API2Cart is a unified API which allows B2B SaaS providers to get connected with more than 40 shopping platforms and marketplaces such as Magento, WooCommerce, Prestashop, Demandware, XCart, Amazon, eBay and others via one integration. The service allows users to easily to retrieve, add, update, delete and sync all needed information from their customers' e-stores and integrate it with their business software. The vendor’s value proposition is that API2Cart is the best option for all sorts…
$300
per month
Oracle Data Integrator
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Oracle Data Integrator is an ELT data integrator designed with interoperability other Oracle programs.
The program focuses on a high-performance capacity to support Big Data use within Oracle.
API2Cart allowed us to save money, time, and development resources by allowing online retailers to interact and utilise store-based information from any of the above-mentioned platforms. When we used API2Cart we were able to get the relevant store information from any of the supported carts into our eCommerce system in a uniform way.
Oracle Data Integrator is well suited in all the situations where you need to integrate data from and to different systems/technologies/environments or to schedule some tasks. I've used it on Oracle Database (Data Warehouses or Data Marts), with great loading and transforming performances to accomplish any kind of relational task. This is true for all Oracle applications (like Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Financial Management, and so on). I've also used it to manage files on different operating systems, to execute procedures in various languages and to read and write data from and to non-Oracle technologies, and I can confirm that its performances have always been very good. It can become less appropriate depending on the expenses that can be afforded by the customer since its license costs are quite high.
Oracle Data Integrator nearly addresses every data issue that one can expect. Oracle Data Integrator is tightly integrated to the Oracle Suite of products. This is one of the major strengths of Oracle Data Integrator. Oracle Data Integrator is part of the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Suite - which is highly used by various industries. This tool replaced Informatica ETL in Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Suite.
Oracle Data Integrator comes with many pre-written data packages. If one has to load data from Excel to Oracle Database, there is a package that is ready available for them - cutting down lot of effort on writing the code. Similarly, there are packages for Oracle to SQL, SQL to Oracle and all other possible combinations. Developers love this feature.
Oracle Data Integrator relies highly on the database for processing. This is actually an ELT tool rather than an ETL tool. It first loads all the data into target instance and then transforms it at the expense of database resources. This light footprint makes this tool very special.
The other major advantage of Oracle Data Integrator, like any other Oracle products, is a readily available developer pool. As all Oracle products are free to download for demo environments, many organizations prefer to play around with a product before purchasing it. Also, Oracle support and community is a big advantage compared to other vendors.
ODI does not have an intuitive user interface. It is powerful, but difficult to figure out at first. There is a significant learning curve between usability, proficiency, and mastery of the tool.
ODI contains some frustrating bugs. It is Java based and has some caching issues, often requiring you to restart the program before you see your code changes stick.
ODI does not have a strong versioning process. It is not intuitive to keep an up to date repository of versioned code packages. This can create versioning issues between environments if you do not have a strong external code versioning process.
It is maturing and over time will have a good pool of resources. Each new version has addressed the issues of the previous ones. Its getting better and bigger.
We were able to get the integrations we required thanks to the service. Our software's needs were discussed by the team. As soon as feasible, we intended to link our software to Magento, Shopify, eBay and Zen Cart, which we already had established a connection for. For us, API2Cart was a breeze to use. As a result, API2Cart's clients are satisfied, and we are as well.
I have used Trifacta Google Data Prep quite a bit. We use Google Cloud Platform across our organization. The tools are very comparable in what they offer. I would say Data Prep has a slight edge in usability and a cleaner UI, but both of the tools have comparable toolsets.
