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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IT Glue

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AIT Glue, a Kaseya company since the December 2018 acquisition, is an information management platform that allows for efficient storage and retrieval of all the documentation an organization needs to help their MSP run better. By integrating PSA and RMM data, the vendor says they can help increase efficiency, and reduce onboarding times.

    $29

    per month per user (5 user minimum)

    Maia by Matillion

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMaia by Matillion is an autonomous data engineering platform designed to automate the lifecycle of data pipelines through AI-driven orchestration. The solution functions as an enterprise "digital workforce" that translates natural language requirements into production-ready DataPipelines, leveraging a Pushdown Architecture to execute transformations natively within cloud data warehouses.N/A
    Pricing
    IT GlueMaia by Matillion
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $29.00
    per month per user (5 user minimum)
    Select
    $34.00
    per month per user (5 user minimum)
    Enterprise
    $39.00
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IT GlueMaia by Matillion
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup Fee$545 one-time feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Billed directly via cloud marketplace on an hourly basis, with annual subscriptions available depending on the customer's cloud data warehouse provider.
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    Community Pulse
    IT GlueMaia by Matillion
    Considered Both Products
    Kaseya
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    Matillion
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
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    86%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    53 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
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    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    59 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    42 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
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    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    52 Answers
    Features
    IT GlueMaia by Matillion
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of IT Glue and Maia by Matillion
    Feature
    IT Glue
    -
    Ratings
    Maia by Matillion
    8.7
    143 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings9.0142 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings8.3100 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of IT Glue and Maia by Matillion
    Feature
    IT Glue
    -
    Ratings
    Maia by Matillion
    8.8
    143 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings9.5143 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings8.2142 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of IT Glue and Maia by Matillion
    Feature
    IT Glue
    -
    Ratings
    Maia by Matillion
    8.4
    135 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings9.133 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings9.140 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings8.4126 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings7.8127 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings7.9128 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of IT Glue and Maia by Matillion
    Feature
    IT Glue
    -
    Ratings
    Maia by Matillion
    8.2
    23 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings8.222 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings8.220 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IT GlueMaia by Matillion
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (27 ratings)
    8.7
    (145 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (9 ratings)
    8.5
    (144 ratings)
    Performance
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (131 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IT GlueMaia by Matillion
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kaseya
    It is best suited for an MSP but it is also best not suited for an MSP. It is well suited for folks with a minimal knowledge of a client and are attempting to learn what they can. Perhaps just bumbling about and can find the same thing consistently. At my particular work, we pay somebody full time to manage the system. I feel this is unnecessary.
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    Matillion
    Great: Need to query simpler APIs, or utilize well known services such as GSheets etc.? Matillion has got some of the best and easiest to use connectors out there. Not so great: Do you need have a competent CI/CD flow that you will be able to update / compare from Matillion as well as other sources at the same time? Good luck, you will need to be extra careful, as you might have to have a deeper dive into your servers Terminal each time you have a git conflict.
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    Pros
    Kaseya
    • The UI has been set up perfectly, there is a sub-menu for every possible bit of information you wish to store.
    • There are a number of excellent features such as the autohiding passwords and quick searching from anywhere on the page.
    • The recent addition of the IT Glue is also an excellent feature, it features online self-guided courses to become a certified IT Glue user.
    • You can create and group custom documents together.
    • IT Glue can be integrated with a number of platforms such as Autotask.
    • IT Glue also integrates well with N-Central to automatically populate the configurations tab with all the relevant Workstation, Printer, and Server information making client on-boarding a breeze.
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    Matillion
    • The user interface of your data pipelines makes it easier for people who aren’t as techy as data engineers to observe what's going on.
    • Customer support is quick, not always as efficient as you would want it to be, but still.
    • Nice documentation available.
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    Cons
    Kaseya
    • Like many other MSPs we had the majority of our SOPs and KBs in Word docs. The best case scenario would be to simply drop those files directly into ITG without having to import them into the ITG documentation format. The import function is so broken as to not be an option because it completely ruins formatting and tends to drop images. Thus we have to manually copy/paste text and individually upload each image.
    • They marketed the product as having true branding but that is stretching the truth. SSL is not an option so client-facing documents will give security errors in browsers. ITG does not appear to be concerned about this even though security is a major concern for all MSPs.
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    Matillion
