We performed a comparison between Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Oracle Integration Cloud Service based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users prefer Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) due to its intuitive, easy-to-use dashboard, and say the vast amount of available adapters make integrations very simple.
"It's completely user-friendly."
"It's scalable."
"The most valuable feature that we use is the Knowledge Modules."
"It allows us to use many languages to develop and to integrate practically all the technologies of the Oracle suite as well as those from non-Oracle vendors."
"The most valuable features of ODI are the ease of development, you can have a template, and you can onboard transfer very quickly. There's a lot of knowledge modules available that we can use. If you want to connect, for example, a Sibyl, SQL, Oracle, or different products, we don't have to develop them from scratch. They are available, but if it's not, we can go into the marketplace and see if there's a connector there. Having the connector available reduces the amount of hard work needed. We only have to put the inputs and outputs. In some of the products, we use there is already integration available for ODI, which is helpful."
"It can integrate with more recent databases like Cassandra, Hadoop, and other more recent Big Data databases."
"All our systems can be widely integrated by ODI, such as transactional systems, our data warehouses, and B2B integration."
"ODI's best features are customization, integration with other versioning tools, and the ability to define new knowledge modules."
"Oracle Integration Cloud Service is a really good product and the ROI is very good with it. It lowers development time. A development cycle that may have taken a year without Oracle Integration Cloud Service can drop down to three or four months with it."
"Oracle Integration Cloud Service integrates well and is user-friendly. If you are not a developer or ops engineer you can still use the solution with ease. You do not need to have developers' knowledge, you can easily adapt and learn quickly to integrate the services. They have good documentation."
"Provides various ways to secure services as well as providing extensive support."
"Technical support responds quickly."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the SFTP adapters, file adapters, and risk adapters, that we use in everyday projects."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of customization."
"The dashboard provided by Oracle Integration Cloud for monitoring and error handling is very intuitive."
"The most important part would be the use of connectors. The significant number of cloud connectors available for active integration is its value."
"I would only point out some minor bugs or glitches in the development interface (ODI studio)."
"ODI could improve by being more user-friendly. Informatica, which is also an ETL tool, similar to ODI, but Informatica is very user-friendly, easy to use, and simple to integrate, compared to ODI. ODI has many features, put them all together, and sometimes we get confused about which ones to use, which ones not to use."
"The interface of ODI could be improved. For example, navigating and finding functions can be difficult. For example, you have to know which step you need to go to look at where your job status is. The logical step is a bit complex compared to other tools. It's much easier to get a graphical view, but with ODI, it's graphical, plus you have to know all the other pieces that fit around it. You have to think about the logical and physical aspects."
"At present, when multiple steps are executed in parallel in the load plan and errors occur, the error handling mechanism does not function correctly."
"If you have something like Cisco on top of it, you will have endless problems."
"We used a third party to do the implementation of ODI."
"In our company, we haven't tried consuming services from IoT in our company yet, and I would like to know if the solution will support IoT services in the next release."
"The stability of the software could be improved. Sometimes, the software just crashes. "
"Oracle-based automation blueprints for the majority of the integrations would be helpful to have in a future release."
"The solution's customer service could be better."
"The error retrying mechanism could be improved. If an error occurs, it can be retried automatically, it would be helpful."
"Make it more similar to the on-premises features. For example, if you can edit the code directly rather than just dragging and dropping, or if you can edit the examples by going into the background, and one-click migration, I'd like to see included in the next release."
"There are a few features that we noticed are not in the cloud. There are some improvements needed. One example is the graphical user interface that needs to improve, it could be easier to use."
"The solution doesn't currently have a fully fledged workflow feature like they have in OIM."
"Dealing with the large file size has occasionally been a challenge."
"Now the platform is not built in a way that you can define."
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Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is ranked 4th in Data Integration with 67 reviews while Oracle Integration Cloud Service is ranked 3rd in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 32 reviews. Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is rated 8.2, while Oracle Integration Cloud Service is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) writes "Straightforward to implement, scalable, and has good stability and documentation, but technical support could still be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Integration Cloud Service writes "An integration tool that is highly compatible and easy to maintain". Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Oracle GoldenGate and Talend Open Studio, whereas Oracle Integration Cloud Service is most compared with AWS Glue, Mule Anypoint Platform, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Azure Logic Apps. See our Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) vs. Oracle Integration Cloud Service report.
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Integration Cloud is more focused on event-driven integration models. It is also an OCI native service.
ODI is primarily suited to bulk data activities such as data loads, data migration. Now ODI has two flavours: native OCI with a small feature set aimed at enabling cloud migration and then the traditional ODI.
The traditional version is the same product as used on-premise but packaged to run a VM. As a result, it is offered on the Oracle cloud marketplace.
Oracle Integration Cloud Service has a fairly easy initial setup, and Oracle offers initial support and guidance for those who might find the setup to be challenging. There are complications that come up, though, as far as integrating and maintaining the system. Organizations that choose this product will need to bring experts on board to oversee the security and system administration. Those aspects are so complex that to keep the system running smoothly and effectively, you need to employ people who know the proper IT procedures to manage them. Ultimately, an organization will have to make additional investments to get proper use out of Oracle Integration Cloud Service.
Oracle Data Integrator offers a comparable level of set up complexity to Oracle Integration Cloud Service. The program for the initial setup does offer step-by-step instructions which make deployment easier. However, additional software such as Agent Setup is required for ODI to function fully. Therefore, while an organization can follow a guide to set up ODI, additional steps beyond the initial deployment are necessary before one can use the product fully.
Oracle Integration Cloud Service offers different pricing models for their licenses. Among the easiest for businesses to deal with is a pay-as-you-go option. This provides organizations with great flexibility in choosing what they want to pay and the type of services that they want to receive. Organizations will be able to spend their resources more effectively when they control the prices that they are paying.
ODI has a price which is not exactly the most expensive solution on the market. However, it is not the cheapest either. There is no flexibility in ODI’s pricing like there is for Oracle Integration Cloud Service. Organizations really only have two options: they can pay the price or use another product. ODI does not allow for the kind of customization that Oracle Integration Cloud Service offers.
Conclusion
Oracle Integration Cloud Service and Oracle Data Integrator are comparable as far as the difficulty that an organization might have in setting them and deploying them. In both cases additional resources are needed after the initial setup stages in order to get them set up properly. The area in which they truly differ is in the ability of Oracle Integration Cloud Service to be customized, both in terms of price and in terms of services obtained. ODI lacks this flexibility.