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Ab Initio markets a variety of products that help in Data Integration, Data Management, Data Validation and Profiling. The most widely used products of Ab Initio are the GDE (Graphical Development Environment or the UI), the EME (Enterprise Meta Environment) and the Co Operating System (the brain, engine of tool). This review will concentrate mainly on these 3 products ffered by Ab Initio. The Ab Initio GDE provides a wide range of components that help in extracting data from any source (database, file, webservice, etc) transforming data and loading data into any target. Error handling and logging comes as a part of each component and can be modified as er user preference. The EME is the repository and provides version control and helps in dependency analysis (a concept where we can identify the impact of a code change across your project). The Co Operating system is the core or the compiler or the engine that runs the code developed in the Ab Initio GDE. The best feature of the Ab Initio tool is its ability to parallel process and the speed of processing volumes of data. The tool creates a Unix script behind the scene that can be wrapper and deployed as a job. The latest version of the tool comes with Big Data connectivity and can run Map/Reduce jobs as well. The transformations within Ab Initio are easy to write and have the drag-n-drop facility making it more intuitive. Anything and everything is possible in Ab Initio when it comes to extracting, transforming and loading data (and I can say this with confidence since I am using the tool for 8 years). Ab Initio also offers a product called Conduct It which helps in scheduling and running the code developed. Ab Initio offers continuous flows where jobs can be run continuously reading and transforming data real time. Such requirements are highly used in the telecom and banking domains to process real time transactions. Overall, Ab Initio is a highly scalable ETL tool that can be used to handle all the data related needs of an organization.
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Well, all the cool things that Ab Initio offers come at a huge cost. Every product (GDE, EME, Co Op, Conduct It) comes under a license per user. The organization investing in Ab Initio would have to equally invest in hardware to make optimum use of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
22 out of 23 Total Reviews for 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.
1. Cost of the software is high
2. Not easy to beginners to learn abinitio Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Solutions to specific issues and resolution are not easily available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
