We performed a comparison between Boomi AtomSphere Integration and IBM InfoSphere DataStage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a low-code and high-configuration platform, which is very valuable. Develop once and run anywhere is another useful feature. It also has connectors for more than 200 applications. It provides value for money. Our customers who have implemented this solution have a very high ROI."
"It is easy to learn and implement."
"Low-code development is the most valuable feature."
"Boomi AtomSphere Integration is stable."
"The Salesforce and NetSuite Application specific “connectors” provide a layer of abstraction on top of the SOAP-based APIs to streamline integration development."
"The best features are that it is a cloud-based and a multi-tenant tool."
"This is a fairly easy-to-use tool for integration which can be self-taught for those with a bit of a technical background."
"Very effective with its drag-and-drop feature."
"It works with multiple servers and offers high availability."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the data integration for data warehousing."
"As a data integration platform, it is easy to use. It is quite robust and useful for volumetric analysis when you have huge volumes of data. We have tested it for up to ten million rows, and it is robust enough to process ten million rows internally with its parallel processing. Its error logging mechanism is far simpler and easier to understand than other data integration tools. The newer version of InfoSphere has the data catalog and IDC lineage. They are helpful in the easy traceability of columns and tables."
"The solution is stable."
"We are mostly using transmission rules. It has a lot of functions and logic related to transmission. It is a user-friendly tool with in-built functions."
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"DataStage works better with Linux operating systems when the application services are hosted on Linux system equipment, but it's powerful on Windows too."
"Boomi AtomSphere Integration is not yet exposed to the world as a good product owing to certain shortcomings in the area of marketing where improvements are required."
"The product's UI could be more convenient."
"The product could be a little bit more user-friendly."
"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."
"They should create a custom connector option. With this, they could improve where the user can create the connector, based on their usage."
"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."
"It is a costly platform. Its pricing could be better."
"The template mapping could be easier."
"It doesn't have any big data connections. It would be good to have them because most of the systems are moving towards big data. There should also be a user-friendly way to interact with the cloud. Its loading process is very slow. It takes a lot of time for around 5 or 6 million records, and we are not able to provide real-time data to the vendors due to this delay. Its performance needs to be improved. It is also like a legacy system. It is not updated much. In higher versions, they only do small changes. We would like to have new features and new technologies."
"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 useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java."
"I want the tool to continue with the on-prem version, not the cloud one."
"So, there are some features that are missing. If I compare DataStage to Talend, Talend allows you to write custom code in Java or use these tools in your applications as well if you are building a job application. But in DataStage, it does not allow you to write custom code for any component."
"We would be happy to see in next versions the ability to return several parameters from jobs. Now, jobs can return just one parameter. If they could return several parameters, that would be great."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
Boomi AtomSphere Integration is ranked 5th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 25 reviews while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews. Boomi AtomSphere Integration is rated 7.8, while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Boomi AtomSphere Integration writes "Stable product, suitable for limited integrations and lacks flexibility ". On the other hand, 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". Boomi AtomSphere Integration is most compared with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, webMethods Integration Server, Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SSIS and Azure Data Factory, whereas IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter. See our Boomi AtomSphere Integration vs. IBM InfoSphere DataStage report.
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