We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and WhereScape RED 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."It is an excellent ETL tool."
"It's very easy to use it to develop mappings and workflows."
"The support is valuable. There are also open-source ETL products, which work very well, but there is no support. When we face a production problem, being able to get support is valuable, and it brings efficiency. With an open-source solution, we can't engage anyone to resolve the problem as quickly as possible."
"It provides everything I need. Nothing is missing. PowerCenter is a good tool for on-premise databases."
"The technical support is excellent."
"Deployment was simple and straightforward."
"Good product if you are trying implement data quality, data integration, and data management projects."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"Naturally produces a way to easily debug your DW data solutions."
"RED has provided us the ability to integrate, stage, and transform data from diverse sources into an enterprise-grade data warehouse which meets the needs of my organization, but it also enables us to easily and quickly make ETL or DW changes."
"WhereScape's deployment package is a fantastic feature. The application allows for selecting specific objects that you would like to deploy from one environment to another rather than deploying the entire database."
"Support is absolutely excellent, efficient, and timely."
"This is a fantastically robust DW tool that will make you at least 10 times faster in producing a DW."
"I found the initial setup very easy."
"RED generates comprehensive documentation and regenerates it as quickly as things changes, but it also provides impact documentation."
"Their support staff are very knowledgeable, courteous, and professional. I feel their support staff go above and beyond to assure their customers are satisfied."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"The pricing could be improved."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"Requires an established data center because there is no option for software as a service."
"Informatica, in my opinion, is very rigid and not very flexible, whereas platforms like Alteryx or Matillion are very flexible and agile."
"I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption."
"No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded ."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."
"Improve the object renaming ability (it works, but it could be more automated)."
"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
"Customization could be better."
"Technical support isn't the best."
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Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while WhereScape RED is ranked 48th in Data Integration. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while WhereScape RED is rated 8.2. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhereScape RED writes "Quick to set up, flexible, and stable". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas WhereScape RED is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Matillion ETL, Denodo and Talend Open Studio. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. WhereScape RED report.
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