We performed a comparison between Informatica Cloud Data Integration and SAP Data Services 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."Informatica Cloud Data Integration is stable."
"The Mapping Configuration and PowerCenter wizards are valuable. We use them to run our business logic."
"The most valuable feature is the building of mockups and tasks."
"Informatica Cloud Data Integration is stable."
"Informatica is good for integrating data and cloud applications. We have connectors for integrating cloud applications like Salesforce. You can quickly integrate anything with an exposed API or a REST API. The industry is increasingly shifting to the cloud, so we need more products that can connect to cloud-based applications. The integration is seamless and works in real time. It's also secure because you don't need to expose databases or tables."
"The solution's initial setup is quite straightforward."
"I like the fact that you can find almost any product connection that you need and the list is always expanding."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."
"We can extract data at a table level, extract data at the ETL level, and we can extract data at an ODP level."
"The most valuable feature is the logging capability."
"The solution is easy to use since it's a graphical tool. It also requires only low-level coding."
"I appreciate having access to the SAP data."
"The most valuable feature is the ETL functionality."
"The product's most valuable features are data validation and rules."
"The logic is also simple. It makes it easy to build your extraction."
"The cloud version could be better in terms of pricing."
"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."
"The current features are a bit complicated, and we need to write big scripts and test."
"The price modeling could be more flexible."
"Error reporting and debugging need improvement."
"One area where Informatica Cloud Data Integration could improve is in providing more accelerators for certain functionalities."
"It needs to be a little more intuitive but it’s really not bad."
"Informatica Cloud Data Integration could improve the price by making it less expensive."
"Scheduling of jobs in the sequence is not available. It's a very tedious process to do that particular task. If there was a tool to schedule in the sequence that would be extremely helpful."
"The interface is not quite user-friendly and is in need of improvement."
"We encounter challenges while exporting implemented rules, such as those applied to objects like the material master, into a format like Excel for documentation and further analysis."
"It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better."
"The pricing of the solution should be improved."
"The solution should offer more machine learning and automation."
"In the future, Data Services should offer a cloud version."
"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."
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Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews. Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 7.8, while SAP Data Services 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 SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". Informatica Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Fivetran and Oracle Integration Cloud Service, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, SAP Process Orchestration and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). See our Informatica Cloud Data Integration vs. SAP Data Services report.
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