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IBM App Connect vs SnapLogic comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

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Sentiment score
8.5
SnapLogic's customer service is seen as responsive by some, but others report delays and insufficient support knowledge.
 

Room For Improvement

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Sentiment score
6.2
SnapLogic needs improvements in complex processing, data flow transparency, API monitoring, user dashboards, support, debugging, and high-volume data handling.
 

Scalability Issues

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Sentiment score
8.0
SnapLogic is praised for cloud scalability, user-friendly setup, and flexible resource allocation, though some face initial setup challenges.
 

Setup Cost

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Sentiment score
6.5
SnapLogic offers reasonable, consumption-based pricing that remains affordable despite recent increases, especially compared to competitors.
 

Stability Issues

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Sentiment score
7.5
SnapLogic is generally stable with minimal bugs and downtime, though some users experience availability issues and job failures with large data.
 

Valuable Features

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Sentiment score
8.8
SnapLogic provides an intuitive, hybrid deployment platform with low-code development, seamless app integration, high data transfer, and extensive API management.
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM App Connect
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SnapLogic
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
13th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (24th), Process Automation (16th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of IBM App Connect is 3.6%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SnapLogic is 4.7%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Mehdi El Filahi - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Selva Dhoom - PeerSpot reviewer
Automates manual activities and has helpful documentation that allows users to self-study
What could be improved in SnapLogic is that it was not capable in terms of processing a large number of datasets, but at that point, SnapLogic was evolving. It didn't give a lot of Snaps. I heard recently there are a lot of Snaps getting added and the solution was being enhanced, particularly to connect different data sources. When I was working with SnapLogic six months to one year back, I faced the issue of it not being capable of handling a huge volume of datasets or didn't have much of Snaps, and that was the drawback. If there is any large number of data sets, that's based on or depends on your configuration. If it is a huge volume of data, other traditional ETL tools such as Informatica and Talend can process millions and billions of records, while in SnapLogic, the Snaplex fails or it returns an error in terms of processing that huge volume of data. Informatica, Talend, or any other ETL tool can run for hours in terms of jobs, while SnapLogic jobs fail when the threshold is reached. SnapLogic isn't able to withstand processing, but I don't know if that's still an issue at present, because the solution is getting enhanced and it's been more than six months to one year since I last worked with SnapLogic. There are now a lot of Snaps getting added to the solution, and if it can overcome the limitations I mentioned, SnapLogic could be the go-to tool because currently, it's not being used as much in organizations. It's being used comparatively less compared to other retail tools.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
57%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
3%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Real Estate/Law Firm
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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 SnapLogic?
Despite having no prior experience in SnapLogic, we managed to build, test, and prepare it for release in just three hours, handling heavy data efficiently.
What needs improvement with SnapLogic?
The biggest issue we have faced in our company with SnapLogic is regarding the EDI format. For instance, suppose if 20 EDIs are shortlisted then SnapLogic will convert and provide only those specif...
What is your primary use case for SnapLogic?
In our company, we used the solution to build a SnapLogic pipeline in a non-production environment. Presently, our company is releasing it to the production environment. We have used SnapLogic in o...
 

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