We performed a comparison between Ab Initio Co>Operating System and IBM InfoSphere DataStage 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."Ab Initio reaches the highest performance and is very flexible in processing huge amounts of data."
"Co>Operating System's most valuable feature is its ability to process bulk data effectively."
"Offers great flexibility."
"The best feature of IBM InfoSphere DataStage for me was that it was very much user-friendly. The solution didn't require that much raw coding because most of its features were drag and drop, plus it had a large number of functionalities."
"Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."
"The most valuable feature is the data integration for data warehousing."
"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 Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"The data lineage report can be filtered for reporting. The reports are user-friendly and take less time to find what you need."
"It works with multiple servers and offers high availability."
"An awesome improvement would be big data solutions, for example, implementing some kind of business intelligence or neural networks for artificial intelligence."
"Co>Operating System would be improved with more integrations for less well-known technologies."
"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."
"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."
"The interface needs work to be more user-friendly."
"The graphical user interface (GUI) feels a lot like the interfaces from the 1980s."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"It would be great if they can include some basic version of data quality checking features."
"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."
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Ab Initio Co>Operating System is ranked 29th in Data Integration with 2 reviews while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews. Ab Initio Co>Operating System is rated 9.6, while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Ab Initio Co>Operating System writes "Excellent bulk data processing for large enterprises". On the other hand, 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". Ab Initio Co>Operating System is most compared with SSIS, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Talend Data Management Platform and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), whereas IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter. See our Ab Initio Co>Operating System vs. IBM InfoSphere DataStage report.
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