Archon Data Store vs. IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. Informatica Data Archive (legacy)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Archon Data Store
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Archon Data Store (ADS) is an enterprise data archiving platform built on Lakehouse architecture that unifies data lakes and warehouses. It helps organizations modernize legacy data, ensure compliance, and reduce storage costs. With AES-256 encryption, metadata governance, tiered storage, and open-source technologies, Archon Data Store enables secure, scalable, and analytics-ready data archiving across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments.N/A
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Score 8.0 out of 10
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IBM InfoSphere Information Server is a data integration platform used to understand, cleanse, monitor and transform data. The offerings provide massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities.N/A
Informatica Data Archive (legacy)
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Informatica Data Archive is used to control data growth in production databases and retire legacy applications. It is a legacy product and will not receive further updates.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Archon Data Store
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Ratings
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
8.7
4 Ratings
5% above category average
Informatica Data Archive (legacy)
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Ratings
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings9.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings7.54 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Archon Data Store
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IBM InfoSphere Information Server
9.6
4 Ratings
16% above category average
Informatica Data Archive (legacy)
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Ratings
Simple transformations00 Ratings10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings9.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Archon Data Store
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IBM InfoSphere Information Server
8.0
4 Ratings
2% above category average
Informatica Data Archive (legacy)
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Ratings
Data model creation00 Ratings8.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings7.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Archon Data Store
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Ratings
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
9.7
4 Ratings
19% above category average
Informatica Data Archive (legacy)
-
Ratings
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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8.9
(5 ratings)
9.9
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Platform 3 Solutions
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IBM
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.
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Discontinued Products
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Pros
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IBM
  • 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
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  • Works well with curated data
  • Allows you to monitor data movements within an organisation
  • Advisable to use ILM if already using Informatica PowerCenter
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Cons
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IBM
  • 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.
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  • As we are still piloting the product at our company at this time the feedback is highly limited.
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Likelihood to Renew
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IBM
  • Scale of implementation
  • IBM techsupport
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Alternatives Considered
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IBM
DataStage is more robust and stable than ODI The ability to perform complex transformations or implement business rules is much more developed in DS
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[The] customer support is quite good. Cost also has another point to add, along with process integration and ease of using new tool.
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Return on Investment
Platform 3 Solutions
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IBM
  • Productivity of the development of integration processes.
  • Better documentation and governance.
  • Reduce training costs of various technologies.
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Discontinued Products
  • it is also fully integrated with all other AWS services
  • manages the entire life cycle of the Certificates by itself, so it will reduce your work by a really big amount
  • it can also be easily integrated with ELB and front-end cloud services.
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