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"Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"The most complex task, in this case, was to read and transform BLOB data, and Java transformation in Informatica Power Center was a great solution."
"We can scale the product."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is data transformation and user-friendliness."
"The most valuable feature is the new Data Lake feature, which provides the basic capabilities needed."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its stability and user-friendliness, making it easy to manage."
"The real-time database connectivity when getting the real-time data using the VPN is an area that needs improvement."
"It would be nice to have all tools in one place. CDC needs more effort, as it's only easy to develop if you are familiar with Linux."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
"The product lacks the ability to manage universal connectivity, so it needs to be made better for users."
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Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 5th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards is ranked 19th in Data Visualization with 1 review. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards is rated 8.0. 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 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards writes "An easy scalable, highly stable and user-friendly tool useful for operational reporting". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards is most compared with Apache Superset and SAP Lumira.
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