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As of January 2025, the mindshare of IBM InfoSphere DataStage in the Data Integration category stands at 6.4%, up from 5.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Insurance Company
7%
Healthcare Company
4%
Retailer
4%
Educational Organization
4%
University
3%
Energy/Utilities Company
2%
Real Estate/Law Firm
2%
Construction Company
2%
Non Profit
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Media Company
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Wholesaler/Distributor
1%
Comms Service Provider
1%
Transportation Company
1%
Hospitality Company
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%

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DataStage at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of IBM InfoSphere DataStage
Mar 17, 2021
Product discussed: 11.7
User-friendly with a lot of functions for transmission rules, but has slow performance and not suitable for a huge volume of data

Pros

"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."

Cons

"It doesn't have any big data connections. It would be good to have them because most of the systems are moving towards big data. There should also be a user-friendly way to interact with the cloud. Its loading process is very slow. It takes a lot of time for around 5 or 6 million records, and we are not able to provide real-time data to the vendors due to this delay. Its performance needs to be improved. It is also like a legacy system. It is not updated much. In higher versions, they only do small changes. We would like to have new features and new technologies."
Rahul Saxena - PeerSpot user
Manager - Business Technology Solutions at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of IBM InfoSphere DataStage
Jan 31, 2024
A helpful and cost-effective tool that performs well and is very easy to use

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"The solution is very easy to use."

Cons

"The troubleshooting guide is very bad."
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CEO at DELOMID IT
Verified user of IBM InfoSphere DataStage
Feb 19, 2023
Product discussed: 11
Powerful and agile with good support

Pros

"It works with multiple servers and offers high availability."

Cons

"I'd like to be able to do more with the data and metadata, including copy and pasting, et cetera."
Sumeet  Zalpuri - PeerSpot user
Data engineer at ASR Nederland N.V.
Verified user of IBM InfoSphere DataStage
Apr 11, 2023
Reliable with good performance but has some data quality issues

Pros

"The solution is stable."

Cons

"The initial setup can be complex. "
Murali B - PeerSpot user
Associate Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of IBM InfoSphere DataStage
Apr 9, 2024
Facilitated our peak data integration projects, offers good GUI and availability of connectors is strong

Pros

"Compared to other ETL tools, DataStage has excellent debugging and development capabilities. And the availability of connectors, even though we sometimes have to opt for specific ones. Also, the availability of patches is good."

Cons

"In terms of intermediate storage, we have some challenges, especially with customers who store data in intermediate locations. "
Yusuf Arslan - PeerSpot user
Senior Data Architect at Anadolu Sigorta
Verified user of IBM InfoSphere DataStage
Jul 22, 2024
Provides governance, data management with improved connectors and Kafka connectivity

Pros

"DataStage has also improved its connectors, such as connectivity with Kafka for real-time data integration, cloud connectors, and others like Spark and HVAC SaaS. All these processes are expected to shift to the cloud in the next five years. It's a very robust tool, much like PowerCenter. "

Cons

"The deployment could be more straightforward."
ARTURO MONTIEL - PeerSpot user
Arquitecto Industrial IoT at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of IBM InfoSphere DataStage
Mar 25, 2024
Effectively handles large volumes of records for ETL processes

Pros

"The most valuable feature for our data processing needs is IBM InfoSphere DataStage's capability to handle ETL tasks with large record volumes. "

Cons

"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. "
Tirthankar Roy Chowdhury - PeerSpot user
Teamlead at Tata consultancy services
Verified user of IBM InfoSphere DataStage
Aug 25, 2022
Product discussed: 11.7
User-friendly with a lot of functionalities, and doesn't require much coding because of its drag-and-drop features

Pros

"The best feature of IBM InfoSphere DataStage for me was that it was very much user-friendly. The solution didn't require that much raw coding because most of its features were drag and drop, plus it had a large number of functionalities."

Cons

"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."