We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter, Quest SharePlex, and SSIS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."Once you figure it out, it is a powerful and simple ETL tool. Its stability has been very satisfactory."
"Good product if you are trying implement data quality, data integration, and data management projects."
"The ability to scale through partitions helped us to improve the performance."
"It has helped us monetize."
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"The setup is very simple."
"Enterprise-scale ETL solution that's very stable and is easy to scale. It integrates and connects with multiple new systems, both structured and semi-structured."
"In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"I have used most of the standard SQL features, but the ones that stand out are the Data Flows and Bulk Import."
"It is easy to set up. The deployment is also very quick."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to use and it offers a flexible custom script task."
"Overall, it's a good product."
"The performance is better than doing it in some alternative ways. We don't have to worry about so much manual work."
"It's already very user-friendly and has a good dashboard."
"We like that this solution includes a developer edition, free of charge, to allow for training."
"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."
"The real-time database connectivity when getting the real-time data using the VPN is an area that needs improvement."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"Integration with Artificial Intelligence would benefit this solution."
"Some of the conversions are done inside the product. We use work tables that are created by the engine itself, but the names of the work tables are very long, and they don't have any meaning, which makes it a bit difficult to understand and follow exactly what is happening inside."
"It would be good to recreate the entire interface to make it easier for users to build workflows."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"This solution needs full support for real-time processing."
"Sometimes, there are compatibility issues with some features. From time to time, I also face issues when trying to migrate. If I misconfigure things when I use Snapshot, the migration will fail.It can take a long time to migrate huge amounts of data, so it would be nice if that could be faster."
"The solution should work on the GPU, graphical processing unit. There should also be piping integration available."
"The solution could improve on integrating with other types of data sources."
"SSIS is cumbersome despite its drag-and-drop functionality. For example, let's say I have 50 tables with 30 columns. You need to set a data type for each column and table. That's around 1,500 objects. It gets unwieldy adding validation for every column. Previously, SSIS automatically detected the data type, but I think they removed this feature. It would automatically detect if it's an integer, primary key, or foreign key column. You had fewer problems building the model."
"I would like to see more standard components out of the box, such as SFTP, and Data Compression components."
"In terms of its performance, it could be better. That could be something that would be easy and welcomed as an upgrade."
"The high prices attached to the product can be an area of concern where improvements are required."