    • Matillion is brilliant at importing data -- it would be amazing to have more ways to export data, from emailed exports to API pushes.
    • Any Python that takes more than a few lines of code requires an external server to run it. It would be great to have more integration (perhaps in a connected virtual environment) to easily integrate customized code.
    • Troubleshooting server logs requires quite a bit of technical expertise. More human readable detailed error handling would be greatly appreciated.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Kaseya
    Overall IT Glue meets every need that we need it to. IT is easy to use and convenient and we have not had very many issues with it since the inception. I would easily recommend it to anyone who needs this software.
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    Matillion
    With the current experience of Matillion, we are likely to renew with the current feature option but will also look for improvement in various areas including scalability and dependability. 1. Connectors: It offers various connectors option but isn't full proof which we will be looking forward as we grow. 2. Scalability: As usage increase, we want Matillion system to be more stable.
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    Usability
    Kaseya
    The interface is excellent and very easy to use. As long as the text you input into the system can be easily read, you will have no problem finding it with all the different categories offered. Sometimes, the slider on the right can blend in with dark backgrounds, making it hard to see.
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    Matillion
    We are able to bring on new resources and teach them how to use Matillion without having to invest a significant amount of time. We prefer looking for resources with any type of ETL skill-set and feel that they can learn Matillion without problem. In addition, the prebuilt objects cover more than 95% of our use cases and we do not have to build much from scratch.
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    Performance
    Kaseya
    Other than a few access outages, ITGlue is always up and available to us. Their ability to export Playbook, that contain our customers data, and securely send those over to them is amazing and are produced pretty fast. We have IT Glue linked with several other services and software and we have not found that it slows anything down.
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    Matillion
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Kaseya
    No problems with support when needed it. Their answers on how to handle DR/BC situations when ITG is down are not stellar. They don't seem to get the business risks of their suggestions to just give the xls backup to engineers (aka give all passwords of ALL clients to engineers in an unencrypted flat-file where it is easy to copy, print, etc.)
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    Matillion
    Overall, I've found Matillion to be responsive and considerate. I feel like they value us as a customer even when I know they have customers who spend more on the product than we do. That speaks to a motive higher than money. They want to make a good product and a good experience for their customers. If I have any complaint, it's that support sometimes feels community-oriented. It isn't always immediately clear to me that my support requests are going to a support engineer and not to the community at large. Usually, though, after a bit of conversation, it's clear that Matillion is watching and responding. And responses are generally quick in coming.
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    Implementation Rating
    Kaseya
    No answers on this topic
    Matillion
    We were able to control on access and built various enviroment for implementation
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    Alternatives Considered
    Kaseya
    We chose IT Glue particularly because it's tailored to IT documentation. As a managed IT service provider, it's perfectly in line with what we were looking for. The flexibility and tagging in particular were the kind of features we were looking for. Confluence is very good, and can be used for a number of things, not just IT documentation, but IT Glue shines for that.
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    Matillion
    Fivetran offers a managed service and pre-configured schemas/models for data loading, which means much less administrative work for initial setup and ongoing maintenance. But it comes at a much higher price tag. So, knowing where your sweet spot is in the build vs. buy spectrum is essential to deciding which tool fits better. For the transformation part, dbt is purely (SQL-) code-based. So, it is mainly whether your developers prefer a GUI or code-based approach.
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    Scalability
    Kaseya
    No answers on this topic
    Matillion
    We're using Matillion on EC2 instances, and we have about 20 projects for our clients in the same instance. Sometimes, we're struggling to manage schedules for all projects because thread management is not visible, and we can't see the process at the instance level.
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    Return on Investment
    Kaseya
    • We regret the purchase and have received little, if any, ROI.
    • [In my expereience], the main feature we hoped to get ROI from (MyGlue) was so terrible we were embarrassed to roll it out to our clients.
    • Because [I feel] it is slow and clunky, staff find quicker ways to access needed data so this is not used as much as we would have liked.
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    Matillion
    • Matillion has been the backbone of my company's analytical functionalities for 10+ years, so it has a good ROI.
    • The price is ok for what our company built with it, but it starts to be less competitive if the tool is not used at its fullest.
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    ScreenShots

    IT Glue Screenshots

    Screenshot of PasswordsScreenshot of WorkflowsScreenshot of Workflows - choose triggerScreenshot of ApplicationsScreenshot of NetworksScreenshot of Activity logs

    Maia by Matillion Screenshots

    Screenshot of Matillion's GUI, used to orchestrate jobs with control data flow functionality, automating the ETL process.Screenshot of where structured and semi-structured data can be prepared to create clean data sets that can be used with any BI/reporting/visualization tool of choice. Matillion reads and combines data across a target warehouse external storage, such as S3 or Blob.Screenshot of Matillion's self-validating components, sample and row counts. If a job does fail, the warehouse queue services available with Matillion can be used get an alert to a connected email or Slack account.Screenshot of the SQL component used to run custom scripts from within Matillion. With hundreds of pre-built connectors out of the box, Matillion can handle complex transformation needs.