We performed a comparison between BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS and Informatica PowerCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."BMC Data Management improved our data recovery process by simplifying it."
"I have worked with DB2's great features in the last five years. The IDAA feature transformed the vision of warehousing, business analytics, and big data at my bank. Besides the mainframe, I saw that this solution was evolutionary. It gives real-time information."
"The greatest feature is that it is very easy to have someone come in and jump right in. It is one of the nicest tools in terms of getting a person acquainted quickly."
"It is easy to use, and it is quick for developing things. It is fairly powerful, and it can integrate with a lot of different platforms without much hassle."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The technical support for Informatica PowerCenter is good."
"Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"It's a complete package, which is why we use this solution."
"It's very easy to use it to develop mappings and workflows."
"The setup is straightforward."
"One area for improvement with this product could be in providing clearer guidance and tools for disaster recovery planning and execution."
"DB2 is a hard tool to grasp. It's hard for users to learn how to use it. It's not easy to see how it works."
"Integration with Artificial Intelligence would benefit this solution."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve on the documentation for the implementation. The documents provided are not very good for a new user."
"I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption."
"PowerCenter has three clients. I wish they would consolidate everything into one GUI, not three. Also, we had a persistent issue with the Informatica Developer tool but it was solved when we migrated to the newest one."
"Support could be better."
"The UI is a little outdated."
"This solution needs the functionality to do batch processing of data. It also lacks connectivity to NoSQL, unstructured data sources."
"The multiple interfaces in Informatica PowerCenter are not great for the user experience. Because of this, I think it can cause confusion for any beginner developer."
BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is ranked 20th in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is rated 8.6, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS writes "Improves disaster recovery processes and offers an efficient CPU cycle optimization ". 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". BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is most compared with Dataloader.io, AWS Database Migration Service, IBM App Connect and Qlik Replicate, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue.
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