We performed a comparison between Informatica Data Integration Hub and Informatica PowerCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."The MDM solution is capable of integrating multiple systems, so it helped us to solve the purpose of centralizing the depository as well as the standardization of mass data. It takes away all the ambiguity around data integrity issues or all the process challenges which happen when every stage of a process uses a different source as master data."
"The technical support services are good."
"Performance and flexibility-wise, they're very user-friendly."
"It reduces a lot of legacy coding."
"Informatica PowerCenter is very good for integrating a huge amount of data in a very short duration, such as a minute. It is also very easy to use. After you provide the source and the target, mappings are automatically done, which makes it easy to use for the development team."
"It's a very powerful tool you can use to load data, get data, do the drawing between the tables, and put into the packet in a very fast way."
"Has a good visual tool for data mapping."
"I would recommend that others considering the solution go ahead and use it for any batch and high volume loads with complex transactions."
"If the systems get migrated or upgraded, the amount of resources required are very minimal. We can change the connections and establish a new connection. It's very helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the new Data Lake feature, which provides the basic capabilities needed."
"I found the map links, work links, and workflows valuable. They are important features."
"The initial setup was not very straightforward. Not complex, but not very simple either."
"When it comes to UI look and feel and user experience, Informatica is not as good as other solutions."
"They could provide more robust performance for data integration processes. It would help in improving the data quality more efficiently."
"There is a need to buy a separate license if one wishes to connect with some kind of SAP system, such as SalesForce."
"We had stability issues, mostly with JVM size."
"It should be more cloud-centric than on-prem-centric."
"What needs improvement in Informatica PowerCenter is the cloud experience because, nowadays, other companies, such as AWS, Azure, and Google, have more experience in the cloud. The pricing for Informatica PowerCenter on the cloud is also very expensive for customers, so some customers prefer open-source tools or lower-priced tools, such as Azure. From my point of view, Informatica must work on the pricing policy and review the policy on the cloud for Informatica PowerCenter or propose more tools with lower pricing. Clients want the automatic integration of Informatica PowerCenter with other tools. Currently, the integration process is manual, and you have to add other tools to facilitate the integration, especially with the DevOps methodology. You need scripts and tools for the integration, and you'll need to use other integration tools if you want automatic deployment for Informatica PowerCenter, so this is another area for improvement in the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for the integration with APIs to be simpler, because currently, the API integration feature of Informatica PowerCenter is very difficult. It's not intuitive. You have to facilitate API integration and the real-time streaming of messages in Kafka, for example, so that should be improved."
"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."
"This solution needs the functionality to do batch processing of data. It also lacks connectivity to NoSQL, unstructured data sources."
"Informatica are very rigid when it comes to cloud migrations which discourages customers in moving their solution to the cloud."
"Integrating new tools can be tricky and challenging."
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Informatica Data Integration Hub is ranked 37th in Data Integration with 3 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. Informatica Data Integration Hub is rated 8.0, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica Data Integration Hub writes "Excellent at standardizing mass data and capable of integrating with multiple solutions ". 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 Data Integration Hub is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Azure Data Factory, Mule Anypoint Platform, SAP Data Hub and SAS Data Management, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue.
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