We performed a comparison between SSIS and webMethods Integration Server 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 workflow features have been very valuable. You can have automated workflows and all the steps are controlled. The workflow functionality of integration services is excellent."
"It is also easy to learn and user-friendly. Microsoft is also good in terms of technical support. They have built a large community all over the world."
"The performance is better than doing it in some alternative ways. We don't have to worry about so much manual work."
"It's something I needed for bulk imports. I'm not a big fan of it, but I haven't seen anything better."
"The most valuable features for our company are the flexibility and the quick turn around time in producing simple ETL solutions."
"There are many good features in this solution including the data fields, database integration, support for SQL views, and the lookups for matching information."
"The most valuable feature of SSIS is that it can handle real complex transformations."
"The initial setup was easy."
"We have a reusable code that we can replicate for any new interfaces."
"Given that you have one integration API in place, it takes very minimal effort to scale it to any other application that might want to use the same. Its flow-based development environment is a breeze and makes it really easy to re-use most of the existing components and build up a new API."
"One [of the most valuable features] is the webMethods Designer. That helps our developers develop on their own. It's very intuitive for design. It helps our developers to speed the development of services for the integrations."
"What I like best about webMethods Integration Server is its portfolio of connectors."
"webMethods platform is used to build an EAI platform, enabling communication between many internal systems and third-party operators."
"It integrates well with various servers."
"It’s fairly easy to view, move, and mange access across different components. Different component types are categorized and can be viewed in a web based administration console."
"It has a good integration server, designer, and a very good API portal."
"We have a stability problem because when something works, it works one time. The next time, it doesn't work."
"Video training would be a helpful addition."
"The high prices attached to the product can be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"SSIS is stable, but extensive ETL data processing can have some performance issues."
"We have issues with SSIS connectors while extracting data from Excel sources."
"Microsoft's technical support has decreased in quality over the last few years, becoming less responsive and tending to pass problems on instead of solving them."
"Options for scaling could be improved."
"It's difficult to refactor SSIS. It gets cumbersome to reuse the solution."
"One area that needs improvement is the version upgrade process. Many customers I've worked with encounter challenges when transitioning from their current version, such as x or 9, to a newer version. The process is not smooth, and they must shift their entire website."
"Support is expensive."
"Upgrades are complex. They typically take about five months from start to finish. There are many packages that plug into webMethods Integration Server, which is the central point for a vast majority of the transactions at my organization. Anytime we are upgrading that, there are complexities within each component that we must understand. That makes any upgrade very cumbersome and complicated. That has been my experience at this company. Because there are many different business units that we are touching, there are so many different components that we are touching. The amount of READMEs that you have to go through takes some time."
"webMethods Integration Server needs to add more adapters."
"A while ago, they were hacked, and it took them a very long time to open their website again in order to download any service packs or any features. I don't know what they could do differently. I know that they were vulnerable, and there was some downtime, but because they were down, we were unable to download any potential service packs."
"In terms of improvement, it would be better if it adapted quicker to open standards. It took a while for API specification before the last version was available. The spec of version two was rather quick."
"The patching of infrastructure is not very smooth and improved authentication should be added in the next feature."
"The logging capability has room for improvement. That way, we could keep a history of all the transactions. It would be helpful to be able to get to that without having to build a standalone solution to do so."
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SSIS is ranked 2nd in Data Integration with 69 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. SSIS is rated 7.6, while webMethods Integration Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SSIS writes "Maintaining the solution and contacting its support team is easy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". SSIS is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Talend Open Studio, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and AWS Glue, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Boomi AtomSphere Integration. See our SSIS vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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