We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SAP Process Orchestration 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 solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature for our data processing needs is IBM InfoSphere DataStage's capability to handle ETL tasks with large record volumes."
"The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"We are mostly using transmission rules. It has a lot of functions and logic related to transmission. It is a user-friendly tool with in-built functions."
"It's a robust solution."
"The ETL tools are probably the most valuable feature. It has an IBM tool, a friendly UI and it makes things more comfortable."
"IBM is stable and accurate to monitor. It's easy to understand to monitor the data lineage from source to target."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It is strategically focused to forecast a global integration platform for our business."
"The most valuable features of SAP Process Orchestration are its system monitoring and alerts."
"The solution offers very good documentation and manuals to assist with understanding the solution."
"I rate the product's setup phase a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy since it is a very easy process."
"In my opinion, SAP PO is the most mature suite of tools to integrate processes across SAP environments at this moment. It's really unbeatable because it allows you to integrate whatever scenarios you can imagine."
"The solution provides very good and central logging systems. It offers high flexibility with vertical and horizontal extend capacity."
"It is simple to transfer files."
"Its documentation is not up to the mark. While building APIs, we had a lot of problems trying to get around it because it is not very user-friendly. We tried to get hold of API documentation, but the documentation is not very well thought out. It should be more structured and elaborate. In terms of additional features, I would like to see good reporting on performance and performance-tuning recommendations that can be based on AI. I would also like to see better data profiling information being reported on InfoSphere."
"The solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"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."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to 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."
"The error messaging needs to be improved."
"The interface needs work to be more user-friendly."
"It is scalable, but there can be performance issues with high data volume or traffic, especially during month ends."
"The cloud capability features need improvement."
"The solution is not very scalable because it is at the end of its life."
"Data modeling is an area of concern in the product where improvements are required."
"The responsiveness of technical support needs to be improved."
"In terms of technical support, it would be helpful if they handled the tickets a bit faster when queries are sent to them."
"Process Orchestration needs to provide secure connectivity as no one has any data information."
"Process Orchestration doesn't provide authentication for data sent to us, meaning we have to rely on client certificate-based or basic authentication."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while SAP Process Orchestration is ranked 1st in Business-to-Business Middleware with 28 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while SAP Process Orchestration is rated 8.2. 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 SAP Process Orchestration writes "A tool that can be useful for small integrations and large integrations". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas SAP Process Orchestration is most compared with Mule Anypoint Platform, SAP Data Services, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, webMethods Integration Server and IBM B2B Integrator. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. SAP Process Orchestration report.
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