IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer

What do you like best?

The tool allows a way to quickly summarize the data in a field to provide metrics that would be time consuming to obtain manually. It also gives a quick summary of the tables. This in opinion is the most useful feature.

What do you dislike?

I dislike that the software does not allow you to compare fields to truly profile data. Field in tables have dependencies and the software does not allow you to see this. You also cannot see all of the data in a table. It blocks different views of the data. This creates the need for a spreadsheet or querying tool.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Look into all

Options. I am unsure on the cost, but the tool is not robust enough for our purposes. It adds time to our tasks and does not solve all issues.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Obtaining a summary of data values in a field, data types, knowing which fields are completely null.