We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and IBM InfoSphere DataStage 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."It's stable to use, connect with the cloud, and to deploy."
"We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications."
"I would say that the most valuable feature is the array of connectors and integration tools."
"Provides good security features."
"Technical support is good."
"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."
"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."
"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to transfer information via notes."
"The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"The most valuable feature for our data processing needs is IBM InfoSphere DataStage's capability to handle ETL tasks with large record volumes."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"Finding logs is very easy on the solution."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The solution is stable."
"The best feature of IBM InfoSphere DataStage for me was that it was very much user-friendly. The solution didn't require that much raw coding because most of its features were drag and drop, plus it had a large number of functionalities."
"IBM App Connect is scalable. From the administration side, they need to improve the RBAC model, as well as the clustering of this product. It will be good if we can start up the cluster, via IBM Connect Console. Some other products like MuleSoft, are providing this type of administration. MuleSoft is easy to use and user friendly."
"The installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"The product should improve its support."
"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."
"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."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"The interface needs improvement. It is really too technical. That is the main problem."
"The interface needs work to be more user-friendly."
"The troubleshooting guide is very bad."
"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 great if they can include some basic version of data quality checking features."
"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."
"The graphical user interface (GUI) feels a lot like the interfaces from the 1980s."
IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Very flexible and user-friendly; embeds with other technologies; no dependency on queue manager". 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". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, TIBCO BusinessWorks and SAP Process Orchestration, whereas IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Alteryx Designer. See our IBM App Connect vs. IBM InfoSphere DataStage report.
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