We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and SnapLogic based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the completeness of the way I can build ETL workflows."
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"Good product if you are trying implement data quality, data integration, and data management projects."
"I found the map links, work links, and workflows valuable. They are important features."
"The setup is very simple."
"Informatica PowerCenter has been implementing mapping design, data flow, and workflow execution for years."
"What I like the most is that we have to deal with less while writing the queries."
"It's a complete package, which is why we use this solution."
"The solution is easy to implement and easy to use. It's basically just drag and drop."
"You can use other languages, such as Python, and easily connect to other systems."
"SnapLogic is an IPA tool that leverages a low code environment to connect to multiple sources, extract data, and store it in Azure data lake."
"They are very good at building out new aspects according to customer requirements."
"By using snaps instead of functions in code, you can see the building blocks of the integration visually. This helps a lot."
"The API architecture makes it easy for orchestration."
"The product is easy to use and has many connectivity options."
"The solutions ability to connect "snaps" or components to the graphic user interface is very intuitive, prevents errors, and makes implementations easy."
"Requires an established data center because there is no option for software as a service."
"The reputation of Informatica is that it is expensive."
"If we could have the option of performance improvement within Informatica, and if it could have more features, that would be ideal."
"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."
"I would like to see improvements made to the custom transformations. It should be more open for users that want to write their own code and use cases."
"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."
"It would be better if I could do all the work within a single window. If I'm working on any mapping and if I have to switch to sessions, I have to open a new window altogether. If I have to get into workflows, I have to open a new window. It was also very expensive. In the next release, I would like it to be more user-friendly."
"It should be more cloud-centric than on-prem-centric."
"SnapLogic should have some inbuilt protocol mechanism in order to speed up."
"They should expand in terms of features for SaaS-based market requirements in different sectors."
"SnapLogic doesn't provide any on-premises software, so users have only cloud-based software to use."
"The solution isn't ideal for complex processing or logic. We use another solution for that."
"We'd like there to be more ways for users to get more comfortable and have more experience with the solution to make it easier to use."
"Connecting to data behind enterprise firewalls has been tricky."
"I don't think the support has better knowledge about technologies and tool support. There were lots of times when we had an issue, and it took me quite a long time to explain the problem. I feel like some of the support staff don't know their product well."
"What could be improved in SnapLogic is that it was not capable in terms of processing a large number of datasets, but at that point, SnapLogic was evolving. It didn't give a lot of Snaps. I heard recently there are a lot of Snaps getting added and the solution was being enhanced, particularly to connect different data sources. When I was working with SnapLogic six months to one year back, I faced the issue of it not being capable of handling a huge volume of datasets or didn't have much of Snaps, and that was the drawback. If there is any large number of data sets, that's based on or depends on your configuration. If it is a huge volume of data, other traditional ETL tools such as Informatica and Talend can process millions and billions of records, while in SnapLogic, the Snaplex fails or it returns an error in terms of processing that huge volume of data. Informatica, Talend, or any other ETL tool can run for hours in terms of jobs, while SnapLogic jobs fail when the threshold is reached. SnapLogic isn't able to withstand processing, but I don't know if that's still an issue at present, because the solution is getting enhanced and it's been more than six months to one year since I last worked with SnapLogic. There are now a lot of Snaps getting added to the solution, and if it can overcome the limitations I mentioned, SnapLogic could be the go-to tool because currently, it's not being used as much in organizations. It's being used comparatively less compared to other retail tools."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while SnapLogic is ranked 14th in Data Integration with 20 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while SnapLogic 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 SnapLogic writes "Easy to set up, easy to use, and is low-code". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas SnapLogic is most compared with Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Boomi AtomSphere Integration. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. SnapLogic report.
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