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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

    Windsor.ai

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    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Windsor.ai is an ELT/connector platform purpose-built for marketing, commerce, and sales data. Windsor.ai can be used to move data from 320+ sources (ads, analytics, CRM, ecommerce) into data warehouse or BI tools without writing pipelines. What it does Prebuilt connectors for Google Ads, Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads, TikTok Ads, GA4, YouTube, Search Console, Facebook/Instagram Organic, Salesforce, HubSpot, Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon (Ads & Seller), Stripe, and…

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    Pricing
    SSISWindsor.ai
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic
    $23
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    Standard
    $118
    per month
    Plus
    $299
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    Professional
    $598
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    SSISWindsor.ai
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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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
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    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SSISWindsor.ai
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Windsor.ai
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.0
    56 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Windsor.ai
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    Connect to traditional data sources9.056 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 Windsor.ai
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    6.8
    56 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Windsor.ai
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    Simple transformations8.956 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations4.755 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Windsor.ai
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.5
    54 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Windsor.ai
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    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 Windsor.ai
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    5.4
    43 Ratings
    39% below category average
    Windsor.ai
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    Integration with data quality tools6.238 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools4.638 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SSISWindsor.ai
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (56 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
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    Performance
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    SSISWindsor.ai
    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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    Windsorai
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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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    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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    Windsorai
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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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    Windsorai
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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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    Windsorai
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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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    Windsorai
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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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    Windsorai
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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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    Windsorai
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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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    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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    Windsorai
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    Screenshot of some of the available 300 data sources and 20 destinationsScreenshot of the data connection workflowScreenshot of a custom reportScreenshot of the data exporterScreenshot of where data can be previewed before being sent to a destinationScreenshot of where data can be streamed to as many destinations as desired