SolarWinds Task Factory 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

SolarWinds Task Factory

4.6

(37)

Pricing

Starting at $1,245.00 per year

About SolarWinds Task Factory

Task Factory is an on-premise and cloud-based data integration tool, which offers various SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) components for businesses to enhance data warehouse management and extract, transform, load (ETL) processes. The File Gateway Source enables professionals to verify text files by separating valid/invalid rows and creating rules.

Task Factory allows organizations to encrypt, decrypt, sign, verify, compress and decompress sent or received files. The SSIS Email Source Adapter filters emails based on sender, date, body, subject and priority, among other elements. Additionally, the Excel Source helps professionals connect with existing files and extract data according to requirements.

Task Factory lets businesses extract data and connect to several third-party systems such as Mailchimp, Facebook, Zendesk, GoToWebinar and more. The product is available on annual licenses and support is extended via phone, documentation, email, forums and other online measures.

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SolarWinds Task Factory Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1,245.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$1,245.00

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SolarWinds Task Factory Features

Popular features found in Integration
API
Configurable Workflow
Dashboard
Data Connectors
Data Extraction
Data Import/Export
Data Management
Multiple Data Sources
Reporting/Analytics
Third-Party Integrations
Web Services
Workflow Management
More features of SolarWinds Task Factory
Access Controls/Permissions
Auto Extraction
Data Aggregation and Publishing
Data Dictionary Management
Data Integration
Data Storage Management
Data Warehouse
ETL
ETL - Extract Transfer Load
In-Database Processing
Integrations Management

SolarWinds Task Factory Integrations

SurveyMonkey

Zendesk Suite

Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud

SolarWinds Task Factory User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

57%

43%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.4

Jennyfer R.

Verified reviewer

Construction

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2017

I frequently use Task Factory in the SSIS package I create for integration between system.

I am able to solve problems in a single SSIS package vs using SSIS and Linux scripts.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Task Factory really expands the types of tasks that are available in SSIS. We have used Secure FTP Task, PGP task, and Advanced Email to accomplish complex scenarios that we had to use custom scripts to accomplish before. This is helping us reduce our footprint because we are phasing out a Linux server we have that used to encrypt and move files back and forth between secure FTP sites. We are able to replace everything this Linux server was doing with script with a single SSIS package thanks to the Task Factory tasks. I especially like the "TF Error Output Description" and have used it many times in troubleshoot failures. I don't know what I did before this feature! There are so many more features that Task Factory has that I'm excited to explore. When I have a problem I'm trying to solve in SSIS, my new attitude is "I bet Task Factory can do that!"

Cons:

Sometimes I have trouble finding which feature will accomplish what I need. For example, I needed to have a unique number generated for each row in a flow but use the last number as the new starting number. After some investigation I found that I can easily accomplish that with the "Surrogate Key Transform" it just took me a while to figure out that was the task I needed.

Verified

Reviewer

Management Consulting

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

Amazing tool!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy installation and integration to your project, user friendly controls, lots of features to connect to on-premise and cloud services. Free license for development. The customer support is very helpful and responsive.

Cons:

While there is nothing much that's missing on this tool, I would also like to see something related to posting/downloading files from Cloud Storage services like GoogleDrive or Dropbox.

Floris Jan G.

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2017

With Task Factory we implemented the integration with Salesforce and other systems quick and easy.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software is easy to use and has a lot of features. When creating SSIS flows, sometimes I am surprised to learn about a feature I didn't use before.

Cons:

Sometimes the software 'thinks' a little bit too much. Changes in upstream columns trigger the automatic column matching process. Sometimes this breaks existing functionality.

Mathew M.

Verified reviewer

Pharmaceuticals

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2017

Awesome

Massive speed improvement over built in Microsoft SSIS components.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I've always been on the fence on third party SSIS components, due to them not being built in Microsoft products, but the Upsert Destination is amazing, and the Advanced Cache Lookup components are crazy fast. I pump at least a trillion rows a day through them.

Cons:

SCD was hard to understand, and support takes a little while to get back to you, so I ended up figuring it out on my own.

Jason B.

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2017

As a heavy user of SSIS I have found Task Factory to be an essential add-on.

Enables me to implement a work load that would of taken much longer or required more developers.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Massively reduces development time. Reduces complexity of package design thus making packages easier to maintain. Replaces many script tasks jobs for which you would have to write substantial code. My favourite components are the Update/Upsert Tasks as they remove the need for writing a lot of SQL plumbing code.

Cons:

None

Vendor Response

Thank you for the feedback, Jason. We really appreciate it. On the item you mention on Visual Studio upgrades, please note that the Visual Studio SSIS toolbox doesn't read it's information from the GAC, it uses folders under [YourSQLServerInstallFolder]\[version]\DTS. The Task Factory installer installs into this folder if it exists, but if you upgrade the version of SSIS installed, you need to reinstall TF afterward to ensure it puts the components in the newly created SSIS folders.

Replied September 2017

Jason K.

Verified reviewer

Internet

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2017

Makes SSIS even better!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The sFTP and PGP functionality enhancements to base SSIS functionality are really easy to implement.

Cons:

Needs more advanced web API functionality to allow easier access to Web API data (JSON/XML) with security such as JWT.

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Reviewer

Mental Health Care

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2018

Excellent selection of tools and connectors to simplify SSIS package development

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Most of the components are simple drag and drop and easy to configure in the workflow. Many offer functionality that we used to have to write custom script tasks to accomplish. The Upsert task is worth the price alone.

Cons:

The help/documentation is very basic and often not very helpful. Some of the components are missing functionality that to me would seem obvious to include.

Dylan T.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

It works very well and has saved a lot of time vs using built in SSIS components.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It has many components and can be used in common situations to save time and raise the quality of output

Cons:

A silent installer\MSI would be good for ease of deployment to developer desktops. There was a bug in cleansing transform where data can't be nulled and fed to a date destination. It was acknowledged as a bug by support and is being fixed - inc 11101. That is kind of a plus as working with support was a good experience. They reproduced the problem.

Wojciech J.

Verified reviewer

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2018

Wide range of out-of-the-box components which help deliver ETL solutions much faster.

Accessing non-standard data sources and better productivity.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

My development turn around is much faster with TF components. TF components are very flexible to configure and provide non-code approach to many business problems like data extracts from non-standard data sources (HTTP/REST) , data cleansing with additional data transform components and data modelling with fast performing Merge Dimensions components. Smaller, yet very useful components like much more flexible to configure Excel source, Timer and Terminator Destination do speed up ETL development too.

Cons:

In general TF components are a bit slow to open up and go through different configuration tabs. Documentation could have been more in details, however support team is awesome if you need a help with how to use specific TF components)

Eric S.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2018

Wide variety of components & tasks. Great help content and very responsive support teams.

Reduced the number of 3rd party libraries we were using, hence that simplifies maintenance and maintainability, plus it improves the experience for the developers.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Server-based licensing. Responsiveness of the support and the sales teams. A lot of variety in the types of tasks from which to choose.

Cons:

Not sure. Maybe the note at the bottom of the UI for each task telling me to upgrade from professional edition to standard edition?

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