Composable DataOps Platform Reviews

Summary: Hands down the best development Extract, Transform and Load tool i've ever used and the rules based architecture is amazing.

I love working with Composable Analytics.

Positive: I’ve been working with Composable Analytics for the past year. As a Senior Systems Analyst/Developer with 25 years experience in the Life Insurance Industry, I can 100% say it’s the best ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) tool that I’ve ever worked with and it has brilliant WEB based applications to host complex Life Insurance Admin applications.

Here are my thoughts and observations:
• Excellent Data Transformation Application using:
o App Management Portal
o App Monitoring Portal
o Dataflow Manager

• Excellent Rules and App Definition facility using the App Management Portal
o Allows for Easy Rules Updates
o Allows for Easy App Definition Updates
o Controls Document Creation, Trigger, Sign and Merge
o Very Intuitive

• Monitoring Portal brings data to life with excellent features such as:
o Application Info
o Document Types (Variable and Triggers)
o Generated Documents
o Evidence Gathering
o Workflow History
o Evidence Reporting
o Decision Scorecard

• Dataflow Manager
o Allows you to create dataflows that run in real-time with amazing debugging capabilities
o Past Runs logging feature allows you to debug any application any time
o Native Modules are comprehensive and easy to use
o Allows for individual styles
o PDF Stamper/Merger is amazing
o Works very well with JSON, CSV, SQL, C# etc
o Endless Possibilities

• Composable Staff
o Knowledge Transfer has been superb
o Very Friendly and Knowledgeable
o Always willing to listen to suggestions and build new functionality:
 New Native Module to Extract Metadata from PDF file
 New Native Module to override PDF Form Fields attributes during Stamping
 Adding a Multi-Conditional Native Module
• Integration
o Easily integrates with other Systems using WEB calls
o Passes data in easy to use formats such as JSON, XML
o Works with Internal and External Vendors

Negative: While I love everything Composable has to offer, from a developer perspective I would love to use a Multi-Conditional Branch/If-Else module to improve development time for Dataflows.

Summary: I have been using Composable daily for multiple years to complete a wide range of tasks from one-time data loads and EDL to building custom web applications. The platform takes care of so many little things for me, like organization, sharing, permissions, execution logging, and error handling, which allows me to focus my creative energy on building. I am happy my team chose to use Composable.

Positive: Composable easily integrated with the broad set of technologies and data sources I work with. The platform greatly enhanced my capabilities around automating data pipelines, web application development, and many other tasks. The Composable team is approachable, provides expert support, and can adapt their platform to meet specific needs of their customers. The development interface is easy to learn and use.

Negative: There are no obvious downsides to note. I continue to be impressed with the steady expansion of documentation and function of the platform.

Summary: Composable has the capability and offers a wide variety of functionality that not just one tool can provide - opposed to stitching together numerous tools and functions. By using Composable, I have been able to limit unnecessary integration and complete my work in a more streamlined manner.

Positive: Composable is a versatile platform for data analysts that provides many functions ranging from integration with hundreds of data sources to creation of visual data orchestration (data flow) pipelines with built in analytics and visualization capabilities. Composable has a user-friendly interface that acts as a collaborative platform that enables data analysts, scientists and engineers to work more efficiently and effectively.

Negative: Composable is extremely straightforward to learn and use. Truthfully, no cons to report - it's an amazing tool for a technical data analyst.

Summary: We have been using the Composable platform extensively to build quick & easy to use applications. Whether our problem involves a need of user interface or want to do some bulk processing in batch, Composable supports it all quite easily. We have found the platform as reliable, easy to use, and extremely extensible. It's a one stop shop for everything we do on a daily basis.

Positive: Robust platform with many features and capabilities for building out end-to-end systems. Composable is truly an "integrated development environment" for data engineers and software developers. You can build the solution which can interact with old legacy application like Mainframe DB2 or with modern technologies like Salesforce, AWS very easily. Its most powerful platform where you can support the customer needs with variety of solutions.

Negative: We faced challenge with documentation as we started using Composable, though it looks like Composable support team has now built up extensive help documentation for beginners. However the support team is very knowledgeable and is always available to help so you never get stuck with problem due to no help documentation. Also, Composable platform creates its own documentation as you keep building different solutions. As an example when you are trying to use some new function or module within your solution then platform provides sample code that has ben using same function/module, if that module is used in some other solution.