We performed a comparison between Alteryx Designer 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."The product offers very good analytics."
"I believe in the ability to connect to multiple data sources, as well as the ease of use to transform data and output data in a variety of formats."
"Alteryx Designer's user interface is great, as it is very user-friendly."
"Alteryx Designer is stable."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Alteryx Designer is a tool that is pretty much easy to install."
"It has great UI."
"When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis."
"Technical support, and their approach is good. They have a support portal and support tickets. If you open a ticket it has multiple levels of severity from level one to very high or critical."
"We have found the PowerCenter and B2B data transformation most valuable."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"The most valuable aspects of Informatica PowerCenter are the many features, ease of use, and user-friendliness."
"I like the automated scheduling feature."
"It has good standard features for ETL development."
"The solution is stable."
"The technical support for Informatica PowerCenter is good."
"Alteryx's data science and machine learning capabilities are where it loses out to DataIQ."
"When it comes to the pivoting part, the drill-through option is not there in Alteryx."
"Its cost can sometimes be a drawback."
"The actual usage part of it needs to be explained more. It's too vague right now."
"Sometimes, while getting data from a third-party product, the solution works slowly."
"We need more documentation."
"The product could offer more connectors and more databases with support for the in-database function."
"The only thing is sometimes it can be a bit slow."
"It would be better if I could do all the work within a single window. If I'm working on any mapping and if I have to switch to sessions, I have to open a new window altogether. If I have to get into workflows, I have to open a new window. It was also very expensive. In the next release, I would like it to be more user-friendly."
"The solution can improve by providing more connectivity by having native ODBC or JDBC connections available. It will be easier and more people could start using it."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The solution does not scale."
"The solution could have better documentation on basic steps or blocks that specify what to do."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"Integration with Artificial Intelligence would benefit this solution."
"We had stability issues, mostly with JVM size."
Alteryx Designer is ranked 9th in Data Integration with 27 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. Alteryx Designer is rated 8.0, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx Designer writes "An easy-to-use automation solution with satisfying customer support". 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". Alteryx Designer is most compared with Azure Data Factory, FME, SSIS, Palantir Foundry and SAP Data Services, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and Oracle GoldenGate. See our Alteryx Designer vs. Informatica PowerCenter report.
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