We compared Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica PowerExchange based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Informatica PowerCenter is praised for its excellent data integration capabilities, strong metadata management, and user-friendly interface, while the pricing and ROI are highlighted positively. In contrast, Informatica PowerExchange stands out for its seamless connectivity, robust performance, and flexibility, but users mention the need for improvements in UI, documentation, and error handling.
Features: Informatica PowerCenter stands out for its excellent data integration capabilities, efficient workflow design and strong metadata management. PowerExchange is highly valued for its seamless integration and connection of data sources, robust data transformation capabilities, and user-friendly interface.
Pricing and ROI: Informatica PowerCenter has a manageable setup cost and a straightforward licensing process, according to user feedback. On the other hand, Informatica PowerExchange offers reasonable pricing compared to other similar products. Its setup cost is straightforward and does not require extensive time or resources. In terms of licensing, it is customizable and adaptable to specific needs, allowing for flexible usage and scalability., Informatica PowerCenter has a highly positive ROI, resulting in improved data integration and management processes and increased efficiency. It offers comprehensive reporting capabilities for better decision-making. On the other hand, Informatica PowerExchange also provides a positive ROI by integrating with various systems and enhancing productivity. It ensures reliability and scalability for handling large data volumes. Both products optimize business processes and deliver value to users.
Room for Improvement: Informatica PowerCenter has room for improvement in its user interface, documentation, training resources, performance, and stability. On the other hand, Informatica PowerExchange needs enhancements in its user interface usability, reliability, documentation, error handling capabilities, and simplified functionality. Both products aim to improve user experience and streamline processes.
Deployment and customer support: Based on user feedback, the duration required to establish a new tech solution like Informatica PowerCenter can vary, with some users spending three months on deployment and others spending an extra week on setup. However, there are users who report a week for both deployment and setup, indicating these terms may refer to the same period. On the other hand, the user feedback for Informatica PowerExchange suggests that the implementation duration varies, with some users spending three months on deployment and others spending only a week on setup. There are also users who mention a week for both deployment and setup, suggesting these terms may refer to the same period and should not be assessed separately., Informatica PowerCenter and PowerExchange both excel in customer service. PowerCenter prioritizes users' needs, with prompt and efficient assistance. PowerExchange receives high praise for its excellent support team, reliable assistance, and valuable solutions to address issues.
The summary above is based on 36 interviews we conducted recently with Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica PowerExchange users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"One of the most valuable features for us is the metadata repository because it can easily understand the lineage of first target mapping. My company and I also find Informatica really easy to use—when a consultant joins our company, in just a few days to a few weeks, they can understand how to use it—so we prefer to use this ETL tool."
"The setup is straightforward."
"It is UI friendly and has all the advantages of an ETL tool."
"In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution."
"It has good standard features for ETL development."
"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."
"It works with any multi-databases, so it works with Sybase, SQL Server. Also, the performance is really good and it is easy to use."
"The scalability is excellent."
"Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"The main benefit of PowerExchange is its native real-time capabilities. Competing tools are counting on third-party packages or Oracle to offer real-time capabilities. However, Informatica has a native ability to scan the data on the file system level and capture the changes almost instantly when I push it to the consumers. The solution has a powerful built-in replication engine."
"The user interface and user experience are perfectly all right."
"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."
"Overall, it's a good tool. It's currently number one on the market. It pretty much has all the necessary capabilities to pull the incremental data from the source system, technically speaking."
"The data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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."
"This product is going to decommission in the next couple of years."
"We had to take on a large volume of data from the legacy Sybase system. This was taking a very long time, i.e., more than a day. We were trying to improve it with partitions to gpload, but we were told that we can't go more than four partitions."
"The pricing could be improved."
"I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption."
"Informatica PowerCenter is outdated and would benefit from modernization. They should have a very good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to AACF. Informatica PowerCenter there is no point in using it, you have to use a cloud version."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
"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."
"Informatica is very expensive in all aspects, so the pricing is something that could be improved."
"The connectivity with T24 core banking could be improved."
"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."
"Pushdown optimization could be improved."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"The solution needs better integration with other tools."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 30 reviews while Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 9 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes " Easy to install onto any server". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), whereas Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, Qlik Replicate, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory and SSIS. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Informatica PowerExchange report.
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