Actian DataConnect vs. Jitterbit

Actian DataConnect

Jitterbit

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Actian DataConnect	Score 6.0 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	HCL DataConnect (formerly Actian DataConnect) is a hybrid integration solution that enables users to integrate anything, anywhere, anytime. It can be deployed in on-premise, cloud, and/or hybrid environments and offers quick onboarding. With its emphasis data quality, data reuse, adaptability and self-service integration, DataConnect is designed to support rapid onboarding and deliver the fast time to value.	N/A
Jitterbit	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	Jitterbit is a cloud integration technology for cloud, social or mobile apps. It provides accessibility for non-technical users, including easily creating API’s and data transformation scripts within the integrations.	$100 Starting Price Per Month

Pricing

Actian DataConnect

Jitterbit

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Jitterbit: $100.00
Starting Price Per Month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Actian DataConnect	Jitterbit
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Actian DataConnect	Jitterbit
Considered Both Products	Actian DataConnect David Byrd Sr Integration Engineer - Dual Certified in Dell Boomi Developer 1 & 2, and Actian DataConnect Chose Actian DataConnect As I stated earlier, DataConnect makes a head-to-head run against the others. It has advantages and disadvantages compared to the competitors. The choice really comes down to pricing and specific requirement needs for the project you are planning. Questions such as … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Duperre Data Management Support Specialist Chose Actian DataConnect Data Integrator was initially a part of a package deal for us with our new Student Information System. It was chosen prior to my arrival at the institution. Since I discovered we have SQL Server licenses, we have decided to use SSIS instead since I have a background in the MSBI … Incentivized Helpful?	Jitterbit Fadi Dagher Solutions Architect Chose Jitterbit Jitterbit plays well in the general-purpose integration that can be used to integrate multiple systems and used by different departments within an Enterprise. I see it as a more basic option for Boomi that is less expensive. So if you are looking for something like Boomi, and … Incentivized Helpful? Laura Sponaas IT Developer Architect Chose Jitterbit Scribe - we had problems with this product (jobs were running long, some jobs would finish incomplete without any warning or info, etc) and we wanted more functionality/configurability -- keep in mind this was 3 years ago, so the product may have changed since then! CozyRoc … Incentivized Helpful? Laura McDonough, PMP Vice-President, Business Operations & PMO Chose Jitterbit Evaluated Dell Boomi and Celigo as alternatives prior to purchasing Jitterbit. We went with Jitterbit at that time because we could handle all changes ourselves without any assistance from Jitterbit, and we liked their size and nimbleness. Dell Boomi was too big for us, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jitterbit Jitterbit is completely cloud-based and offers a cleaner way to connect to SOAP API endpoints. SQL Server Integration Services has a larger ecosystem of plugin connectors by third parties (at a cost), but the downside is that you still need to use something like Visual Studio … Incentivized Helpful? Ravi Agarwal Director of Enterprise Architecture and DevOps Chose Jitterbit Our decision was based on the cost at the time. Jitterbit's cost model has changed since then, so it might be a different decision now if we have to re-evaluate. Incentivized Helpful? Dudu Elmaleh Salesforce Developer Chose Jitterbit For me, it gives the best ratio: It is the most intuitive and easy to use tool, but it still gives you a lot of options and capabilities to handle all requirements. Add to that, it has cloud agent options and has the better community of the other tools I encountered. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jitterbit Hands down, Jitterbit is more cost-effective than Informatica, either on-prem or cloud and the value only goes up from there. Reusability and ease of creation make in-house training simple and the end result is we leverage Jitterbit for much more than what we initially … Incentivized Helpful? James Smith Sales & Marketing Operations Manager Chose Jitterbit I prefer Jitterbit mainly for its easy to navigate history files and the way you can map your updates. Incentivized Helpful? Eli Strong Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System Administrator Chose Jitterbit I actually use all three of these products: Jitterbit free, DemandTools and PeopleImport. I use DemandTools and PeopleImport most often and usually only use Jitterbit free when the other two won't launch or connect. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jitterbit The support that Jitterbit has provided on paper as well as in the real world is great and this was certainly in our top pick list when we did our build/buy analysis. Incentivized Helpful? Ankur Goswami Lead Developer Chose Jitterbit Other Products: IBM- Cast Iron, Krise. Jitterbit provides both cloud and on premise solution and pricing was also fair. Incentivized Helpful? Scott Boetig Salesforce Solution Architect Chose Jitterbit The Jitterbit data loader is a dramatic improvement over the standard Salesforce Apex Data Loader. Both applications are free or included with Salesforce but I would only recommend Jitterbit for users who need to run data jobs against Salesforce. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jitterbit We did not compare it with other integration tools. Helpful? Don Waters President Chose Jitterbit Jitterbit was a better match for the project we used it for because of the depth and breadth of scripting language and the nature of the platform. That being said, the project we threw at it was a tough one. I am almost certain we could not have completed it with the other … Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Jitterbit Initially we were looking at building our own integration capability from scratch, but deliverable timelines pushed us to purchase this product. Other than Biztalk, I do not know which other products we looked at. Helpful? Mike Turnell Order Management Specialist Chose Jitterbit Jitterbit works flawlessly for simple data loading tasks. Anything more complicated, such as deduping objects or cleaning data on a grid would require a more substantial program such DemandTools, but for small, ad-hoc tasks Jitterbit is hard to beat. Helpful? Jules Clement Business Intelligence Team Lead Chose Jitterbit What set Jitterbit apart was the flexibility and the capability to copy existing transformations. Since we were rolling out a world-wide data integration program for an enterprise ERP, it was essential that we could implement once and reuse. We could add error captures really … Helpful? Travis Terry Performance Testing Engineer / Front End Developer /System Analyst Chose Jitterbit Honestly we didn't evaluate too many other middle ware products, at least that i am aware of its possible our system architect did without my input. But we were given a trial of JitterBit a very good training session and decided it was a perfect fit for us and it has been a … Helpful?

