Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs. IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Forcepoint DLP
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protects sensitive data everywhere it resides and moves, across endpoints, cloud apps, web, email, and on-premises environments. It delivers unified policy management and centralized control from a single console.N/A
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
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
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Forcepoint DLPIBM 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
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Data Preparation
Comparison of Data Preparation features of Product A and Product B
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
5.7
2 Ratings
33% below category average
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
-
Ratings
Data Encryption5.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
-
Ratings
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
8.7
4 Ratings
5% above category average
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings9.94 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
-
Ratings
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
9.6
4 Ratings
17% above category average
Simple transformations00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
-
Ratings
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
8.0
4 Ratings
2% above category average
Data model creation00 Ratings8.72 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings8.44 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
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Ratings
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
9.7
4 Ratings
19% above category average
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings9.53 Ratings
User Ratings
Forcepoint Data Loss PreventionIBM InfoSphere Information Server
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(35 ratings)
8.9
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.6
(7 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
5.3
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Forcepoint Data Loss PreventionIBM InfoSphere Information Server
Likelihood to Recommend
Forcepoint
-Where companies need to secure their attachment, which goes outside, means from their company to outside -Where companies need to ensure their client's personal information -Where companies need DLP. They need to look for Forcepoint only, as they have the upper hand over the rest of their competitors.
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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
Forcepoint
  • It has predominantly protected us from unauthorized parties and has provided us with better visibility and control over our data.
  • This software has also successfully prevented us from both malicious and accidental tasks, which are quite flexible actions when it comes to the violation of data loss prevention policies.
  • This product has been successful in improving compliance and even mitigating compliance violations, which further facilitated IT security.
  • I think there is room for improvement, as the user interface is slightly rough and difficult to adopt in the beginning. The software also hangs up at a few instances, which leads to some wasting of time and annoyance, but other than that, this software is good. The technical staff should work on the complexities for a better user experience.
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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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Cons
Forcepoint
  • Forcepoint technical support--specially for users who go with essential support--is challenging to get support on time. You need the ticket to be raised long beforehand to get support from TAC. However, in the case of enterprise support, its is not like this technical person will come on a priority basis.
  • However it comes with higher prices, especially for SMB, it is allowed to pay that amount for support only.
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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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Likelihood to Renew
Forcepoint
We have been fairly happy with the product and how it has worked. We have looked at other vendors for url filter and such and have not found one that meets our needs or does what we have been doing with Websense. The product has been fairly stable and we have only had a few issues in the past. We have all seen that it was one of the highest leaders from the Gartner Group Magic Quadrant for Web Gateways.
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IBM
  • Scale of implementation
  • IBM techsupport
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Usability
Forcepoint
For us, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention was difficult to administer, did not work well when it did work, was incredibly expensive for the feature set you get, and was difficult to uninstall when we moved on from the software. Once it was fully set up, it worked occasionally for us.
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IBM
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Support Rating
Forcepoint
Support from Forcepoint has been lacking. When calling in with a high priority issue we rarely are able to work with a technician immediately. The queue waits are very long and when you get through there are no support engineers available and we need to wait for a call back for hours it seems.
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IBM
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Alternatives Considered
Forcepoint
User friendly solution that makes it easy to deploy and manage. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention very effective to protecting our valuable data on endpoints and where data lives like in the Cloud, server and on-premises disk drives and its valuable to just set policies once and start utilizing Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention solution.
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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
Forcepoint
  • The exchange of financial documents with customers creates extreme risk as data loss could result in financial and reputation damage to the customer. The cost of deploying Forcepoint is fractions of pennies compared to the potential financial impact of data loss.
  • There is some administrative overhead associated as false positives are inevitable, requiring a manual review and a potential loss of productivity.
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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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