IBM webMethods vs. Matillion

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM webMethods
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
IBM® webMethods offers a hybrid, enterprise-grade integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that allows users to securely control applications, APIs, B2B and files across environments and locations.N/A
Matillion
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Matillion is a data pipeline platform used to build and manage pipelines. Matillion empowers data teams with no-code and AI capabilities to be more productive, integrating data wherever it lives and delivering data that’s ready for AI and analytics.
$2.50
Pay as you go per user
Pricing
IBM webMethodsMatillion
Editions & Modules
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Developer: For Individuals
$2.50/credit
Pay as you go per user
Basic
$1000
per month 500 prepaid credits (additional credits: $2.18/credit)
Advanced
$2000
per month 750 prepaid credits (additional credits: $2.73/credit)
Enterprise
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IBM webMethodsMatillion
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsBilled directly via cloud marketplace on an hourly basis, with annual subscriptions available depending on the customer's cloud data warehouse provider.
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Community Pulse
IBM webMethodsMatillion
Considered Both Products
IBM webMethods
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IBM webMethods lags in terms of iPass offering as compared to mulesoft and dell Boomi. In terms of api management Apigee is much better than webMethods.
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IBM webMethods is far superior when compared to competition like Microsoft Azure. In functionality and capabilities. Better visibility, uptime, efficiency, etc.
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webMethods does better for end to end integrations whereas Azure is more focused on APIs. We selected webMethods because we felt their integrations, especially to mainframe environments, were much better than the others. IBM has been in this space for a long time and know it …
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Apigee Edge and Oracle Integration (OIC)
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Oracle Integration Cloud vs IBM webMethods, hands down IBM webMethods is way better. Lots of features and ease of doing webMethods and super stable stack.
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webMethods.io IntegrationDescriptionWe uses webMethods.io Integration to solve some of our application to applications and business to business integration needs. It is the Integration Platform as a Service solution that we use in a mix with our continued use of webMethods …
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Ease of use and robustness of the product.
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IBM webMethods was selected vs WSo2 for the reachness of the correspondign features
regarding Mulesoft, the flexibility of IBM webMethods compared to the other platform, in relation to the existing architectural landscape was preferred
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The two branches of the IBM integration portfolio are coming together nicely, and it's more a question of fully mapping the specific implementation requirements to the respective platform of choice when selecting between IBM Cloud Pak for Integration and IBM webMethods. …
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We have mulesoft also for some clients but I am not well aware of it so I am not confident to differentiate both
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The Boomi product lags in the B2B IBM webMethods experience. The way IBM webMethods handles the EDI standards are unmatchable.
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I have seen that other products have different UI to address various business problems like messaging, EDA, MFT. IBM webMethods has unified platform and can also support hybrid Integration. I think it is all rounded iPaaS tool with ease of development and ease of operation.
The …
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The webMethods platform ranks higher in our ranking because it has more features and has proven itself in many CAC 40 companies in particular.The key elements are robustness, ease of use, a clear business model, and a wide range of features covering all types of enterprise …
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IBM webMethods combines all the essential functions for information system integration in its platform. All products are interconnected to facilitate implementation (ESB, API, BPM, message bus). All tools are easy to use.
Matillion
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Matillion's price is cheaper than Talend and has similar functionalities Matillion has better functionality than Apache Hop
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Matillion has more security and better version control features. The support of amazing with new connectors introduced every day.
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Matillion is cheaper and we really like the customer support of Matillion as well as lerning materials provided by Matillion were far better. They also made connectors for us for free while others were charging us for it.
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I have not used any other products yet
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Matillion gives great ability to connect to variety of sources and bring data into cloud data warehouse using connector based approach with which we can build complex transformation jobs which can do automated data fetches from your sources.
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Matillion is affordable, easy to use with a graphical interface
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I think Matillion is more cost effective and user friendly as compared to the ones mentioned
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Matillion has better capabilities and better built-in elements that saves your time and efforts. also the connectivity across multiple data warehousing tool is better in Matillion. even the performance of the pipeline and the time required to create a particular pipeline is …
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Cheaper and faster and more innovative
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My manager selected Million based on his previous work experience. He believes it is easy to use and maintain, cheaper than competitors, and suitable for our use case.
Chose Matillion
The only other ETL tool I've used was SSIS. At first I thought Matillion seemed "kiddish" after using the polished Microsoft tool but now I think Matillion is easier and can do much more as it has so many built-in connectors etc. We selected Matillion at our job because of …
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In my opinion Matillion provides more flexibility then the other tools I mentioned.
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n/a -- joined the team after they already were established in Matillion. Have had brief looks at other ETL products but found nothing compelling enough to suggest a change.
