We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and WhereScape RED 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 setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the new Data Lake feature, which provides the basic capabilities needed."
"Once you figure it out, it is a powerful and simple ETL tool. Its stability has been very satisfactory."
"In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution."
"The most valuable features are the metadata repository and the data warehouse application console."
"Technical support, and their approach is good. They have a support portal and support tickets. If you open a ticket it has multiple levels of severity from level one to very high or critical."
"The ability to scale through partitions helped us to improve the performance."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."
"Support is absolutely excellent, efficient, and timely."
"The tool supports multiple target update methods."
"I found the initial setup very easy."
"WhereScape is really helpful in terms of architecture data. Everything is one of automation. Two people can do thousands of tables in one day or two. It saves a lot of time."
"I like the data vault implementations."
"The most valuable feature is the metadata generated code."
"Quickly develops a data warehouse for our organization with documentation and can track back/forward features."
"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."
"It would be good to recreate the entire interface to make it easier for users to build workflows."
"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."
"We need another tool for monitoring. It would be easier if all the features were consolidated into one tool."
"The solution can improve by providing more connectivity by having native ODBC or JDBC connections available. It will be easier and more people could start using it."
"The UI is a little outdated."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"Informatica PowerCenter is outdated and would benefit from modernization. They should have a very good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to AACF. Informatica PowerCenter there is no point in using it, you have to use a cloud version."
"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."
"The ability to execute SSIS projects within WhereScape would be nice because we have a lot of packages that are too cumbersome to recreate."
"Customization could be better."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"Technical support isn't the best."
"The scheduled jobs which are run by the WhereScape scheduler seem to be a strangely separate animal. Unlike all other WhereScape objects, jobs cannot be added to WhereScape projects. Also, unlike all other objects, jobs also cannot be deleted using a WhereScape deployment application."
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Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while WhereScape RED is ranked 48th in Data Integration. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while WhereScape RED 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 WhereScape RED writes "Quick to set up, flexible, and stable". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas WhereScape RED is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Matillion ETL, Talend Open Studio and Denodo. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. WhereScape RED report.
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