We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerExchange 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."The transformation work called for Informatica PowerExchange. It was easy to work with this and very stable."
"The agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far."
"From the product feature or product capability perspective, the aspects around integration, transformation, and standardization are valuable. It's fairly easy to use. It has a GUI-based interface."
"The user interface and user experience are perfectly all right."
"Mainstream integration and real-time integration are the best features."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation."
"The product’s flexibility is valuable."
"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 most valuable feature is stability."
"From a user perspective, the feature which I like the most about Integration Server is its designer."
"It’s fairly easy to view, move, and mange access across different components. Different component types are categorized and can be viewed in a web based administration console."
"What I found most valuable in webMethods Integration Server is that it's a strong ESB. It also has strong API modules and portals."
"Application integration, business process integration, and B2B partner integration are valuable. But among these, I feel B2B partner integration is the most valuable. This module integrates two business partners and exchanges data through electronic data interchange messages in the form of specific standards, without any manual process needed."
"I would say the core Web-based integrations work the best. They are the most efficient and robust implementations one can do with webMethods."
"What I like best about webMethods Integration Server is its portfolio of connectors."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"Informatica is very expensive in all aspects, so the pricing is something that could be improved."
"Integration with the largest number of databases and other systems would be important."
"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."
"The product is not suitable for application integration."
"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."
"The product's high costs can be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution needs better integration with other tools."
"I would like to have a dashboard where I can see all of the communication between components and the configuration."
"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."
"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."
"When migration happens from the one release to an upgraded release from Software AG, many of the existing services are deprecated and developers have to put in effort testing and redeveloping some of the services. It would be better that upgrade releases took care to support the lower-level versions of webMethods."
"The interface needs some work. It is not very user-friendly."
"webMethods Integration Server could improve on the version control. I'm not sure if Web Method has some kind of inbuilt integration with Bitbucket or GitHub or some kind of version control system. However, that's one area where they can improve."
"For code version control, you need to use some external software."
"On the monitoring side of things, the UI for monitoring could be improved. It's a bit cumbersome to work with."
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Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8, while webMethods Integration Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". 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 PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Boomi AtomSphere Integration. See our Informatica PowerExchange vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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