We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and TIBCO BusinessWorks 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."Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"The technical support is excellent."
"The reliability of the product and the way of orchestration of different services is valuable to us."
"To me, what's most valuable in Informatica PowerCenter is the flexibility in building the integration pipeline. Usually, you need to have a platform to be able to integrate with different technologies, including legacy data such as the mainframe. The platform should also be rich enough to transform the data per your business requirement, with no restrictions. Rich integration and rich transformation capabilities are the two key capabilities in Informatica PowerCenter. The solution also offers ease of use. Another valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is the drag-and-drop integration because it's GUI-based, similar to IBM and Oracle."
"It is an excellent ETL tool."
"The most valuable features are the dynamic reading of the file metadata profile, and the ability to define business rules that are used to verify and validate the uploaded files."
"We have found the PowerCenter and B2B data transformation most valuable."
"Technical support is great. It's one of the reasons we really like them. When you compare support from IBM and support from Informatica, Informatica is much better."
"The ability to link to different technologies is valuable to us."
"Customer support is very efficient."
"It is a seamless and sophisticated tool."
"One of the most valuable features is data transformation. We have some legacy systems which are in old technology, like SOAP, whereas the new ones are in REST. So we use BusinessWorks to transform data from one format to another, from SOAP to REST."
"It is a very robust system."
"The solution is stable. We haven't had any serious technical issues."
"XML to JSON transformations, out-of-the-box, helps to build REST services."
"The Business Studio interface based on SCA Standards helps to show the business logic at first look and improve code maintenance."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"Integrated Reporting service should be more smoothly transitioned from view to function to be in sync with the main design."
"While Informatica is great for data-integration, it does not have any analytics features. Thus, organizations have to always look for another product for their BI needs."
"PowerCenter has three clients. I wish they would consolidate everything into one GUI, not three. Also, we had a persistent issue with the Informatica Developer tool but it was solved when we migrated to the newest one."
"The multiple interfaces in Informatica PowerCenter are not great for the user experience. Because of this, I think it can cause confusion for any beginner developer."
"Lacks ability to calculate cost of the product."
"Integrating new tools can be tricky and challenging."
"If we could have the option of performance improvement within Informatica, and if it could have more features, that would be ideal."
"Technical support is average. It's not the best."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The cost has room for improvement."
"The communication protocols could be improved."
"The Business Studio tool can be improved, which is the tool for designing the processes. Improving the Business Studio tool will make this solution more stable. It has a steep learning curve, and it is pretty tough to learn."
"Its price can be improved. For medium enterprises, it is a very expensive tool. In the market, you won't get many resources for this solution. You won't find many developers in the market very easily. The latest version of TIBCO (6.4 or 6.x) is not very stable. It has got many issues. We have raised this with TIBCO, and they are taking a lot of time to come up with a fix, which is making us move away from this product. Some of the performance-tuning aspects are also missing in version 6. They should provide performance-related fixes, which will be helpful for the customers. If you are migrating from the current version to the container-supported version, it is quite expensive. The product has evolved, but it is very pricey. That's one of the challenges. They have provided all the features that are there in other products, but this is a platform upgrade. The platform has completely been changed from 5.x to 6.x, and we can't use the same environment. We can't run both versions on the same server as VM. The development environment is entirely different. In version 5.x, there was a proprietary designer. Now, it has common plug-ins developed on top of Eclipse."
"Though it is a stable product, if we have an issue with the product, it gets difficult, and it gets really difficult to explain the issue to the support team. Also, it takes a long time to get resolved."
"Could be more user friendly in the development area."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while TIBCO BusinessWorks is ranked 18th in Data Integration with 23 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while TIBCO BusinessWorks 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 TIBCO BusinessWorks writes "Reliable integration solution with robust communication capabilities and good scalability". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas TIBCO BusinessWorks is most compared with webMethods Integration Server, Mule Anypoint Platform, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Confluent and SAP Process Orchestration. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. TIBCO BusinessWorks report.
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