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IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) vs. Oracle Warehouse Builder

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    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

    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AOracle Data Integrator is an ELT data integrator designed with interoperability other Oracle programs. The program focuses on a high-performance capacity to support Big Data use within Oracle.N/A

    Oracle Warehouse Builder

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AOracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) is a data-warehousing centered data integration solution, from Oracle. It offers basic ETL functionality for building a simple data warehouse, as well as advanced ETL functionality supporting enterprise data integration projects, along with connectivity for Oracle and SAP applications.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerOracle Data Integrator (ODI)Oracle Warehouse Builder
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerOracle Data Integrator (ODI)Oracle Warehouse Builder
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerOracle Data Integrator (ODI)Oracle Warehouse Builder
    Considered Multiple Products
    IBM
    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.
    Incentivized
    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
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Denodo not an ETL tool but you can manage your data with it as well as Infosphere
    Incentivized
    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    Oracle's own ETL tool was Oracle Warehouse Builder, initially. When Oracle built the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Suite, Oracle is in need of a strong ETL. As Oracle Warehouse Builder is not a strong ETL that customers prefer and as already Informatica captured …
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    ODI is the naturel successor of OWB, adopting the same EL-T approach but supporting a lot more technologies as source and target. The overall product is much more stable and not tied to the Oracle Database.
    Unlike Informatica, ODI generates all the code in the native underlying …
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    Because of variety of my projects that I involved, I used nearly all the world wide known tools within data warehouse environment.
    • Data Modeling Tools : Sybase Power Designer, SQL Developer Data Modeler, ERwin Data Modeler.
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    IBM Infosphere, Informatica. I worked on the mentioned tools as well as ODI. I liked ODI because it is easy to use with great features that every other ETL tool has in the market.
    Incentivized
    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Warehouse Builder
    I think that Oracle Warehouse Builder is easier to use the Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). The connections in Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) are easier to understand when troubleshooting. Anything that makes troubleshooting easier gets higher marks in my book. ODI wins in the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Warehouse Builder
    Depending on investment, I would prefer Oracle Data Integrator, since it complies with all versions of all types of databases including Big Data, Hadoop and NoSQL environment as well as the cloud and is the strategic heterogenous data integration product of Oracle, as it is …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    90%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerOracle Data Integrator (ODI)Oracle Warehouse Builder
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Oracle Warehouse Builder
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    8.7
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    9.6
    11 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Oracle Warehouse Builder
    9.5
    5 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Connect to traditional data sources9.94 Ratings9.911 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL7.54 Ratings9.39 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Oracle Warehouse Builder
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    9.6
    4 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    9.9
    11 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Oracle Warehouse Builder
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Simple transformations10.04 Ratings9.911 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Complex transformations9.24 Ratings9.911 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Oracle Warehouse Builder
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    9.2
    11 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Oracle Warehouse Builder
    8.2
    5 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Data model creation8.72 Ratings9.310 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Metadata management7.74 Ratings9.510 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow8.44 Ratings9.111 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Collaboration8.04 Ratings8.510 Ratings8.94 Ratings
    Testing and debugging7.14 Ratings9.311 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Oracle Warehouse Builder
    Feature
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    9.7
    4 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    9.1
    9 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Oracle Warehouse Builder
    8.0
    3 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Integration with data quality tools10.04 Ratings9.59 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools9.53 Ratings8.77 Ratings8.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerOracle Data Integrator (ODI)Oracle Warehouse Builder
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (29 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    IBM InfoSphere Information ServerOracle Data Integrator (ODI)Oracle Warehouse Builder
    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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    Oracle
    Oracle Data Integrator is well suited in all the situations where you need to integrate data from and to different systems/technologies/environments or to schedule some tasks. I've used it on Oracle Database (Data Warehouses or Data Marts), with great loading and transforming performances to accomplish any kind of relational task. This is true for all Oracle applications (like Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Financial Management, and so on). I've also used it to manage files on different operating systems, to execute procedures in various languages and to read and write data from and to non-Oracle technologies, and I can confirm that its performances have always been very good. It can become less appropriate depending on the expenses that can be afforded by the customer since its license costs are quite high.
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    Oracle
    The best place for Oracle Warehouse Builder is at the business IT level. It's not suited for business-level users. They are easy confused. One way to reduce the confusion for the developers is to set up the workspaces based on the requirements that are discovered in design sessions. Once this is complete, the implementation of Oracle Warehouse Builder can take flight and be successful.
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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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    Oracle
    • Oracle Data Integrator nearly addresses every data issue that one can expect. Oracle Data Integrator is tightly integrated to the Oracle Suite of products. This is one of the major strengths of Oracle Data Integrator. Oracle Data Integrator is part of the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Suite - which is highly used by various industries. This tool replaced Informatica ETL in Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Suite.
    • Oracle Data Integrator comes with many pre-written data packages. If one has to load data from Excel to Oracle Database, there is a package that is ready available for them - cutting down lot of effort on writing the code. Similarly, there are packages for Oracle to SQL, SQL to Oracle and all other possible combinations. Developers love this feature.
    • Oracle Data Integrator relies highly on the database for processing. This is actually an ELT tool rather than an ETL tool. It first loads all the data into target instance and then transforms it at the expense of database resources. This light footprint makes this tool very special.
    • The other major advantage of Oracle Data Integrator, like any other Oracle products, is a readily available developer pool. As all Oracle products are free to download for demo environments, many organizations prefer to play around with a product before purchasing it. Also, Oracle support and community is a big advantage compared to other vendors.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    • Easy transformation.
    • Easy implementation from Oracle to Oracle systems.
    • Ease of usage and easy to learn.
    • Starting component of metadata management.
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    • ODI does not have an intuitive user interface. It is powerful, but difficult to figure out at first. There is a significant learning curve between usability, proficiency, and mastery of the tool.
    • ODI contains some frustrating bugs. It is Java based and has some caching issues, often requiring you to restart the program before you see your code changes stick.
    • ODI does not have a strong versioning process. It is not intuitive to keep an up to date repository of versioned code packages. This can create versioning issues between environments if you do not have a strong external code versioning process.
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    Oracle
    • What I noticed is that sometimes OWB doesn't generate the best SQL in the package especially when there are a high number of source tables in the ETL. It would be nice if ETL developers were allowed to update the generated packages in the database directly.
    • Another thing - moving OWB ETLs from one database to another one could be easier - for example it would be nice to just copy the generated packages from one database to the other one without doing the deployment of these ETLs through OWB.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    • Scale of implementation
    • IBM techsupport
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    It is maturing and over time will have a good pool of resources. Each new version has addressed the issues of the previous ones. Its getting better and bigger.
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    Oracle
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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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    Oracle
    I have used Trifacta Google Data Prep quite a bit. We use Google Cloud Platform across our organization. The tools are very comparable in what they offer. I would say Data Prep has a slight edge in usability and a cleaner UI, but both of the tools have comparable toolsets.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    Ab>initio, IBM Datastage 8.0
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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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    Oracle
    • From a business intelligence perspective, it allows us to provide users with the necessary data and information to make informed decisions.
    • Compared with other Oracle products and licensing, I do not think the pricing was unreasonable.
    • It is part of a larger install, so for ease of use, we purchased it with other Oracle products.
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    Oracle
    • It improved understanding of ETL functions. Data is consistent. The speed is pretty good.
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