We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Tungsten RPA 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 product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed."
"The solution's scalability is really good...we are using multi-instance jobs where you can scale them easily."
"The concept of integration is a valuable feature of the product."
"Compared to other ETL tools, DataStage has excellent debugging and development capabilities. And the availability of connectors, even though we sometimes have to opt for specific ones. Also, the availability of patches is good."
"IBM is stable and accurate to monitor. It's easy to understand to monitor the data lineage from source to target."
"The solution is stable."
"Once you have Infosphere up and running properly, it is stable."
"When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses."
"The most valuable feature of Kofax RPA is the simplicity of automating tasks."
"The product saves time and resources."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Provides valuable tools working in integration with RPA tools."
"The product provides end-to-end solutions for different business problems."
"The features that we have found the most valuable are the integration of different third-party support and productivity services."
"The ability to script information from websites is most valuable. It also seems to be fairly robust and reasonably easy to manage on a server-based deployment. We have a number of robots operating on the central server."
"Kofax handles UIs via the browser well. If it's not possible, they have other features like modeling screen scrapes, etc."
"Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated. The solution could also be improved if they could integrate the data pipeline scheduling part of their interface."
"The troubleshooting guide is very bad."
"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."
"Working with some of the big data components is good, but I can see improvements are needed."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"Reduced cost would allow more customers to choose the product. It's quite expensive in relation to the cost of other similar solutions."
"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."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"It needs a free training portal for anybody on the internet to use so that they can get an idea of what the possibilities are."
"The solution could use some AI integrated features."
"We are on version 10.6, and the current version seems to be 11. Kofax is cycling the capabilities of the product very quickly. One of the difficulties has been to actually keep up with the capabilities as they've evolved. On the one hand, it is good that the product is getting better, but on the other hand, it is difficult to implement the best way with a product that is evolving constantly."
"This product has room for improvement in support of aviation. The interface could be improved in the next release."
"The process discovery could be a bit better."
"The technical support must be improved."
"Exception handling needs to be improved."
"I would like to see them further enhance the OCR, specifically in the multi-language support."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Tungsten RPA is ranked 12th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 24 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Tungsten RPA is rated 7.4. 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 Tungsten RPA writes "A stable product that provides end-to-end solutions for different business problems". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas Tungsten RPA is most compared with UiPath, Microsoft Power Automate, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere (AA) and SAS Data Management. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Tungsten RPA report.
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