We performed a comparison between BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS and Informatica PowerExchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."BMC Data Management improved our data recovery process by simplifying it."
"I have worked with DB2's great features in the last five years. The IDAA feature transformed the vision of warehousing, business analytics, and big data at my bank. Besides the mainframe, I saw that this solution was evolutionary. It gives real-time information."
"Overall, it's a good tool. It's currently number one on the market. It pretty much has all the necessary capabilities to pull the incremental data from the source system, technically speaking."
"The product’s flexibility is valuable."
"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."
"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."
"This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools."
"The data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"One area for improvement with this product could be in providing clearer guidance and tools for disaster recovery planning and execution."
"DB2 is a hard tool to grasp. It's hard for users to learn how to use it. It's not easy to see how it works."
"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."
"The solution needs better integration with other tools."
"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."
"The connectivity with T24 core banking could be improved."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"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."
"Technical support can be improved with respect to delays in ticket response time."
BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is ranked 21st in Database Development and Management with 2 reviews while Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews. BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is rated 8.6, while Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS writes "Improves disaster recovery processes and offers an efficient CPU cycle optimization ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". BMC Data Management for IMS and DB2 on zOS is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Dataloader.io and IBM App Connect, whereas Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate.
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