We performed a comparison between Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Informatica PowerCenter based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: These are two exceptional solutions under the Informatica Brand, which is synonymous with quality, reliability, and high price. Informatica Cloud Data is created and best suited for small to medium organizations and it remains somewhat limited in the regions it can be used. Informatica PowerCenter is best for large enterprises that can utilize all of the numerous options PowerCenter has to offer. Large enterprises can more easily absorb the high cost and make better use of their current bundle licensing tier.
"I like the fact that you can find almost any product connection that you need and the list is always expanding."
"The most valuable feature is the building of mockups and tasks."
"It has all the advantages of the Cloud in that you can use it without worrying about infrastructure, upkeep, or upgrades."
"The data mapping capability is a valuable feature."
"It is quite easy to use and flexible."
"Informatica Cloud Data Integration is stable."
"The user interface which is very easy to use if we have any problems to solve."
"The support is very good."
"Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"We use Informatica PowerCenter to transfer the transitional database to and from the data warehouse. This is very efficient as it enables us to quickly find our data reports and the data, so we can build AI models."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring tools and the reporting manager."
"The technical support is excellent."
"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."
"The partitioning and optimization to help enhance our development is a very valuable aspect of Informatica PowerCenter."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"The regions in which the data resides are still limited. This could be an issue in terms of the data residency laws of some of the countries. They should get more regions."
"There are a small number of UI bugs that occur on occasion."
"It needs to be a little more intuitive but it’s really not bad."
"We would like to have accessibility to the repository."
"The cloud version of the Informatica, it's a very substandard product. They might say it's enterprise-ready but it's not at all ready. They need to add more features, such as improved data replication features. If you look at other tools, such as Matillion they are now cloud-native and flexible. Additionally, Informatica Cloud Data Integration should have a good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to Informatica Cloud Data Integration."
"While my company operates on the cloud, we have seen that Informatica Cloud Data Integration has some performance issues causing it to lag."
"Informatica Cloud Data Integration could improve the price by making it less expensive."
"The price modeling could be more flexible."
"The solution does not scale."
"PowerCenter has three clients. I wish they would consolidate everything into one GUI, not three. Also, we had a persistent issue with the Informatica Developer tool but it was solved when we migrated to the newest one."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Requires an established data center because there is no option for software as a service."
"The UI is a little outdated."
"If you want to transfer a ZIP file, it is a pain. You need to use Command-Line. Sometimes we just want to transfer a file. It should be easy to move them from A to B."
"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required, considering the fact that the present licensing charges of the tool are expensive."
"Support could be better."
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Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 7.8, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "A stable, scalable, and user-friendly solution". On the other hand, 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". Informatica Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Fivetran, Mule Anypoint Platform and SAP Data Services, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks, AWS Glue and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). See our Informatica Cloud Data Integration vs. Informatica PowerCenter report.
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Both are powerful solutions and most of the actions can be done by both.
You should choose based on your organization and the business requirements taking a valid decision in terms of the quality and price.
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