Astera Centerprise Review
Updated January 23, 2024
Astera Centerprise Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Astera Centerprise
Astera Centerprise is being used by the IT Application Department in Aspen Medical Products. It is being used to integrate the Magento eCommerce platform to host the company's website with ERP Application (IQMS). I've been using the Astera Centerprise for the last 5 years to create Integration Dataflows, Workflows, Scheduled jobs to integrate the Magento and IQMS APIs. These jobs run round the clock from 4 am till midnight 7 days a week to keep the data flowing between the applications. The data includes customers orders, customer's account setups, address information updates, Credit limit updates, Customer's product pricing updates, etc...
- API integrations vis REST Web Service transformation
- Stored Procedure integration via SQL statement Lookup transformation
- Bulk imports and exports to and from tables
- Data dumps from SQL tables to excel, csv, text files etc...
- EDI Integrations like 810, 856, 940, 945 etc.. via Astera Centerprise Data Integrator plus EDI Connect
- I would say Server Monitor is not very user-friendly. Astera [Centerprise] can add sorting features on different columns to make it more intuitive
- The search box in server monitor doesn't display the the way I expect.
- Astera CDI can add Temp tables object to store staging/temporary data instead of using excel or data files.
Overall Satisfaction Continued
- REST API client, Rest Connection to generate refresh API tokens
- EDI Connect features like EDI message parser, source, destination.
- Loop feature to loop the records in the workflows
- Sending Outbound EDi files like 940, 855, 856, 810 etc..
- Instead of using Mulesoft which was very costly tool, we chose Astera Centerprise which helped in saving thousands of dollars in licensing fees per year.
- Last year we were looking for EDI tools for our needs to consume EDI files like 850 and also generate the outbound EDI files like 810, 856 etc. but after comparing others in the market, Astera's EDI Connect was the best choice for us as it was much cheaper and Integrating with our existing Astera CDI tool was easier.
For us Astera Centerprise is a better tool as it helps in solving 2 problems. We use it as both an ETL tool as well as API integration tool. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is used for API integration only. So we chose Astera Centerprise over MuleSoft. We're now using to EDI integration also.
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
Astera Centerprise Feature Ratings
Using Astera Centerprise
4 - They represent the same business functions like me IT applications.
2 - Skilles required are IT applications skills, ETL methodology, EDI knowledge.
- REST API connection
- ETL data sync
- EDI inbound and outbounds
- REST API client
- EDI files consumption and generation for Inbound and Outbound
- Not sure for now
Evaluating Astera Centerprise and Competitors
Yes - Last year we were planning to buy new tool for EDI connections and instead of buying new one we approached Astera and they provided us the EDI Connect which was added to Centerprise stack and working really well for us so far.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
Product Usability
It will be same selection process.
Astera Centerprise Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Change management was minimal
- None. It was smooth using the installation tutorials provided by Astera support
Astera Centerprise Training
- No Training
I had a previous experience of working on ETL and datawarehousing tools like Informatica and SSIS, so it was quite easy for me to work on Astera CDI.
Astera Centerprise Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
No premium support
Yes - Yes it was resolved in a timely manner.
Yes, last year I was stuck to design a solution to generate the outbound EDI 810 (Invoice) file using my Integration dataflow. Their support really helped me to find the solution and i was able to implement it.
Using Astera Centerprise
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- REST API client
- EDI connections
- Loop through the records
- None
Astera Centerprise Reliability
Integrating Astera Centerprise
- Ecommerce application - Magento by Adobe
- ERP application - IQMS
- ERP application - IFS
- SQL server
- Oracle databases
- File import/export
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
- ETL tools
Astera Centerprise Data Integrator is an easy hands on ETL+API+EDI integartion tool which I've been using for the last 7 years and it is quite productive.
Relationship with Astera Software
No terms as such.
No tips. just keep your business requirements straight.
Upgrading Astera Centerprise
Yes - It was good.
- Helped in more EDI and recent API integrations
- New EDI outbound requirements for 940 and 856 files
Yes - We're already in Enterprise Edition of Astera CDI.
Yes - We're already in Enterprise edition of Astera CDI.