We performed a comparison between Fivetran and Informatica Cloud Data Integration based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most important feature of the solution is its ability to build data pipelines in less time."
"Fivetran is remarkably easy to use; I haven't encountered any other data integration tool that is as user-friendly."
"There's the general feature of the platform where it just makes it very easy to integrate different things, but I would say a specific difference is their integration of DBT,."
"Fivetran can perform data migration incredibly fast, depending on the source and target."
"The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."
"For us, Fivetran has been able to scale both in terms of the data we bring into our warehouse and the amount of data that we use as well."
"The general data ingestion is valuable. It's used for a lot of data. It provides about 90% of the data we use in our data warehouse without needing data engineering."
"The most valuable feature of Fivetran is that it only synchronizes what needs to be synchronized."
"REST API: Excellent for scripting control and reporting mechanisms"
"The data mapping capability is a valuable feature."
"The solution has the best feature for parameterization."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Cloud Data Integration is Pushback. You are able to push the data to the solution itself, and it can handle the queries. It helps us a lot. With other tools, the burden is kept on the server."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"I do a quite a lot of data transformations, and the fact that I can do them without changing any of my SQL queries from the code, using the inbuilt tools, is very helpful."
"It has all the advantages of the Cloud in that you can use it without worrying about infrastructure, upkeep, or upgrades."
"The solution provides increased efficiency while still being user-friendly and easy to operate."
"We experience cost issues because Fivetran is charged on a usage basis. When you reach a certain level, the tool should focus on reducing the costs. The solution is expensive when you are moving gigabytes and petabytes of data. It should also focus more on REST APIs and webhooks."
"Fivetran should add more connectors because its competitors, like Airbyte, have more connectors."
"The documentation is decent, but it's hard to find information online about Fivetran. For example, if you try to search for an error code, you won't find much information about it in forums."
"Some of the pain points we're looking at are trying to integrate some of the items in the Microsoft stack, so SharePoint and Excel, and then some of the newer Azure services."
"HVR Software's technical support could be improved. Whenever we log a case, the response that we get from the support is a bit delayed."
"Fivetran would be improved by adding the ability to integrate the data from third-party APIs."
"The environment must be more development-friendly."
"The solution is very expensive. I would like to have a better integration of the solution with Azure."
"The current features are a bit complicated, and we need to write big scripts and test."
"The regions in which the data resides are still limited. This could be an issue in terms of the data residency laws of some of the countries. They should get more regions."
"I have received feedback from certain teams and there is a steep learning curve to use this solution."
"The error information provided is not informative, as compared to Power Center."
"Its pricing model can be improved. The response time from technical support can also be improved."
"The main issue preventing Brazilian companies from migrating to Informatica Cloud Data Integration from on-prem is the price."
"I would like to see more functionality added so that it is a bit closer to how much you can do with Informatica PowerCenter."
"The biggest challenge I see is the IDE's for the cloud and automization are different."
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Fivetran is ranked 7th in Cloud Data Integration with 19 reviews while Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews. Fivetran is rated 8.0, while Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fivetran writes "Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "A stable, scalable, and user-friendly solution". Fivetran is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory, Oracle GoldenGate and StreamSets, whereas Informatica Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Mule Anypoint Platform and Matillion ETL. See our Fivetran vs. Informatica Cloud Data Integration report.
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