IBM App Connect vs Matillion Data Productivity Cloud comparison

IBM App Connect vs. Matillion Data Productivity Cloud

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Categories and Ranking

IBM App Connect

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

11th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Matillion Data Productivity...

Ranking in Cloud Data Integration

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of IBM App Connect is 4.7%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Matillion Data Productivity Cloud is 3.4%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Data Integration

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Mehdi El Filahi

Co-Founder at tenekit

Offers flexible adapters, good scalability but logging can be difficult at times

There is room for improvement in the logging messages. Sometimes, if you put someone new into App Connect, they can abandon it the same day. The logging is really painful. However, IBM has made efforts to integrate with Elasticsearch for logging, so that's an improvement. Overall, the logging can be difficult at times. One more important point is that if IBM improves its CI/CD capabilities, it will make a big difference. Right now, I have to create my own CI/CD setup from scratch for every client, which is inefficient. Back in 2013, I worked with Sonic ESB, and even then, it had CI/CD with Maven. With App Connect, you need to build everything yourself when using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, or CircleCI. IBM really needs to provide official support for this.

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Jacques Du Preez

Chief Executive Officer at Intellinexus

Offers good user interface and easy to navigate

Our experience is mainly around using Snowflake Data Cloud with Matillion. And the two of them combined, offer superior performance and price point benefits. Using them together is very efficient because Matillion's processing and Snowflake's own scalability and consumption based on pushing down code work well together. They are very efficient. We've used Azure Data Factory (ADF) for integration. So that's an alternative, depending on customer choice for the integration. And then on AWS, a few of the other services, like Terraform, and S3 storage, and that's about it. It's on a case-by-case basis. If they've chosen ADF as a technology, then we implement using that choice.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."

"Very scalable, flexible, and user-friendly."

"Provides good security features."

"The most valuable feature is the user-friendliness of the application."

"One of the most beneficial features is the ability to handle multiple communication technologies, like integrating Kafka flows, which is helpful as other teams heavily use it. Regarding error handling, I initially wrote most of the handling myself. While built-in features for error handling are built-in, it largely depends on the developer. We use a custom solution that catches all exceptions, logs them in a database, and replays them as needed. It has been effective for us for over twenty years."

"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."

"It has an efficient design flow."

"I would say that the most valuable feature is the array of connectors and integration tools."

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"It is an incredibly user-friendly and intuitive tool, making the learning curve quite smooth"

"The product has a good user interface."

"It is pretty user-friendly, even for people who aren't super technical."

"The technical support treats us well. They already have a support portal, and they are responsive, which helps."

"It has good integrations with Amazon Redshift and other AWS services."

"The product's initial setup phase was easy."

"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is its ease of use. If you have had some experience with other solutions, such as Snowflake, the use of this solution will be simple."

"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is the UI experience in which you can drag and drop most of the transformation."

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Cons

"The installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."

"The interface could be better."

"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."

"Finding developers for the product is difficult since it is a niche solution. I know the OpenShift environment is running well for the microservice environment. We had some issues with the other environment we tried to implement. It can be easily implemented internally, but we have some problems in practice."

"The user interface of IBM App Connect can be a little bit more user-friendly, I would say because the first-time developer is onboarded while using IBM App Connect, he or she may get a little intimidated or daunted looking at all the options available or the pipelines, et cetera."

"More connectors could be available for the product as some of the third-party software doesn't have default connectors."

"One more important point is that if IBM improves its CI/CD capabilities, it will make a big difference. Right now, I have to create my own CI/CD setup from scratch for every client, which is inefficient."

"IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement."

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"Unlike Snowflake which automatically takes care of upgrading to the latest version and includes additional features, with Matillion ETL we need to do this ourselves."

"The tool's lineage is very weak."

"The product must enhance its near-real-time data capture feature."

"While the UI is good, it could be improved in its efficiency and made easier to use."

"In the next release, we would like to have connections to more databases."

"There are certain functions that are available in other ETL tools which are still not present in Matillion ETL. It would be good to have more features."

"Sometimes, we have issues with the solution's stability and need to restart it for three weeks or more."

"I found some of the more complex aspects of ETL challenging, but I grasped the concepts fairly quickly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"App Connect is not cheap."

"IBM App Connect's pricing is high compared to other products."

"The price could be better."

"The solution's pricing isn't cheap, but you can get good discounts based on your competitive deal."

"The licensing cost for IBM App Connect is very high."

"It is very expensive if we want to scale."

"The cost depends upon the consumer."

"Initially, App Connect was quite expensive because the cost was based on the number of processors we used. However, it's now based on containers, which means we can be more specific about our consumption and get a better price."

