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 functionality of drag and drop is the most valuable. It is a very user-friendly tool that can be understood easily. My teams also work with other solutions, such as Integration Services, and these solutions are very difficult for people who don't have technical knowledge."
"The solution is easy to integrate and user-friendly."
"One of the things I like about Alteryx Designer is how easy it is to connect numerous data inputs, including API connectors. This helps tremendously in reducing the time required to extract data from systems like SAP that don't have straightforward connectivity options."
"Alteryx Designer is stable."
"Alteryx Designer is easier to use for machine learning models. However, I am not very good at Python scripts which you will need to make the machine learning scripts."
"It has an easy setup process."
"I have been using Alteryx Designer only for data modeling and data structuring."
"The product offers very good analytics."
"The most complex task, in this case, was to read and transform BLOB data, and Java transformation in Informatica Power Center was a great solution."
"Informatica PowerCenter has been implementing mapping design, data flow, and workflow execution for years."
"Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
"The most valuable features are the metadata repository and the data warehouse application console."
"It is an excellent ETL tool."
"The setup is very simple."
"Technical support is great. It's one of the reasons we really like them. When you compare support from IBM and support from Informatica, Informatica is much better."
"The setup is straightforward."
"Its price can be improved. It is too expensive for our country. Because of its high price, we can't sell Alteryx Designer in this region. We used to be their reseller partner. There is also an additional cost for automating the data and running the flows, which makes it even more expensive. It will be very good if they can let users automate the data for free. Other solutions like Tableau provide this feature for free."
"It would be simpler if they provided a component where you could simply enter some parameters and see the results."
"Alteryx could move faster to create a cloud equivalent of the desktop version of Designer."
"We need more documentation."
"When it comes to the pivoting part, the drill-through option is not there in Alteryx."
"Alteryx's data science and machine learning capabilities are where it loses out to DataIQ."
"The only thing is sometimes it can be a bit slow."
"The product could offer more connectors and more databases with support for the in-database function."
"The documentation could be improved."
"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."
"The solution could have better documentation on basic steps or blocks that specify what to do."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"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."
"We had stability issues, mostly with JVM size."
"The initial setup is not straightforward. You need expertise to do it."
Alteryx Designer is ranked 9th in Data Integration with 28 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, SAP Data Services and Palantir Foundry, 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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