We performed a comparison between Ab Initio Co>Operating System and Informatica PowerCenter 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."Ab Initio reaches the highest performance and is very flexible in processing huge amounts of data."
"Co>Operating System's most valuable feature is its ability to process bulk data effectively."
"The most valuable aspects of Informatica PowerCenter are the many features, ease of use, and user-friendliness."
"It has a Data Catalog that uses the Model repository."
"We have found the PowerCenter and B2B data transformation most valuable."
"The reliability of the product and the way of orchestration of different services is valuable to us."
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"Ease and speed of building integrations, especially integrations between different applications, such as our Hospital Information System."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is data transformation and user-friendliness."
"The most complex task, in this case, was to read and transform BLOB data, and Java transformation in Informatica Power Center was a great solution."
"Co>Operating System would be improved with more integrations for less well-known technologies."
"An awesome improvement would be big data solutions, for example, implementing some kind of business intelligence or neural networks for artificial intelligence."
"The licensing is difficult."
"Its interface can be modernized. It is an old product. I have been working with it for 14 years, and it still looks the same. It hasn't been modernized much. It also needs to handle more modern formats, such as JSON files. It works with the old text files and databases, but it does not always work with the newer, modern stuff. You need to make your own programs to support that kind of stuff. Support is also a kind of difficult with Informatica. They don't do direct support and rely on using their distributors around the globe for support, which means that you kind of have to go through this layer of different companies before you get help."
"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 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."
"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."
"Requires an established data center because there is no option for software as a service."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"Integrating new tools can be tricky and challenging."
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Ab Initio Co>Operating System is ranked 28th in Data Integration with 2 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. Ab Initio Co>Operating System is rated 9.6, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Ab Initio Co>Operating System writes "High performance and flexible solution for companies with large amounts of data". 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". Ab Initio Co>Operating System is most compared with SSIS, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Data Management Platform, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue. See our Ab Initio Co>Operating System vs. Informatica PowerCenter report.
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