Ab Initio Pros and Cons

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

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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.

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

Its not everywhere licence cost is a lot and everyone is not aware 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.

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

It is quite costly compared to its competetors. 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.