We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and SnapLogic 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."The partitioning and optimization to help enhance our development is a very valuable aspect of Informatica PowerCenter."
"Among all the solutions I have used, I found Informatica PowerCenter to be much more stable in terms of application."
"It's very easy to use it to develop mappings and workflows."
"It has very good monitoring and process monitoring."
"It is an excellent ETL tool."
"We have found the PowerCenter and B2B data transformation most valuable."
"The technical support is excellent."
"Enterprise-scale ETL solution that's very stable and is easy to scale. It integrates and connects with multiple new systems, both structured and semi-structured."
"Despite having no prior experience in SnapLogic, we managed to build, test, and prepare it for release in just three hours, handling heavy data efficiently."
"SnapLogic is more user-friendly than Boomi in terms of debugging. You can move the mouse to a place, and it will record and show the data easily."
"An important tool for building prototypes and MVPs than can seamlessly turn into production jobs"
"By using snaps instead of functions in code, you can see the building blocks of the integration visually. This helps a lot."
"The solution is easy to implement and easy to use. It's basically just drag and drop."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The product is easy to use and has many connectivity options."
"The feature I found most valuable in SnapLogic is low-code development. Low-code development has been very useful for simple processes, which is required for business users such as extracting details from a file or getting things reported by calling your web service. Calling your web service also becomes easier with SnapLogic because of the snaps available, so if you have the documentation, you can call an API. You don't have to write all those clients to call an API, so that is another feature I found very easy in SnapLogic. Configuring and managing all the file systems also become very handy with the solution."
"Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections."
"The UI is outdated and old-fashioned, at least in our current version. Also, we have experienced some stability issues with the Workflow Monitor application."
"Compared to solutions offering similar functionalities, Informatica PowerCenter is not very flexible regarding customized integrations."
"The documentation could be improved."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Integration with Artificial Intelligence would benefit this solution."
"In the future, I would like to see Informatica PowerCenter integrate a more powerful dashboard."
"Integrated Reporting service should be more smoothly transitioned from view to function to be in sync with the main design."
"Connecting to data behind enterprise firewalls has been tricky."
"There is room for improvement with APM management and how task execution looks."
"What could be improved in SnapLogic is that it was not capable in terms of processing a large number of datasets, but at that point, SnapLogic was evolving. It didn't give a lot of Snaps. I heard recently there are a lot of Snaps getting added and the solution was being enhanced, particularly to connect different data sources. When I was working with SnapLogic six months to one year back, I faced the issue of it not being capable of handling a huge volume of datasets or didn't have much of Snaps, and that was the drawback. If there is any large number of data sets, that's based on or depends on your configuration. If it is a huge volume of data, other traditional ETL tools such as Informatica and Talend can process millions and billions of records, while in SnapLogic, the Snaplex fails or it returns an error in terms of processing that huge volume of data. Informatica, Talend, or any other ETL tool can run for hours in terms of jobs, while SnapLogic jobs fail when the threshold is reached. SnapLogic isn't able to withstand processing, but I don't know if that's still an issue at present, because the solution is getting enhanced and it's been more than six months to one year since I last worked with SnapLogic. There are now a lot of Snaps getting added to the solution, and if it can overcome the limitations I mentioned, SnapLogic could be the go-to tool because currently, it's not being used as much in organizations. It's being used comparatively less compared to other retail tools."
"One of the areas for improvement in SnapLogic is that the connectors for some of the applications should be more available in terms of testing in the dev environment. Another area for improvement is that the logging should be standardized, for example, the integration with an ELK stack should be required out-of-the-box, so you can ship the log and have it in the ELK stack. There should be integration with ELK stack for the log shipping."
"The problem is that SnapLogic doesn't offer a wide variety of connectors. For example, integrating with Salesforce is not that easy."
"SnapLogic should have some inbuilt protocol mechanism in order to speed up."
"I would like to see more performance-related dashboards, ones that display the cost of a pipeline, for instance. Also, it would be helpful to have management dashboards for overseeing pipelines and connections."
"SnapLogic sits somewhere in the middle. It doesn’t offer enough easy canned integrations for its users like some of the easier to use integration apps."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while SnapLogic is ranked 14th in Data Integration with 21 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while SnapLogic is rated 8.0. 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 SnapLogic writes "Easy to set up, easy to use, and is low-code". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas SnapLogic is most compared with AWS Glue, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Azure Data Factory, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and webMethods Integration Server. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. SnapLogic report.
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