We performed a comparison between Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Quest SharePlex, and SSIS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."The installation of the client ODI Studio is easy."
"It allows us to use many languages to develop and to integrate practically all the technologies of the Oracle suite as well as those from non-Oracle vendors."
"ODI is a very accessible tool, especially since the mapping functionality has been added."
"The most valuable feature that we use is the Knowledge Modules."
"The Knowledge Module approach provides an easy and reusable way to create our own integration strategies. It's easy to create these Knowledge Modules to connect to new technologies, for instance."
"ODI's best features are customization, integration with other versioning tools, and the ability to define new knowledge modules."
"Most of the functions are very straightforward, like the data model, mapping, package, and load plan. Thus, a new user could get started very fast."
"The most valuable feature of ODI is the to use of the whole ETL to create a data lake."
"The core features of the solution we like are the reliability of the data transfer and the accuracy of data read and write. The stability of the solution is also excellent."
"I like SharePlex's Compare and Repair tool."
"There are some capabilities within SharePlex where you can see how the data is migrating and if it still maintains good data integrity. For example, if there are some tables that get out of sync, there are ways to find them and fix the problem on the spot. Since these are very common issues, we can easily fix these types of problems using utilities, like compare and repair. So, if you find something is out of sync, then you can just repair that table. It basically syncs that table from source to target to see if there are any differences. It will then replicate those differences to the target."
"The core replication and its performance. Performance is crucial, and SharePlex is by far the fastest. The way it handles replication to multiple targets along with basic filtering, as well as from multiple sources to a single target, is very efficient."
"Because of the volume of the transactions, we heavily use a feature that allows SharePlex to replicate thousands of transactions. It's called PEP, Post Enhancement Performance, and that has helped us scale tremendously."
"It is easy to set up. The deployment is also very quick."
"The most valuable feature of SSIS is that it can handle real complex transformations."
"The most valuable features of SSIS are that it works with the query language and it can import data from different sources."
"SSIS provides you with lookup and transformation functions, and you have the flexibility to write your own custom code."
"It is also easy to learn and user-friendly. Microsoft is also good in terms of technical support. They have built a large community all over the world."
"The technical support is very good."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"It's already very user-friendly and has a good dashboard."
"ODI could improve the ease of use. There is a steep learning curve to use the solution."
"Technical Support could be better."
"The performance of the user interface is in need of improvement."
"The tool should improve its pricing. It prevents the application of Oracle ODI on small and medium projects in countries like Croatia, Germany, or the US. While there are no technological obstacles to using it, the high price makes it unfeasible for projects with smaller budgets."
"Stability could be improved because some operators have issues."
"The stability of the software could be improved. Sometimes, the software just crashes. "
"The initial setup is complex, especially if you also have to install a console."
"If there was an add-on tool to hide the performance issues and solve them for me, then I might be interested in that as it would provide me value."
"The reporting features need improvement. It would be very good for users to have a clear understanding of the status of replication."
"I would like the solution to have some kind of machine learning and AI capabilities. Often, if we want to improve the performance of posting, we have to bump up a parameter. That means we need to stop the process, come up with a figure that we want to bump the parameter up to, and then start SharePlex. Machine learning and AI capabilities for these kinds of improvement would tremendously help boost productivity for us."
"I don't know how easy it would be to change the architecture in an already implemented replication. For example, if we have a certain way of architecting for a particular database migration and want to change that during a period of time, is that an easy or difficult change? There was a need for us to change the architecture in-between the migration, but we didn't do it. We thought, "This is possibly complicated. Let's not change it in the middle because we were approaching our cutover date." That was one thing that we should have checked with support about for training."
"I would like more ability to automate installation and configuration in line with some of the DevOps processes that are more mature in the market. That would be a considerable improvement."
"For its function in relation to replication (i.e. filtering), I'd give it a six or seven out of 10. GoldenGate has much more functionality by comparison."
"I would like to see better integration with Power BI."
"Involving a data lake or data engineering aspects would be useful. While it is there, we need more features included."
"A change in the metadata source cripples the whole ETL process, requiring each module to be manually reopened."
"It's a legacy tool, that is nearing the end of its useful life."
"We'd like them to develop data exploration more."
"This solution needs full support for real-time processing."
"It's difficult to refactor SSIS. It gets cumbersome to reuse the solution."
"Generic processes should be used instead of custom code for each table."