We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and JumpMind SymmetricDS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"We use Informatica PowerCenter to transfer the transitional database to and from the data warehouse. This is very efficient as it enables us to quickly find our data reports and the data, so we can build AI models."
"The interface is very clean and clear."
"We can scale the product."
"What I like most about Informatica PowerCenter is that it's the best tool in the market for data integration. Currently, I work in L'Oréal, where a new system from SAP is used. Informatica PowerCenter integration with SAP is very, very fast and very, very simple, so you have the server flow from SAP, and through Informatica PowerCenter, you can ingest the data and make that data available for the business more quickly."
"Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
"Has a good visual tool for data mapping."
"It has good standard features for ETL development."
"It is fully featured. It has allowed me to do everything I wanted to do."
"PowerCenter could integrate better with cloud applications. We had to do a lot of configuration work using API integrations to connect with cloud applications. Informatica Cloud Data Integration has a generic connector that you can use directly, so it's much easier."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"The documentation could be improved."
"Informatica are very rigid when it comes to cloud migrations which discourages customers in moving their solution to the cloud."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"The developer tool documentation can be enhanced with a more clear explanation of each utility, accompanied by relevant examples, so that developers are able to create programs with ease."
"The reputation of Informatica is that it is expensive."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"The user interface could improve. We are looking at some cloud-based databases, and I don't think they support that."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while JumpMind SymmetricDS is ranked 13th in Data Replication. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while JumpMind SymmetricDS is rated 9.0. 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 JumpMind SymmetricDS writes "Excellent change data capture utility for distributed multi site environment". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas JumpMind SymmetricDS is most compared with Oracle GoldenGate, AWS Database Migration Service, SSIS, Confluent and Azure Data Factory.
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