We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and WhereScape RED based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."It is very comprehensive in terms of connector and transformation capabilities from both a source and target perspective."
"The partitioning and optimization to help enhance our development is a very valuable aspect of Informatica PowerCenter."
"Good product if you are trying implement data quality, data integration, and data management projects."
"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."
"Informatica PowerCenter has been implementing mapping design, data flow, and workflow execution for years."
"I like the automated scheduling feature."
"Once you have learned Informatica, it is very easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"WhereScape is really helpful in terms of architecture data. Everything is one of automation. Two people can do thousands of tables in one day or two. It saves a lot of time."
"The tool supports multiple target update methods."
"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."
"Support is absolutely excellent, efficient, and timely."
"The most valuable feature is the metadata generated code."
"Quickly develops a data warehouse for our organization with documentation and can track back/forward features."
"This is a fantastically robust DW tool that will make you at least 10 times faster in producing a DW."
"Naturally produces a way to easily debug your DW data solutions."
"The performance of Informatica PowerCenter could improve."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"The UI is outdated and old-fashioned, at least in our current version. Also, we have experienced some stability issues with the Workflow Monitor application."
"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."
"It would be good to recreate the entire interface to make it easier for users to build workflows."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve on the documentation for the implementation. The documents provided are not very good for a new user."
"The scheduled jobs which are run by the WhereScape scheduler seem to be a strangely separate animal. Unlike all other WhereScape objects, jobs cannot be added to WhereScape projects. Also, unlike all other objects, jobs also cannot be deleted using a WhereScape deployment application."
"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."
"Technical support isn't the best."
"Customization could be better."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
"No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded ."
"Improve the object renaming ability (it works, but it could be more automated)."
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Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while WhereScape RED is ranked 48th in Data Integration. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while WhereScape RED 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 WhereScape RED writes "Quick to set up, flexible, and stable". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas WhereScape RED is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Matillion ETL, Denodo and Talend Open Studio.
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