We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerExchange and Toad Data Point based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."The agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far."
"It is a scalable and versatile solution."
"The solution can connect to different systems i.e. mainframe, IMS or AS/400 Legacy Systems."
"The product's initial setup phase was not complex. The tool is easy to install onto any of the servers, and you can integrate it."
"Overall, it's a good tool. It's currently number one on the market. It pretty much has all the necessary capabilities to pull the incremental data from the source system, technically speaking."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"The product’s flexibility is valuable."
"The main benefit of PowerExchange is its native real-time capabilities. Competing tools are counting on third-party packages or Oracle to offer real-time capabilities. However, Informatica has a native ability to scan the data on the file system level and capture the changes almost instantly when I push it to the consumers. The solution has a powerful built-in replication engine."
"The most valuable features of Toad Data are you could write a parameterized query and it wouldn't error out, it would give you the parameters that you could input. The auto-formatting feature is useful because it was great for keeping your queries neat and understandable. The auto comment, and uncomment toggles that you could do were convenient."
"The Connectivity and Connection Manager supports a broad number of connection types, and it is trivial for end-users to set up their own connections to sources."
"Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,"
"The product is not suitable for application integration."
"Pushdown optimization could be improved."
"Integration with the largest number of databases and other systems would be important."
"The product's high costs can be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I would like to have easier integration with cloud platforms."
"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."
"The major shortcoming of PowerExchange is high availability and failover. None of the versions we've used to date have had the out-of-the-box ability to enable failover and high-availability requirements. This is a significant challenge and risk."
"On the scheduling server, some scheduled reports just sit there and never execute for the first time. After manually executing the first time, they run with no issues."
"Toad Data could improve by having additional features, such as query prediction. This could help someone who's not the strongest programmer. If the software could help them write queries correctly it would be very helpful, especially for small development teams or teams that lack the input skills necessary to write and program efficiently."
Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews while Toad Data Point is ranked 38th in Data Integration with 2 reviews. Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8, while Toad Data Point is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Toad Data Point writes "Easy to learn, good connectivity to multiple data sources, and helpful supprt". Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate, whereas Toad Data Point is most compared with SSIS, SAS Enterprise Guide, Alteryx, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and Azure Data Factory.
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