SQL Server Integration Services vs. Xactly Connect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SSIS
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Microsoft's SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a data integration solution.N/A
Xactly Connect
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
Xactly Connect is a purpose-built platform designed to automate and integrate the secure flow of data from business applications across Xactly solutions. Connect enables organizations to apply custom business logic to data flows and use standardized automation processes to combine Xactly data with internal and external data sources.N/A
Pricing
SQL Server Integration ServicesXactly Connect
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SSISXactly Connect
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
SQL Server Integration ServicesXactly Connect
Top Pros
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Features
SQL Server Integration ServicesXactly Connect
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
SQL Server Integration Services
7.5
53 Ratings
9% below category average
Xactly Connect
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Ratings
Connect to traditional data sources8.853 Ratings00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL6.240 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
SQL Server Integration Services
8.1
53 Ratings
4% below category average
Xactly Connect
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Ratings
Simple transformations8.553 Ratings00 Ratings
Complex transformations7.752 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
SQL Server Integration Services
7.4
51 Ratings
10% below category average
Xactly Connect
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Ratings
Data model creation8.627 Ratings00 Ratings
Metadata management7.133 Ratings00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow8.142 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration7.338 Ratings00 Ratings
Testing and debugging6.148 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
SQL Server Integration Services
6.9
41 Ratings
17% below category average
Xactly Connect
-
Ratings
Integration with data quality tools7.436 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools6.536 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
SQL Server Integration ServicesXactly Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(53 ratings)
7.6
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(8 ratings)
6.7
(3 ratings)
Performance
8.8
(6 ratings)
7.9
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SQL Server Integration ServicesXactly Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Ideal for daily standard ETL use cases whether the data is sourced from / transferred to the native connectors (like SQL Server) or FTP. Best if the company uses MS suite of tools. There are better options in the market for chaining tasks where you want a custom flow of executions depending on the outcome of each process or if you want advanced functionality like API connections, etc.
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Xactly Corp
When the client has source data in Salesforce, Workday or flat files, it works really well. If the client has too much data, it can be really slow or require lots of preprocessing. It's often better to do as much of the calculations as you can in the configuration rather than on the Xactly Connect side. So that regular comp admins with Incent Connect training but no Xactly Connect are able to make changes.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Ease of use - can be used with no prior experience in a relatively short amount of time.
  • Flexibility - provides multiple means of accomplishing tasks to be able to support virtually any scenario.
  • Performance - performs well with default configurations but allows the user to choose a multitude of options that can enhance performance.
  • Resilient - supports the configuration of error handling to prevent and identify breakages.
  • Complete suite of configurable tools.
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Xactly Corp
  • Flawless data integration
  • Helpful data checkpoints
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Cons
Microsoft
  • SSIS has been a bit neglected by Microsoft and new features are slow in coming.
  • When importing data from flat files and Excel workbooks, changes in the data structure will cause the extracts to fail. Workarounds do exist but are not easily implemented. If your source data structure does not change or rarely changes, this negative is relatively insignificant.
  • While add-on third-party SSIS tools exist, there are only a small number of vendors actively supporting SSIS and license fees for production server use can be significant especially in highly-scaled environments.
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Xactly Corp
  • SQL isn't the same syntax in Connect as it is in Sequal Server Management Studio, making it difficult for communities outside of Xactly to help with certain issues.
  • Sometimes the scheduling part of the tool does not work as expected, but over all it is consistent.
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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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Xactly Corp
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Usability
Microsoft
SQL Server Integration Services is a relatively nice tool but is simply not the ETL for a global, large-scale organization. With developing requirements such as NoSQL data, cloud-based tools, and extraordinarily large databases, SSIS is no longer our tool of choice.
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Xactly Corp
Very user-friendly for a programming tool.
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Performance
Microsoft
Raw performance is great. At times, depending on the machine you are using for development, the IDE can have issues. Deploying projects is very easy and the tool set they give you to monitor jobs out of the box is decent. If you do very much with it you will have to write into your projects performance tracking though.
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Xactly Corp
Xactly is a very helpful tool ensuring appropriate and correct data is used when calculating commissions. The interface loads timely, but it is not intuitive to use. The learning curve to be proficient in Xactly takes a significant amount of time.
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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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Xactly Corp
No answers on this topic
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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Xactly Corp
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
I had nothing to do with the choice or install. I assume it was made because it's easy to integrate with our SQL Server environment and free. I'm not sure of any other enterprise level solution that would solve this problem, but I would likely have approached it with traditional scripting. Comparably free, but my own familiarity with trad scripts would be my final deciding factor. Perhaps with some further training on SSIS I would have a different answer.
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Xactly Corp
I have not used another product like Xactly Connect.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Data integrity across various products allows unify certain processes inside the organization and save funds by reducing human labour factor.
  • Automated data unification allows us plan our inputs better and reduce over-warehousing by overbuying
  • The employee number, responsible for data management was reduced from 4 to 1 person
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Xactly Corp
  • Saves us 10+ hours of work on a weekly basis.
  • Ensures that the results are consistent without manual intervention.
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