We performed a comparison between Ab Initio Co>Operating System and Informatica PowerCenter 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."Co>Operating System's most valuable feature is its ability to process bulk data effectively."
"Ab Initio reaches the highest performance and is very flexible in processing huge amounts of data."
"I found the map links, work links, and workflows valuable. They are important features."
"UI-based ability to create data mapping."
"The reliability of the product and the way of orchestration of different services is valuable to us."
"It is easy to use, and it is quick for developing things. It is fairly powerful, and it can integrate with a lot of different platforms without much hassle."
"It's very easy to use it to develop mappings and workflows."
"Informatica PowerCenter has been implementing mapping design, data flow, and workflow execution for years."
"Good product if you are trying implement data quality, data integration, and data management projects."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"Co>Operating System would be improved with more integrations for less well-known technologies."
"An awesome improvement would be big data solutions, for example, implementing some kind of business intelligence or neural networks for artificial intelligence."
"Its interface can be modernized. It is an old product. I have been working with it for 14 years, and it still looks the same. It hasn't been modernized much. It also needs to handle more modern formats, such as JSON files. It works with the old text files and databases, but it does not always work with the newer, modern stuff. You need to make your own programs to support that kind of stuff. Support is also a kind of difficult with Informatica. They don't do direct support and rely on using their distributors around the globe for support, which means that you kind of have to go through this layer of different companies before you get help."
"It should be more cloud-centric than on-prem-centric."
"Compared to solutions offering similar functionalities, Informatica PowerCenter is not very flexible regarding customized integrations."
"The developer tool documentation can be enhanced with a more clear explanation of each utility, accompanied by relevant examples, so that developers are able to create programs with ease."
"As a connector to big data, it is not well developed. We've had problems connecting Informatica with Hadoop. The functionality to connect Informatica with Hadoop, for me it's not good."
"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."
"Some of the conversions are done inside the product. We use work tables that are created by the engine itself, but the names of the work tables are very long, and they don't have any meaning, which makes it a bit difficult to understand and follow exactly what is happening inside."
"The performance of Informatica PowerCenter could improve."
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Ab Initio Co>Operating System is ranked 29th in Data Integration with 2 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. Ab Initio Co>Operating System is rated 9.6, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Ab Initio Co>Operating System writes "Excellent bulk data processing for large enterprises". 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". Ab Initio Co>Operating System is most compared with SSIS, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory and Talend Data Management Platform, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue. See our Ab Initio Co>Operating System vs. Informatica PowerCenter report.
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