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AWS Glue vs Tungsten RPA comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.9
AWS Glue is cost-effective and efficient for managing limited pipelines, offering good ROI despite setup costs.
Sentiment score
7.6
Tungsten RPA boosted aviation efficiency and government savings by streamlining processes, reducing errors, and cutting costs.
I advocate using Glue in such cases.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
AWS Glue support is helpful and responsive, but response times vary; community resources are useful and premium support can be costly.
Sentiment score
7.0
Tungsten RPA support is generally effective, with knowledgeable staff, though some users report delays and suggest faster responses.
AWS's documentation is reliable, and careful reference often resolves missed upgrade details.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
AWS Glue offers scalable, serverless data handling with high user ratings, excelling in cloud integration but needing improvements.
Sentiment score
6.9
Tungsten RPA is scalable, flexible, and adaptable, but requires skilled deployment and faces challenges like licensing and upgrades.
It is beneficial to upgrade jobs, and we conduct extensive testing in development before migrating to production.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
AWS Glue is stable and integrates well, though some users seek improvements in performance with heavy workloads and specific features.
Sentiment score
7.8
Tungsten RPA is stable and reliable, though some find it complex with legacy apps; it scores 7-9/10 for stability.
 

Room For Improvement

AWS Glue faces criticism for slow startup, limited language support, high cost, and complex interface, needing improved documentation and features.
Tungsten RPA needs interface improvements, better scalability, AI features, enhanced integration, and support for complex processes and legacy systems.
Migrating jobs from version 3.0 to 4.0 can present compatibility issues.
With AWS, I gather data from multiple sources, clean it up, normalize it, de-duplicate it, and make it presentable.
 

Setup Cost

AWS Glue pricing is flexible but can be costly, especially for enterprises, due to DPU usage and additional support costs.
Tungsten RPA offers flexible subscription pricing with unlimited workflows, varying costs by project needs, and requires upfront payments.
Costing depends on resource usage, and cost optimization may involve redesigning jobs for flexibility.
AWS charges based on runtime, which can be quite pricey.
 

Valuable Features

AWS Glue offers seamless integration, scalability, cost-effectiveness, and efficient ETL with features like data catalog, triggers, and Glue Studio.
Tungsten RPA offers seamless integration, robust automation, and ease of use with advanced tools for document and process management.
For ETL, I feel the performance is excellent. If I create jobs in a standard way, the performance is great, and maintenance is also seamless.
I think if I'm working with big data, common languages like Python work quite nicely, which is advantageous.
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Glue
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Integration (1st)
Tungsten RPA
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (13th)
 

Featured Reviews

Muthuvel Sivaraman - PeerSpot reviewer
Handles a huge volume of data and is serverless, but it can be considered costly by some users
We use Amazon's services to provide technical support for the product. If you want to have support, Oracle and others offer a single support, and other tools have a direct support window. For Amazon, we need to pay 10 percent of my billing amount for the tool to get support services. Whether to raise a support ticket or not is an issue since ten percent is a huge amount. My company ends up using all the options without help from support. It is very difficult for any common man to understand why there is a need to pay ten percent for support. If I find an issue in the product, and I need to get support from AWS to fix it, then I need to pay ten percent of the tool's bill amount to Amazon. AWS is a very tricky tool because everything is evolving nowadays. AWS engineers are getting hired from other places, and even after that, if I am not getting any technical support, then things will be very nasty. There are some good engineers who help users outside the normal support cycle, but it doesn't meet their needs. I rate the technical support a four out of ten.
Jamil Milhem - PeerSpot reviewer
Automates browsing tasks without needing a server connection
I have worked with Microsoft Power Platform and UiPath. Kofax RPA offers a comprehensive solution with built-in capabilities for executing tasks like running Excel files and web automation without additional servers. They provide their browsers and extensions. For functions such as OCR, image processing, and data extraction, Kofax has built-in features powered by their engine, eliminating the need for subscriptions to external technologies like Microsoft Cognitive Services or Google Search. One of Kofax RPA's strongest features is its on-premise solution, which is particularly beneficial for organizations operating in regions with data regulations, such as the UAE.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How do you select the right cloud ETL tool?
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How does Talend Open Studio compare with AWS Glue?
We reviewed AWS Glue before choosing Talend Open Studio. AWS Glue is the managed ETL (extract, transform, and load) from Amazon Web Services. AWS Glue enables AWS users to create and manage jobs in...
What are the most common use cases for AWS Glue?
AWS Glue's main use case is for allowing users to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. The product lets you use this data for analytics, application development, or ma...
What do you like most about Kofax RPA?
You can automate browsing tasks without needing a server connection. The platform provides its browser, allowing you to run anything inside it.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kofax RPA?
The pricing models across the market initially differed significantly, as most RPA implementations were licensed on a per bot basis, unlike Tungsten RPA, which uses a server-based model. Though the...
What needs improvement with Kofax RPA?
Automation of complex processes involving stable legacy systems could be a major plus. The biggest issue lies in the stability of the target environment. Automating systems based on Citrix, where u...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Kofax RPA, Kofax Kapow, Kapow
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

bp, Cerner, Expedia, Finra, HESS, intuit, Kellog's, Philips, TIME, workday
Aetna, BNP Paribas, Citi, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, ING, Aviva, Humana, Willis, Merck, University Hospitals, CardinalHealth, American Red Cross, Alegri, Capita
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