We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and Informatica Business Process Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Management (BPM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is quite configurable so it is easy to code within a configuration kind of environment."
"Since the solution is programmatic, it allows users to define pipelines in code rather than drag and drop."
"Apache Airflow's best feature is its flexibility."
"Development on Apache Airflow is really fast, and it's easy to use with the newer updates. Everything is in Python, so it's not hard to understand. They also have a graphical view, so if you are not a programmer and you are just an administrator, you can easily track everything and see if everything is working or not."
"Apache Airflow is useful for workflow automation, making it capable of automating pipelines, data pipelines, and data warehouse processes."
"This is a simple tool to automate using Python."
"The best feature is the customization."
"I like the UI rework, it's much easier."
"I know that there are two good features, APN and ServiceNow but we haven't explored all of its features yet."
"Informatica Business Process Manager is easy to use and learn."
"There isn't any human touch involved. It's just an automated business process to build different applications and talking to various APIs using the client's ecosystems. We then build new functionalities out of it."
"There is a need for more features on experimental evolution steps."
"We have faced scenarios where Apache Airflow becomes non-responsive, leading to job failures. To resolve such situations, we had to manually reboot Apache Airflow since it doesn't provide an option to restart within the application. This necessitated modifying some configurations to initiate a restart of all Apache Airflow components. Although Apache Airflow is generally dependable, it may occasionally encounter glitches that can disrupt production flows and batches."
"Enhancements become necessary when scaling it up from a few thousand workflows to a more extensive scale of five thousand or ten thousand workflows."
"I would like to see it more friendly for other use cases."
"I have some issues with the solution's communication."
"Airflow should support the dynamic drag creation."
"The platform's stability needs improvement, particularly regarding occasional interruptions due to networking issues."
"I want to see Apache Airflow have more integrations with more production-based databases since it is an area where the product lacks currently."
"We haven't had many technical issues. We don't use all of the components of the tool that are more complex and error-prone."
"I need to have some insight into the tool's cloud capabilities."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while Informatica Business Process Manager is ranked 20th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 2 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while Informatica Business Process Manager is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Business Process Manager writes "An easy-to-use solution for ETL purposes ". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Nintex Process Platform, whereas Informatica Business Process Manager is most compared with Camunda and Oracle BPM. See our Apache Airflow vs. Informatica Business Process Manager report.
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