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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Notepad++

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/ANotepad++ is a popular free and open source text editor available under the GPL license, featuring syntax highlighting and folding, auto-complete, multi-document management, and ac customizable GUI.N/A

    SSIS

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a data integration solution.N/A

    UltraEdit

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AUltraEdit is a text editor from IDM Computer Solutions headquartered in Hamilton.N/A
    Pricing
    Notepad++SSISUltraEdit
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    Notepad++SSISUltraEdit
    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
    Notepad++SSISUltraEdit
    Considered Multiple Products
    Open Source
    Chose Notepad++
    UltraEdit was offered as a licensed product by my organization, however, because there was a cost to it, I had to obtain manager's approval for the yearly license required to keep it working. This was a hassle for something as simple as an editor. It was a convenient need to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Notepad++
    I prefer Notepad++ to both UltraEdit and VSCode. The fact that it is freely available gives it a leg up on UltraEdit, and the feature set is at least comparable and in some ways better. VSCode is more useful if you are using your text editor to code and want to tie into …
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    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Idera, Inc.
    Chose UltraEdit
    UltraEdit is more stable and has a cleaner update process.
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    Chose UltraEdit
    When compared to most file editing programs UltraEdit usually comes out on top for being extremely flexible and feature-rich. We depend on it every day and although we have several other editors available to us we seem to always go back to this time and time again. Very …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    26 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
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    Features
    Notepad++SSISUltraEdit
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Notepad++ and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and UltraEdit
    Feature
    Notepad++
    -
    Ratings
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.0
    56 Ratings
    18% below category average
    UltraEdit
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    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings9.056 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings5.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Notepad++ and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and UltraEdit
    Feature
    Notepad++
    -
    Ratings
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    6.8
    56 Ratings
    18% below category average
    UltraEdit
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    Simple transformations00 Ratings8.956 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings4.755 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Notepad++ and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and UltraEdit
    Feature
    Notepad++
    -
    Ratings
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.5
    54 Ratings
    6% below category average
    UltraEdit
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    Data model creation00 Ratings9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings6.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings7.145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings9.140 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings6.451 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Notepad++ and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and UltraEdit
    Feature
    Notepad++
    -
    Ratings
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    5.4
    43 Ratings
    40% below category average
    UltraEdit
    -
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    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings6.238 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings4.638 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Notepad++SSISUltraEdit
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (62 ratings)
    8.0
    (56 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Notepad++SSISUltraEdit
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    well suited for 1) Coding and Development - Writing and editing code, Quick prototyping and testing of code snippets, Debugging and inspecting code using syntax highlighting and line numbering, 2) web development - Creating and editing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web-related files .Managing and organizing web projects with multiple files and directories. Not suited for - 1) processing huge files 2) graphic designing 3) complex gui designs 3) Data Analysis and Manipulation - Editing and cleaning up text-based data files before importing them into analytical tools. Applying regular expressions to extract, transform, and manipulate data. 4) System Administration and IT - change system configuration file
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    Microsoft
    As I mentioned earlier SQL Server Integration Services is suitable if you want to manage data from different applications. It really helps in fetching the data and generating reports. Its automation make it very easy and time efficient. It works well with large database as well. But it doesn't work well with real time data, it will take some time to gather the real time data. I would not recommend using it in a real time/fast-paced environment.
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    Idera, Inc.
    UltraEdit is well suited for editing very large files. The macro editor is very powerful and easy to use. If one needs a quick-to-open text file editor, you will find UltraEdit much too slow to load. Compared to some free editors on the market, the basic individual user license is quite expensive.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Notepad++ allows us to keep open files in tabs. Like in a web browser, these tabs let us access these files quickly and easily. Furthermore, even if we forget to save the files when closing the program or shutting down the PC, Notepad++ retains them in the open tabs when we reopen it.
    • Notepad++ supports many different file types. We usually save our files created in Notepad as normal text files, but sometimes as JSON, PHP, and HTML files.
    • Notepad++ is lightweight and requires little resources. Using it is snappy and responsive.
    • The developer of Notepad++ frequently updates the software with bug fixes, performance improvements and new features.
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    Microsoft
    • Standard ETL use cases for daily loads
    • Loading incoming data from Vendors which is placed on FTP and adding them to the SQL Warehouse
    • Creating outgoing data files and writing them to Vendor FTPs
    • Easy Active Directory integration for seamless connections to SQL Server
    • CI/CD by hosting the code on visualstudio.com
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    Idera, Inc.
    • Search and replace in files that are not open
