Compare Informatica PowerCenter vs. webMethods Integration Server
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"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." "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 performance and design of Informatica have been very valuable. I find the performance faster than, say, Oracle Data Integrator or DataStage." "In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution." "The features I find most valuable is that the solution is very user-friendly and the graphical design is very easy to understand." "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." "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." "The most valuable feature is the new Data Lake feature, which provides the basic capabilities needed." | "We can arrange data caching and look at the solid state. Also, the API gateway is a very good component that can handle relevant cachings and integrations, as well as and also load permitting." "A product with good API and EDI components." "All of the components are very independent but are tied together to give the business value." "The most valuable feature is stability." "The tool is very powerful and user-friendly." "The solution has a very comprehensive and versatile set of connectors. I've been able to utilize it for multiple, different mechanisms. We do a lot of SaaS and we do have IoT devices and the solution is comprehensive in those areas." "One [of the most valuable features] is the webMethods Designer. That helps our developers develop on their own. It's very intuitive for design. It helps our developers to speed the development of services for the integrations." "Application integrations are offered out-of-the-box, and that is extremely important to us. This is one of the main use cases that we have for it. It is about 60 to 70 percent of the workload in our application today." |
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"The developer tool documentation can be enhanced with a more clear explanation of each utility, accompanied by relevant examples, so that developers are able to create programs with ease." "Now they are migrating to a new version, and they have something that is called Informatica Developer. Previously, they just had PowerCenter. Now, when they move everything to Informatica Developer it's not as good or stable like it was when it was PowerCenter, though it has some nice features. This Developer tool could be better." "As a connector to big data, it is not well developed. We've had problems connecting Informatica with Hadoop. The functionality to connect Informatica with Hadoop, for me it's not good." "Integration with Artificial Intelligence would benefit this solution." "I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption." "The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica." "Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections." "I found it is kind of weird that not all of the mapping changes are treated as true changes." | "We need more dashboards and reporting engines that can provide detailed information for management. In short, we need better analytics." "The interface needs some work. It is not very user-friendly." "The price should be reduced to make it more affordable." "Technical support is an area where they can improve." "I would like to have a dashboard where I can see all of the communication between components and the configuration." "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 solution has big instances when deployed under microservices or in a containerized platform. They need to improve that so that it is competitive with other integration solutions, like Redis and Kafka. Deployments under microservices with those solutions are much more lightweight, in the size of the runtime itself, compared with Software AG." "Upgrades are complex. They typically take about five months from start to finish. There are many packages that plug into webMethods Integration Server, which is the central point for a vast majority of the transactions at my organization. Anytime we are upgrading that, there are complexities within each component that we must understand. That makes any upgrade very cumbersome and complicated. That has been my experience at this company. Because there are many different business units that we are touching, there are so many different components that we are touching. The amount of READMEs that you have to go through takes some time." |
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"Price-wise, it's more expensive than SSIS, but it's a better tool, so it has more features. Licensing is on a yearly basis." "Its maintenance is expensive." "It's much more expensive, almost three times more expensive than most other solutions." "We are satisfied with the pricing." "I consider this to be an expensive product." | "It is expensive, but we reached a good agreement with the company. It is still a little bit expensive, but we got a better deal than the previous one." "The pricing and licensing costs for webMethods are very high, which is the only reason that we might switch to another product." "The vendor is flexible with respect to pricing." "This is an expensive product and we may replace it with something more reasonably priced." "It's a good deal for the money that we pay." "Currently, the licensing solution for this product is pretty straightforward. The way that Software AG has moved in their licensing agreements is very understandable. It is very easy for you to see where things land. Like most vendors today, they are transaction based. Therefore, just having a good understanding of how many transactions that you are doing a year would be very wise. Luckily, there are opportunities to work with the vendor to get a good understanding of how many transactions you have and what is the right limit for you to fall under." More webMethods Integration Server Pricing and Cost Advice » |
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| PowerCenter | |
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| Informatica | Software AG |
Overview | |
Enterprise data integration platform to help organizations access, transform, and integrate data from a variety of systems. | The award-winning webMethods Integration Server, our Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), is a complete enterprise application integration solution. It's standards-based so it "speaks" any technology. You can integrate any technology from any vendor: ERP systems, databases, mainframes and legacy apps. SaaS platforms, Web services, JMS messaging systems and packaged apps. |
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Learn more about Informatica PowerCenter | Learn more about webMethods Integration Server |
Sample Customers | |
| University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, LexisNexis, Rabobank | Fujitsu, Coca Cola, ING, Credit Suisse, Electrolux, GTA, CosmosDirekt |
Top Industries | |
Financial Services Firm18% Retailer14% Healthcare Company9% Computer Software Company9% Computer Software Company38% Comms Service Provider13% Insurance Company6% Financial Services Firm6% | Manufacturing Company19% Energy/Utilities Company19% Financial Services Firm13% Insurance Company13% Computer Software Company38% Comms Service Provider13% Energy/Utilities Company7% Retailer7% |
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Small Business14% Midsize Enterprise10% Large Enterprise76% Small Business2% Midsize Enterprise12% Large Enterprise86% | Small Business15% Large Enterprise85% |
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Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 1st in Data Integration Tools with 16 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in ESB with 9 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.2, while webMethods Integration Server is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Assists us with integration as we migrate from on-premise to cloud, but it needs a performance analyzer". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods Integration Server writes "Its single hybrid-integration platform makes it easy to troubleshoot and quickly resolve issues. Upgrades are complex". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Informatica PowerExchange, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus, IBM Integration Bus, SAP Process Orchestration and Talend Open Studio.
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