We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and SAP Process Orchestration based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has good standard features for ETL development."
"Deployment was simple and straightforward."
"The performance and design of Informatica have been very valuable. I find the performance faster than, say, Oracle Data Integrator or DataStage."
"In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution."
"Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
"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."
"Informatica PowerCenter is very good for integrating a huge amount of data in a very short duration, such as a minute. It is also very easy to use. After you provide the source and the target, mappings are automatically done, which makes it easy to use for the development team."
"The reliability of the product and the way of orchestration of different services is valuable to us."
"SAP Process Orchestration is middleware where we are able to manage and interact with everything from a single location. One of the most beneficial areas is monitoring which is very easy because it is all in one place. There are many adapters added recently that can be used for new functionality. The solution is easy to operate and it is more mature than the cloud solution provided by SAP."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"It is simple to transfer files."
"The most valuable feature is the seamless integration with backend systems."
"Great monitoring tools and has its own alert framework."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution offers very good documentation and manuals to assist with understanding the solution."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Compared to solutions offering similar functionalities, Informatica PowerCenter is not very flexible regarding customized integrations."
"I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve the data threshold for large sets of data. Additionally, they should add real-time integration."
"The UI is a little outdated."
"Its licensing can be improved. It should be features-wise and not bundle-wise. A bundle will definitely be costly. In addition, we might use one or two features. That's why the pricing model should be based on the features. The model should be flexible enough based on the features. Their support should also be more responsive to premium customers."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"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."
"They should release new versions for the solution's on-premises setup."
"It is not a scalable solution for the cloud. I would not recommend this for the cloud."
"SAP needs to improve a lot in terms of the orchestration part so that more adapters can be provided to users, which are areas where the solution has downsides."
"The responsiveness of technical support needs to be improved."
"It does not have all of the industry-standard solutions available in PO and it is not plug and play, so we have to do a lot of development."
"Data modeling is an area of concern in the product where improvements are required."
"It is scalable, but there can be performance issues with high data volume or traffic, especially during month ends."
"It would be beneficial to enhance the ease of implementing new projects and improve overall stability in our implementations."
"In terms of technical support, it would be helpful if they handled the tickets a bit faster when queries are sent to them."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while SAP Process Orchestration is ranked 1st in Business-to-Business Middleware with 28 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while SAP Process Orchestration is rated 8.2. 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 SAP Process Orchestration writes "A tool that can be useful for small integrations and large integrations". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas SAP Process Orchestration is most compared with Mule Anypoint Platform, SAP Data Services, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, webMethods Integration Server and IBM App Connect. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. SAP Process Orchestration report.
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