We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Zapier based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature for our data processing needs is IBM InfoSphere DataStage's capability to handle ETL tasks with large record volumes."
"It is quite useful and powerful."
"It's a robust solution."
"Finding logs is very easy on the solution."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"The most valuable feature is the data integration for data warehousing."
"Offers great flexibility."
"With the previous CRM we were using – the Google Ads landing pages we had – we were collecting leads manually. That process was not efficient and took a sales team a lot of time to insert these leads manually. Currently, the process is smooth and we use Zapier to collect the leads for us."
"We can connect Zapier with Zoho CRM for lead generation. I like the tool's drag and drop feature."
"Zapier’s most valuable feature is its ability to interconnect applications or devices."
"We find it effortless to set up. We really don't have to do anything other than finding the application in the Zapier catalog. And as long as the application has been re-integrated into Zapier, they're able to then just provide the connection details and hook it up."
"Zapier is a really good tool for connecting multiple different platforms and data sources. For example, with Quickbase, I can easily integrate data from other sources like AWS or task-tracking platforms such as ClickUp or Asana."
"The product's most valuable feature is automation."
"The ability to connect web applications to trigger actions in another app after having enriched, formatted, delayed, grouped, and filtered is really valuable for many businesses."
"The solution is a SaaS and does not require a complex setup."
"The template mapping could be easier."
"Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated.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."
"In the future, I would like to see more integration with cloud technologies."
"The pricing should be lower."
"It would be useful to provide support for Python, AR, and Java."
"The documentation and in-application help for this solution need to be improved, especially for new features."
"What needs improvement in IBM InfoSphere DataStage is its pricing. The pricing for the solution is higher than its competitors, so a lot of the clients my company has worked with prefer other tools over IBM InfoSphere DataStage because of the high price tag. Another area for improvement in the solution stems from a lot of new types of databases, for example, databases in the cloud and big data have become available, and IBM InfoSphere DataStage is working on various connectors for different data sources, but that still isn't up-to-date, meaning that some connectors are missing for modern data sources. The latest version of IBM InfoSphere DataStage also has a complex architecture, so my team faced frequent outages and that should be improved as well."
"It would be great if they can include some basic version of data quality checking features."
"The solution does not work properly when we apply filters and we get errors."
"System-to-system is fine, but when it comes to system-to-user, where Zapier is helping to communicate to a user, that's a one-way communication. If that user has to perform some action on that notification, the action isn't handled by Zapier. So there's no way to orchestrate that and it's very cumbersome."
"Zapier needs more YouTube or video tutorials or more training for people. That would help a lot. In particular, Zapier should have documentation for every connector. Its documentation needs to be more detailed and visual."
"Being able to share Zaps and organize them with teammates would allow sharing and refining scenarios and even combining steps that require different people's credentials."
"At the moment, they allow a limited number of apps. I look forward to getting more apps for each package."
"After mapping them out, and they'd worked for a while, I've had Zapier fail."
"My biggest concern with Zapier would be their pricing strategy."
"I would like to see them improve the Quickbase integration. Currently, it only allows triggering actions when records are added, but it would be more useful if we could also trigger actions when records are modified or deleted."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Zapier is ranked 10th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Zapier is rated 8.6. 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 Zapier writes "A tool for automation purposes requiring an easy initial setup while offering a very helpful technical support team ". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas Zapier is most compared with AWS Glue, Alteryx Designer, Tray.io, MuleSoft Composer and Coefficient. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Zapier report.
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