IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. Lightning Tools Data Viewer

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.

Lightning Tools Data Viewer is well suited for re-surfacing data and customizing its look and feel.

• 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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• Shows Lists created on different sites to be seen and controlled on another site in a Tenant
• Allows selection of layouts and coloring way beyond what other programs do.
• Easy to learn and very functional.

• 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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• Data Viewer has a graph feature that is old school flat design. We loved the In House real 3D graph Lightning Tools program.

• Scale of implementation
• IBM techsupport

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DataStage is more robust and stable than ODI The ability to perform complex transformations or implement business rules is much more developed in DS

Lightning Tools Data Viewer is much easier and more powerful than Infowise similar viewer in their lineup. In this case, we use Data Viewer over the one offered by Infowise.

• Productivity of the development of integration processes.
• Better documentation and governance.
• Reduce training costs of various technologies.

• It allows us to do things that would take a great deal more time to duplicate in SharePoint
• It cuts down on ugly looking built in SP list layouts
• Users find it easy to access, thus this product is more productive