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    IBM DataStage

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AIBM® DataStage® is a data integration tool that helps users to design, develop and run jobs that move and transform data. At its core, the DataStage tool supports extract, transform and load (ETL) and extract, load and transform (ELT) patterns. A basic version of the software is available for on-premises deployment, and the cloud-based DataStage for IBM Cloud Pak® for Data offers automated integration capabilities in a hybrid or multicloud environment.N/A

    Salesforce Data 360

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Data 360 (formerly Salesforce Data Cloud, or Salesforce Genie) is a solution to put data to work for customers. It is deeply embedded in the Einstein 1 Platform, which means any external data lake or warehouse can now drive actions and workflows inside of the Salesforce CRM.

    $108,000

    per year per org

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    IBM DataStageSalesforce Data 360
    Editions & Modules
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    Data Cloud for Marketing
    $108000
    per year per org
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    Pricing Offerings
    IBM DataStageSalesforce Data 360
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM DataStageSalesforce Data 360
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
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    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    IBM DataStageSalesforce Data 360
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of IBM DataStage and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    IBM DataStage
    7.7
    11 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.9
    9 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Connect to traditional data sources7.911 Ratings8.19 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL7.610 Ratings7.86 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of IBM DataStage and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    IBM DataStage
    7.6
    11 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Simple transformations8.011 Ratings8.810 Ratings
    Complex transformations7.311 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of IBM DataStage and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    IBM DataStage
    7.2
    11 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Data model creation7.18 Ratings8.310 Ratings
    Metadata management5.010 Ratings7.89 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow7.410 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Collaboration7.411 Ratings7.710 Ratings
    Testing and debugging6.711 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of IBM DataStage and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    IBM DataStage
    5.3
    10 Ratings
    42% below category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.0
    10 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Integration with data quality tools5.310 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools5.310 Ratings6.48 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Skyvia
    Score10 out of 10
    Skyvia
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Score10 out of 10
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Score10 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
    IBM DataStageSalesforce Data 360
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.9
    (11 ratings)
    8.2
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.2
    (12 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    IBM DataStageSalesforce Data 360
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    DataStage is somewhat outdated for an ETL. I guess that's what makes it a bit lagged behind its competitors. It can be used for data processing, sure, but its performance seems to be lagging behind or quite slow given the server it is running from. I won’t depend on this application if it's handling a lot of mission-critical banking and business data.
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    Salesforce
    Great tool for client management, sales tracking, cases studies. Using is as the source of truth for all client communication. Allowing more integration options for cc and ACH payments. Right now the options are limited and only integrate with strict processing capabilities that are not always in the businesses best interest.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Connect to multiple types of data-sources including Oracle, Teradata, Snowflake, SQl Server.
    • Powerful tool to load large volumes of data.
    • Transformation stages allow us to reduce the amount of code needed to create ETL scripts.
    • Allow us to synchronize and refresh data as much as needed.
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    Salesforce
    • Allows use to bring external data into Salesforce as zero-copy
    • Is able to present data using standard Salesforce reports familiar to our users
    • Allows us to establish multiple relationships between our CRM data and the external data to contextualize the imported data.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Technical support is a key area IBM should improve for this product. Sometimes our case is assigned to a support engineer and he has no idea of the product or services.
    • Provide custom reports for datastage jobs and performance such as job history reports, warning messages or error messages.
    • Make it fully compatible with Oracle and users can direct use of Oracle ODBC drivers instead of Data Direct driver. Same for SQL server.
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    Salesforce
    • pricing or costing visibilty, we can't estimate what would be consumption this month and suddenly we get surprised
    • CI/CD can be improved, that looks a difficult and hard
    • Also sandbox comes with many limitation so very hard to replicate production like environment to test
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    IBM
    Because it is robust, and it is being continuously improved. DS is one of the most used and recognized tools in the market. Large companies have implemented it in the first instance to develop their DW, but finding the advantages it has, they could use it for other types of projects such as migrations, application feeding, etc.
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    Salesforce
    Most of the daily use features, are very usr friendly, intuitive, every end user can learn how to manage and operate basic activities such as enter information, send an email, send a campaign, create an email marketing template, run a report on the renewals for the month, open and close a support case, create new account or a new contact, etc
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    Performance
    IBM
    It could load thousands of records in seconds. But in the Parallel version, you need to understand how to particionate the data. If you use the algorithms erroneously, or the functionalities that it gives for the parsing of data, the performance can fall drastically, even with few records. It is necessary to have people with experience to be able to determine which algorithm to use and understand why.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    IBM
    IBM offers different levels of support but in my experience being and IBM shop helps to get direct support from more knowledgeable technicians from IBM. Not sure on the cost of having this kind of support, but I know there's also general support and community blogs and websites on the Internet make it easy to troubleshoot issues whenever there's need for that.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    With effective capabilities and easy to manipulate the features and easy to produce accurate data analytics and the Cloud services Automation, this IBM platform is more reliable and easy to document management. The features on this platform are equipped with excellent big data management and easy to provide accurate data analytics.
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    Salesforce
    we have evaluated Snowflake, adobe rt-cdp as well. They also offer a very strong capabilities but the Data 360 is more suitable for us because of the same Salesforce ecosystem. The main key factor is without any custom code we were able to include it into our automations. And ofcourse with agentforce already in plans, we had to pick Data 360
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • It’s hard to say at this point, it delivers, but not quite as I expected. It takes a lot of resources to manage and sort this out (manpower, financial).
    • Definitely, I don’t have the exact numbers, but given the data it processes, it is A LOT. So props to the developer of this application.
    • Again, based on my experience, I’d choose other ETL apps if there is one that's more user-friendly.
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    Salesforce
    • Salesforce Data Cloud has a positive impact on me as a realtor because it is easy to generate reports on customer data and see what is needed to be bumped to the next level. We have to earn a certain commission by the end of the year and it makes it easy to see how close you are
    • It has a positive impact on keeping track of customers because it is nice to have it all in one place which is a nice time saver
    • I like that you can even see customer info from other agents making it nice to compare and try and pass others
    • Makes the customers journey smooth sailing because everything is in one place
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