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What do you like best about Ab Initio?

Quick to learn and ease of use. Best solution for ETL solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ab Initio?

Expensive but still worth to use this tool the. Any other tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ab Initio:

Please use this tool for ETL solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ab Initio solving and how is that benefiting you?

ETL solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Ab Initio?

ETL Tool

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Ab Initio
Year Founded
1995
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Akshay K.
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Akshay K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Best ETL Tool"
The integration of most of the technology and availability of options are huge. The data processing speed due Co>Op makes it leading in market
Sunny T.
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Sunny T.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Abinitio is best amoung the other etl tools easy to use"
1.We can easily setup abinitio 2. We can easy transform data in abinitio 3. If you have Unix knowledge then it will be easy to learn abinitio 4....
Sundip Y.
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Sundip Y.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Bulk Messaging"
The CLM tool of Ab Initio is so good that you can manage the whole customer segmentation and marketing communication from this tool easily. It is t...
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Sunny T.
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What do you like best about Ab Initio?

1.We can easily setup abinitio

2. We can easy transform data in abinitio

3. If you have Unix knowledge then it will be easy to learn abinitio

4. We can transform many types of file in abinitio flat file, Hadoop parquet file, json, XML

5. Can be integrated to another software like Java python

6. Customer support is also good

7 frequently use in banking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ab Initio?

1. Cost of the software is high

2. Not easy to beginners to learn abinitio Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ab Initio solving and how is that benefiting you?

In abinitio we transform the large amount of data we can add new details in data summaries the data which required good knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sundip Y.
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What do you like best about Ab Initio?

The CLM tool of Ab Initio is so good that you can manage the whole customer segmentation and marketing communication from this tool easily. It is the best product for the telecom sector in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ab Initio?

The process of scheduling SMS on the clm tool is a bit lengthy. And getting data for the SMS sent to the customer is also a long process. It can be shortened by adding the feature of a duplicate campaign. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ab Initio solving and how is that benefiting you?

Segmenting customers of renowned telecom companies. The scheduler runs very fast, and sms failure is very low in terms of other competitors. Yes, Ab Inition increases the product reach Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajeswari Acharya R.
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What do you like best about Ab Initio?

The upsides of Ab Initio I faced are it allows you to generate graphs with multiple datasets and transform components according to your fulfillment of the business requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ab Initio?

The only dislike I had in Ab Initio is that sometimes while loading the tracking file, it will take more time to load the file to view the completed and failed status of graph components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ab Initio solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ab Initio helps to solve problems like identifying rejects through graphs, filtering a particular record from millions of records, sorting the data in an orderly manner, joining multiple input files and combining them with the reformat and other components and much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ramadevi R.
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What do you like best about Ab Initio?

The most practical side of Abinitio ( GDE ) is that you can create your graphs to work under testing. Multiple components and transforms are available to republish your ideas in production or testing, like reformat, filter by expression, fuse, rank, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ab Initio?

I do not see any downsides or disadvantages in using Abinitio. The only dislike that I found is it will take some time to load the tracking file to check for the records count and graph phases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ab Initio solving and how is that benefiting you?

Some production issues need the help of Unix, which would consume a lot of time to identify the problem. But if you use Abinitio ( GDE ) and run graphs with good knowledge, you can look at where the issue resides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sweety W.
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What do you like best about Ab Initio?

Abinitio is very fast it can handle hunge data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ab Initio?

Its not everywhere licence cost is a lot and everyone is not aware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ab Initio solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps in data processing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akshay K.
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What do you like best about Ab Initio?

The integration of most of the technology and availability of options are huge. The data processing speed due Co>Op makes it leading in market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ab Initio?

Solutions to specific issues and resolution are not easily available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ab Initio solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are performing the ETL tasks using Abinitio and I'm able to perform various transformations for any kind of data for any technology Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Soumyadip R.
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What do you like best about Ab Initio?

Its interface is very attractive and everything is migrated to cloud, so you can access it from anywhere Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ab Initio?

If I kill a job in the UI, sometimes the job may not get killed, I need to go to backend and forced to kill it manually, that means, all the time task performed in the front end may not work, there may be a sync issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ab Initio:

If any organization wants to implement any ETL tool, then ab initio must satisfy the requirement, moreover, it is not too costly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ab Initio solving and how is that benefiting you?

The mapping and scheduling work can be done very easily with the tool and no coding is required at the backend. Everything you can do on the front UI, which is a plus point for this kind of ETL tool. Entire mapping can be copied from one instance to another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ab Initio?

It is user friendly, has various parallelism available so as to improve performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ab Initio?

It is quite costly compared to its competetors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ab Initio solving and how is that benefiting you?

Connecting to various data sources to perform ETL operations

Faster data processing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ab Initio?

The flexibility to transform data in any form whatever type of input it would we have no restriction. Can modify the data the way the requirement is. The pipeline of data and help file provided by Abinitio is very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ab Initio?

Few components have to be configured with MAX CORE value which requires calculations. Also for every product of Abinitio its not easily accessible at a place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ab Initio:

Do you this software instead of using other ETL tools since this is very powerful reason being its has its own Cooperating system which makes its stand out in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ab Initio solving and how is that benefiting you?

The data is extracted transformed and loaded in target very smoothly with whatever the data size it would be. Able to handle any amount of input data size regardless of component ability have many alternatives to handle the situation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ab Initio?

very intuitive ETL tool with lots of functionality provided by built in components. sorts and processes the data super fast. parallel processing , error handling parameters in various components are really useful. i like GDE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ab Initio?

help and training document is not available online so its difficult to get help easily. we need to rely on trainer from abinitio for basic training to new joiners Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ab Initio:

I have interacted with people from various organizations and they all agree that Abinitio is expensive tool. its does great job but many companies are leveraging hadoop , talend etc to reduce the reliance on abinitio Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ab Initio solving and how is that benefiting you?

datawarehouse , data cleansing . with the help of abinitio we are able to process very high volume of data. we have seen other ETL tools going into non responsive mode while processing the same data. we have reached at a level where we cannot use any other tool than Abinitio Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.