    • Cut and paste columns - I don't know any other program that can do this!
    • Is a super fast and powerful text editor.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • UI looks a bit dated.
    • Sometimes the number of options are overwhelming and require a quick search to figure out where to locate a particular function.
    • Some way to do a diff between files would be great. Still need to resort to another paid app for that - unless it is a buried function I don't know about or there's a plugin for it.
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    Microsoft
    • Connection managers for online data sources can be tricky to configure.
    • Performance tuning is an art form and trialing different data flow task options can be cumbersome. SSIS can do a better job of providing performance data including historical for monitoring.
    • Mapping destination using OLE DB command is difficult as destination columns are unnamed.
    • Excel or flat file connections are limited by version and type.
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    Idera, Inc.
    • The color coding capacity is rudimentary and keyword based only. A good color coding mechanism should allow context.
    • With the latest versions, the top menu has a lot of big icons and has a user-friendly kind of look which impacts the actual text window. Most users don't fancy pretty icons and like efficiency over pretty buttons.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    I use it every day for 13 years already and it never disappointed me
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    Microsoft
    Some features should be revised or improved, some tools (using it with Visual Studio) of the toolbox should be less schematic and somewhat more flexible. Using for example, the CSV data import is still very old-fashioned and if the data format changes it requires a bit of manual labor to accept the new data structure
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    Idera, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Open Source
    There are lot of features to talk about. Especially the usability is good. Everyone can easily to use and user-friendly. Can also update easily. Can also write and execute the programming languages like C, C++ etc. Encoding is also the major feature that helps me a lot and converter as well.
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    Microsoft
    SSIS is a great tool for most ETL needs. It has the 90% (or more) use cases covered and even in many of the use cases where it is not ideal SSIS can be extended via a .NET language to do the job well in a supportable way for almost any performance workload.
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    Idera, Inc.
    As a program UltraEdit comes ready to use out of the box and requires very little setup for it to be extremely useful. It's flexibility among a wide array of tasks and files makes it a go-to for all our troubleshooting and data viewing needs. Timely updates and great support.
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    Performance
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    SQL Server Integration Services performance is dependent directly upon the resources provided to the system. In our environment, we allocated 6 nodes of 4 CPUs, 64GB each, running in parallel. Unfortunately, we had to ramp-up to such a robust environment to get the performance to where we needed it. Most of the reports are completed in a reasonable timeframe. However, in the case of slow running reports, it is often difficult if not impossible to cancel the report without killing the report instance or stopping the service.
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    Idera, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Open Source
    I haven't needed to utilize any support related to Notepad++. I guess this is a good thing because I found it to be quite intuitive. There are almost infinite features you can tweak and plugins you can download but I haven't had to do that because Notepad++ is really good right out of the box.
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    Microsoft
    The support, when necessary, is excellent. But beyond that, it is very rarely necessary because the user community is so large, vibrant and knowledgable, a simple Google query or forum question can answer almost everything you want to know. You can also get prewritten script tasks with a variety of functionality that saves a lot of time.
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    Idera, Inc.
    Have never needed support, not once. So giving them a 10 for the fact that their product is so good that we've never needed it.
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    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    The implementation may be different in each case, it is important to properly analyze all the existing infrastructure to understand the kind of work needed, the type of software used and the compatibility between these, the features that you want to exploit, to understand what is possible and which ones require integration with third-party tools
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    Idera, Inc.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    Notepad for Windows, Microsoft Word...LibreOffice Writer....I have used all of these for code writing and editing. Once again I like the universal feel of Notepad++. Basic Notepad, is just that, basic...and kind of clunky for what it is. This is a cool that I have installed on all my computers and also keep it on a thumb drive if I need it elsewhere.
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    Microsoft
    I think SQL Server Integration Services is better suited for on-premises data movement and ADF is more suited for the cloud. Though ADF has more connectors, SQL Server Integration Services is more robust and has better functionality just because it has been around much longer
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    Idera, Inc.
    I have evaluated Notepad++ as an alternative to UltraEdit. In some cases, such as loading time, Notepad++ is a superior product. However, in terms of editing existing macros, and editing very large text files UltraEdit is a much better product.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Productivity has increased for developers.
    • It's free so instead of buying a piece of software, you can use this to replace many of them that may only specialize in one thing.
    • It gives our developers confidence knowing they have such a reliable, free tool at their disposal.
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    Microsoft
    • Without this, we would have to manually update a spreadsheet of our SQL Server inventory
    • We would also have poor alerting; if an instance was down we wouldn't know until it was reported by a user
    • We only have one other person who uses SQL Server Integration Services , he's the expert. It would fall to me without him and I would not enjoy being responsible for it.
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    Idera, Inc.
    • Its ease of use and functionality make it fast and reliable which saves my designers time.
    • Its simplicity makes it fast and easy to train new users.
    • UE's guidance features make it a great tool with a good ROI.
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