We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SAP Process Orchestration 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."When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses."
"It's a robust solution."
"ETL is the most valuable feature."
"We are mostly using transmission rules. It has a lot of functions and logic related to transmission. It is a user-friendly tool with in-built functions."
"The concept of integration is a valuable feature of the product."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"DataStage works better with Linux operating systems when the application services are hosted on Linux system equipment, but it's powerful on Windows too."
"As a data integration platform, it is easy to use. It is quite robust and useful for volumetric analysis when you have huge volumes of data. We have tested it for up to ten million rows, and it is robust enough to process ten million rows internally with its parallel processing. Its error logging mechanism is far simpler and easier to understand than other data integration tools. The newer version of InfoSphere has the data catalog and IDC lineage. They are helpful in the easy traceability of columns and tables."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The standard adapter with EBA abilities is the most valuable feature. It has good process integration."
"The product has good technical support but you usually will not need it because it is quite stable."
"SAP Process Orchestration is middleware where we are able to manage and interact with everything from a single location. One of the most beneficial areas is monitoring which is very easy because it is all in one place. There are many adapters added recently that can be used for new functionality. The solution is easy to operate and it is more mature than the cloud solution provided by SAP."
"The monitoring tools are the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"t is a pretty stable solution. I have not seen any outages in the solution."
"In the future, I would like to see more integration with cloud technologies."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"The interface needs improvement. It is really too technical. That is the main problem."
"I want the tool to continue with the on-prem version, not the cloud one."
"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."
"I really like this tool, but the administration should be on the same client application because a lot of administration features are not on the client-side, and they usually need to have administrative access. It's quite complicated to force IT teams to have separate administrative access from the developers."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
"Currently lacking virtualization ability."
"SAP needs to improve a lot in terms of the orchestration part so that more adapters can be provided to users, which are areas where the solution has downsides."
"The cloud capability features need improvement."
"The solution could be more scalable."
"SAP Process Orchestration could improve from an API standpoint. This is not an API management tool, which is one of its drawbacks. However, SAP has released an SAP Cloud Platform Integration which has all of the features, such as API management along with process integration to replace what they had previously."
"Data modeling is an area of concern in the product where improvements are required."
"The older version of the solution will no longer be supported."
"This is an on-premise platform and one area they can improve on is having the ability to work with SaaS solutions."
"The responsiveness of technical support needs to be improved."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while SAP Process Orchestration is ranked 1st in Business-to-Business Middleware with 28 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while SAP Process Orchestration is rated 8.2. 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 SAP Process Orchestration writes "A tool that can be useful for small integrations and large integrations". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas SAP Process Orchestration is most compared with Mule Anypoint Platform, SAP Data Services, webMethods Integration Server, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services and IBM B2B Integrator. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. SAP Process Orchestration report.
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