Features

Actian DataConnect

Jitterbit

Data Source Connection

Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
	Actian DataConnect 9.5 Ratings 13% above category average	Jitterbit - Ratings
Connect to traditional data sources	9.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Transformations

Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
	Actian DataConnect 9.9 Ratings 20% above category average	Jitterbit - Ratings
Simple transformations	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Complex transformations	9.90 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Modeling

Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
	Actian DataConnect 9.9 Ratings 23% above category average	Jitterbit - Ratings
Data model creation	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Metadata management	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow	9.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Collaboration	9.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Testing and debugging	9.90 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Governance

Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
	Actian DataConnect 9.5 Ratings 17% above category average	Jitterbit - Ratings
Integration with data quality tools	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Cloud Data Integration

Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of Product A and Product B
	Actian DataConnect - Ratings	Jitterbit 7.2 Ratings 11% below category average
Pre-built connectors	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Connector modification	00 Ratings	7.20 Ratings
Support for real-time and batch integration	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Data quality services	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Data security features	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Monitoring console	00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Actian DataConnect	Jitterbit
Small Businesses	Skyvia Score 10.0 out of 10	Make Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10	IBM App Connect Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10	IBM App Connect Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Actian DataConnect	Jitterbit
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Actian DataConnect	Jitterbit
Likelihood to Recommend	I wouldn't recommend Data Integrator over SSIS, but it may be a better tool than other ETL offerings. Having a background in the Microsoft Stack, I am hesitant to recommend any other products especially in a Microsoft-centric company. If this was the only option to use, I think it does a good job at integrating systems after taking time to learn the approach. "Maps" in Data Integrator is definitely different than "process flow" philosophy in SSIS. Incentivized Justin Duperre Data Management Support Specialist Read full review	Small to medium sized companies are great prospects for this product. It's pretty easy to set up, learn and maintain. You can scale it too, so start with an easy integration, learn the ropes and expand your usage. If you have fairly simply needs for a handful of fields and just one or two external systems to feed into Salesforce, this is the go-to product. If you're a larger company needing more complex integrations where extremely high reliability is needed and any downtime means revenue loss, you probably already have a different product in mind. Then again, you probably have an entire team that handles integrations and a data warehouse to support it! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Map multiple source and destination tables - what would be done in many steps in SSIS can be done in one or two "maps" in Data Integrator. Platform independent, cloud based, no client software. Conversion of data types, write flat files - this helps us with integrating systems. Fairly straightforward to use if the user has ETL experience. Incentivized Justin Duperre Data Management Support Specialist Read full review	Ease of use - while being more technical is useful, you don't need to be a developer to use many of JItterbit's capabilities Customer Support - we have always had great responsiveness to any questions or issues encountered Reliability - Jitterbit has been extremely reliable with no major outages in the recent past Incentivized Laura McDonough, PMP Vice-President, Business Operations & PMO Read full review
Cons	Integration Manager needs better scheduling improvements. Like dependencies, and not running a process again if the prior run is still running. New connector development does not seem a priority. Incentivized David Byrd Sr Integration Engineer - Dual Certified in Dell Boomi Developer 1 & 2, and Actian DataConnect Read full review	Some of the more advanced transformation possibilities aren't exactly clear without a lot of digging. Very basic connections (e.g. map this field to this field) along with basic transformation scripts (e.g. multiply X * Y) are super easy. But I know there are a ton more features and functionality that I feel is somewhat buried in the product Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	I have been evaluating other tools as a continuous improvement practice. I would like something that would be easier to use for a non-technical user. I work for a small organization and have no back-up for Jitterbit if something happens to me. We don't have the technically savvy employees to understand it. Crystal Steinbach, MBA Digital Communications Professional Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	They have some of the best support of any software vendor that we use. They always get our issues resolved quickly Travis Terry Performance Testing Engineer / Front End Developer /System Analyst Read full review
Alternatives Considered	As I stated earlier, DataConnect makes a head-to-head run against the others. It has advantages and disadvantages compared to the competitors. The choice really comes down to pricing and specific requirement needs for the project you are planning. Questions such as On-premise or Cloud, Security, and Specific Connectors available will drive your decision. Incentivized David Byrd Sr Integration Engineer - Dual Certified in Dell Boomi Developer 1 & 2, and Actian DataConnect Read full review	Hands down, Jitterbit is more cost-effective than Informatica, either on-prem or cloud and the value only goes up from there. Reusability and ease of creation make in-house training simple and the end result is we leverage Jitterbit for much more than what we initially considered it for. Having used Oracle and TIBCO before as well, I find they are the tools of yesterday, not able to keep up in terms of functionality or price. Mulesoft would be a more relevant comparison, and I feel we lean on Mule far more than Jitterbit, but both tools have their place and their strengths (and weaknesses!). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Our customer likes the consistent reliable integrations we have built so we [got] a definite return on investment. Problems are fairly easy to handle and rework. Incentivized David Byrd Sr Integration Engineer - Dual Certified in Dell Boomi Developer 1 & 2, and Actian DataConnect Read full review	We moved from a product that was failing regularly (jobs were running long, some jobs would finish incomplete without any warning or info, etc) to Jitterbit - a very stable product if you give it the recommended server size it needs. It has made crafting solutions for data movement and transformation quick! Incentivized Laura Sponaas IT Developer Architect Read full review
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