We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Workato 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 a Data Catalog that uses the Model repository."
"Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
"It has helped us monetize."
"Good interface, reasonable documentation."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring tools and the reporting manager."
"It provides monitoring and we can therefore be aware of what is happening when we are handling jobs."
"The reliability of the product and the way of orchestration of different services is valuable to us."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Workato is low code, intuitive, and easy to use."
"It is very easy to use. It takes complex workloads away, and it provides very smooth integration. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box connectors. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box APIs, which makes it really easy to integrate with applications for different use cases, whether it is in finance, HR, or customer operations. It is by far our favorite integration product."
"The most valuable features are easy integration, quick tab to develop, quick tab to market, and interactive integration platform."
"It's easy to understand, makes flows and is efficient."
"Their automation and workflows are very strong, and you can build the workflows very easily and quickly."
"It is easier to use than other technical open-source technologies."
"The licensing is difficult."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
"Compared to solutions offering similar functionalities, Informatica PowerCenter is not very flexible regarding customized integrations."
"The reputation of Informatica is that it is expensive."
"The solution could have better documentation on basic steps or blocks that specify what to do."
"Requires an established data center because there is no option for software as a service."
"This solution needs the functionality to do batch processing of data. It also lacks connectivity to NoSQL, unstructured data sources."
"Integrated Reporting service should be more smoothly transitioned from view to function to be in sync with the main design."
"It is tedious to make a tailor-fit function."
"The management dashboard in the solution is an area with shortcomings that needs improvement."
"A limitation is that their cloud presence is only in North America and Europe."
"From the deployment point of view, our customers encounter platform downtime where it does not serve the actual request on the systems."
"I would like to see the dashboarding and reporting processes improved."
"Workato's Extract, transform, and load (ETL) and extract, load, and transform (ELT) are not very strong and could be improved for very complex transformations."
"The only minor drawback would be if there was a UI at the front of it, for apps and for a portal as well, it would make it really easy. It would be really useful if there were more apps capabilities."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Workato is ranked 8th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 9 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Workato is rated 8.4. 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 Workato writes " Great automation and strong workflows useful for integration". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Workato is most compared with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, MuleSoft Composer, Azure Data Factory, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and Zapier. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Workato report.
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