We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."The scalability of the product is impressive."
"Feature-wise, one of the most valuable ones is the data flows introduced recently in the solution."
"I like that it's a monolithic data platform. This is why we propose these solutions."
"One advantage of Azure Data Factory is that it's fast, unlike SSIS and other on-premise tools. It's also very convenient because it has multiple connectors. The availability of native connectors allows you to connect to several resources to analyze data streams."
"The most valuable features of Azure Data Factory are the flexibility, ability to move data at scale, and the integrations with different Azure components."
"It's extremely consistent."
"Azure Data Factory's most valuable features are the packages and the data transformation that it allows us to do, which is more drag and drop, or a visual interface. So, that eases the entire process."
"The solution is okay."
"I have worked with DB2's great features in the last five years. The IDAA feature transformed the vision of warehousing, business analytics, and big data at my bank. Besides the mainframe, I saw that this solution was evolutionary. It gives real-time information."
"BMC Data Management improved our data recovery process by simplifying it."
"Some known bugs and issues with Azure Data Factory could be rectified."
"The one element of the solution that we have used and could be improved is the user interface."
"Data Factory's monitorability could be better."
"There is always room to improve. There should be good examples of use that, of course, customers aren't always willing to share. It is Catch-22. It would help the user base if everybody had really good examples of deployments that worked, but when you ask people to put out their good deployments, which also includes me, you usually got, "No, I'm not going to do that." They don't have enough good examples. Microsoft probably just needs to pay one of their partners to build 20 or 30 examples of functional Data Factories and then share them as a user base."
"The initial setup is not very straightforward."
"Real-time replication is required, and this is not a simple task."
"We require Azure Data Factory to be able to connect to Google Analytics."
"The solution should offer better integration with Azure machine learning. We should be able to embed the cognitive services from Microsoft, for example as a web API. It should allow us to embed Azure machine learning in a more user-friendly way."
"DB2 is a hard tool to grasp. It's hard for users to learn how to use it. It's not easy to see how it works."
"One area for improvement with this product could be in providing clearer guidance and tools for disaster recovery planning and execution."
Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is ranked 21st in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Data Factory writes "The data factory agent is quite good but pricing needs to be more transparent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS writes "Improves disaster recovery processes and offers an efficient CPU cycle optimization ". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer, Snowflake and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate and IBM App Connect.
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