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Denodo

Score8 out of 10

19 Reviews and Ratings

What is Denodo?

Denodo is the eponymous data integration platform from the global company headquartered in Silicon Valley.

Denodo is excellent in the areas of virtualization, security, and governance.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Within our company, we use Denodo when a web service is

required quickly or when another technology (like Java) is too time-consuming

to implement. Its governance and resource management ease data sharing. It

enables us and our apps to find existing data instead of creating them from

scratch. We use Denodo, which allows anyone to create custom web services using

their data. It comes equipped with out-of-the-box source connectors, allowing

for a rapid data parsing process (JSON, XML, etc.). It's a lone system for

controlling production, information exchange, safety, and regulation. It allows

distributed architecture to reuse existing technology and architecture.

Pros

  • Easy and compatible database connectivity.
  • It allows the reuse of existing technologies and architecture.

Cons

  • There is a need for improved documentation regarding schedulers and caching
  • It would be better to build it in-house and tailor it to the company's specific requirements.

Most Important Features

  • Data protection.
  • Governance of data.
  • It is caching of data.
  • Multiple data source fusion.
  • The help desk is very effective.

Return on Investment

  • It is a huge advantage that we can connect to many different databases to provide data rapidly and accurately.
  • It has proven to be a valuable environment for deploying data virtualization solutions, and its user community is active in finding and fixing issues.

Alternatives Considered

Informatica PowerCenter

Other Software Used

Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog, Data Virtuality Platform, Qlik Replicate, Cisco Jabber, SAP Data Services

Manage data in the cloud securely

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This system has helped us as an efficient and safe way to manage all business data, allowing us as an organization to make more specific decisions in situations of business data analysis. It is quite easy to implement so within our organization it did not take much time to turn it into a tool for references on our data.

Pros

  • Information gathering
  • Data security

Cons

  • Allows you to recover information that has been deleted.
  • Powerful search engine for documents or records.

Most Important Features

  • Cloud data storage
  • Fairly high data security system

Return on Investment

  • Rising business strategies
  • Full data visualization

Other Software Used

BlueJeans Meetings, Cisco 3504 WLAN Controller, Betterteam

Best tool to build and send data service

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Denodo in our organisation to deliver and build data services to our partners fastly, completely, and securely.

Pros

  • Develop rest web service fast and easy
  • Create and combine new views
  • Integrate different source of data
  • Connect with other tools

Cons

  • Bug sometimes when I log in.

Most Important Features

  • Combine many different source of data
  • Integrate with other tools
  • Security
  • Creation of API

Return on Investment

  • Better communication between the stakeholder thanks to the real time experience.

High end platform, but not for huge data

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have very decentralized data sources from different legacy applications. So this tool is very useful for us to connect all these legacy systems. This tool is very helpful for our data discovery and mapping. Getting real time data from Apis and combining data from multiple systems were major challenges, which were solved by Denodo with minimum replication cost.

Pros

  • Data Governance
  • Security
  • Collecting Real Time Data

Cons

  • Not great if you have very large volumes of data
  • Can be a little buggy

Most Important Features

  • User Friendly
  • Communication with many other systems
  • Easy Interface

Return on Investment

  • Saves a lot of time

Alternatives Considered

Data Virtuality Platform and SAP HANA Cloud

Other Software Used

Data Virtuality Platform, SAP HANA Cloud

Great enterprise data virtualization tool with a few setbacks

Pros

  • Database Agnostic: You can easily connect to different environments and mash up data sets.
  • The "magic" of data virtualization: No data is created, so data is reported in near-real-time to end users.
  • It's easy to use UI for developers. You just connect to a data source, create tables, and join them to other datasets.

Cons

  • Lack of Documentation and user community: Denodo continues to have a small community of super users, therefore there is not a lot of documentation out there in the event you get stuck.
  • Cost: Data virtualization isn't cheap, so smaller organizations might shy away from this technology due to the high licensing costs.
  • Caching strategy: Some slower datasets will require caching... which argues, why not just do traditional ETL if you need to do this?

Return on Investment

  • Positive ROI for one client who was paying too much for an existing legacy reporting platform that hasn't been updated in decades.
  • Positive ROI for another client that didn't have any traditional BI tools.
  • A positive experience for end users who can now run a report using multiple data sources in near real time.

Other Software Used

SQL Server Integration Services, Microsoft Power BI, Highcharts

Usability