IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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

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IBM InfoSphere Information Server
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Community Pulse
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Considered Both Products	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Karina Gonzalez Manager Data Management Chose IBM InfoSphere Information Server I particularly believe that Information Server, especially DataStage, is superior in many aspects to the Oracle Data Integrator tool. Several market analysts such as Gartner and / or Forrester better position DataStage on the Oracle solution. Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose IBM InfoSphere Information Server DataStage is more robust and stable than ODI The ability to perform complex transformations or implement business rules is much more developed in DS Helpful? Gunes INAL Data Warehouse Consultant Chose IBM InfoSphere Information Server Denodo not an ETL tool but you can manage your data with it as well as Infosphere Incentivized Helpful? Gonzalo Angeleri Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager Chose IBM InfoSphere Information Server Information Server and Informatica PowerCenter are the two leading integration platforms worldwide. Information Server has a better integration with other IBM products such as MDM or Cognos but the decision to use one or another platform is more a price decision and quantity of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose IBM InfoSphere Information Server Information can be used for large but simple implementation. InfoSphere provides more intergaration options with outside world. Abinitio is great product but stopped innvoating and is not kept up to date with market needs and changes. Talend is good new product. Good Big Data … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Data Source Connection

Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server 8.7 4 Ratings 6% above category average
Connect to traditional data sources	9.94 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL	7.54 Ratings

Data Transformations

Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server 9.6 4 Ratings 18% above category average
Simple transformations	10.04 Ratings
Complex transformations	9.24 Ratings

Data Modeling

Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server 8.0 4 Ratings 3% above category average
Data model creation	8.72 Ratings
Metadata management	7.74 Ratings
Business rules and workflow	8.44 Ratings
Collaboration	8.04 Ratings
Testing and debugging	7.14 Ratings

Data Governance

Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server 9.7 4 Ratings 20% above category average
Integration with data quality tools	10.04 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools	9.53 Ratings

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	IBM InfoSphere Information Server
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User Ratings
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Karina Gonzalez Manager Data Management Read full review
Pros	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 Gunes INAL Data Warehouse Consultant Read full review
Cons	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 Gonzalo Angeleri Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	IBM Scale of implementation IBM techsupport Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	IBM Productivity of the development of integration processes. Better documentation and governance. Reduce training costs of various technologies. Karina Gonzalez Manager Data Management Read full review
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