Item: Astera Centerprise
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Astera Centerprise is being used by two teams that are responsible for onboarding data for new or existing customers. Those teams work in conjunction to ensure that proper workflows are set up to review and qualify the data prior to ingestion to our downstream systems. It has helped to centralize our data loading and transformation efforts, and provide visibility into data issues or patterns that we didn't have insight into before. Quality of data is key for our process, and we are TB scale, so performance and scalability were a factor as well.

Pros and Cons

Handles large volumes of data well!
Centralizes and simplifies data management loading!
Provides insight into data anomalies and patterns that weren't previously visible!

Like any tool, it has a learning curve and is somewhat proprietary in how they approach things.
It can be clunky to train others who aren't familiar with such tools or concepts, not so intuitive that it can be picked up by any engineer.

Return on Investment

Speeds up our onboarding process and time to market so to speak.
ROI is quick to realize if you spend a lot of time today processing and transforming data manually.
Centralized a process that used to run across various tools and teams.

Alternatives Considered

Informatica Enterprise Data Preparation, Qlik Enterprise Manager, Talend Data Integration and Adeptia Connect

Stacks up well against competitors and overall provided the best fit for our needs while also meetings all of our requirements. No tool was perfect in our evaluation or from past experience even, but Astera proved to be a great fit after going through various reviews, demos, proof of concepts, and so on.

Support Rating

I haven't had to use this much, but it has been great in the limited experience we have used it.

Key Insights

Do you think Astera Centerprise delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Astera Centerprise's feature set?

Yes

Did Astera Centerprise live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Astera Centerprise go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Astera Centerprise again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

It handles large volumes of data well and has the ability to transform and play with data in ways you wouldn't even deem imaginable or necessary. However, that can sometimes be a bit overwhelming or cumbersome until you get used to the tool. However, compared to other comparable tools, it has a reasonable learning curve and can be picked up by an engineer that is used to handling and manipulating data.

Astera Centerprise simplified our on-boarding process and was a great fit for our needs.

Overall Satisfaction with Astera Centerprise