IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. Oracle Warehouse Builder

IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Oracle Warehouse Builder

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM InfoSphere Information Server	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM InfoSphere Information Server is a data integration platform used to understand, cleanse, monitor and transform data. The offerings provide massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities.	N/A
Oracle Warehouse Builder	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) is a data-warehousing centered data integration solution, from Oracle. It offers basic ETL functionality for building a simple data warehouse, as well as advanced ETL functionality supporting enterprise data integration projects, along with connectivity for Oracle and SAP applications.	N/A

Pricing

IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Oracle Warehouse Builder

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM InfoSphere Information Server	Oracle Warehouse Builder
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server	Oracle Warehouse Builder
Considered Both Products	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Karina Gonzalez Manager Data Management Chose IBM InfoSphere Information Server I particularly believe that Information Server, especially DataStage, is superior in many aspects to the Oracle Data Integrator tool. Several market analysts such as Gartner and / or Forrester better position DataStage on the Oracle solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM InfoSphere Information Server DataStage is more robust and stable than ODI The ability to perform complex transformations or implement business rules is much more developed in DS Incentivized Helpful? Gunes INAL Data Warehouse Consultant Chose IBM InfoSphere Information Server Denodo not an ETL tool but you can manage your data with it as well as Infosphere Incentivized Helpful? Gonzalo Angeleri Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager Chose IBM InfoSphere Information Server Information Server and Informatica PowerCenter are the two leading integration platforms worldwide. Information Server has a better integration with other IBM products such as MDM or Cognos but the decision to use one or another platform is more a price decision and quantity of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM InfoSphere Information Server Information can be used for large but simple implementation. InfoSphere provides more intergaration options with outside world. Abinitio is great product but stopped innvoating and is not kept up to date with market needs and changes. Talend is good new product. Good Big Data … Incentivized Helpful?	Oracle Warehouse Builder Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Warehouse Builder I think that Oracle Warehouse Builder is easier to use the Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). The connections in Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) are easier to understand when troubleshooting. Anything that makes troubleshooting easier gets higher marks in my book. ODI wins in the … Incentivized Helpful? Gurcan Orhan Enterprise Data WareHouse Architect Chose Oracle Warehouse Builder Depending on investment, I would prefer Oracle Data Integrator, since it complies with all versions of all types of databases including Big Data, Hadoop and NoSQL environment as well as the cloud and is the strategic heterogenous data integration product of Oracle, as it is … Incentivized Helpful? KN Kate Nadolinski Senior Consultant Chose Oracle Warehouse Builder Currently we work with Informatica and compared to OWB Informatica is a little bit more difficult to use, however Informatica has more features and is a more powerful BI tool. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Warehouse Builder Ab>initio, IBM Datastage 8.0 Incentivized Helpful?

Features

IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Oracle Warehouse Builder

Data Source Connection

Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server 10.0 Ratings 18% above category average	Oracle Warehouse Builder 9.5 Ratings 12% above category average
Connect to traditional data sources	10.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL	10.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Data Transformations

Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server 10.0 Ratings 20% above category average	Oracle Warehouse Builder 10.0 Ratings 20% above category average
Simple transformations	10.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Complex transformations	10.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Data Modeling

Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server 9.7 Ratings 20% above category average	Oracle Warehouse Builder 8.2 Ratings 3% above category average
Data model creation	10.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Metadata management	10.00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow	10.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Collaboration	10.00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Testing and debugging	9.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

Data Governance

Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server 9.5 Ratings 16% above category average	Oracle Warehouse Builder 8.0 Ratings 1% below category average
Integration with data quality tools	10.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools	9.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server	Oracle Warehouse Builder
Small Businesses	Skyvia Score 9.9 out of 10	Skyvia Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	dbt Score 9.0 out of 10	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises	InterSystems IRIS Score 7.7 out of 10	IBM InfoSphere Information Server Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server	Oracle Warehouse Builder
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM InfoSphere Information Server	Oracle Warehouse Builder
Likelihood to Recommend	You can use infosphere: -If you have multiple targets and source systems and they are different than each other. -If your infostructure is so big and unplaned well so you can't find what you want to see. -If your databases not so strong to process your data Incentivized Gunes INAL Data Warehouse Consultant Read full review	If you plan to upgrade your databases to newer versions, you need to migrate your Oracle Warehouse Builder jobs to Oracle Data Integrator (fastest and easiest way) or an other ETL tool, because Oracle Warehouse Builder came to an end and does not support newer versions of databases as it is described in statement of direction. There will be no major releases of Oracle Warehouse Builder (latest release is 11GR2 - 11.2.0.4), but bug resolving and minor releasing will continue. Incentivized Gurcan Orhan Enterprise Data WareHouse Architect Read full review
Pros	It is very strong to make transformations/data derivations It is very easy to connect to various external data sources. It has an interface (stages) for each connection that simplifies the task It is a stable platform. And that parallelism helps make it fast for loading, if the process is well designed Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Simplified user interface with all required ETL functions Flexible and Efficient Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Lack of a strong web development environment. Metadata propagation in Jobs is somewhat complex. The possibility to develop jobs in Parallel and/or Server Engines is confusing. Karina Gonzalez Manager Data Management Read full review	No good learning material available. I didn't see a training course for it. It is not easy to learn. Incentivized Dina Britan SIS Lead Analyst Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Scale of implementation IBM techsupport Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	I particularly believe that Information Server, especially DataStage, is superior in many aspects to the Oracle Data Integrator tool. Several market analysts such as Gartner and / or Forrester better position DataStage on the Oracle solution. Karina Gonzalez Manager Data Management Read full review	I think that Oracle Warehouse Builder is easier to use the Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). The connections in Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) are easier to understand when troubleshooting. Anything that makes troubleshooting easier gets higher marks in my book. ODI wins in the heavy lifting and enterprise solution realm. ODI is much easier to implement at that level. The web interface that can be setup for business users to kick off scenarios is better than the interface that we can give access to in OWB. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Information Server can positively impact the costs of companies by increasing the productivity of development and therefore reduce their time and costs. It is estimated that DataStage can increase a developer's productivity by 40% on average. Better data governance Improve data quality and reduce bad data impacts Incentivized Gonzalo Angeleri Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager Read full review	OWB allows you to quickly develop even complex ETLs thus saving lots of time for the developers to work on other things. I would say OWB is a very convenient and easy to use tool. Incentivized KN Kate Nadolinski Senior Consultant Read full review
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