We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SSIS based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SSIS beat out IBM InfoSphere DataStage in all categories we compared.
"Finding logs is very easy on the solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to incorporate very complex business rules in Data Stage."
"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."
"We like the flexibility of modeling."
"Once you have Infosphere up and running properly, it is stable."
"The solution has improved the time it takes to perform tasks related to batch applications."
"The Hierarchical Data Stage is good."
"When we have needed help from the IBM team, they were helpful. Our company is a premium partner so we get fast responses."
"It's something I needed for bulk imports. I'm not a big fan of it, but I haven't seen anything better."
"The most valuable feature of SSIS is that you can take data from other servers which are not MS SQL Server or Oracle."
"The setup was easy. All Microsoft products are easy to set up."
"The performance is better than doing it in some alternative ways. We don't have to worry about so much manual work."
"SSIS' most valuable feature is its reporting services."
"We can connect with multiple data sources easily using an external connector in SSIS."
"Its compatibility with Microsoft products has been very valuable to our company. It fits well within the architecture."
"Like most Microsoft products, SSIS is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The response time from support is slow and needs to be improved."
"There could be more customization options for the product."
"I really like this tool, but the administration should be on the same client application because a lot of administration features are not on the client-side, and they usually need to have administrative access. It's quite complicated to force IT teams to have separate administrative access from the developers."
"We would be happy to see in next versions the ability to return several parameters from jobs. Now, jobs can return just one parameter. If they could return several parameters, that would be great."
"The interface needs improvement. It is really too technical. That is the main problem."
"The pricing should be lower."
"Its documentation is not up to the mark. While building APIs, we had a lot of problems trying to get around it because it is not very user-friendly. We tried to get hold of API documentation, but the documentation is not very well thought out. It should be more structured and elaborate. In terms of additional features, I would like to see good reporting on performance and performance-tuning recommendations that can be based on AI. I would also like to see better data profiling information being reported on InfoSphere."
"The troubleshooting guide is very bad."
"We'd like more integration capabilities."
"This solution needs full support for real-time processing."
"It would be nice if you could run SSIS on other environments besides Windows."
"It's difficult to refactor SSIS. It gets cumbersome to reuse the solution."
"At one point, we did have to purchase an add-on."
"I have a tool called ZappySys. I need that tool to cut down on the complexity of SSIS. That tool really helps with a quick turnaround. I can do things quickly, and I can do things accurately. I can get better reporting on errors."
"It's a legacy tool, that is nearing the end of its useful life."
"The solution could improve by having quicker release updates."
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is ranked 7th in Data Integration with 37 reviews while SSIS is ranked 2nd in Data Integration with 69 reviews. IBM InfoSphere DataStage is rated 7.8, while SSIS is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere DataStage writes "User-friendly with a lot of functions for transmission rules, but has slow performance and not suitable for a huge volume of data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SSIS writes "Maintaining the solution and contacting its support team is easy". IBM InfoSphere DataStage is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Azure Data Factory, Talend Open Studio, Informatica PowerCenter and IBM InfoSphere Information Server, whereas SSIS is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Talend Open Studio, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), AWS Glue and Azure Data Factory. See our IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs. SSIS report.
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