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We selected Matillion primarily because of it's ability to connect to numerous data sources and easily create transformation jobs. While FiveTran does a better job managing and examining deltas, it is not easy to use and is very non user friendly. SSIS was not a good fit for …
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Fivetran offers a managed service and pre-configured schemas/models for data loading, which means much less administrative work for initial setup and ongoing maintenance. But it comes at a much higher price tag. So, knowing where your sweet spot is in the build vs. buy spectrum …
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We decided to move forward with Matillion because it was the best tool among tools that support both ingesting data from a source system to a target database and running transformation workflows on it afterwards. Fivetran and Airbyte only support data ingestion and we had our …
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Cost and ease of use were better for our purposes. Matillion distinguishes itself from Fivetran and Snaplogic through its user-friendly design, no-code interface, in-depth transformation capabilities, allowing for complex data manipulations directly within the platform, …
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The Matillion selection was not my decision. But I think it's a good enough choice. It is especially valuable that the team can learn Matillion easily and that the project can be understood by the entire team with the visual environment instead of complex ETLs.
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Both the Databricks platform and Dbt Cloud are more powerful from the point of view of the development lifecycle and data use cases covered. They are also more complex and require specialized data engineering skills to be used. Matillion has a lower barrier of entry for small …
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Removes most of the complexity around setting up and preparing things.
If you could describe with words what needs to be done to move data from A to B, the implementation in Matillion would probably be the most similar in terms of simplicity of understanding what you are doing …
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Better UI, logging, minimal configurations, easy previews and faster
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Matillion is a good tool for integrating multiple clouds. Informatica has been a market standard for many years, it provides multiple capabilities for data governance, data quality, etc. However, Informatica is pretty expensive compared to Matillion. Also, Matillion is more …
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This is my first time using an ETL tool
Features
IBM webMethodsMatillion
Cloud Data Integration
Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of Product A and Product B
IBM webMethods
7.7
Ratings
4% below category average
Matillion
-
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Pre-built connectors8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Connector modification9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for real-time and batch integration8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data quality services7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data security features7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring console7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
IBM webMethods
-
Ratings
Matillion
8.4
Ratings
0% above category average
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
IBM webMethods
-
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Matillion
7.0
Ratings
15% below category average
Simple transformations00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
IBM webMethods
-
Ratings
Matillion
8.3
Ratings
4% above category average
Data model creation00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
IBM webMethods
-
Ratings
Matillion
8.2
Ratings
1% above category average
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM webMethodsMatillion
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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7.9
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Likelihood to Renew
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8.6
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Usability
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7.1
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Support Rating
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7.4
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Implementation Rating
-
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8.2
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Product Scalability
-
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7.4
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Vendor post-sale
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9.1
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9.1
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User Testimonials
IBM webMethodsMatillion
Likelihood to Recommend
With its world-class proven technology, the IBM webMethods products are best suited for solving integration needs, including application connectivity, data aggregation, and data synchronization. The business use cases expand across Healthcare, Aviation, Banking, Insurance, etc., and many other mission-critical systems. Though I feel there is room for improvement where webMethods products are utilized in a containerized platform, especially with the API Management suite of products.
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Great: Need to query simpler APIs, or utilize well known services such as GSheets etc.? Matillion has got some of the best and easiest to use connectors out there. Not so great: Do you need have a competent CI/CD flow that you will be able to update / compare from Matillion as well as other sources at the same time? Good luck, you will need to be extra careful, as you might have to have a deeper dive into your servers Terminal each time you have a git conflict.
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Pros
  • Translate the data into required format based on system
  • Handles good amount of load and tranefer data into chunks and very much accurate
  • Administration is very easy and easily understable and it has goos secuity features
  • Schedulers works well for pub/sub message pulling and pushing
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  • The user interface of your data pipelines makes it easier for people who aren’t as techy as data engineers to observe what's going on.
  • Customer support is quick, not always as efficient as you would want it to be, but still.
  • Nice documentation available.
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Cons
  • Clarifying the ongoing and near future roadmap developments in terms of capabilities and architecture
  • Merging features, patterns and platform tooling with the rest of the Cloud Pak for integration toolkit
  • Adding additional support for AI-driven development, low-/no-code features, and code assistant features
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  • Static and monolithic, it will show its limits when running multiple concurrent jobs.
  • Github and versioning implementation is messy and broken. Don't use it.
  • There's not way to see/query the system resources, just wait for a server to crash due to out of memory. An admin panel would be appreciated + some env variables with updated info.
  • API implementation is cumbersome and limited.
  • There's no concept of hub and worker engine, everything happens of the same server (designing workflows and executing them). Having separate light ETL engines to run job could be better. (sort of docker/kubernetes/lambda functions).
  • Handling of variables is limited especially for returned values from sub components.
  • Some components could return more metadata at the end of their execution instead of the standard one.
  • Billing is badly designed not taking into account that the server is hosted by the client. Expensive.
  • We had several issue with migration where starting a new instance was required and then migrating the content. It was painful and time consuming also have to deal with support and engineering team on Matillion side.
  • CDC doesn't work as expected or it is not a mature product yet.
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Likelihood to Renew
The webMethods platform is a fantastic tool for modernizing information systems. It's easy to use and delivers rapid results.The platform is focused on innovation and is accelerating its improvement with the acquisition by IBM.
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Matillion is easy to use and flexible to debug. Performance are good and support is giving us a good service level. There are still some technical points to be developed more (such as SAP extraction). but easy flows are really fast to be developed. We are also using a tool for migration from other tools, and it is useful as Matillion is producing XML code.
