We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and Informatica PowerExchange 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 initial setup is very quick and easy."
"I can do everything I want with SSIS and Azure Data Factory."
"The most valuable features of Azure Data Factory are the flexibility, ability to move data at scale, and the integrations with different Azure components."
"The solution can scale very easily."
"Microsoft supported us when we planned to provision Azure Data Factory over a private link. As a result, we received excellent support from Microsoft."
"An excellent tool for pipeline orchestration."
"Allows more data between on-premises and cloud solutions"
"Powerful but easy-to-use and intuitive."
"It is a scalable and versatile solution."
"The product's initial setup phase was not complex. The tool is easy to install onto any of the servers, and you can integrate it."
"The scalability is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"From the product feature or product capability perspective, the aspects around integration, transformation, and standardization are valuable. It's fairly easy to use. It has a GUI-based interface."
"This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."
"The solution can connect to different systems i.e. mainframe, IMS or AS/400 Legacy Systems."
"The user interface and user experience are perfectly all right."
"The solution needs to be more connectable to its own services."
"The solution should offer better integration with Azure machine learning. We should be able to embed the cognitive services from Microsoft, for example as a web API. It should allow us to embed Azure machine learning in a more user-friendly way."
"The Microsoft documentation is too complicated."
"If the user interface was more user friendly and there was better error feedback, it would be helpful."
"Currently, smaller businesses face a disadvantage in terms of pricing, and reducing costs could address this issue."
"There's no Oracle connector if you want to do transformation using data flow activity, so Azure Data Factory needs more connectors for data flow transformation."
"They require more detailed error reporting, data normalization tools, easier connectivity to other services, more data services, and greater compatibility with other commonly used schemas."
"On the UI side, they could make it a little more intuitive in terms of how to add the radius components. Somebody who has been working with tools like Informatica or DataStage gets very used to how the UI looks and feels."
"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."
"V10.2 is very stable, but we are still struggling to make V10.5 stable. We found services that were down, and PowerExchange stopped working."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"They should make it quick and easy for use of citizen data integration or for people or integrators developing at the customer side. They could be development teams within the business team. For them, the product owners can consider making it a little bit more seamless and a little bit more democratized."
"Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,"
"Technical support can be improved with respect to delays in ticket response time."
"The one place where it could be improved is definitely pricing. That's a very big problem. It depends product to product, but pricing is an issue."
"The connectivity with T24 core banking could be improved."
Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 20th in Data Integration with 19 reviews. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Azure Data Factory writes "The data factory agent is quite good but pricing needs to be more transparent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer, Snowflake and IBM InfoSphere DataStage, whereas Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Qlik Replicate. See our Azure Data Factory vs. Informatica PowerExchange report.
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