We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Mule Anypoint Platform 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."DataStage works better with Linux operating systems when the application services are hosted on Linux system equipment, but it's powerful on Windows too."
"Highly customizable: Allowing you to handle multiple data latencies (scheduled batch, on-demand, and real-time) in the same job."
"In IBM DataStage, the Transformer is the most valuable feature for me. It enables me to apply complex transformations, generate the gateway key, and map source tables into the session table."
"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."
"The performance optimization is quite good in DataStage. It provides parallelism and pipelining mechanisms"
"As a data integration platform, it is easy to use. It is quite robust and useful for volumetric analysis when you have huge volumes of data. We have tested it for up to ten million rows, and it is robust enough to process ten million rows internally with its parallel processing. Its error logging mechanism is far simpler and easier to understand than other data integration tools. The newer version of InfoSphere has the data catalog and IDC lineage. They are helpful in the easy traceability of columns and tables."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"Once you have Infosphere up and running properly, it is stable."
"The platform's cloud integration capabilities are good."
"The integration potential is excellent."
"It is very easy to use for building connectors. It comes with a lot of connectors. For example, it has different adapters for NetSuite, which are very easy to use. It also has Salesforce connectors. The object store feature is also really easy to use. Mule Anypoint Platform is also good in terms of performance and how it is managed behind the scenes."
"It's easy to develop APIs."
"The flexibility has been great overall."
"Customers can make use of Runtime Fabric, an RTF environment."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is a huge list of available connectors for a lot of different platforms, which we can use very easily."
"This is a good platform for designing, flowing out APIs, and then doing API-based integrations."
"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."
"Their web interface is good but the on-prem sites are outdated. The solution could also be improved if they could integrate the data pipeline scheduling part of their interface."
"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 interface needs work to be more user-friendly."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"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 solution can be a bit more user-friendly, similar to Informatica."
"The template mapping could be easier."
"Mule Anypoint Platform is complex for beginners. Users without programming skills will find it complex. It should also improve its pricing."
"The compatibility with vendors can be improved. Microsoft Azure heavily uses single software."
"The initial setup should be made easy and the documentation should have some guidance."
"Although the solution's proxy design and process are good, it faces connecting issues because it lacks data integration."
"Adding connectors for new upcoming applications would add extra value to this product."
"Mule should have better B2B integration."
"One area we'd like to see improvement in is the error logging and troubleshooting process."
"The solution's pricing model is very strange, and it will be really expensive if you use APIs a lot."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 3rd in Cloud Data Integration with 41 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while Mule Anypoint Platform 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 Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with SSIS, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, SAP Process Orchestration, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and SAP Cloud Platform. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. Mule Anypoint Platform report.
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