We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and WSO2 Enterprise Integrator 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."I would recommend that others considering the solution go ahead and use it for any batch and high volume loads with complex transactions."
"It reduces a lot of legacy coding."
"It's very easy to use it to develop mappings and workflows."
"The features I find most valuable is that the solution is very user-friendly and the graphical design is very easy to understand."
"To me, what's most valuable in Informatica PowerCenter is the flexibility in building the integration pipeline. Usually, you need to have a platform to be able to integrate with different technologies, including legacy data such as the mainframe. The platform should also be rich enough to transform the data per your business requirement, with no restrictions. Rich integration and rich transformation capabilities are the two key capabilities in Informatica PowerCenter. The solution also offers ease of use. Another valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is the drag-and-drop integration because it's GUI-based, similar to IBM and Oracle."
"It provides monitoring and we can therefore be aware of what is happening when we are handling jobs."
"The ability to scale through partitions helped us to improve the performance."
"The setup is very simple."
"The learning curve for this solution is very good."
"It's a consolidated product. It works and it does its job pretty well."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"The solution has two main parts: integration and transformation. It's very user-friendly and easy to understand for everyone."
"The customer service executives are very responsive."
"The drag-and-drop features for connectors are very valuable."
"The productivity is the most valuable feature. It is very easy to write remediations."
"The stability is excellent."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve the data threshold for large sets of data. Additionally, they should add real-time integration."
"What I didn't like about it is that the platform itself is not great at distributed processing. When you need high parallel processing, it has some inherent issues. We had to use Java transformation, and it did not go very well. I have heard that it is going to the cloud, but we haven't tried that."
"The only problem with this product is the level of complexity with the number of levels of transformation that you have to go through."
"Informatica PowerCenter is outdated and would benefit from modernization. They should have a very good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to AACF. Informatica PowerCenter there is no point in using it, you have to use a cloud version."
"The solution's commercial cost is very high. Other open-source tools can do the tool's functions for free. The world is moving to the cloud, but the solution hasn't updated its drivers. I presume that its downfall will start soon. The tool is trying to cross-sell or upsell without helping customers derive benefits from the existing products. They have multiple tools and licenses. It is better to bring the smaller tools in one umbrella."
"As a connector to big data, it is not well developed. We've had problems connecting Informatica with Hadoop. The functionality to connect Informatica with Hadoop, for me it's not good."
"PowerCenter could integrate better with cloud applications. We had to do a lot of configuration work using API integrations to connect with cloud applications. Informatica Cloud Data Integration has a generic connector that you can use directly, so it's much easier."
"Areas for improvement in Informatica PowerCenter include scalability and high availability or the clustering configuration because that's still very basic. The elasticity or scaling of the platform needs a lot of improvement. For example, when it comes to DR handling or building an active-active or active-passive cluster, Informatica PowerCenter is still not that powerful. Automation also needs improvement in the solution. Improving automation leads to some improvement in the stability of Informatica PowerCenter and other aspects related to it. What I'd like to see in the next release of Informatica PowerCenter is real-time capability because the solution is mainly for patches, and to have real-time integration, you need to count on some additional components from Informatica. I would expect more integration and a complete platform in terms of real-time capability or patching with minimal interventions or minimal components to be aligned together."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I would like to see better documentation for the open-source version."
"The customization can be a bit difficult."
"They should release upgrades more frequently."
"They should introduce better pricing for small companies."
"You cannot include the validation of XPath."
"WSO2 libraries are not mature enough. For example, if you want to integrate with Kafka using its Kafka library, it often has many bugs."
"The administration side is complex and could use significant improvements to enhance the solution's functionality."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is ranked 19th in Data Integration with 18 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is rated 7.6. 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 WSO2 Enterprise Integrator writes "Consolidated, reliable, and has responsive technical support". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is most compared with Oracle Service Bus, Red Hat Fuse, IBM Integration Bus and webMethods Integration Server. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator report.
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