Aberdeen vs. Explorium vs. IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Aberdeen's research and consulting services might be well suited for: - Companies looking to improve their sales and marketing performance. Aberdeen's research and consulting services can help companies understand the best practices and strategies being used by leading companies in their industry. This can help them identify areas for improvement in their own operations and take action to drive growth. - Companies looking to stay informed about emerging trends and technologies: Aberdeen's research can help companies stay informed about emerging trends and technologies in the sales and marketing field. This can help them make strategic decisions about how to adapt to changing market conditions. However, here are some scenarios where Aberdeen's services might be less appropriate: - Small or early-stage companies with limited resources: Aberdeen's services can be quite expensive, and may not be a good fit for small or early-stage companies with limited resources. - Companies looking for a free service: Aberdeen's research and consulting services are only accessible to clients that have a subscription and some users may not have the budget to access the research, this may limit the access to a specific group of clients.

Incentivized

We need to constantly measures costs in our health business and we forecast pricing acoording to several values and conditions. Explorium works quite good analysing simple datasets, but when hierahies start to increase, meaning 6-10 olap variables, the system start to slow down quite a bit until was no longer to retrieve the info we required. This is why we test several tools, because even world-class solutions we purchase, don´t do the job we need. Explorium is a good tool, but complexity will be a minus in some scenarios.

Incentivized

Information Server is extremely useful to replace manual developments that require a lot of coding effort. It significantly increases the productivity of the initial development and the future maintenance of the processes since it has a visual development environment with self-documentation.

• Data ready for consumption.
• Good enough relationships between entities.
• Nice integration with other players. That's a good thing.

Incentivized

• IIS best for ETL ,not ELT , and many and diffrent source systems.
• It also can process big data , unstuctured data
• It is not only DWH , you can use infosphere for analys and see the bigger architecture of your OLTP systems

Incentivized

• relationships between entities could be better. Would be great to have scenarios.
• The data normalized needs improvement. Works pretty good, but it needs more refinement when using AND-OR Formulas that came from various datasets.

Incentivized

• I would be nice to have a new web development environment for DataStage.
• Connectivity Packs such as Pack for SAP Application are a little pricey.
• It is confusing for new developers the possibility of developing jobs using different execution engines such as Parallel or Server.

Incentivized

• Scale of implementation
• IBM techsupport

Incentivized

The simplicity of the tool is an advantage. The integrations as well work quite well. All these solutions have worked well until some point and what we have discovered over the years is that we need to combine various solutions. There is no such thing as one tool ruling them all. Explorium works quite well until we start testing more advanced relations, and here, the tool is promising but requires a little work.

Incentivized

DataStage is more robust and stable than ODI The ability to perform complex transformations or implement business rules is much more developed in DS

• Positive. The time save in analysis per hour of internal consulting was the best compared to our SAP and Cognos solutions.
• In term of objetives works as stated, but when using multi-conditions of dataset, start the issues.

Incentivized

• Productivity of the development of integration processes.
• Better documentation and governance.
• Reduce training costs of various technologies.