We performed a comparison between Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Informatica PowerCenter based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: These are two exceptional solutions under the Informatica Brand, which is synonymous with quality, reliability, and high price. Informatica Cloud Data is created and best suited for small to medium organizations and it remains somewhat limited in the regions it can be used. Informatica PowerCenter is best for large enterprises that can utilize all of the numerous options PowerCenter has to offer. Large enterprises can more easily absorb the high cost and make better use of their current bundle licensing tier.
"The most valuable features of Informatica Cloud Data Integration for our clients are the AI capabilities within Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services."
"The solution's initial setup is quite straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Cloud Data Integration is Pushback. You are able to push the data to the solution itself, and it can handle the queries. It helps us a lot. With other tools, the burden is kept on the server."
"It has all the advantages of the Cloud in that you can use it without worrying about infrastructure, upkeep, or upgrades."
"It is one of the best tools available for data integration."
"The data mapping capability is a valuable feature."
"The Mapping Configuration and PowerCenter wizards are valuable. We use them to run our business logic."
"It has a more UI-based tool, and the scripting is good."
"Ease and speed of building integrations, especially integrations between different applications, such as our Hospital Information System."
"The reliability of the product and the way of orchestration of different services is valuable to us."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"Informatica PowerCenter is very good for integrating a huge amount of data in a very short duration, such as a minute. It is also very easy to use. After you provide the source and the target, mappings are automatically done, which makes it easy to use for the development team."
"It has very good monitoring and process monitoring."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"It is an excellent ETL tool."
"We can scale the product."
"I have received feedback from certain teams and there is a steep learning curve to use this solution."
"It would be helpful if there was a GenAI feature integrated into the system, especially regarding the data quality."
"User/group administration could use improvement."
"The regions in which the data resides are still limited. This could be an issue in terms of the data residency laws of some of the countries. They should get more regions."
"The current features are a bit complicated, and we need to write big scripts and test."
"One area where Informatica Cloud Data Integration could improve is in providing more accelerators for certain functionalities."
"We would like to have accessibility to the repository."
"Certain applications are not being synced with the ION."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"The initial setup is not straightforward. You need expertise to do it."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"We had to take on a large volume of data from the legacy Sybase system. This was taking a very long time, i.e., more than a day. We were trying to improve it with partitions to gpload, but we were told that we can't go more than four partitions."
"This product is going to decommission in the next couple of years."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
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Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 7.8, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "A stable, scalable, and user-friendly solution". On the other hand, 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". Informatica Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Fivetran, IBM Cloud Pak for Data and Mule Anypoint Platform, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks, AWS Glue and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). See our Informatica Cloud Data Integration vs. Informatica PowerCenter report.
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Both are powerful solutions and most of the actions can be done by both.
You should choose based on your organization and the business requirements taking a valid decision in terms of the quality and price.
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