We performed a comparison between Confluent and Informatica Cloud Data Integration based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Implementing Confluent's schema registry has significantly enhanced our organization's data quality assurance."
"The most valuable feature of Confluent is the wide range of features provided. They're leading the market in this category."
"The most valuable feature that we are using is the data replication between the data centers allowing us to configure a disaster recovery or software. However, is it's not mandatory to use and because most of the features that we use are from Apache Kafka, such as end-to-end encryption. Internally, we can develop our own kind of product or service from Apache Kafka."
"With Confluent Cloud we no longer need to handle the infrastructure and the plumbing, which is a concern for Confluent. The other advantage is that all portfolios have access to the data that is being shared."
"Their tech support is amazing; they are very good, both on and off-site."
"Confluence's greatest asset is its user-friendly interface, coupled with its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with a vast range of other solutions."
"The documentation process is fast with the tool."
"One of the best features of Confluent is that it's very easy to search and have a live status with Jira."
"We have a lot of integrations, and it's very easy to create integrations. They have a lot of connectors."
"Their new licensing is very flexible. With Informatica Cloud, you have plenty of items under the same umbrella, such as services, offerings, data quality, and data masking. You have also got master data management and API management. What I really like about them is that you don't need to go to Informatica and say that you need a data integration module. You would say that you need iPaaS or Informatica Cloud. They'll then try to understand your needs and give you IPUs, which are the processing units. If I purchased a hundred IPUs from Informatica as a customer, I can use 70 IPUs for data integration. I would also need data quality, so I can use 10 IPUs for data quality. I can use the remaining 20 IPUs for API management. Down the line, if I see that my initial data integration needs for the development phase are met, then out of the 70 IPUs assigned for data integration, I can use 30 IPUs for data masking. I can shuffle these numbers in any way within the Informatica Cloud umbrella for the tenure for which I have subscribed to these IPUs. I can use all services the way I want. This flexibility is what I really love about Informatica. It also has got good connectors."
"The data mapping capability is a valuable feature."
"The solution is straightforward."
"Data integration is the most valuable feature. The ability to connect to any of the sources and enterprise applications makes our lives easier."
"It is quite easy to use and flexible."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Cloud Data Integration is Pushback. You are able to push the data to the solution itself, and it can handle the queries. It helps us a lot. With other tools, the burden is kept on the server."
"The most valuable features of the solution are pushdown, optimization, and partitioning, which can be used for frequent data loading, especially when we have a huge data volume in our company."
"there is room for improvement in the visualization."
"The Schema Registry service could be improved. I would like a bigger knowledge base of other use cases and more technical forums. It would be good to have more flexible monitoring features added to the next release as well."
"The formatting aspect within the page can be improved and more powerful."
"There is a limitation when it comes to seamlessly importing Microsoft documents into Confluent pages, which can be inconvenient for users who frequently work with Microsoft Office tools and need to transition their content to Confluent."
"There is no local support team in Saudi Arabia."
"They should remove Zookeeper because of security issues."
"It could have more themes. They should also have more reporting-oriented plugins as well. It would be great to have free custom reports that can be dispatched directly from Jira."
"It could be improved by including a feature that automatically creates a new topic and puts failed messages."
"Certain shortcomings in the product's UI make it an area where improvements are required."
"A general improvement in icons and the virtual interface would be good."
"Connectivity could be improved, it can be a little slow."
"I would like to see more functionality added so that it is a bit closer to how much you can do with Informatica PowerCenter."
"We would like to have accessibility to the repository."
"Performance also needs to be significantly improved, especially when connecting to SFDC for read and write operations."
"The current features are a bit complicated, and we need to write big scripts and test."
"There are a small number of UI bugs that occur on occasion."
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Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 20 reviews while Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews. Confluent is rated 8.4, while Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Confluent writes "Has good technical support services and a valuable feature for real-time data streaming ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "A stable, scalable, and user-friendly solution". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas Informatica Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue and Fivetran. See our Confluent vs. Informatica Cloud Data Integration report.
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