We performed a comparison between Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Informatica PowerCenter based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: These are two exceptional solutions under the Informatica Brand, which is synonymous with quality, reliability, and high price. Informatica Cloud Data is created and best suited for small to medium organizations and it remains somewhat limited in the regions it can be used. Informatica PowerCenter is best for large enterprises that can utilize all of the numerous options PowerCenter has to offer. Large enterprises can more easily absorb the high cost and make better use of their current bundle licensing tier.
"The mass ingestion functionality and the elasticity of the solution are great."
"The most valuable features of the solution are pushdown, optimization, and partitioning, which can be used for frequent data loading, especially when we have a huge data volume in our company."
"The solution provides increased efficiency while still being user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The support is very good."
"We have a lot of integrations, and it's very easy to create integrations. They have a lot of connectors."
"It is quite easy to use and flexible."
"The most valuable features of Informatica Cloud Data Integration for our clients are the AI capabilities within Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services."
"Data synchronization tasks."
"UI-based ability to create data mapping."
"Good product if you are trying implement data quality, data integration, and data management projects."
"It has a Data Catalog that uses the Model repository."
"The features I find most valuable is that the solution is very user-friendly and the graphical design is very easy to understand."
"The most valuable features are the metadata repository and the data warehouse application console."
"It provides everything I need. Nothing is missing. PowerCenter is a good tool for on-premise databases."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"Technical support, and their approach is good. They have a support portal and support tickets. If you open a ticket it has multiple levels of severity from level one to very high or critical."
"Connectivity could be improved, it can be a little slow."
"Performance also needs to be significantly improved, especially when connecting to SFDC for read and write operations."
"I would like to see support for more data sources."
"There is room for improvement at the highest level in terms of useability and connectors for various types of new applications. The row processing performance could be better because you experience some latency dealing with high volumes of data. Most organizations will be dealing with multiple cloud applications, so you could see performance issues moving from one system to another."
"The current features are a bit complicated, and we need to write big scripts and test."
"One area where Informatica Cloud Data Integration could improve is in providing more accelerators for certain functionalities."
"With the solution, we had some issues, and we have every day, and we used to open a ticket. Sometimes, there are data issues and transformation issues."
"It could be improved by including a buffer that saves data when there is a connectivity issue."
"The solution must improve the integration with new services."
"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required, considering the fact that the present licensing charges of the tool are expensive."
"Integrated Reporting service should be more smoothly transitioned from view to function to be in sync with the main design."
"If you want to transfer a ZIP file, it is a pain. You need to use Command-Line. Sometimes we just want to transfer a file. It should be easy to move them from A to B."
"The solution can improve by providing more connectivity by having native ODBC or JDBC connections available. It will be easier and more people could start using it."
"We need another tool for monitoring. It would be easier if all the features were consolidated into one tool."
"While on-premises is a better product, we really need to move to the cloud and need the cloud to be as robust as this product."
"The real-time database connectivity when getting the real-time data using the VPN is an area that needs improvement."
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Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 18 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 30 reviews. Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 7.8, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "It has more connectors for various types of applications than some competing tools". 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". Informatica Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Fivetran, Mule Anypoint Platform and Matillion ETL, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks, AWS Glue and Informatica PowerExchange. See our Informatica Cloud Data Integration vs. Informatica PowerCenter report.
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Both are powerful solutions and most of the actions can be done by both.
You should choose based on your organization and the business requirements taking a valid decision in terms of the quality and price.
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