We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Rivery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."It has a Data Catalog that uses the Model repository."
"It is very comprehensive in terms of connector and transformation capabilities from both a source and target perspective."
"Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"It has very good monitoring and process monitoring."
"The support is valuable. There are also open-source ETL products, which work very well, but there is no support. When we face a production problem, being able to get support is valuable, and it brings efficiency. With an open-source solution, we can't engage anyone to resolve the problem as quickly as possible."
"UI-based ability to create data mapping."
"Deployment was simple and straightforward."
"Connects to many APIs in the market and new ones are being added all the time."
"If we could have the option of performance improvement within Informatica, and if it could have more features, that would be ideal."
"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."
"The reputation of Informatica is that it is expensive."
"Its interface can be modernized. It is an old product. I have been working with it for 14 years, and it still looks the same. It hasn't been modernized much. It also needs to handle more modern formats, such as JSON files. It works with the old text files and databases, but it does not always work with the newer, modern stuff. You need to make your own programs to support that kind of stuff. Support is also a kind of difficult with Informatica. They don't do direct support and rely on using their distributors around the globe for support, which means that you kind of have to go through this layer of different companies before you get help."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"The solution's commercial cost is very high. Other open-source tools can do the tool's functions for free. The world is moving to the cloud, but the solution hasn't updated its drivers. I presume that its downfall will start soon. The tool is trying to cross-sell or upsell without helping customers derive benefits from the existing products. They have multiple tools and licenses. It is better to bring the smaller tools in one umbrella."
"The solution could have better documentation on basic steps or blocks that specify what to do."
"We need another tool for monitoring. It would be easier if all the features were consolidated into one tool."
"Lineage and an impact analysis or logic dependency are lacking."
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Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Rivery is ranked 59th in Data Integration. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Rivery 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 Rivery writes "Great logic and the ability to call outside API if needed. Key feature is management of different sources". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Rivery is most compared with AWS Glue, Alteryx Designer and Azure Data Factory.
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