AWS Data Exchange vs Astera Centerprise

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS Data Exchange fits best for scenarios where you have datasets that you would like to sell and you want to deliver it to anyone who would like to purchase it. It really beats having to set up downloads via your own website or portal. However, it can get complicated to manage if you're trying to deliver a dataset a client has already paid for.

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Ramindu Deshapriya

Lead Consultant - Technology

VirtusaComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Astera Centerprise is specific to EDI files. From what I've seen it can be used on EDI files across multiple industries. We use it specifically for healthcare EDI files. We do not create any files using this software because we do not have that need at CCHP, but I know the software could be used for that. CCHP uses the software to correct EDI errors and to import EDI data to our SQL data warehouse. EDI files have a layered structure so they need to be broken down in order to be loaded into the data warehouse. Without this tool we would not be able to import the files. Also, with the layered structure, fields, segments, dependencies and hierarchy, making changes manually is both risky and time consuming. Centerprise reduces the amount of time used to correct files and removes the possibility of creating other errors.

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Amanda Moede

Health Plan Data Analyst

Children's Community Health Plan (CCHP)Insurance, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

AWS Data Exchange

Astera Centerprise

Connect to traditional data sources

Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL

AWS Data Exchange

Astera Centerprise

Data model creation

Metadata management

Business rules and workflow

Collaboration

Testing and debugging

AWS Data Exchange

Astera Centerprise

Integration with data quality tools

Integration with MDM tools

AWS Data Exchange

Astera Centerprise

Simple transformations

Complex transformations

Pros

Simplified data delivery
Ability to create any amount of data products
Ability to integrate payment plans with data products
Tracking data downloads and users
Integration with other AWS data services

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Ramindu Deshapriya

Lead Consultant - Technology

VirtusaComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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The user friendly interface to develop integration packages means that you don't need to be highly trained in SQL code.
There is a huge variety of out-of-box functions, translations, and connectors. This means you can get up and running with using these different components right away.
Centerprise Data Integrator can mine data from unstructured and semi-structured data sources like pdf files and csv's. It means that virtually anything you have can be moved into a SQL database or fed into other systems.
Centerprise Support has been excellent and responsive to our needs.

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Andre Beaumont

Senior Database Manager

Cherry HealthHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Integration with more data sources
Ability to deliver data to clients without AWS accounts
Inclusion of direct data downloads in addition to asynchronous methods

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Ramindu Deshapriya

Lead Consultant - Technology

VirtusaComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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I have not upgraded to the latest version, but in the last version, could use better descriptions in error messages.
I have not upgraded to the latest version, but in the last version, it would be nice to have reports we could run or have emailed daily/weekly with success/failure of all jobs scheduled.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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Astera Centerprise 9.1

Based on 2 answers

Best product I have evaluated. No need to seek alternatives.

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Mark Rubin

Systems Analyst

Cognisight, LLCHospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees

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Usability

No score

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Astera Centerprise 8.0

Based on 5 answers

It's very intuitive and visually descriptive. The interface is standard windows drag and drop although cut and paste are not universally available depending upon what function you're trying to do. You see the ETL and what it's doing. You can inspect the data elements the transformations and perform data previews incrementally along the data flow. You actually SEE what the results are and you can make adjustments without black box testing

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Phil Nacamuli

Principal

Leximantix LLCInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Astera Centerprise 8.4

Based on 22 answers

Astera support team is one of the key ingredients that makes using Astera products a very wise choice. The support team is quick to respond, helpful, understands our requirements/needs and customizes the outcome to match that. The readiness to help us out with activities that typically would fall into our realm like software install, workflow config (even in simple straightforward cases), upgrades, etc, is what makes this one of the best support teams we have worked with.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Accounting Company, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

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Astera Centerprise 9.1

Based on 6 answers

Think outside the box because Centerprise can take on more than just data integration.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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After the purchase of the new company, we were required to go with their software choices until after TSA. The ETL product they had in use was Informatica. I'm sure Informatica has some great benefits for huge companies, but I am having a hard time adjusting to their style. Centerprise has Dataflows (Informatica has Mappings). You can run a Dataflow all by itself (Informatica you cannot run a Mapping by itself therefore requiring a workflow to run which doubles up your objects and maintenance). With Centerprise you can preview your data in every object in the Dataflow saving development time (with Informatica you cannot). Centerprise has a very nice scheduler to use (An Informatica consultant suggested not using the scheduler in Informatica because it wasn't very good thus, requiring a 3rd party purchase | we are using JAMS). Centerprise is a stand-alone product (Informatica had to be put on an Unix Box--thus requiring unix knowledge). Centerprise can pass variables quick easily between Flows (Informatica has to read parameter files from a stored/LAN location). Both products have the exact same project set up for the Government file transmissions: Centerprise had a total of 112 objects (DataFlows and Workflows). Informatica has 651. The once nice thing about Informatica is that you can call unix jobs to run (not sure if this was available in Centerprise)

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Dawn Bauer

Software Developer II

Farmers Mutual Hail InsuranceInsurance, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

Reduced time to publish datasets for sale by more than 80%
Increased net profit from dataset sales by ~10%
Reduced data delivery time to clients by 15%

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Ramindu Deshapriya

Lead Consultant - Technology

VirtusaComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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We have seen that the use of this package saved us 2 hours per conversion but now since the templates are already developed it is saving us more. This reduces our lead time for conversions, and increases our efficiencies as a conversion team.
We have four licenses and in one conversion this year it allowed us to do a conversion that would not have been done. This conversion generated more than enough money to cover the cost of these four licenses for the entire year. The customer is ecstatic about the information that we were able to pull out of their reports and most of all the upper management of our company had their socks shocked off of them. Since the supplier of the software for this customer would not provide data to us for a conversion our upper management was going to cancel the sale to this customer, unless the customer was going to build our system from scratch. We were able to provide nearly a complete accounting and payroll conversion to this customer all from the data on their reports thanks to centerprise.

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Don Smith

Senior Software Implementation Specialist

Software Solutions IncInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 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

AWS Data Exchange Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Astera Centerprise Editions & Modules

Edition

Centerprise Enterprise	Contact rep¹

Lifetime License per Seat

Additional Pricing Details

Discounts are provided for 10 pack, 20 pack, 50 pack, and enterprise wide Centerprise Professional licenses.

Rating Summary

AWS Data Exchange

Astera Centerprise

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Astera Centerprise

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Astera Centerprise

Likelihood to Recommend