We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and TIBCO Scribe based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"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."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"The features I find most valuable is that the solution is very user-friendly and the graphical design is very easy to understand."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The technical support for Informatica PowerCenter is good."
"It is an excellent ETL tool."
"It provides monitoring and we can therefore be aware of what is happening when we are handling jobs."
"The most valuable feature of TIBCO Scribe is the connectors available to various products."
"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."
"If you want to transfer a ZIP file, it is a pain. You need to use Command-Line. Sometimes we just want to transfer a file. It should be easy to move them from A to B."
"The pricing could be improved."
"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."
"I found it is kind of weird that not all of the mapping changes are treated as true changes."
"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."
"Lacks ability to calculate cost of the product."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"The solution should provide better documentation and scenario-based samples."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while TIBCO Scribe is ranked 46th in Data Integration with 1 review. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while TIBCO Scribe is rated 6.0. 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 Scribe writes "A cloud solution that has a lot of connectors, but it should provide better documentation and scenario-based samples". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas TIBCO Scribe is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Tray.io and Jitterbit Harmony .
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