We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Toad Data Point based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."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."
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to transfer information via notes."
"It is quite useful and powerful."
"IBM is stable and accurate to monitor. It's easy to understand to monitor the data lineage from source to target."
"The most valuable feature is the product's versatility to inject data."
"DataStage works better with Linux operating systems when the application services are hosted on Linux system equipment, but it's powerful on Windows too."
"The Connectivity and Connection Manager supports a broad number of connection types, and it is trivial for end-users to set up their own connections to sources."
"The most valuable features of Toad Data are you could write a parameterized query and it wouldn't error out, it would give you the parameters that you could input. The auto-formatting feature is useful because it was great for keeping your queries neat and understandable. The auto comment, and uncomment toggles that you could do were convenient."
"The interface needs work to be more user-friendly."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"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."
"Currently lacking virtualization ability."
"It would be great if they can include some basic version of data quality checking features."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"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."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
"Toad Data could improve by having additional features, such as query prediction. This could help someone who's not the strongest programmer. If the software could help them write queries correctly it would be very helpful, especially for small development teams or teams that lack the input skills necessary to write and program efficiently."
"On the scheduling server, some scheduled reports just sit there and never execute for the first time. After manually executing the first time, they run with no issues."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Toad Data Point is ranked 38th in Data Integration with 2 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Toad Data Point is rated 9.0. 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 Toad Data Point writes "Easy to learn, good connectivity to multiple data sources, and helpful supprt". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas Toad Data Point is most compared with SSIS, SAS Enterprise Guide, Alteryx, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Azure Data Factory.
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