ETL/ELT modernized with IBM DataStage

Transform data silos into AI-ready data 

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IBM is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools

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Powering the world’s mission-critical workloads   

IBM® DataStage® is an industry-leading data integration solution supporting extract, transform, load (ETL) and extract, load, transform (ELT) patterns. It enables organizations to connect disparate sources, transform large volumes of complex data at scale and deliver trusted data across multicloud and hybrid cloud environments for analytics and AI.

The powerful capabilities of DataStage are now available within watsonx.data® integration to create reusable pipelines across any integration style—batch, real-time streaming, replication, data observability and data types, including unstructured.  

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Design pipelines once, run anywhere

Customize your data pipelines wherever your data resides—in any region, on-premises, cloud or hybrid cloud, optimizing for cost, performance and security.

Empower any user  

Simplify your pipeline design to offer no-code, low-code and pro-code options—enabling users of all skill levels to build pipelines and deliver high-quality data.

Execute more data pipelines, faster  

Scale data transformation with high-performance processing, accelerating time from design to production.

Built-in reliability 

Integrate observability, quality, lineage and governance to help minimize pipeline anomalies and deliver more trustworthy data. 

Features

IBM DataStage product page screenshot highlighting remote engine deployment
 

Separation between a fully managed, cloud-based control panel for designing pipelines and a secure data panel for execution wherever data resides, minimizing egress and ingress, latency and security risks. 

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IBM DataStage product page screenshot showing ETL/ELT toggle

A singular design interface allows users to create reusable pipelines and choose runtime style depending on the use case—toggle between ETL/ELT/TETL runtimes without manual recoding.

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A best-in-class parallel processing engine executes jobs concurrently with automatic pipelining that divides data tasks into numerous small, simultaneous operations, enhancing speed, scalability and performance.

Screenshot of IBM Full-featured software development kit in action

The full-featured software development kit (SDK) enables programmatic users to build and maintain pipelines in their language of choice—while preserving the reusability of graphical pipelines and offering the flexibility to switch between code and graphical user interface (GUI).

Screenshot of IBM DataStage pipelines using natural language

Build DataStage pipelines entirely by using natural language. Leverage an interactive chatbot to type intent and get started developing pipelines faster and easier than ever before.

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IBM DataStage product page screenshot highlighting remote engine deployment
 

Separation between a fully managed, cloud-based control panel for designing pipelines and a secure data panel for execution wherever data resides, minimizing egress and ingress, latency and security risks. 

Learn more about remote engine execution
IBM DataStage product page screenshot showing ETL/ELT toggle

A singular design interface allows users to create reusable pipelines and choose runtime style depending on the use case—toggle between ETL/ELT/TETL runtimes without manual recoding.

Learn about IBM DataStage ELT Pushdown
Screenshot of IBM watsonx.data infrastructure manager

A best-in-class parallel processing engine executes jobs concurrently with automatic pipelining that divides data tasks into numerous small, simultaneous operations, enhancing speed, scalability and performance.

Screenshot of IBM Full-featured software development kit in action

The full-featured software development kit (SDK) enables programmatic users to build and maintain pipelines in their language of choice—while preserving the reusability of graphical pipelines and offering the flexibility to switch between code and graphical user interface (GUI).

Screenshot of IBM DataStage pipelines using natural language

Build DataStage pipelines entirely by using natural language. Leverage an interactive chatbot to type intent and get started developing pipelines faster and easier than ever before.

.Learn about AI-Powered DataStage
Screenshot showing IBM Cloud Pak for Data idug-connect-notebook UI workflow

IBM Address Verification Interface (AVI) verifies, organizes and transforms address data with CASS certification, parsing, transliteration, geocoding and reverse geocoding.

Featured announcements

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IBM DataStage is now available as a Service (aaS) on AWS
Build your modern data integration foundation with IBM DataStage as a Service on AWS.
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AI-Powered DataStage is here
Leverage a gen AI-powered assistant to integrate data easier than ever, with higher confidence and trust.
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ELT Pushdown compiler in IBM DataStage
Discover how the ELT Pushdown compiler optimizes your flow by enabling full, partial or no pushdown to enhance performance and reduce data transfer.
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Gartner names IBM a data integration leader
Discover why IBM is named a leader for the 19th year in a row in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools.

IBM is named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Data Integration Software Platforms

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