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."UI-based ability to create data mapping."
"It is an excellent ETL tool."
"Ease and speed of building integrations, especially integrations between different applications, such as our Hospital Information System."
"In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is data transformation and user-friendliness."
"Technical support is great. It's one of the reasons we really like them. When you compare support from IBM and support from Informatica, Informatica is much better."
"I like the automated scheduling feature."
"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."
"Data transformations and rollups are easy to accomplish."
"The tool supports multiple target update methods."
"I like the data vault implementations."
"Naturally produces a way to easily debug your DW data solutions."
"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."
"WhereScape RED has improved our business's ability to generate needed reporting without requiring a large team of developers to manually code all of the necessary plumbing."
"Their support staff are very knowledgeable, courteous, and professional. I feel their support staff go above and beyond to assure their customers are satisfied."
"The solution's commercial cost is very high. Other open-source tools can do the tool's functions for free. The world is moving to the cloud, but the solution hasn't updated its drivers. I presume that its downfall will start soon. The tool is trying to cross-sell or upsell without helping customers derive benefits from the existing products. They have multiple tools and licenses. It is better to bring the smaller tools in one umbrella."
"The solution does not scale."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"The UI is outdated and old-fashioned, at least in our current version.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."
"The solution could have better documentation on basic steps or blocks that specify what to do."
"PowerCenter could be improved by having more big data components. Normally, we prefer Informatica as a relational database, but nowadays, companies are trying to understand and use big data components. I think it would be useful if we had more chances to create a hub ecosystem because customers try to use some data integration tasks by SQL, Spark and Spark codes, and Scala, but at the end of the day, the company will understand that we need to trace all the steps. An ETL tool is a must for that company, if we're talking about the regulated industries like finance, telcos, etc. If Informatica's biggest ecosystems feature were okay, I would prefer to use it."
"There is a need to buy a separate license if one wishes to connect with some kind of SAP system, such as SalesForce."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."
"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."
"No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded ."
"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."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
"The ability to execute SSIS projects within WhereScape would be nice because we have a lot of packages that are too cumbersome to recreate."
"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."
"Customization could be better."
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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, Denodo and Talend Open Studio. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. WhereScape RED report.
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