
"In SSIS, the scope is not only to handle ETL challenges, but it will allow us to do so many other tasks, such as DBA activities, scripting, calling any .exe or scripts, etc."
"Its compatibility with Microsoft products has been very valuable to our company. It fits well within the architecture."
"The most valuable features for our company are the flexibility and the quick turn around time in producing simple ETL solutions."
"It's something I needed for bulk imports. I'm not a big fan of it, but I haven't seen anything better."
"The initial setup was easy."
"You can get data from any data source with SSIS and dump it to any outside source. It is helpful. Getting, extracting, converting, and dumping data doesn't require much effort because we can do everything in the user interface. You drag and drop, then give the required input. It's intuitive."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"The data reader is the most valuable feature."
"The Software AG Designer has been great. It's very intuitive."
"The stability is good."
"I like the stability of the webMethods Integration Server."
"Segregation of deployment for the environments is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The ease of mapping... is the single largest feature. It gives us the ability to craft anything. A lot of single-purpose technologies, like Mirth, are good for healthcare messages, but we use webMethods not only for healthcare messages but for other business-related purposes, like integrations to Salesforce or integrations to Office 365. It's multi-purpose nature is very strong."
"It's very flexible and a good platform to use."
"When it comes to the user interface, I'm already really used to it. I cannot say anything against it. For me, it's easy to use."
"webMethods Integration Server is an easy-to-use solution and does not require a lot of coding."
"I am not sure if there are various connectors available in the recent version of Pervasive DI to support the wide range of sources available (e.g., big data, cloud, EME)."
"I would like to see better technical documentation because many times information is missing."
"It hangs a lot of the time."
"SSIS can improve by the minimum code requirements in stored procedures and exporting data is difficult. They could make it easier, it should be as easy as it is to import data."
"I would also like to see full integration with our BI because then our full load of data will be available in our organization. They should incorporate an ATL process."
"Sometimes when we want to publish to other types of databases it's not easy to publish to those databases. For example, the Jet Database Engine. Before the SSIS supported Jet Database Engine but nowadays it doesn't support the Jet Database Engine. We connect to many databases such as Access database, SparkPros databases and the other types of databases using Jet Database Engines now and SSIS now doesn't seem to support it in our databases."
"The performance of this solution is not as good as other tools in the market."
"The creation of the measure in the DAC's model could be improved."
"I would like to see more standard components out of the box, such as SFTP, and Data Compression components."
"Upgrades are complex. They typically take about five months from start to finish. There are many packages that plug into webMethods Integration Server, which is the central point for a vast majority of the transactions at my organization. Anytime we are upgrading that, there are complexities within each component that we must understand. That makes any upgrade very cumbersome and complicated. That has been my experience at this company. Because there are many different business units that we are touching, there are so many different components that we are touching. The amount of READMEs that you have to go through takes some time."
"A while ago, they were hacked, and it took them a very long time to open their website again in order to download any service packs or any features. I don't know what they could do differently. I know that they were vulnerable, and there was some downtime, but because they were down, we were unable to download any potential service packs."
"Other products have been using AI and cloud enhancements, but webMethods Integration Server is still lagging in that key area."
"I would like to see the price improve."
"In terms of scale, I would give it a four out of 10."
"It is quite expensive."
"The UI for the admin console is very old. It hasn't been updated for years and is pretty much the same one that we started with. This is something that could be refreshed and made more modern."
"Business monitoring (BAM) needs improvement because the analytics and prediction module very often has performance problems."
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