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CData Connect Cloud

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IBM App Connect

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Cloud Data Integration
March 2024
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between CData Connect Cloud and IBM App Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Featured Review
Zain Amjed
Accurate data and reliable
Lakshan Jinasena
A highly scalable and user-friendly product that is easy to learn and install
It has optimized the service consumption of the consumers and improved the performance since it has a limited point-to-point connection between... Read more →
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Pros
"The most valuable feature of CData Connect is the accuracy of the data."

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"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy.""Provides good security features.""Very scalable, flexible, and user-friendly.""It has an efficient design flow.""The most valuable feature is the user-friendliness of the application.""It's stable to use, connect with the cloud, and to deploy.""We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications.""The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."

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Cons
"The amount of data that can be extracted at one point in time should be improved."

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"More connectors could be available for the product as some of the third-party software doesn't have default connectors.""The interface could be better.""When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated.""The product should improve its support.""IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement.""They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better.""Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find.""It is not easy to deploy. It requires someone with a high level of knowledge in the solution to deploy it, not just anyone can do it."

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  • "It is very expensive if we want to scale."
  • "The price could be better."
  • "The licensing cost for IBM App Connect is very high."
  • "The cost depends upon the consumer."
  • "Initially, App Connect was quite expensive because the cost was based on the number of processors we used. However, it's now based on containers, which means we can be more specific about our consumption and get a better price."
  • "The solution's pricing isn't cheap, but you can get good discounts based on your competitive deal."

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    Questions from the Community
    What is your primary use case for CData Connect?
    Top Answer:CData Connect helps in providing data connectivity to more than 280+ data sources for different types of use cases: 1.) BI reporting & analytics (real-time) 2.) No-Code/Low-Code development 3.)… more »
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    What do you like most about IBM App Connect?
    Top Answer:It has an efficient design flow.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM App Connect?
    Top Answer:The solution's pricing isn't cheap, but you can get good discounts based on your competitive deal.
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    What is your primary use case for IBM App Connect?
    Top Answer:We use the product mainly for the integration of enterprise applications.
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    Ranking
    29th
    out of 42 in Cloud Data Integration
    Views
    187
    Comparisons
    130
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    11th
    out of 42 in Cloud Data Integration
    Views
    1,760
    Comparisons
    944
    Reviews
    13
    Average Words per Review
    437
    Rating
    8.3
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    IBM Cast Iron
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    Overview
    Connect instantly to your favorite cloud apps and data solutions without installing software. CData simplifies the complexity by providing a consistent interface regardless of the source system. Get direct, live connectivity to any app, like Salesforce, SharePoint, and Workday, or data solution, like BigQuery, MongoDB, Snowflake, S3, and Databricks. And for any additional sources, you can use the API connector to create data connections in minutes without coding.

    Effortlessly access and explore data directly from your favorite tools and platforms.

    • Purpose-built native clients for Power BI, Tableau, Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Looker Studio, AWS Glue, Python, and more​
    • SQL Server virtualization for dozens of other cloud tools including Looker, Amazon QuickSight, Qlik Sense, SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power Apps, and more​
    • Standards-based connectors for IT, developers, and data scientists, including JDBC, ODBC, and ADO.NET​​

    With CData Connect Cloud, your organization can efficiently manage access to all cloud data from a single, high-performance, elastic platform that provides robust security and auditing capabilities. And, with granular user permissions, stakeholders can only access or modify the data they are authorized for in each source system.

    Rapidly connect public clouds, private clouds and on-premises application

    App Connect Professional is IBM’s cloud integration offering which delivers an integration solution
    • With ease-of-use, flexibility and increased responsiveness to the evolving business needs, while removing the daunting complexities of integration.
    • Provides the powerful combination of a ‘simple integration experience’ for business users looking to automate how their applications talk to each other; coupled with a ‘configuration based integration’ approach for IT.
    • App Connect Professional is for the teams and integration developers who need to solve more complex problems and need powerful tooling for integration scenarios

    Sample Customers
    Adeptia, Tibco, Matillion, Exago, Izenda, Alfresco, Cisco, DataRobot, BigID, Combit
    United Way of Allegheny County, Saint-Gobain CPS, Ricoh, SunTrust Banks Inc.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Hospitality Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm38%
    Computer Software Company23%
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization55%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Energy/Utilities Company3%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise68%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise71%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise61%
    Large Enterprise30%
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    March 2024
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    CData Connect Cloud is ranked 29th in Cloud Data Integration while IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews. CData Connect Cloud is rated 8.0, while IBM App Connect is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CData Connect Cloud writes "Accurate data and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Very flexible and user-friendly; embeds with other technologies; no dependency on queue manager". CData Connect Cloud is most compared with SAP Data Services, Oracle GoldenGate and Fivetran, whereas IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and TIBCO BusinessWorks.

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