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AWS Data Exchange vs. IBM InfoSphere Information Server

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Data Exchange

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AAWS Data Exchange is an integration for data service, from which subscribers can easily browse the AWS Data Exchange catalog to find relevant and up-to-date commercial data products covering a wide range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, life sciences, geospatial, consumer, media & entertainment, and more.N/A

    IBM InfoSphere Information Server

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM 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
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    Pricing Offerings
    AWS Data ExchangeIBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    AWS Data ExchangeIBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of AWS Data Exchange and IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Feature
    AWS Data Exchange
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    5% below category average
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    8.7
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Connect to traditional data sources7.02 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL9.01 Ratings7.54 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of AWS Data Exchange and IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Feature
    AWS Data Exchange
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Data model creation9.01 Ratings8.72 Ratings
    Metadata management9.01 Ratings7.74 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow7.01 Ratings8.44 Ratings
    Collaboration9.01 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Testing and debugging7.01 Ratings7.14 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of AWS Data Exchange and IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Feature
    AWS Data Exchange
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    14% below category average
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    9.7
    4 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Integration with data quality tools7.01 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings9.53 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of AWS Data Exchange and IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Feature
    AWS Data Exchange
    -
    Ratings
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    9.6
    4 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
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    Skyvia
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Score10 out of 10
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Task Factory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    SolarWinds Task Factory
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AWS Data ExchangeIBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AWS Data ExchangeIBM InfoSphere Information Server
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    Amazon AWS
    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.
    Incentivized
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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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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • 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
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Integration with more data sources
    • Ability to deliver data to clients without AWS accounts
    • Inclusion of direct data downloads in addition to asynchronous methods
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    There have been a lot of problems with ADX. First, the entire system is incredibly clunky from beginning to end.First, by AWS's own admission they're missing a lot of "tablestakes functionality" like the ability to see who is coming to your pages, more flexibility to edit and update your listings, the ability to create a storefront or catalog that actually tries to sell your products. All-in-all you're flying completely blind with AWS. In our convos with other sellers we strongly believe very little organic traffic is flowing through the AWS exchange. For the headache, it's not worth the time or the effort. It's very difficult to market or sell your products.We've also had a number of simple UX bugs where they just don't accurately reflect the attributes of your product. For instance for an S3 bucket they had "+metered costs" displayed to one of our buyers in the price. This of course caused a lot of confusion. They also misrepresented the historical revisions that were available in our product sets because of another UX bug. It's difficult to know what other things in the UX are also broken and incongruent.We also did have a purchase, but the seller is completely at their whim at providing you fake emails, fake company names, fake use cases because AWS hasn't thought through simple workflows like "why even have subscription confirmation if I can fake literally everything about a subscription request." So as a result we're now in an endless, timewasting, unhelpful thread with AWS support trying to get payment. They're confused of what to do and we feel completely lost.Lastly, the AWS team has been abysmal in addressing our concerns. Conversations with them result in a laundry list of excuses of why simple functionalities are so hard (including just having accurate documentation). It was a very frustrating and unproductive call. Our objective of our call was to help us see that ADX is a well-resourced and well-visioned product. Ultimately they couldn't clearly articulate who they built the exchange for both on the seller side and the buyer side.Don't waste your time. This is at best a very foggy experiment. Look at other sellers, they have a lot of free pages to try to get attention, but then have smart tactics to divert transactions away from the ADX. Ultimately, smart move. Why give 8-10% of your cut to a product that is basically bare-bones infrastructure.
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    IBM
    • Scale of implementation
    • IBM techsupport
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
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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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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • 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%
    Incentivized
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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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