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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    inriver PIM

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/AinRiver PIM is a master data management platform from the Swedish company of the same name.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM InfoSphere Information Serverinriver PIM
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM InfoSphere Information Serverinriver PIM
    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
    IBM InfoSphere Information Serverinriver PIM
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and inriver PIM
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    8.7
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    inriver PIM
    -
    Ratings
    Connect to traditional data sources9.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL7.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and inriver PIM
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    9.6
    4 Ratings
    17% above category average
    inriver PIM
    -
    Ratings
    Simple transformations10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations9.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and inriver PIM
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    1% above category average
    inriver PIM
    -
    Ratings
    Data model creation8.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging7.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and inriver PIM
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    9.7
    4 Ratings
    18% above category average
    inriver PIM
    -
    Ratings
    Integration with data quality tools10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    IBM InfoSphere Information Serverinriver PIM
    Small Businesses
    Skyvia
    Score10 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Score9.3 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Task Factory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    IBM InfoSphere Information Serverinriver PIM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM InfoSphere Information Serverinriver PIM
    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.
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    inriver PIM
    inRiver [PIM] is pretty easy to use. I can see a company with a more narrow product selection benefiting from this PIM. The challenge comes with the more SKUs and categories the company offers. Without our 3rd party implementor creating specialized imports for us, we would be having a difficult time managing mass data updates.
    Incentivized
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    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
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    inriver PIM
    • Scalability
    • Data Integrations
    • Workflow
    Incentivized
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    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.
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    inriver PIM
    • Missing the ability to be able to right click an item/product to open in a new tab
    • Mass Asset/SKU management is not an out-of-the-box feature
    • Shared folders area - few options to create a specialized area that you can block other users from deleting
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    • Scale of implementation
    • IBM techsupport
    Incentivized
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    inriver PIM
    inRiver has been both helpful and responsive to our needs. Their customer service and ticketing system are top-notch - timely communications and followup
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    Usability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    inriver PIM
    It's really easy to use. There are no confusion on the user experience and the interface, very straight forward. If you want to change environments it's a simple dropdown. If you want to publish or put an item to draft it's just a simple click of a button of the family/item's status
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    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
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    inriver PIM
    Our previous systmes are the brandmaker PIM and DAM. I have used it for quite a while and the advantages on a technical architecture perspective is that importing of products from Brandmaker it needs to go first on a SFTP server before it goes on our website and that brings us more maintenance work
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Productivity of the development of integration processes.
    • Better documentation and governance.
    • Reduce training costs of various technologies.
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    inriver PIM
    • Quicker go-to-market
    • Improved templates for customer data
    • Scalable for our growing organization
    Incentivized
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