Oracle Data Integrator

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Paolo Borghi

Oracle Business Intelligence Consultant

Techedge SpAInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Oracle Data Integrator

Pre-built connectors

Connector modification

Support for real-time and batch integration

Data quality services

Data security features

Monitoring console

Pros

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.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

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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James Parks

Technology Consultant

Armstrong Fluid TechnologyInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Oracle Data Integrator 10.0

Based on 4 answers

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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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

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.

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Cameron Gable

Software Engineer III

Serimmune Inc.Biotechnology, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Utilities Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Oracle Data Integrator

Oracle Data Integrator