We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica PowerExchange, and Mule Anypoint Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"I like the completeness of the way I can build ETL workflows."
"The most valuable features are the metadata repository and the data warehouse application console."
"It is very comprehensive in terms of connector and transformation capabilities from both a source and target perspective."
"What I like most about Informatica PowerCenter is that it's the best tool in the market for data integration. Currently, I work in L'Oréal, where a new system from SAP is used. Informatica PowerCenter integration with SAP is very, very fast and very, very simple, so you have the server flow from SAP, and through Informatica PowerCenter, you can ingest the data and make that data available for the business more quickly."
"We can scale the product."
"The technical support for Informatica PowerCenter is good."
"It's very easy to use it to develop mappings and workflows."
"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."
"The data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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 product’s flexibility is valuable."
"The scalability is excellent."
"The transformation work called for Informatica PowerExchange. It was easy to work with this and very stable."
"Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"The ability to define multi-tiered APIs and reuse them is a fantastic platform feature."
"The most valuable feature is the variety of characters Anypoint Platform has. It is very scalable and customizable."
"The most valuable features for us are flexibility, all the features related to connectivity with multiple connectors to the business, and the flexibility of on-premises and cloud deployments."
"MuleSoft offers with the Anypoint Platform a unified platform for API management and an integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) as well as an on-premise Enterprise Service Bus pattern."
"It is a stable product...The initial setup was simple."
"Mule Anypoint Platform is our preferred platform for integration."
"The most valuable feature of Mule Anypoint Platform is rapid development."
"The most valuable feature is their integrations and very good API management."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
"The solution could have better documentation on basic steps or blocks that specify what to do."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve by having a single interface because half of the system is still in the legacy interface and many other elements are moved to the developer client. It would be good if there was a single interface for the end user and developers."
"While on-premises is a better product, we really need to move to the cloud and need the cloud to be as robust as this product."
"The solution does not scale."
"Informatica are very rigid when it comes to cloud migrations which discourages customers in moving their solution to the cloud."
"It would be nice to have all tools in one place. CDC needs more effort, as it's only easy to develop if you are familiar with Linux."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve the data threshold for large sets of data. Additionally, they should add real-time integration."
"I would like to have easier integration with cloud platforms."
"The connectivity with T24 core banking could be improved."
"Informatica is very expensive in all aspects, so the pricing is something that could be improved."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
"Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,"
"Technical support can be improved with respect to delays in ticket response time."
"The product's high costs can be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The major shortcoming of PowerExchange is high availability and failover. None of the versions we've used to date have had the out-of-the-box ability to enable failover and high-availability requirements. This is a significant challenge and risk."
"It has different types of subscriptions. For platinum or lower subscriptions, there are not too many things that can be done. We don't see many features. They should release a basic version that has logging and monitoring features. These features should come with Mule Anypoint Platform for free instead of making customers pay separately for these features. Its dashboard can be improved to have a lot of charts so that it is easy to visualize information. The utilization part can be improved. The dashboard is good currently, but it can be better. Other solutions like Elastic have a good dashboard, and they allow you to administer the product from the UI. Currently, for RTF, there is a different dashboard or utility. It would be good to include the same utility in the cloud solution. It would be good if there is a centralized repository that includes the links to the information about various troubleshooting issues. The documentation is there currently, and it is good, but the troubleshooting information is too scattered. We have to go to different links to find troubleshooting information. This kind of centralized repository would be helpful for new customers who are implementing this solution. It will be helpful to see different kinds of issues that can occur."
"Mule should have better B2B integration."
"It doesn't work well when you try using it for the processing layer."
"Its documentation needed a little bit of work to make it more usable. It is a platform that is used mainly by developers and other people for connecting systems. Its documentation was confusing in some areas and was not very helpful in other areas. I had to go to a consultant to get some work done, which ideally shouldn't be required."
"The platform's data integration tools need improvement on the processing side."
"Code quality, Code Security, SaaS, and DaaS security, can all be improved."
"The price could be improved."
"An on-premise setup requires special skills and you need a lot of professional services."