We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and TIBCO BusinessWorks 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."Good interface, reasonable documentation."
"The technical support is excellent."
"I like the completeness of the way I can build ETL workflows."
"It has very good monitoring and process monitoring."
"The greatest feature is that it is very easy to have someone come in and jump right in. It is one of the nicest tools in terms of getting a person acquainted quickly."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The support is valuable. There are also open-source ETL products, which work very well, but there is no support. When we face a production problem, being able to get support is valuable, and it brings efficiency. With an open-source solution, we can't engage anyone to resolve the problem as quickly as possible."
"BusinessWorks reduces development time, helping developers to focus on business logic."
"One of the most valuable features is that it's a simple development. It takes a short time to get services to work."
"The high availability, tolerance, and load balancing features are top-notch. Its scalability features are also pretty cool."
"XML to JSON transformations, out-of-the-box, helps to build REST services."
"Good TIBCO BusinessWorks features are the admin console and the ability to roll back to the previous version."
"It is user friendly, it's not complex."
"I work in operations, so I value BusinessWorks' performance the most."
"The Business Studio interface based on SCA Standards helps to show the business logic at first look and improve code maintenance."
"Its interface can be modernized. It is an old product. I have been working with it for 14 years, and it still looks the same. It hasn't been modernized much. It also needs to handle more modern formats, such as JSON files. It works with the old text files and databases, but it does not always work with the newer, modern stuff. You need to make your own programs to support that kind of stuff. Support is also a kind of difficult with Informatica. They don't do direct support and rely on using their distributors around the globe for support, which means that you kind of have to go through this layer of different companies before you get help."
"While Informatica is great for data-integration, it does not have any analytics features. Thus, organizations have to always look for another product for their BI needs."
"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."
"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."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve the data threshold for large sets of data. Additionally, they should add real-time integration."
"The developer tool documentation can be enhanced with a more clear explanation of each utility, accompanied by relevant examples, so that developers are able to create programs with ease."
"The performance of Informatica PowerCenter could improve."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"A possible improvement could be to give the capability to use different profiles for each AppNode when an application is deployed on an AppSpace."
"The technical support's turnaround time is an area where TIBCO needs to consider improvements...Getting support from TIBCO on a particular issue takes a lot of turnaround time."
"There is room for improvement on the learning side."
"Improve Business Studio's stability to further minimize development time."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"Could be more user friendly in the development area."
"The container-based image is too large and this makes auto-scaling difficult."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while TIBCO BusinessWorks is ranked 18th in Data Integration with 23 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while TIBCO BusinessWorks 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 TIBCO BusinessWorks writes "Reliable integration solution with robust communication capabilities and good scalability". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas TIBCO BusinessWorks is most compared with webMethods Integration Server, Mule Anypoint Platform, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Talend Open Studio and IBM App Connect. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. TIBCO BusinessWorks report.
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