We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and webMethods Integration 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 like the completeness of the way I can build ETL workflows."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"Good product if you are trying implement data quality, data integration, and data management projects."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is data transformation and user-friendliness."
"It provides everything I need. Nothing is missing. PowerCenter is a good tool for on-premise databases."
"The interface is very clean and clear."
"The ability to scale through partitions helped us to improve the performance."
"The setup is straightforward."
"It is a bundled product stack for A2A and B2B usage. It is one of the best products which I have used during my integration career."
"The tool is very powerful and user-friendly."
"Operationally, I consider the solution to be quite good."
"Given that you have one integration API in place, it takes very minimal effort to scale it to any other application that might want to use the same. Its flow-based development environment is a breeze and makes it really easy to re-use most of the existing components and build up a new API."
"They are the building blocks of EAI in SAG products, and they offer a very good platform."
"The most valuable feature of webMethods Integration Server is all the capabilities it provides. We leverage most of the features, that they have offered to us. Our vendor has made some additional features on top of the webMethods Integration Server and we use all the features together."
"The stability is good."
"The product supports various types of digital documents, including XMLs and EDI."
"We had stability issues, mostly with JVM size."
"Informatica, in my opinion, is very rigid and not very flexible, whereas platforms like Alteryx or Matillion are very flexible and agile."
"The solution must improve the integration with new services."
"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."
"Support could be better."
"Some of the conversions are done inside the product. We use work tables that are created by the engine itself, but the names of the work tables are very long, and they don't have any meaning, which makes it a bit difficult to understand and follow exactly what is happening inside."
"It should be more cloud-centric than on-prem-centric."
"In the future, I would like to see Informatica PowerCenter integrate a more powerful dashboard."
"On the monitoring side of things, the UI for monitoring could be improved. It's a bit cumbersome to work with."
"Business monitoring (BAM) needs improvement because the analytics and prediction module very often has performance problems."
"Large file handling is pretty hard comparatively to other middleware tools."
"In terms of scale, I would give it a four out of 10."
"The stability of the various modules of the product suite have been a bit of a concern lately. Though their support team is always easy to reach out to, I would prefer it not come to that."
"The logging capability has room for improvement. That way, we could keep a history of all the transactions. It would be helpful to be able to get to that without having to build a standalone solution to do so."
"The market webMethods Integration Server falls under is a very crowded market, so for the product to stand out, Software AG would need to get traction in the open source community by releasing a new version or a base version and open source it, so people can create new custom components and add it to the portfolio."
"The Software AG Designer could be more memory-efficient or CPU-efficient so that we can use it with middle-spec hardware."
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Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while webMethods Integration Server 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 webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB and TIBCO BusinessWorks. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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