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Precisely Connect

Score8 out of 10

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What is Precisely Connect?

Precisely Connect is a data integration solution offered by the vendor, Precisely. It aims to seamlessly integrate data from legacy systems into next-gen cloud and data platforms. The tool is designed for small to large enterprises across various industries, including financial services and government. According to the vendor, IT professionals, data analysts, and data engineers can leverage Precisely Connect to streamline data access and collection, simplify integration processes, and ensure real-time replication for critical business projects.

Key Features

Seamless data access and collection: According to the vendor, Precisely Connect enables organizations to seamlessly integrate data from legacy systems into next-gen cloud and data platforms. It offers batch and real-time ingestion for advanced analytics, machine learning, and data migration.

Simplify integration: Precisely Connect provides a comprehensive solution for integrating, preparing, loading, cleansing, transforming, and streaming data across clustered or cloud frameworks. The vendor claims that it eliminates the need for multiple tools, reducing complexity and ensuring secure integrations.

Real-time replication: Connect allows organizations to stream changes to data instantly, enabling real-time access and use in downstream applications, data lakes, and warehouses. It supports real-time data replication with change data capture (CDC) capabilities across various data stores and frameworks, as per the vendor.

Future-proof: Precisely Connect allows organizations to easily add new sources and targets without redevelopment, according to the vendor. It offers a design once, deploy anywhere approach, accommodating changing business and technology needs.

Wide range of sources and targets: Connect supports a wide range of sources and targets, including mainframe data, RDBMS, semi-structured data, enterprise data warehouses, cloud platforms, cloud analytics platforms, big data platforms, streaming platforms, and flat files, as per the vendor's claims.

Efficient and scalable data replication: Connect ensures efficient and scalable data replication, minimizing network impact and delivering optimal performance, according to the vendor. It offers a self-tuning engine that dynamically selects the most efficient algorithms based on data structures and system attributes.

Secure integrations: Precisely Connect integrates all enterprise data securely, from mainframe and IBM i to the cloud, according to the vendor. It ensures data privacy and compliance with industry regulations.

Support for various platforms and systems: Connect supports integration with various platforms and systems, including Spark, MapReduce, Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more, as claimed by the vendor.

Design once, deploy anywhere: Connect offers a design once, deploy anywhere approach, making it easy to deploy in new environments without extensive redevelopment, according to the vendor.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Simple transformations

    Simple data transformations are calculations, data type conversions, aggregations and search and replace operations

    Category average: 8.9

  • Complex transformations

    Complex data transformations are data normalization, advanced data parsing, etc.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Testing and debugging

    Tool to debug and tune for optimal performance

    Category average: 7.2

Areas for Improvement

  • Connect to traditional data sources

    Ability to connect to traditional data sources like relational databases, flat files, XML files and packaged applications

    Category average: 8.9

Best value for money

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were able to easily learn the tool and migrate the legacy pipelines to convert the mainframe data.

Pros

  • Convert mainframe data
  • Develop and generate source specific jobs
  • Able to integrate the python and job code for use case

Cons

  • The crashing of the log window
  • Options to connect to Azure with options
  • parameter to set s3 part upload for files with heavy volume

Return on Investment

  • Legacy code migration which was hard to manage.
  • Quick fixes and turnaround on the Precisely Connect job in case of issues.
  • Timely based professional support

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Qlik Automate

Other Software Used

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