We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Lake 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 process of using the tool's scalability option is well documented."
"We can scale the product."
"Among all the solutions I have used, I found Informatica PowerCenter to be much more stable in terms of application."
"It is very comprehensive in terms of connector and transformation capabilities from both a source and target perspective."
"It's a complete package, which is why we use this solution."
"Ease and speed of building integrations, especially integrations between different applications, such as our Hospital Information System."
"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."
"It provides everything I need. Nothing is missing. PowerCenter is a good tool for on-premise databases."
"Technical support is great. It's one of the reasons we really like them. When you compare support from IBM and support from Informatica, Informatica is much better."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Lake's setup process was complex since it doesn't support a lot of real-time systems."
"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."
"In the future, I would like to see Informatica PowerCenter integrate a more powerful dashboard."
"PowerCenter could be improved by having more big data components. Normally, we prefer Informatica as a relational database, but nowadays, companies are trying to understand and use big data components. I think it would be useful if we had more chances to create a hub ecosystem because customers try to use some data integration tasks by SQL, Spark and Spark codes, and Scala, but at the end of the day, the company will understand that we need to trace all the steps. An ETL tool is a must for that company, if we're talking about the regulated industries like finance, telcos, etc. If Informatica's biggest ecosystems feature were okay, I would prefer to use it."
"If we could have the option of performance improvement within Informatica, and if it could have more features, that would be ideal."
"Lacks ability to calculate cost of the product."
"There is a need to buy a separate license if one wishes to connect with some kind of SAP system, such as SalesForce."
"Areas for improvement in Informatica PowerCenter include scalability and high availability or the clustering configuration because that's still very basic. The elasticity or scaling of the platform needs a lot of improvement. For example, when it comes to DR handling or building an active-active or active-passive cluster, Informatica PowerCenter is still not that powerful. Automation also needs improvement in the solution. Improving automation leads to some improvement in the stability of Informatica PowerCenter and other aspects related to it. What I'd like to see in the next release of Informatica PowerCenter is real-time capability because the solution is mainly for patches, and to have real-time integration, you need to count on some additional components from Informatica. I would expect more integration and a complete platform in terms of real-time capability or patching with minimal interventions or minimal components to be aligned together."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Lake is ranked 41st in Data Integration with 1 review while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Lake is rated 7.0, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Lake writes "A scalable tool that needs a lot of maintenance due to its unstable nature". 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 Enterprise Data Lake is most compared with Palantir Foundry, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue.
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