We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and TIBCO BusinessWorks 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."It's a robust solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"The solution's scalability is really good...we are using multi-instance jobs where you can scale them easily."
"Once you have Infosphere up and running properly, it is stable."
"The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"It is quite useful and powerful."
"The concept of integration is a valuable feature of the product."
"The product is a stable and powerful data management solution that can run in parallel mode for enhanced speed."
"Areas for improvement would be the cloud fitness of the product and the ease of migrating to newer versions."
"Customer support is very efficient."
"BusinessWorks reduces development time, helping developers to focus on business logic."
"The high availability, tolerance, and load balancing features are top-notch. Its scalability features are also pretty cool."
"Good TIBCO BusinessWorks features are the admin console and the ability to roll back to the previous version."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten…On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy, I rate the initial setup a nine."
"The most important thing is that it is easy for developers to work with."
"One of the most valuable features is data transformation. We have some legacy systems which are in old technology, like SOAP, whereas the new ones are in REST. So we use BusinessWorks to transform data from one format to another, from SOAP to REST."
"The interface needs improvement."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
"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."
"Reduced cost would allow more customers to choose the product. It's quite expensive in relation to the cost of other similar solutions."
"Improvements for DataStage could include better integration with modern data sources like cloud solutions and documents, along with enhancing its capability to handle non-structured data."
"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."
"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
"Working with some of the big data components is good, but I can see improvements are needed."
"The communication protocols could be improved."
"I would like the solution to be integrated into the cloud."
"There are multiple plugins which increase the number of product installations."
"There is room for improvement on the learning side."
"Scaling with the solution is costly because if we need to scale up, we have to buy more memory. That means more money. Solutions like Camel or Pulsar come with built-in options to scale horizontally, vertically, region-wide or country-wide."
"There are not many plugins available to integrate the databases. We have to write it in Java and integrate it. The developers should have more knowledge. These are the three main aspects that they could improve."
"Technical support is average. It's not the best."
"TIBCO BusinessWorks could be improved with cloud support."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while TIBCO BusinessWorks is ranked 18th in Data Integration with 23 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while TIBCO BusinessWorks is rated 8.0. 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 TIBCO BusinessWorks writes "Reliable integration solution with robust communication capabilities and good scalability". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas TIBCO BusinessWorks is most compared with webMethods Integration Server, Mule Anypoint Platform, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Confluent and Talend Open Studio. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. TIBCO BusinessWorks report.
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