IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. Vertify

You can use infosphere: -If you have multiple targets and source systems and they are different than each other. -If your infostructure is so big and unplaned well so you can't find what you want to see. -If your databases not so strong to process your data

Incentivized

When we first implemented, there were a lot of fields not set up/syncing properly. But by consulting with Vertify, for a lot of hours, we have been able to work through a lot of those errors, and our Account Manager and the tech support people like Markus and Jamie have been very supportive and helpful in getting us up and running properly.

• It is very strong to make transformations/data derivations
• It is very easy to connect to various external data sources. It has an interface (stages) for each connection that simplifies the task
• It is a stable platform. And that parallelism helps make it fast for loading, if the process is well designed

• All clients in the CRM are mirrored in the ESP.
• Data points about client interaction are pushed to the email tool.
• Emails can be triggered based off activities that are tracked in the CRM.
• One or two-way syncs can be configured.

Incentivized

• Lack of a strong web development environment.
• Metadata propagation in Jobs is somewhat complex.
• The possibility to develop jobs in Parallel and/or Server Engines is confusing.

• I think the UI could get a refresher. It looks a little old-school and I sometimes get lost in the navigation.
• I saw some inconsistencies on the scheduler, most likely caused by time zone differences. One dialogue reflected the user's time zone, the next server's time zone.

• Scale of implementation
• IBM techsupport

Incentivized

Creating a mapping between source and target while also using lookups and transformations is not trivial. And VertifyData solved this reasonably well, at least all users in my organization understood it pretty quickly.

It is not the easiest user interface to read/understand. However, once you understand how it works, then using it is not that bad. It's hard to remember what feature is listed under what tab (Manage vs. Define). A suggestion would be to get all call to actions on the same page

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.

We were using Scribe for similar tasks but with different connectors. And it served us well, so absolutely no hard feelings here. But when it came to creating complex workflows, we instantly understood Vertify's approach better. Data lookup and transformation e.g. are pretty easy in Vertify and ease of use was definitely what we were looking for.

• Information Server can positively impact the costs of companies by increasing the productivity of development and therefore reduce their time and costs. It is estimated that DataStage can increase a developer's productivity by 40% on average.
• Better data governance
• Improve data quality and reduce bad data impacts

Incentivized

• Independently, teams are able to carry out their process with less communication and at a higher level of accuracy.
• VertifyData is actively taking into consideration, consulting, and supporting our plans to build out the business