IBM App Connect vs Talend Data Management Platform comparison

IBM App Connect vs. Talend Data Management Platform

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IBM App Connect

Average Rating

8.2

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Cloud Data Integration (8th)

Talend Data Management Plat...

Average Rating

8.2

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Data Integration (20th)

Featured Reviews

Mehdi El Filahi

Co-Founder at tenekit

Apr 17, 2024

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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Srinivas Mamidipalli

Senior Technical Manager at YASH Technologies

Feb 22, 2023

Built for everything and packed with features but there are some monitoring limitations

Our company uses the solution to provide data integration services for customers. Most of our implementations are on-premises for large or enterprise-level customers. We have six users with experience in both the local studio and the enterprise versions. The solution can run on any machine and…

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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

"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 likely an adapter for that."

"We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications."

"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."

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

"When using IBM stacks, IBM App Connect is suitable and integrates well with other IBM products like WebSphere."

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

"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."

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

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"The tool was mainly used for ETL processes to apply governance rules on data."

"The most valuable features of the Talend Data Management Platform are the components."

"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to understand."

"The basic tools are easy to pick up and understand."

"The most valuable feature is integration."

"I think Talend is one of the easiest tools for faster implementation compared to other tools."

"The solution can run on any machine and that is a big advantage."

"We can develop our own code if we do not see the functionality we need."

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Cons

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

"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."

"I've been using IBM App Connect for about twenty-five years, and while I like it, there are some areas for improvement. The trace policy is ridiculous, and the biggest issue is the cost—it's expensive. People would use it much more if the price point weren't so high."

"IBM App Connect is scalable. From the administration side, they need to improve the RBAC model, as well as the clustering of this product. It will be good if we can start up the cluster, via IBM Connect Console. Some other products like MuleSoft, are providing this type of administration. MuleSoft is easy to use and user friendly."

"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."

"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."

"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."

"IBM App Connect should improve security features."

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"I think they should drive toward AI and machine learning. They could include a machine-learning algorithm for the deduplication."

"I'd be interested in seeing the running of Python programs and transformations from within the studio itself."

"They lack in memory capacity."

"The sales and market department could improve the Talend Data Management Platform."

"The solution's memory sometimes bottlenecks and that can be challenging."

"The stability is good, but the performance is slower when I work on a huge amount of data."

"Performance and speed could be improved."

"I've had some issues with bugs causing crashes, especially when making changes to the system or with the monthly upgrades to Studio they've introduced."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The price could be better."

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

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

"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."

"App Connect is not cheap."

"The cost depends upon the consumer."

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

"The solution's pricing is very reasonable and half the cost of Informatica."

"License renewal is on a yearly basis."

"The pricing is a little higher than what I had expected, but it's comparable with I-PASS competitors."

"The price is on a per-user basis. It's a little more expensive than other tools. There aren't any additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."

"The licensing cost is about 40,000 Euros a year."

"The price of the Talend Data Management Platform is reasonable. The other competing solutions are priced high. Gartner Magic Quadrant identified other solutions, such as Informatica, that are far more expensive."

"The tool is cheap."

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Educational Organization

57%

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Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

17%

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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 Talend Data Management Platform?

We can develop our own code if we do not see the functionality we need.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Talend Data Management Platform?

The product is cost-effective. If you have to do it with Talend or any other informational tools, it's very expensive. It has a very flexible licensing cost. It's a SaaS-based model. It costs aroun...

What needs improvement with Talend Data Management Platform?

The solution's stability could be improved.

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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

Talend offers robust data integration in an open and scalable architecture to maximize its value to your business. Simple, graphical tools and wizards get you up and running quickly with native code generation that streamlines development.

Sample Customers

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

Accent Group, Acticall, Allianz Global Investors Distributors LLC, Car & Boat Media, Cdiscount.com

IBM App Connect vs. Talend Data Management Platform