We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and IBM InfoSphere DataStage 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."Technical support is good."
"It has an efficient design flow."
"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."
"It can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process."
"We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications."
"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"I like the adapters. The adapters help us achieve scalability. If you want to connect to SAP, there's an adapter. Salesforce? There's an adapter. You want to connect to another system? There's likely an adapter for that."
"I would say that the most valuable feature is the array of connectors and integration tools."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"I am impressed with the tool's ETL tracing."
"Once you have Infosphere up and running properly, it is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to transfer information via notes."
"IBM is stable and accurate to monitor. It's easy to understand to monitor the data lineage from source to target."
"It's a robust solution."
"We can view what we want to do. We can transform data and put them on tables."
"The interface could be better."
"It is not easy to deploy. It requires someone with a high level of knowledge in the solution to deploy it, not just anyone can do it."
"The installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
"The user interface of IBM App Connect can be a little bit more user-friendly, I would say because the first-time developer is onboarded while using IBM App Connect, he or she may get a little intimidated or daunted looking at all the options available or the pipelines, et cetera."
"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"The setup time for App Connect could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"The interface needs improvement. It is really too technical. That is the main problem."
"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 21 reviews while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Offers flexible adapters, good scalability but logging can be difficult at times". 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". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, TIBCO BusinessWorks and SAP Process Orchestration, whereas IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter. See our IBM App Connect vs. IBM InfoSphere DataStage report.
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