"I think it is cost conscious. It used to be very cheap and they have more recently bumped up the pricing, so it is competitive now."

"Its price depends on what you expect. You pay on a monthly basis, but there is a possibility to have special contracts depending on the installation."

"The solution is very cheap. You're paying $2.50 an hour and if you set your service up, which you can do, you're not getting charged. Currently, our ETL process is just an overnight process that runs for about an hour. I can start and stop my server just for an hour if I want to and spent $2.50 a day for an ETL solution. There are no additional costs."

"The cost of the solution is high and could be reduced."

"Matillion ETL is expensive."

"The pricing depends on what edition the customer opts for. For example, the standard edition is priced at $2.00 per credit. And you are only charged when you use it. You're not charged when it's idle."

"The AWS pricing and licensing are a cost-effective solution for data integration needs."

"It is cost-effective. Based on our use case, it's efficient and cheap. It saves a lot of money and our upfront costs are less."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

54%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Energy/Utilities Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM App Connect?

I like the adapters. The adapters help us achieve scalability. If you want to connect to SAP, there's an adapter. Salesforce? There's an adapter. You want to connect to another system? There's like...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM App Connect?

IBM App Connect's pricing is high compared to other products.

What is your primary use case for IBM App Connect?

Our company has a big project for delivery and e-commerce sites. We use IBM App Connect to deliver information to our end users after they buy our products. We get information from many places, suc...

What do you like most about Matillion ETL?

The new version with the Productivity Cloud is very simple. It's easy to use, navigate, and understand.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Matillion ETL?

The solution's pricing is not based on the licensing cost but on the running hours when the Matillion instance is up and running. Its pricing model is different from the traditional pricing models ...

What needs improvement with Matillion ETL?

Depending on the use case, the solution's pricing could be improved. Matillion ETL should include more enhanced capabilities for extracting data from the SAP systems.

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Also Known As

IBM Cast Iron

Matillion ETL for Redshift, Matillion ETL for Snowflake, Matillion ETL for BigQuery

Overview

Rapidly connect public clouds, private clouds and on-premises application

App Connect Professional is IBM’s cloud integration offering which delivers an integration solution
• With ease-of-use, flexibility and increased responsiveness to the evolving business needs, while removing the daunting complexities of integration.
• Provides the powerful combination of a ‘simple integration experience’ for business users looking to automate how their applications talk to each other; coupled with a ‘configuration based integration’ approach for IT.
• App Connect Professional is for the teams and integration developers who need to solve more complex problems and need powerful tooling for integration scenarios

IBM

Matillion Data Productivity Cloud features an intuitive graphical interface, seamless AWS integration, and efficient data management. Its tools streamline complex tasks for SFDC, RDS, Marketo, Facebook, and Google AdWords.

Matillion Data Productivity Cloud provides fast transformations with built-in verification, easy scheduling, and sampling. With automatic scalability and diverse data source support, it simplifies complex data tasks. Users benefit from cloud data warehousing and integrating data into Snowflake while appreciating its ease of use by non-technical teams. Enhancements can focus on frequent API adjustments, improved documentation, faster performance with less latency, and better error handling.

What are the key features of Matillion Data Productivity Cloud?

User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies interaction for non-technical users with a graphical interface.
Seamless Integration: Works smoothly with AWS, SFDC, RDS, Marketo, Facebook, and Google AdWords.
Automatic Scalability: Efficiently manages varying workloads with scale-up and down capabilities.
Efficient Data Handling: Streamlines transformations, scheduling, and sample data verifications.
Diverse Data Source Support: Easily integrates multiple data sources for streamlined processes.

What benefits and ROI should users seek in reviews?

Ease of Use: Reduces complexity for non-technical teams with intuitive operation.
Performance Efficiency: Fast data processing and transformations enhance productivity.
Cloud Compatibility: Supports integration with cloud platforms for versatile data solutions.
Time-Saving Scheduling: Automates data tasks, allowing users to focus on other priorities.
Scalability: Automatically adjusts to workload needs, optimizing resource use and cost.

In industries such as technology, finance, and healthcare, Matillion Data Productivity Cloud is implemented to streamline ETL processes, optimize data pipeline construction, and enhance data migration efforts. It supports efficient data loading and integration between cloud and on-premises databases, aiding industries in managing data-driven projects.

Matillion

Sample Customers

United Way of Allegheny County, Saint-Gobain CPS, Ricoh, SunTrust Banks Inc.

Thrive Market, MarketBot, PWC, Axtria, Field Nation, GE, Superdry, Quantcast, Lightbox, EDF Energy, Finn Air, IPRO, Twist, Penn National Gaming Inc

IBM App Connect vs. Matillion Data Productivity Cloud