I've evaluated Azure, Talend, and Data Exchange, but I found Informatica PowerCenter to be better than others. It's just that Informatica PowerCenter needs to have more progress on the cloud side.

When evaluating other solutions we found Informatica PowerCenter to be the most stable.

We had a major banking client, and Informatica PowerCenter is the go-to option when we are dealing with any kind of banking client. It provides the stability and very trustability factor for any kind of banking client's requirements.

We did evaluate other options before choosing Informatica PowerCenter. We selected Informatica PowerCenter because it fits the feature requirements of our customers. Additionally, the customization and integrations are easy compared to any other tool.

I did not evaluate other solutions. By the time I came to the company, this solution was already in use.

When I was in another bank, we selected Informatica which was a recommendation of a consultant. Informatica at that time was one of the best ETL tools, even though it was expensive. 

• Data Stage

• Ab Initio

• MicroStrategy

At the time, around ten years ago, we compared the product with the Oracle Data Warehouse builder, however, PowerCenter was a much better tool.

Many of its current competitors came into the picture after we installed this tool.

I evaluated Talend, which is an open-source data engineering and data integration platform. Comparing the two solutions, Informatica PowerCenter is still more robust and has an extendable platform. You can add other capabilities, such as data quality and so on, but if you'll be focusing only on data integration, Talend, especially coming from an open-source mindset, would be a good competitor.

My preference, because I had experience with IBM and Talend, would be Informatica PowerCenter because of the ease of use, flexibility, and features that come with it.

I evaluated Alteryx.

Choosing this solution was a little bit complex for us because there are a lot of different vendors in that space. We had to do a proper evaluation and negotiation to get to the solution that we needed. Some vendors offer a certain package, whereas others offer another package, and there are certain components from one vendor that we needed in the other one. There is where the complexity came from. In the end, we choose the one that we thought was the proper solution for us.

We evaluated the Pentaho solution.

When you want to convert all your company products into Microsoft, the equivalent to the Informatica product in Microsoft is SSAS. That's where the decision was made to go with the SSAS as the primary option, going forward.

I evaluated Oracle Data Integrator, Talend, and Microsoft Azure Data Factory.

I've only used Informatica PowerCenter.

We are also using IBM DataStage, Oracle Data Integrator, SAP Data Services. From project to project it's up to the customer.

We also looked at ODI (Oracle data integration).

We looked at IBM DataStage, Microsoft SSIS, and Oracle Data Integrator.

I did not evaluate other options.

There are a lot of other data integration tools available in the market. Based on our needs we have to choose which is applicable: Talend, SSIS, Ab Initio, DataStage, ODI (Oracle Data Integrator).

I was not involved with choosing the product.

Yes, we evaluated SSIS and IBM. We also looked at additional features in Informatica.