We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and SAP Replication Server 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 found the map links, work links, and workflows valuable. They are important features."
"The performance and design of Informatica have been very valuable. I find the performance faster than, say, Oracle Data Integrator or DataStage."
"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."
"It has helped us monetize."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"The technical support is excellent."
"Technical support, and their approach is good. They have a support portal and support tickets. If you open a ticket it has multiple levels of severity from level one to very high or critical."
"SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience."
"It speeds up the performance in terms of how fast you are able to access the data, look at it, get it reported to you, and send it to somebody. It also reduces the amount of storage."
"SAP is renovating different things. We are using external tools to connect as of now. It is going well, and now the new generation integration platforms are going to be pretty easy."
"We can customize any workflow and we also like the business domain modeling that can be done."
"The real-time database connectivity when getting the real-time data using the VPN is an area that needs improvement."
"Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"The documentation could be improved."
"In the future, I would like to see Informatica PowerCenter integrate a more powerful dashboard."
"Integrated Reporting service should be more smoothly transitioned from view to function to be in sync with the main design."
"PowerCenter could be improved by having more big data components. Normally, we prefer Informatica as a relational database, but nowadays, companies are trying to understand and use big data components. I think it would be useful if we had more chances to create a hub ecosystem because customers try to use some data integration tasks by SQL, Spark and Spark codes, and Scala, but at the end of the day, the company will understand that we need to trace all the steps. An ETL tool is a must for that company, if we're talking about the regulated industries like finance, telcos, etc. If Informatica's biggest ecosystems feature were okay, I would prefer to use it."
"Integrating new tools can be tricky and challenging."
"Improvement is a never ending story, and HANA is doing some improvements. We are able to adopt that, and we have to do it by integration with HANA. They are very major changes that we need to see."
"I would like to see it become mobile-friendly."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing and faster support."
"The private solution is expensive. If you're in a situation where you're paying IBM or AWS or somebody just to host you specifically, you're paying people to run it and you're taking care of all the upgrades."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while SAP Replication Server is ranked 26th in Data Integration with 6 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while SAP Replication Server is rated 8.2. 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 Replication Server writes "Eliminates replication and allows you to use only one database, speeding up performance and reducing amount of storage". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas SAP Replication Server is most compared with Qlik Replicate, Oracle GoldenGate, Fivetran, SSIS and SAP Data Services. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. SAP Replication Server report.
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