BMC AMI Data vs. SolarWinds Task Factory

BMC AMI Data is helping me to creating an environment of data game with the right predictions we need clean optimized data and automated analysis taking care in mind that consistency should be there not speed. It also ensures the historical data and their trends which are highly accurate to forecast the next sales so that is the environment I am talking about so final descision is my call but its suggestions most of the matches with my thoughts. On the other hand small scale company does not require it as much because there various other software like excel can do their work.

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Since I started working with this great tool all data analysis programs have been running effectively. Implementation of projects and tasks have been effective and reliable. Data collected from each department gives us working plan on better management of various programs. The Dimension Merge SCD Transform helps us to load large volumes of data within a short period of time.

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• IMS backup and recovery resolution improve the efficiency
• Supports very precise recovery, which lowers risk and minimizes data loss.
• IMS Log analyzer provides information we need

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• The single most beneficial component to Task Factory is the Upsert component. If you're familiar with writing MERGE statements in T-SQL, you'll appreciate the Upsert component. Drag the component into your Data Flow and a few clicks later you have a MERGE without the code complexities.
• Where some native SSIS components leave you wanting more, Task Factory extends on many of these components as well as support for data sources not native to SSIS components.
• The number of extra components that come in the Task Factory tool kit will expand your tool belt to do just about anything you need or want to accomplish in SSIS.

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• In Change Manager, IDAA objects can't be analyzed. This is a big issue if you have Accelerated Tables in your shop.
• Not able to find how runa Accelerated tasks in batch, especially long time loading
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• It was built by Pragmatic Works who sold it to SentryOne and now Solar Winds, concerned about future support. SolarWinds is discontinuing support for related products such as BiXpress.
• Had issues with connecting to certain versions of SQL Server - would fail when deploying one package - had to deploy the entire solutions.
• Occasional random failures observed with the Filter tranform.

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Task Factory has become a key product for our use of doing ETL work in SSIS. Their custom SSIS components allow us to work simply on the data engineering side of things. We can ignore the lower level work needed to connect to disparate data sources. This allows us to work faster and provide more value to the business

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BMC AMI Data helps our company keep most crucial data fast, accurate and trusted. It gives us sales insights helps in building next projections. It has got smarter real time inventory planning gives me a high trust on numbers and lastly if make right decision for my company profits it gives me a stronger leadership presence

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Compared to some of the other transformations I have worked with, it really is pretty simple for the type of functionality you get

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Overall, the best vendor we currently have on the data side of the house. No issues, issues are resolved very quickly and upgrades go without any issues.

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Overall it went smoothly. Had a couple of gotchas with licensing and upgrading but nothing that really stopped us.

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BMC AMI Data is the top rank in all vendors' products

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ZappySys is an alternative provider that we tested. However, we found the ease of use, set up and installation to be much simplier and quicker using Task Factory. ZappySys has a number of the same connectors but are more difficult to setup and the GUI is not as intuitive and simple to use.

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• BMC AMI Data minimizes outages and down time because they're extremely efficient.

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• We were able to support our developers with Task Factory features and reduce the development time by 40%.
• Recently Task Factory has changed their pricing module and it seems to be pretty costly for our process. Our business team has started to evaluate whether this is worth it going forward.

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