#1 most frequent
United States of America
47.3%251 installations of 531
What is HCL Actian Data Platform?
The HCL Actian Data Platform (formerly Actian Avalanche) hybrid cloud data warehouse is a fully managed service that aims to deliver high performance and scale across all dimensions – data volume, concurrent user, and query complexity – at a lower cost than alternative solutions. Avalanche has built-in self-service data integration that can be deployed on-premises as well as on multiple clouds, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, enabling users to migrate or offload applications and data to the cloud at one's own pace.
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Who Buys & Uses HCL Actian Data Platform
#2 most frequent
France
8.5%45 installations of 531
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7.5%40 installations of 531
Actian can do it, but make sure you know what you want it to do, first.
Pros
- The support community was not as robust as you would find in a Mulesoft or Informatica environment. Given time and growth, it’s possible it will blossom, but for now it is minimal.
- Training is always a big thing for us, and the tool was not expansive enough for us to implement our own internal training program. There was some online training, and we acquired an expert when we brought on the new company, but some additional training tools would have helped the tool grown its user base internally.
- Not a lot to set it apart from the competition. Most of the features are available with other more established tools, but for a small company that maybe grew too quickly and needs to get its arms around many different data sources, I can see the appeal. Not really geared for larger firms.
Cons
- As I said before, more training or greater visibility to training tools/options would be a plus. It’s easy to publish YouTube videos these days, I think they should make more of them.
- Differentiation would help, there’s not a lot out there to drive you to buy the product if you are well informed in the market. If you know the market, you steer towards the large or trendy products. It’s a good product, but lost in the noise of the field I think.
- Hitching the wagon to a major software brand (like Mule did to Salesforce) would help grow the user base, and thus increase the activity in the support community. More users also translates into product champions.
Alternatives Considered
Oracle API Platform Cloud, TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe), Informatica Cloud, Informatica Enterprise Data Integration, Jitterbit and Qlik Sense
Other Software Used
Jitterbit, Informatica Cloud, Mule ESB, Dell Boomi, SnapLogic, Qlik Sense
Run Away from VectorWise if implementing Enterprise Data Watehouse
Pros
- Quick response for queries involving multi-million rows
- Low cost
Cons
- Concurrent user handling
- Handling parallel ETL processes
Return on Investment
- We had to move out of VectorWise after using the database for 2 years. Hence no positive impacts.
Other Software Used
Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Talend Integration Suite
