We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and Informatica PowerExchange 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."App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendliness of the application."
"Very scalable, flexible, and user-friendly."
"It can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process."
"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."
"When using IBM stacks, IBM App Connect is suitable and integrates well with other IBM products like WebSphere."
"The product’s flexibility is valuable."
"The data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The product's initial setup phase was not complex. The tool is easy to install onto any of the servers, and you can integrate it."
"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."
"The solution can connect to different systems i.e. mainframe, IMS or AS/400 Legacy Systems."
"The scalability is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"The transformation work called for Informatica PowerExchange. It was easy to work with this and very stable."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."
"It is not easy to deploy. It requires someone with a high level of knowledge in the solution to deploy it, not just anyone can do it."
"The interface could be better."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."
"IBM App Connect should improve security features."
"The setup time for App Connect could be improved."
"Technical support can be improved with respect to delays in ticket response time."
"The product is not suitable for application integration."
"They should make it quick and easy for use of citizen data integration or for people or integrators developing at the customer side. They could be development teams within the business team. For them, the product owners can consider making it a little bit more seamless and a little bit more democratized."
"Pushdown optimization could be improved."
"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."
"Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,"
"V10.2 is very stable, but we are still struggling to make V10.5 stable. We found services that were down, and PowerExchange stopped working."
"Integration with the largest number of databases and other systems would be important."
IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews while Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8. 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 PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". 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 PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate. See our IBM App Connect vs. Informatica PowerExchange report.
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