We compared Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica PowerExchange based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Informatica PowerCenter is praised for its excellent data integration capabilities, strong metadata management, and user-friendly interface, while the pricing and ROI are highlighted positively. In contrast, Informatica PowerExchange stands out for its seamless connectivity, robust performance, and flexibility, but users mention the need for improvements in UI, documentation, and error handling.
Features: Informatica PowerCenter stands out for its excellent data integration capabilities, efficient workflow design and strong metadata management. PowerExchange is highly valued for its seamless integration and connection of data sources, robust data transformation capabilities, and user-friendly interface.
Pricing and ROI: Informatica PowerCenter has a manageable setup cost and a straightforward licensing process, according to user feedback. On the other hand, Informatica PowerExchange offers reasonable pricing compared to other similar products. Its setup cost is straightforward and does not require extensive time or resources. In terms of licensing, it is customizable and adaptable to specific needs, allowing for flexible usage and scalability., Informatica PowerCenter has a highly positive ROI, resulting in improved data integration and management processes and increased efficiency. It offers comprehensive reporting capabilities for better decision-making. On the other hand, Informatica PowerExchange also provides a positive ROI by integrating with various systems and enhancing productivity. It ensures reliability and scalability for handling large data volumes. Both products optimize business processes and deliver value to users.
Room for Improvement: Informatica PowerCenter has room for improvement in its user interface, documentation, training resources, performance, and stability. On the other hand, Informatica PowerExchange needs enhancements in its user interface usability, reliability, documentation, error handling capabilities, and simplified functionality. Both products aim to improve user experience and streamline processes.
Deployment and customer support: Based on user feedback, the duration required to establish a new tech solution like Informatica PowerCenter can vary, with some users spending three months on deployment and others spending an extra week on setup. However, there are users who report a week for both deployment and setup, indicating these terms may refer to the same period. On the other hand, the user feedback for Informatica PowerExchange suggests that the implementation duration varies, with some users spending three months on deployment and others spending only a week on setup. There are also users who mention a week for both deployment and setup, suggesting these terms may refer to the same period and should not be assessed separately., Informatica PowerCenter and PowerExchange both excel in customer service. PowerCenter prioritizes users' needs, with prompt and efficient assistance. PowerExchange receives high praise for its excellent support team, reliable assistance, and valuable solutions to address issues.
The summary above is based on 36 interviews we conducted recently with Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica PowerExchange users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The solution is stable."
"It is very comprehensive in terms of connector and transformation capabilities from both a source and target perspective."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"The setup is straightforward."
"Technical support is great. It's one of the reasons we really like them. When you compare support from IBM and support from Informatica, Informatica is much better."
"Good interface, reasonable documentation."
"It's a very powerful tool you can use to load data, get data, do the drawing between the tables, and put into the packet in a very fast way."
"It has very good monitoring and process monitoring."
"The main benefit of PowerExchange is its native real-time capabilities. Competing tools are counting on third-party packages or Oracle to offer real-time capabilities. However, Informatica has a native ability to scan the data on the file system level and capture the changes almost instantly when I push it to the consumers. The solution has a powerful built-in replication engine."
"The scalability is excellent."
"From the product feature or product capability perspective, the aspects around integration, transformation, and standardization are valuable. It's fairly easy to use. It has a GUI-based interface."
"The user interface and user experience are perfectly all right."
"Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation."
"This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."
"Mainstream integration and real-time integration are the best features."
"The agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far."
"Requires an established data center because there is no option for software as a service."
"We had to take on a large volume of data from the legacy Sybase system. This was taking a very long time, i.e., more than a day. We were trying to improve it with partitions to gpload, but we were told that we can't go more than four partitions."
"What I didn't like about it is that the platform itself is not great at distributed processing. When you need high parallel processing, it has some inherent issues. We had to use Java transformation, and it did not go very well. I have heard that it is going to the cloud, but we haven't tried that."
"The pricing could be improved."
"They should release new versions for the solution's on-premises setup."
"The reputation of Informatica is that it is expensive."
"It would be better if I could do all the work within a single window. If I'm working on any mapping and if I have to switch to sessions, I have to open a new window altogether. If I have to get into workflows, I have to open a new window. It was also very expensive. In the next release, I would like it to be more user-friendly."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
"Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,"
"Informatica is very expensive in all aspects, so the pricing is something that could be improved."
"The product is not suitable for application integration."
"The product's high costs can be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Technical support can be improved with respect to delays in ticket response time."
"The one place where it could be improved is definitely pricing. That's a very big problem. It depends product to product, but pricing is an issue."
"The connectivity with T24 core banking could be improved."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 80 reviews while Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 20th in Data Integration with 19 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Stable, provides good support, and integrating it with other systems is very fast, but its pricing is expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and IBM InfoSphere DataStage, whereas Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Qlik Replicate and Azure Data Factory. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Informatica PowerExchange report.
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