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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    SSIS

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a data integration solution.N/A
    Pricing
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)SSIS
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)SSIS
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)SSIS
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    I have used the Pentaho Data Integrator ETL tools in different projects with the SQL Server Integration Services product from the Microsoft product family. Oracle Data Integrator ETL product is efficient in projects where Oracle databases are heavily used. The end-user …
    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)
    Oracle Data Integrator is a superior tool when dealing with Hyperion Planning and Essbase cubes and applications. The native connectors allow for easy data movement and transformations from one environment to the other. I do believe that Oracle Data Integrator is a very complex …
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Chose SSIS
    SQL Server Integration Services is simpler to use and implement than Oracle Data Integrator. When it comes to resolving issues and getting community help SSIS is far superior. ODI has more complex functionality but would require more expert level staff for maintaining and …
    Incentivized
    Chose SSIS
    I used the Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) ETL tool. The PDI ETL tool does not have a public user collection like the SQL Server Integration Services(SSIS) ETL tool. Therefore, you may not be able to find instant solutions for your problems. But it has advantages over the SSIS …
    Incentivized
    Chose SSIS
    Selection was done because of: 1. Lower Cost, 2. RDBMS was SQL Server and SSIS is tightly coupled for optimal performance
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    84%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)SSIS
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    9.6
    11 Ratings
    14% above category average
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.0
    56 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Connect to traditional data sources9.911 Ratings9.056 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL9.39 Ratings5.043 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    9.9
    11 Ratings
    20% above category average
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    6.8
    56 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Simple transformations9.911 Ratings8.956 Ratings
    Complex transformations9.911 Ratings4.755 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    9.2
    11 Ratings
    16% above category average
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.5
    54 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Data model creation9.310 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Metadata management9.510 Ratings6.035 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow9.111 Ratings7.145 Ratings
    Collaboration8.510 Ratings9.140 Ratings
    Testing and debugging9.311 Ratings6.451 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
    9.1
    9 Ratings
    13% above category average
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    5.4
    43 Ratings
    39% below category average
    Integration with data quality tools9.59 Ratings6.238 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools8.77 Ratings4.638 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)SSIS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (29 ratings)
    8.0
    (56 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)SSIS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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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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    Pros
    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.
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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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    Cons
    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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    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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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    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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    Usability
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Performance
    Oracle
    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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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
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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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    Return on Investment
    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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    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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