We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Informatica PowerExchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ETL tools are probably the most valuable feature. It has an IBM tool, a friendly UI and it makes things more comfortable."
"DataStage works better with Linux operating systems when the application services are hosted on Linux system equipment, but it's powerful on Windows too."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses."
"The solution's scalability is really good...we are using multi-instance jobs where you can scale them easily."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Offers great flexibility."
"Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."
"The scalability is excellent."
"It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"The product’s flexibility is valuable."
"From the product feature or product capability perspective, the aspects around integration, transformation, and standardization are valuable. It's fairly easy to use. It has a GUI-based interface."
"The solution can connect to different systems i.e. mainframe, IMS or AS/400 Legacy Systems."
"The transformation work called for Informatica PowerExchange. It was easy to work with this and very stable."
"Mainstream integration and real-time integration are the best features."
"The troubleshooting guide is very bad."
"There are three things that could improve - the cloud, monitoring and cloud integration. It's a solid product but not a modern one and of course it depends what you're looking for."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"The template mapping could be easier."
"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."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."
"Informatica is very expensive in all aspects, so the pricing is something that could be improved."
"They should make it quick and easy for use of citizen data integration or for people or integrators developing at the customer side. They could be development teams within the business team. For them, the product owners can consider making it a little bit more seamless and a little bit more democratized."
"The product's high costs can be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"V10.2 is very stable, but we are still struggling to make V10.5 stable. We found services that were down, and PowerExchange stopped working."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
"Integration with the largest number of databases and other systems would be important."
"The major shortcoming of PowerExchange is high availability and failover. None of the versions we've used to date have had the out-of-the-box ability to enable failover and high-availability requirements. This is a significant challenge and risk."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Comprehensive, capable of handling large volumes, and helpful for fast-paced movement of data". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory and Informatica Cloud Data Integration. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Informatica PowerExchange report.
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