We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and IBM Cloud Pak for Data based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Technical support is good."
"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."
"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."
"When using IBM stacks, IBM App Connect is suitable and integrates well with other IBM products like WebSphere."
"We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications."
"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"It can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process."
"I would say that the most valuable feature is the array of connectors and integration tools."
"Cloud Pak's most valuable features are IBM MQ, IBM App Connect, IBM API Connect, and ISPF."
"You can model the data there, connect the data models with the business processes and create data lineage processes."
"One of Cloud Pak's best features is the Watson Knowledge Catalog, which helps you implement data governance."
"What I found most helpful in IBM Cloud Pak for Data is containerization, which means it's easy to shift and leave in terms of moving to other clouds. That's an advantage of IBM Cloud Pak for Data."
"Its data preparation capabilities are highly valuable."
"The most valuable features are data virtualization and reporting."
"DataStage allows me to connect to different data sources."
"It is a scalable solution, and we have had no issues with its scalability in our company. I rate the solution's scalability a nine out of ten."
"The user interface of IBM App Connect can be a little bit more user-friendly, I would say because the first-time developer is onboarded while using IBM App Connect, he or she may get a little intimidated or daunted looking at all the options available or the pipelines, et cetera."
"More connectors could be available for the product as some of the third-party software doesn't have default connectors."
"The product should improve its support."
"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"IBM App Connect should improve security features."
"In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors."
"The setup time for App Connect could be improved."
"The product must improve its performance."
"One challenge I'm facing with IBM Cloud Pak for Data is native features have been decommissioned, such as XML input and output. Too many changes have been made, and my company has around one hundred thousand mappings, so my team has been putting more effort into alternative ways to do things. Another area for improvement in IBM Cloud Pak for Data is that it's more complicated to shift from on-premise to the cloud. Other vendors provide secure agents that easily connect with your existing setup. Still, with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, you have to perform connection migration steps, upgrade to the latest version, etc., which makes it more complicated, especially as my company has XML-based mappings. Still, the XML input and output capabilities of IBM Cloud Pak for Data have been discontinued, so I'd like IBM to bring that back."
"The interface could improve because sometimes it becomes slow. Sometimes there is a delay between clicks when using the software, which can make the development process slow. It can take a few seconds to complete one action, and then a few more seconds to do the next one."
"The solution's user experience is an area that has room for improvement."
"The product is trying to be more maturity in terms of connectors. That, I believe, is an area where Cloud Pak can improve."
"Cloud Pak would be improved with integration with cloud service providers like Cloudera."
"The technical support could be a little better."
"The tool depends on the control plane, an OpenShift container platform utilized as an orchestration layer...So, we have communicated this issue to IBM and asked if it is feasible to adapt the solution to work on a Kubernetes platform that we support."
IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 21 reviews while IBM Cloud Pak for Data is ranked 3rd in Data Virtualization with 11 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while IBM Cloud Pak for Data is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Offers flexible adapters, good scalability but logging can be difficult at times". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cloud Pak for Data writes "A scalable data analytics and digital transformation tool that provides useful features and integrations". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and TIBCO BusinessWorks, whereas IBM Cloud Pak for Data is most compared with IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Azure Data Factory, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Palantir Foundry and Denodo. See our IBM App Connect vs. IBM Cloud Pak for Data report.
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