We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and Informatica PowerCenter 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."It can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process."
"When using IBM stacks, IBM App Connect is suitable and integrates well with other IBM products like WebSphere."
"It's stable to use, connect with the cloud, and to deploy."
"We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications."
"Technical support is good."
"Provides good security features."
"It has an efficient design flow."
"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring tools and the reporting manager."
"It's a complete package, which is why we use this solution."
"It reduces a lot of legacy coding."
"It is very comprehensive in terms of connector and transformation capabilities from both a source and target perspective."
"We have found the PowerCenter and B2B data transformation most valuable."
"To me, what's most valuable in Informatica PowerCenter is the flexibility in building the integration pipeline. Usually, you need to have a platform to be able to integrate with different technologies, including legacy data such as the mainframe. The platform should also be rich enough to transform the data per your business requirement, with no restrictions. Rich integration and rich transformation capabilities are the two key capabilities in Informatica PowerCenter. The solution also offers ease of use. Another valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is the drag-and-drop integration because it's GUI-based, similar to IBM and Oracle."
"Has a good visual tool for data mapping."
"The greatest feature is that it is very easy to have someone come in and jump right in. It is one of the nicest tools in terms of getting a person acquainted quickly."
"More connectors could be available for the product as some of the third-party software doesn't have default connectors."
"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."
"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."
"The product should improve its support."
"The user interface of IBM App Connect can be a little bit more user-friendly, I would say because the first-time developer is onboarded while using IBM App Connect, he or she may get a little intimidated or daunted looking at all the options available or the pipelines, et cetera."
"The installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."
"IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement."
"In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"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 solution's commercial cost is very high. Other open-source tools can do the tool's functions for free. The world is moving to the cloud, but the solution hasn't updated its drivers. I presume that its downfall will start soon. The tool is trying to cross-sell or upsell without helping customers derive benefits from the existing products. They have multiple tools and licenses. It is better to bring the smaller tools in one umbrella."
"As a connector to big data, it is not well developed. We've had problems connecting Informatica with Hadoop. The functionality to connect Informatica with Hadoop, for me it's not good."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"The UI is a little outdated."
"The real-time database connectivity when getting the real-time data using the VPN is an area that needs improvement."
IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Very flexible and user-friendly; embeds with other technologies; no dependency on queue manager". 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". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and TIBCO BusinessWorks, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue. See our IBM App Connect vs. Informatica PowerCenter report.
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