We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere Information Server and SSIS 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."This solution is extremely flexible and scalable."
"IBM InfoSphere Information Server is stable."
"The integration with different technologies is the most valuable feature."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The setup is straightforward. It's very easy to install."
"It's a competent product."
"SSIS' best feature is SFTP connectivity."
"The most important features are it works well and provides self-service BI."
"SSIS' most valuable feature is its reporting services."
"The solution is stable."
"The performance is better than doing it in some alternative ways. We don't have to worry about so much manual work."
"The performance is good."
"There are certain shortcomings in the cloud side of the solution, where improvements are required."
"This solution would benefit from the engine being made more lightweight."
"IBM InfoSphere Information Server should be more scalable. It should have the option to change the configuration to run on a single, non-multiple node, or multi-threading processing."
"Their technical support needs improvement."
"Sometimes, there are compatibility issues with some features. From time to time, I also face issues when trying to migrate. If I misconfigure things when I use Snapshot, the migration will fail.It can take a long time to migrate huge amounts of data, so it would be nice if that could be faster."
"We purchase an add on called task factory primarily to allow bulk delete, update and upsert capability. I'd like to see this be part of the standard package."
"SSIS doesn't have a very good user interface, but if you can work with it, it'll provide you with almost all of the functionality."
"It hangs a lot of the time."
"Microsoft should offer an on-premises support warranty for those using that deployment. They seem to be withdrawing from on-premises options."
"We would like the solution to be expanded so that it is available for other platforms than just Microsoft."
"I would like to see better integration with Power BI."
"I would like to see more features in terms of the integration with Azure Data Factory."
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IBM InfoSphere Information Server is ranked 36th in Data Integration with 7 reviews while SSIS is ranked 2nd in Data Integration with 69 reviews. IBM InfoSphere Information Server is rated 8.4, while SSIS is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere Information Server writes "Prompt support, reliable, but lacking scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SSIS writes "Maintaining the solution and contacting its support team is easy". IBM InfoSphere Information Server is most compared with IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Qlik Replicate, IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog, IBM Cloud Pak for Data and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas SSIS is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Talend Open Studio, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and AWS Glue. See our IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. SSIS report.
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