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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SSIS

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

    Talend Data Fabric

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AThe Talend Data Fabric helps organizations to achieve and maintain complete, trustworthy, and uncompromised data, so that they can stay in control, mitigate risk, and drive value.N/A
    Pricing
    SSISTalend Data Fabric
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SSISTalend Data Fabric
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SSISTalend Data Fabric
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    Chose SSIS
    I've used several other ETL tools and they can all do the trick once you learn how to get around their shortfalls, including SSIS. I think the best reason to use SSIS is if you're already using Microsoft tools. They integrate well with each other and it's easy to understand how …
    Incentivized
    Chose SSIS
    SSIS has these advantages: simple integration with MS technologies including Access, Excel, SQL RDBMS, Job Scheduler, and is included with SQL Server.

    Talend has these advantages: much quicker development time, 800+ built in components which provides off the shelf integration …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    84%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    SSISTalend Data Fabric
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Talend Data Fabric
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.0
    56 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Talend Data Fabric
    -
    Ratings
    Connect to traditional data sources9.156 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL5.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Talend Data Fabric
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    6.8
    56 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Talend Data Fabric
    -
    Ratings
    Simple transformations8.956 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations4.755 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Talend Data Fabric
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.5
    54 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Talend Data Fabric
    -
    Ratings
    Data model creation9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management6.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow7.145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration9.140 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging6.451 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Talend Data Fabric
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    5.4
    43 Ratings
    40% below category average
    Talend Data Fabric
    -
    Ratings
    Integration with data quality tools6.338 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools4.638 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SSISTalend Data Fabric
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (56 ratings)
    9.6
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SSISTalend Data Fabric
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Qlik
    Truly trusted contact center where the effective solution is always guaranteed. It is not a one-off fix to a specific data integration or management problem. It is a permanent and scalable solution to manage all of your data under a unified environment. Easy to use, great performance, used it for our internal data warehouse. Easy to build and connect to our data sources such as Salesforce, Netsuite, and Marketo.
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    Pros
    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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    • It supports a wide variety of connectors (Systems/endpoints)
    • It provides great flexibility for developers as it not only has a lot of predefined ready to use the function but also provides the ability to use complex java code within the platform. Great tool if you have good developers available.
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    Cons
    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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    Qlik
    • The print and export functionality are missing in the Community version which frustrates a lot of our clients as well as internal users.
    • The learning curve is very steep for all Talend products including DQ.
    • Lack of easy to create workflows for jobs that can be repeated.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Qlik
    Lack of report export and publication! Steep learning curve!
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    Usability
    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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    Qlik
    At this moment the usability of Talend Data Quality is optimal, too bad I cannot say the same in the first three months, it was always a problem due to its steep learning curve, but what matters is being able to use it effectively at this precise moment.
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    Performance
    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
    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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    Qlik
    Talend Data Quality gave us direct help in the learning process and prevented us from taking many more months to adapt and I appreciate this from the heart, I think that thanks to the support we can have very detailed reports that help increase the use of Talend Data Quality in the company.
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    Implementation Rating
    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
    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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    Qlik
    The engine with which it works to process a lot of information is striking, the comparison also being the connectors it has for different RDBMS, which other tools do not count as they are GNU licenses or community editions. The friendly and intuitive environment is what catches the eye. that's why I choose Talend over any other tool
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Qlik
    • Definitely simplified the development efforts on our end in doing the data integration, saving lots of human hours.
    • Small company, so cost could be a problem for these services, but works so far.
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