BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued) vs. dbt

BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)

dbt

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)	Score 5.3 out of 10	N/A	BusinessObjects Data Integrator was an ETL tool, acquired by BusinessObjects from the company Acta, where the tool was known as ActaWorks. After SAP's acquisition of BusinessObjects, the tool was discontinued.	N/A
dbt	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	dbt is an SQL development environment, developed by Fishtown Analytics, now known as dbt Labs. The vendor states that with dbt, analysts take ownership of the entire analytics engineering workflow, from writing data transformation code to deployment and documentation. dbt Core is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, and paid Teams and Enterprise editions are available.	N/A

Pricing

BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)

dbt

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)	dbt
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)	dbt
Considered Both Products	BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued) Verified User Anonymous Chose BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued) It is a good package tool with SAP BO set of product line. Incentivized Helpful?	dbt SI Sid Iyer BizOps Chose dbt dbt is very flexible and can fit into most data pipelines. This is a pro for most organizations that aren't fully bought into one platform (Google Cloud, etc.) Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose dbt Matillion is graphical versus dbt, which is SQL code-based (that, of course, is a matter of personal preference and not an objective advantage). The integrated testing, documentation generation, lineage, etc., were additional criteria that led us to choose dbt. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose dbt I actually don't know what the alternative to dbt is. I'm sure one must exist other than more 'roll your own' options like Apache Airflow, say, bu tin terms of super easy managed/cloud data transforms, dbt really does seem to be THE tool to use. It's $50/month per dev, BUT … Incentivized Helpful? Judy Campion Data Architect Chose dbt Snaplogic is great at the Extraction and Load processes of ETL. It can pull data from anywhere, even behind firewalls. So if you need to get data from various APIs, databases, files, S3, SFTP, etc it is easy to do so. However, it requires special knowledge in order to build … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose dbt I haven't come across anything like DBT before. Incentivized Helpful? YP Yoshlin Pillay Senior Data Entry Chose dbt Most ETL pipeline products have a T layer, but dbt just does it better. The transformation is on steroids compared to the others. Also, just allows much more Adhoc solutions for very specific projects. Those ETL tools are probably better on the T part if you don't need too many … Incentivized Helpful? Obed Espina Senior Data Engineer Chose dbt Airflow can accomplish the same work as dbt (data build tool), however, dbt's (data build tool) development workflow and UI can open up data transformation and modeling work to non-data engineering teams. Looker might also be able to define data models via LookML with a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose dbt dbt is great because of its transformation capabilities Incentivized Helpful? DD Daniel Denunzio Data Architect Chose dbt dbt fits much better in our stack, where we're using specialized tools to support our ELT approach. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)

dbt

Data Source Connection

Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
	BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued) 10.0 Ratings 18% above category average	dbt - Ratings
Connect to traditional data sources	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Transformations

Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
	BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued) 10.0 Ratings 20% above category average	dbt 9.5 Ratings 15% above category average
Simple transformations	10.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Complex transformations	10.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Data Modeling

Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
	BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued) 7.6 Ratings 5% below category average	dbt 9.0 Ratings 12% above category average
Data model creation	7.00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings
Metadata management	7.00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Business rules and workflow	8.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Collaboration	8.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Testing and debugging	8.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Data Governance

Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
	BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued) 8.0 Ratings 1% below category average	dbt - Ratings
Integration with data quality tools	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)	dbt
Small Businesses	Skyvia Score 9.9 out of 10	Skyvia Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)	dbt
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.5 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	BusinessObjects Data Integrator (discontinued)	dbt
Likelihood to Recommend	Great tool for ETL with the ability to integrate with SAP products seamlessly. Supports Big data integration. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	dbt (Data Build Tool) is best suited for doing the data transformation. dbt is just a transformation tool and it is not suitable for building a data pipeline which requires extraction of data and loading. dbt is well suited for SQL based transformation logic and it is less appropriate when transformation logic requires python. Incentivized Sahil Khan Data Analyst Read full review
Pros	Processing business validations on the input data set. Scheduling and notification using the Admin console tool. Code management across group of developers. Simple deployment process across environment. Ability to deploy stand alone jobs to automate task. Integration with OS and support for variety of data bases. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	user experience makes it easy to work with SQL and version control customer success team and the dbt (data build tool) community help establish best practices thorough and clear documentation Obed Espina Senior Data Engineer Read full review
Cons	Writing custom components is a complex process. Along with ETL BODI should have some data quality integration. Ready documentation of the code and inbuilt commenting on components. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Slow load times of the dbt cloud environment (they're working on it via a new UI though) More out-of-the-box solutions for managing procedures, functions, etc would be nice to have, but honestly, it's pretty easy to figure out how to adapt dbt macros Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	It is a good ETL tool to use if you are SAP shop and looking for a simple and elegant solution for automation. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	dbt is very easy to use. Basically if you can write SQL, you will be able to use dbt to get what you need done. Of course more advanced users with more technical skills can do more things. Incentivized SI Sid Iyer BizOps Read full review
Alternatives Considered	It is a good package tool with SAP BO set of product line Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Matillion is graphical versus dbt, which is SQL code-based (that, of course, is a matter of personal preference and not an objective advantage). The integrated testing, documentation generation, lineage, etc., were additional criteria that led us to choose dbt. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	It was a packaged purchase of BO toolset including BOXI and BODI. Optimized performance for integrating different data sources. Simple and easy setup and maintenance cost. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	In 3 months we re-wrote the data warehouse (15-20 sources) in dbt with 3 developers. We are using it continually for the past year with no issues. Sorry, I don't have ROI numbers but the impact was huge. Incentivized Judy Campion Data Architect Read full review
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