We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerExchange and Qlik Replicate 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 data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"The main benefit of PowerExchange is its native real-time capabilities. Competing tools are counting on third-party packages or Oracle to offer real-time capabilities. However, Informatica has a native ability to scan the data on the file system level and capture the changes almost instantly when I push it to the consumers. The solution has a powerful built-in replication engine."
"The scalability is excellent."
"Overall, it's a good tool. It's currently number one on the market. It pretty much has all the necessary capabilities to pull the incremental data from the source system, technically speaking."
"From the product feature or product capability perspective, the aspects around integration, transformation, and standardization are valuable. It's fairly easy to use. It has a GUI-based interface."
"This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."
"A valuable feature of Qlik Replicate is that you do not need ETL. It's easy to use—you choose two systems and it automatically replicates them. Even if there is no CDC available, if you insert it and update it, and there is nothing to find out, then you can use Qlik Replicate. It's a good product."
"It's very user-friendly when it comes to settings and configuration. It also offers very detailed logging about warnings and errors."
"It enables us to transform data at the latest stage rather than in ETL loads, so it's more ELT which is one of the advantages. It is also in near real-time, which brings significant advantage for our embedded analytics approach."
"Low-priced reporting and analytics solution, with good scalability and stability. It has on-premises and cloud versions that are cohesive and can integrate well."
"The CDC and the flexibility to use QVD as a source are the most valuable features of Qlik Replicate."
"The main valuable feature is its real-time change data capture (CDC) capabilities, which process data with minimal latency. There is not much delay. It also performs well with batch-wise data applications."
"From a technical perspective, this is an excellent product."
"A pretty good series of connectors is one of the best features of Qlik Replicate."
"Real-time has not been enhanced that much over the past few years. There has not been as many features added like they did before."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,"
"Pushdown optimization could be improved."
"Informatica is very expensive in all aspects, so the pricing is something that could be improved."
"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
"The major shortcoming of PowerExchange is high availability and failover. None of the versions we've used to date have had the out-of-the-box ability to enable failover and high-availability requirements. This is a significant challenge and risk."
"This product could be improved by providing more insight regarding errors. One of our customers that uses Qlik Replicate has had an issue. We tried to debug it, but we could not trace the error message. The infrastructure site should give us more insight about errors. Qlik Replicate is not a business solution, it's an IT solution. The reporting tools and bug site should be improved."
"In various scenarios, an important consideration is when we encounter issues and Qlik Replicate suggests reloading a specific table. If we face any problems or encounter errors with that table, it becomes necessary to make a change in Qlik Replicate. Performing a full reload every time is not feasible or practical. Instead, we should identify the specific issues and address them without repeating the entire reloading process. Based on this approach, we can investigate and resolve the problem by performing targeted loads from the source itself. This change aligns with my perspective and is something I would like to implement."
"Support-wise, this solution is in need of improvement."
"It's not possible to replicate the QVC files in data analytics."
"The solution's flexibility to work with APIs should also be improved since it is very weak in working with APIs."
"The UI and data version control can be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see closer integration with data catalyst."
"It would be better if the solution’s pricing were more obvious."
Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews while Qlik Replicate is ranked 16th in Data Integration with 13 reviews. Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8, while Qlik Replicate is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qlik Replicate writes " Performs well with batch-wise data applications but some features can also be overly dependent on each other". Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Azure Data Factory, whereas Qlik Replicate is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Compose, Azure Data Factory and Fivetran. See our Informatica PowerExchange vs. Qlik Replicate report.
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