We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica PowerExchange, and Quest SharePlex based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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 has helped us monetize."
"I found the map links, work links, and workflows valuable. They are important features."
"The solution is stable."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"Among all the solutions I have used, I found Informatica PowerCenter to be much more stable in terms of application."
"I like the automated scheduling feature."
"The scalability is excellent."
"The agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far."
"The user interface and user experience are perfectly all right."
"The solution can connect to different systems i.e. mainframe, IMS or AS/400 Legacy Systems."
"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."
"The data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The main benefit of PowerExchange is its native real-time capabilities. Competing tools are counting on third-party packages or Oracle to offer real-time capabilities. However, Informatica has a native ability to scan the data on the file system level and capture the changes almost instantly when I push it to the consumers. The solution has a powerful built-in replication engine."
"This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."
"Because of the volume of the transactions, we heavily use a feature that allows SharePlex to replicate thousands of transactions. It's called PEP, Post Enhancement Performance, and that has helped us scale tremendously."
"The core features of the solution we like are the reliability of the data transfer and the accuracy of data read and write. The stability of the solution is also excellent."
"There are some capabilities within SharePlex where you can see how the data is migrating and if it still maintains good data integrity. For example, if there are some tables that get out of sync, there are ways to find them and fix the problem on the spot. Since these are very common issues, we can easily fix these types of problems using utilities, like compare and repair. So, if you find something is out of sync, then you can just repair that table. It basically syncs that table from source to target to see if there are any differences. It will then replicate those differences to the target."
"The core replication and its performance. Performance is crucial, and SharePlex is by far the fastest. The way it handles replication to multiple targets along with basic filtering, as well as from multiple sources to a single target, is very efficient."
"I like SharePlex's Compare and Repair tool."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"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."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"If you want to transfer a ZIP file, it is a pain. You need to use Command-Line. Sometimes we just want to transfer a file. It should be easy to move them from A to B."
"Integration with Artificial Intelligence would benefit this solution."
"This product is going to decommission in the next couple of years."
"If we could have the option of performance improvement within Informatica, and if it could have more features, that would be ideal."
"I would like to have easier integration with cloud platforms."
"Real-time has not been enhanced that much over the past few years. There has not been as many features added like they did before."
"The product is not suitable for application integration."
"Integration with the largest number of databases and other systems would be important."
"Informatica is very expensive in all aspects, so the pricing is something that could be improved."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,"
"The product's high costs can be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I don't know how easy it would be to change the architecture in an already implemented replication. For example, if we have a certain way of architecting for a particular database migration and want to change that during a period of time, is that an easy or difficult change? There was a need for us to change the architecture in-between the migration, but we didn't do it. We thought, "This is possibly complicated. Let's not change it in the middle because we were approaching our cutover date." That was one thing that we should have checked with support about for training."
"For its function in relation to replication (i.e. filtering), I'd give it a six or seven out of 10. GoldenGate has much more functionality by comparison."
"I would like the solution to have some kind of machine learning and AI capabilities. Often, if we want to improve the performance of posting, we have to bump up a parameter. That means we need to stop the process, come up with a figure that we want to bump the parameter up to, and then start SharePlex. Machine learning and AI capabilities for these kinds of improvement would tremendously help boost productivity for us."
"The reporting features need improvement. It would be very good for users to have a clear understanding of the status of replication."
"I would like more ability to automate installation and configuration in line with some of the DevOps processes that are more mature in the market. That would be a considerable improvement."