COMPARISON BODI vs INFA

[Help_me_BOB]

Hi guys,

Can somebody please help me by sending some information about the differences, licensing policies and the prices of BODI and INFA.

though I have gone thru the previous threads, I could not get anything from it.

Please help me guys.

thanks

[Antremons]

Hmm, frankly speaking it's very hard to compare those two, regarding the price I think that your best bet is to give a call to your INFA and BO reseller, to my understanding DI will be little bit cheaper than Informatica/DataStage, but actually that depends what kind of license you're looking for - 2CPU's, 4 CPU's, besides there are premium/professional versions available (correct me if I'm wrong),and there are different pricelists available for EMEA/USA and so on.

Cheers

[cppwiz]

Here's a real good comparison of the major players in the ETL space - Informatica and IBM DataStage. It also shows the Gartner Magic Quadrant over the past two years.

http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/bi/websphere/archives/informatica-versus-ibm-information-server-the-roadmap-warriors-20084

The article mentions Data Integrator as the number one challenger to the IBM/Informatica dominance. With the release of Data Services XI 3.0 in March, Business Objects has no doubt improved since this article was written.

[rayjanak]

Hi
I was searching for a comparison between BO Data Integrator and Informatica and came across this article.

I read the link mentioned by cppwiz which gives a very high level comparison.

I was looking for the comparison at a lower grain like below:

Informatica Vs DI
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Repository = Repository
Mapping = Job
Work Flow = Work Flow
? = Data Flow
Transformation = Transform

OR
What would the joiner transformation correspond to in DI?
OR
How an update stratergy transformation can be done using DI?

Thanks in advance

[wdaehn]

Informatica vs DI
Repository = Repository
Mapping = Dataflow (where rows get moved)
? = Job (something you start)
? = Work Flow (to chain tasks together)
Transformation = Transform


What would the joiner transformation correspond to in DI? -> A query transform

How an update stratergy transformation can be done using DI? -> a Map or Table Comparison Transform

[stef]

Does someone already experiment the migration from INFA to BODI ?

I would like to try to estimate migration efforts needed for such migration project.

Thanks for your help,
Stef

[vincent.mcburney]

In terms of licensing and pricing you really need to contact each vendor and get them to quote for your pricing. List prices don't mean much in enterprise software and you may get very deep discounting for DI if you have SAP software.

There are new price and licensing options from Informatica such as the data migration pricing (you only pay license fees for about a year), SaaS licensing (low monthly subscription for hosted data quality or data integration) or the standard CPU based licensing that most ETL vendors use.

So generally DI will have cheaper pricing than Informatica or DataStage but it depends on what pricing scenarios each vendor supports. There is always a chance that one of the three will offer very deep discounting to win a new account so in any evaluation any one of the three could end up being the cheapest.

[lampack93]

Hi
Informatica Vs DI
================
Repository = Repository
Mapping = Job
Work Flow = Work Flow
Session = Data Flow
Transformation = Transform

I think there are lot more similarities for INFA and BODI...
if you can specifically ask the questions we can able to tell you ..

Regards,
Lampack

[gssharma]

http://dwhnotes.blog.co.in/data-integrator/etl-tool-comparision/

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[cppwiz]

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[Marek Chladny]