We performed a comparison between Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Qlik Replicate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Their new licensing is very flexible. With Informatica Cloud, you have plenty of items under the same umbrella, such as services, offerings, data quality, and data masking. You have also got master data management and API management. What I really like about them is that you don't need to go to Informatica and say that you need a data integration module. You would say that you need iPaaS or Informatica Cloud. They'll then try to understand your needs and give you IPUs, which are the processing units. If I purchased a hundred IPUs from Informatica as a customer, I can use 70 IPUs for data integration. I would also need data quality, so I can use 10 IPUs for data quality. I can use the remaining 20 IPUs for API management. Down the line, if I see that my initial data integration needs for the development phase are met, then out of the 70 IPUs assigned for data integration, I can use 30 IPUs for data masking. I can shuffle these numbers in any way within the Informatica Cloud umbrella for the tenure for which I have subscribed to these IPUs. I can use all services the way I want. This flexibility is what I really love about Informatica. It also has got good connectors."
"It is one of the best tools available for data integration."
"Whether we need data cleansing or data mastering, we get it all in one platform."
"The most valuable features of the solution are pushdown, optimization, and partitioning, which can be used for frequent data loading, especially when we have a huge data volume in our company."
"The solution has the best feature for parameterization."
"The most valuable feature is the building of mockups and tasks."
"The program is stable and scalable."
"REST API: Excellent for scripting control and reporting mechanisms"
"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."
"It's very user-friendly when it comes to settings and configuration. It also offers very detailed logging about warnings and errors."
"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."
"Great with replicating and updating records."
"The CDC and the flexibility to use QVD as a source are the most valuable features of Qlik Replicate."
"Qlik Replicate stands out with its cutting-edge technology and its ability to handle diverse data management tasks. This powerful tool allows us to efficiently and swiftly load data into various data stores or destinations, while also enabling easy distribution across different endpoints. A notable feature is its capability to reload data from multiple sources by creating multiple tasks within a brief timeframe of fifteen to twenty minutes. This eliminates the need for manual intervention and ensures quick data loading from different tables."
"Support has been great."
"From a technical perspective, this is an excellent product."
"I would like to see more functionality added so that it is a bit closer to how much you can do with Informatica PowerCenter."
"The cloud version of the Informatica, it's a very substandard product. They might say it's enterprise-ready but it's not at all ready. They need to add more features, such as improved data replication features. If you look at other tools, such as Matillion they are now cloud-native and flexible. Additionally, Informatica Cloud Data Integration should have a good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to Informatica Cloud Data Integration."
"Performance also needs to be significantly improved, especially when connecting to SFDC for read and write operations."
"I would like to see support for more data sources."
"We would like to have accessibility to the repository."
"Its features for partitioning and optimization could be better."
"Certain shortcomings in the product's UI make it an area where improvements are required."
"It needs to be a little more intuitive but it’s really not bad."
"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."
"It's not possible to replicate the QVC files in data analytics."
"It would be better if the solution’s pricing were more obvious."
"When you remote into it the Qlik Replicate UI a lot of times it just freezes. We set up the EC2, to allow them to go to the server and click on the Replicate icon, it just opens up and just sits there. At that point, we have to go into the EC2 and then reboot the server. This should be fixed, it is frustrating."
"Support-wise, this solution is in need of improvement."
"The UI and data version control can be improved."
"We would like to see more details in messages about errors with the system."
"We'd like better connectivity."
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Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews while Qlik Replicate is ranked 16th in Data Integration with 13 reviews. Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 7.8, while Qlik Replicate is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "A stable, scalable, and user-friendly solution". 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 Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Fivetran and Confluent, whereas Qlik Replicate is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Compose, Azure Data Factory and IBM InfoSphere Information Server. See our Informatica Cloud Data Integration vs. Qlik Replicate report.
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