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Usability
The webMethods product has a very user-friendly and easy-to-use interface.A weak point is the My webMethods Server portal (administration and monitoring portal for the on-premise platform). This weakness has been addressed thanks to the control plane on the hybrid version of the product. This version should be highlighted and used to ensure a very fluid and functional interface.
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Easy tasks are really easy, and complex tasks are still possible. With prior knowledge of general data warehousing principles and experience with other data transformation tools, it's straightforward to get familiar with and use Matillion. I initially used minimal external support from a partner for some more complex tasks but very soon could work entirely independently with Matillion.
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Reliability and Availability
The webMethods platform is very stable and does not cause incidents: if it is well configured and tailored at the base. Infrastructure incidents represent 20% of incidents (full disk, memory peaks, etc.) 80% of incidents come from the implementation of the code in the platform. If a code is not optimized and a high volume is observed in production, this can cause incidents. Similarly, if all error cases or conditions are not handled in the code, this can cause errors. Finally, there can be common errors if the applications connected to the platform do not return quality data or are unavailable.
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Performance
The webMethods platform is designed to handle a high volume of small messages. It's a tool for continuous processing.The incidents I've seen involving application performance declines are caused by: - ​​Code optimization issues - File size issues or fragmentation of the transmitted file - Misuse of the platform (batch processing) - Monitoring data was not purged, and the user was working with millions of data points
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Support Rating
In the majority of the tickets I've created, support has been very responsive and provided the right solutions or solutions.Resolving a ticket also depends on the information provided by the creator. It's important to provide the technical context and information about the environment, as well as information to help the support team reproduce the incident.
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Overall, I've found Matillion to be responsive and considerate. I feel like they value us as a customer even when I know they have customers who spend more on the product than we do. That speaks to a motive higher than money. They want to make a good product and a good experience for their customers. If I have any complaint, it's that support sometimes feels community-oriented. It isn't always immediately clear to me that my support requests are going to a support engineer and not to the community at large. Usually, though, after a bit of conversation, it's clear that Matillion is watching and responding. And responses are generally quick in coming.
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In-Person Training
We received in-person training from the webMethods team. We received standard training from the vendor and custom training on specific security topics.The training sessions went well but remained very standard and did not adapt to the client's specific business. In-person training is more suitable for rapid skill development. It is necessary to practice for a few weeks to ensure familiarity with the tool.
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Online Training
I found clear and easy-to-follow training with realistic use cases for quick understanding and a 360° view of the features. The lesson format allows you to progress and learn by breaking down the allocated time.The technical courses are described step by step, allowing you to quickly get to grips with the products
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Implementation Rating
When implementing webMethods, it's essential to have the right support and guidance.It's important to map out the interactions, document them, prepare test cases, and implement them while making maximum use of the product's native features.Additional tools must also be planned to automate deployments, visualize logs, and monitor the platform.
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We were able to control on access and built various enviroment for implementation
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Alternatives Considered
The two branches of the IBM integration portfolio are coming together nicely, and it's more a question of fully mapping the specific implementation requirements to the respective platform of choice when selecting between IBM Cloud Pak for Integration and IBM webMethods. Pricing and licensing model, cloud strategy, and level of distributed responsibilities and ownership of integration in the organisation can be deciding factors.
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We selected Matillion primarily because of it's ability to connect to numerous data sources and easily create transformation jobs. While Fivetran does a better job managing and examining deltas, it is not easy to use and is very non user friendly. SSIS was not a good fit for our team and required a significant amount of attention and server management that we did not want to invest in.
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Scalability
I don't know this product
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We're using Matillion on EC2 instances, and we have about 20 projects for our clients in the same instance. Sometimes, we're struggling to manage schedules for all projects because thread management is not visible, and we can't see the process at the instance level.
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Return on Investment
  • webMethods.io Integration is a cost effective approach to integration in isolation
  • webMethods.io Integration as a supplement to on-premises integration is pointless and redundant and just adds complexity to the environment and additional costs
  • webMethods.io Integration is a tough sell for organizations using Microsoft Azure integration products such as Logic Apps
  • webMethods.io Integration has a faster time to market where the use case means standard provided adapters can be used
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  • Time savings -- we could custom code nearly everything Matillion does, but it would take days/weeks instead of minutes/hours.
  • There's a bit of a learning curve to truly unlock Matillion's potential, and that can be frustrating for some new users, but once you get over that curve, the possibilities are endless.
  • It allows us to centralize the hundreds of way to bring data in, so that even if you have to troubleshoot what someone else wrote, it's easy to jump in and understand what is happening.
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Screenshot of Matillion's GUI, used to orchestrate jobs with control data flow functionality, automating the ETL process.Screenshot of where structured and semi-structured data can be prepared to create clean data sets that can be used with any BI/reporting/visualization tool of choice. Matillion reads and combines data across a target warehouse external storage, such as S3 or Blob.Screenshot of Matillion's self-validating components, sample and row counts. If a job does fail, the warehouse queue services available with Matillion can be used get an alert to a connected email or Slack account.Screenshot of the SQL component used to run custom scripts from within Matillion. With hundreds of pre-built connectors out of the box, Matillion can handle complex transformation needs.