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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

    TIBCO Data Virtualization

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ATIBCO Data Virtualization is an enterprise data virtualization solution that orchestrates access to multiple and varied data sources and delivers the datasets and IT-curated data services foundation for nearly any solution.N/A
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    SSISTIBCO Data Virtualization
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    SSISTIBCO Data Virtualization
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    SSISTIBCO Data Virtualization
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Cloud Software Group
    Chose TIBCO Data Virtualization
    • Easy access of drivers to integrated with many data sources.
    • Simple SQL to join data across multiple sources
    • Easy to publish data as REST API's
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    84%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    78%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    26 Answers
    Features
    SSISTIBCO Data Virtualization
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.0
    56 Ratings
    18% below category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    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 TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    6.8
    56 Ratings
    18% below category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    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 TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.5
    54 Ratings
    6% below category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    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 TIBCO Data Virtualization
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    5.4
    43 Ratings
    40% below category average
    TIBCO Data Virtualization
    -
    Ratings
    Integration with data quality tools6.238 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools4.638 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SSISTIBCO Data Virtualization
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (56 ratings)
    7.1
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    6.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    5.4
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    6.6
    (20 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    7.9
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SSISTIBCO Data Virtualization
    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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    Cloud Software Group
    TIBCO Data Virtualization is well suited for customers who are challenged to deal with extracting data from dozens of different sources and systems, and do not have the time and liberty to hire data engineers and/or ETL developers to write dozens or hundreds of complex ETLs. However, there are situations where TIBCO Data Virtualization severely underperforms, and those are where we are dealing with large volumes of data, in tera bytes or peta byte scale system. For example, a messaging queue which sends 200 million messages every hour will choke TIBCO Data Virtualization if the technology is chosen to route the data.
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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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    • Connecting to different data silos and presenting the data as a singled unified layer of data.
    • Exposing data to Technical and non technical users through Web UI or reporting tools
    • Secured exposure of data as web services.
    • Row level and column level data security
    • Multi tenancy data security.
    • Real time data by connecting to the operational databases
    • Historical data generation
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    • Performance of TDV Studio (its own IDE) is poor.
    • Performance of TDV repository database is rather poor for larger numbers of objects .(Note: We have approx. 9tsd objects introspected in TDV and approx. 20tsd objects generated in upper DV layers.)
    • Propagation of privileges to parent/child dependencies does not work when applying recursively on a folder. (It's a huge setback when working with large number of objects organized semantically into subfolders.)
    • Lack of command line client interface for scripting at the time of version 8.4 (I had to write my own CLI.)
    • TDV Studio does an absolutely horrible job with its own code editors when indentation is in place. Also, the editor is brutally slow and feature-poor.
    • Tracking privileges on the level of table/view columns causes occasional problems when regranting.
    • TDV's stored programs ("SQL scripts" in their own terminology) compiler leaves out many syntactic and semantic checks, making them hugely prone to run-time errors.
    • TDV Server's REST API is a very poor (in terms of features) and flawed cousin to its SOAP API (at the time of version 8.4).
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    It is useful for us to see the data and do analysis. Also we use it to generate reports and see trends or gather insights
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    TDV's interface is a bit dated and not entirely intuitive. Would recommend some UX design review as the interface leaves a bit to be better understood to be used by users without inherent knowledge of Tibco. Overall I'd suggest more improvement here to ensure usability by a lesser tech audience.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    We have never encountered issues where it was unavailable when we needed it.
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    This product's performance is very consistent. It is extremely rare for templates to fail. I've been using this software for 5 years and find it to be both simple and powerful. The impact within the company has been very positive as different processes in different areas, such as data analysis, development, and integrations, have been improved, and, best of all, it has not affected the users. Various systems with which it is connected in order to obtain information.
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    On a few occasions I have asked TIBCO technical support for help because I have adapted perfectly to their tools, but in those few that I have communicated with their technical team I have received personalized, attentive, responsible attention and I am always assisted by an expert staff the topic. A TIBCO technical support technician spent more than an hour helping me to solve a problem in the initial stage of implementation in my department and this is something that I always appreciate.
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    Online Training
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    The training was helpful. I was able to understand how to use TIBCO for the data load process that we implemented and how to perform various troubleshooting steps based on the training I received. The technician was thorough and took the time to answer any questions. Once we were shown how to use TIBCO in the test environment, we were able to configure the production environment ourselves.
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    Other vendors have clearer, more visual implementation documentation. We also did not have our data architect and and server administrator available full-time for implementation. In the future, we will secure the necessary internal resources.
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    We did not need to evaluate another technology in the same category for data virtualization, since we are 100% sure of the capabilities and benefits that we would have with TIBCO Data Virtualization, both for market positioning as well as success stories from other companies. great renown worldwide. From the first day of use, it meets our needs to provide the expected solutions.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
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    Cloud Software Group
    Good scaling
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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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    Cloud Software Group
    • We took spreadsheets that took hours a month to update and made them update automatically using TDV, saving hours a month of analyst time
    • The incremental cost of TDV relative to straight spotfire licensing made it a no-brainer due to the ease of data management
    • We continue to automate legacy business processes in TDV, saving time all over the organization.
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