Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs LightEdge

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Elastic Transcoder is very well suited for scripted pipelines and handling media file transcoding. It works in the background and is fast. Large media encodes are handled very well

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Dan Davidson

Software Engineer Technical Lead

PluralsightE-Learning, 1001-5000 employees

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OnRamp is great for medium or large size companies that need to organize information in a way that is easily accessible. It is not great for small companies who don't have a lot of customers.

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Performing Arts Company, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

LightEdge

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

Pre-configured templates

Monitoring tools

Pre-defined machine images

Operating system support

Security controls

Pros

Converting between media file types
Generating Presets for common jobs
Tracking Encoding Jobs
Queueing and notifications

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Dan Davidson

Software Engineer Technical Lead

PluralsightE-Learning, 1001-5000 employees

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OnRamp does a great job at pulling up specific contact information about our donors
OnRamp allows for us to find detailed payment information regarding postings to our general ledger
It is very easy to run various reports with OnRamp

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Performing Arts Company, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Amazon Elastic Transcoder requires a fair amount of setup.

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Dan Davidson

Software Engineer Technical Lead

PluralsightE-Learning, 1001-5000 employees

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I hear complaints from our donations department on how extractions can be difficult at times when pulling multiple years information
OnRamp can make room for improvement by allowing us to make changes from an admin standpoint on how we pull up certain reports

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Performing Arts Company, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Amazon Elastic Transcoder 8.0

Based on 1 answer

Support for Amazon Elastic Transcoder is the same as any other service within AWS. If you are familiar with AWS, it is easy to start using Elastic Transcoder

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Dan Davidson

Software Engineer Technical Lead

PluralsightE-Learning, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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OnRamp is much easier to use then Financial Edge with its user-friendly interface. Financial Edge seems dated and is much more complicated when running reports.

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Performing Arts Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Amazon Elastic Transcoder is faster and costs less than most competitors

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Dan Davidson

Software Engineer Technical Lead

PluralsightE-Learning, 1001-5000 employees

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OnRamp saves us time on retrieving data
OnRamp helps us organize payment information and makes it easily accessible for users
The security of using OnRamp is the best investment a company can make.

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Performing Arts Company, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

LightEdge

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

LightEdge

Amazon Elastic Transcoder vs LightEdge