The valuable features are access path and accessibility. The population of data is fast. It handles big data better than competitors like SSIS. If you move ten terabytes of data, PowerExchange can do that easily.

The major challenge we faced was to install the agent on application databases. Using PowerExchange, we were able to install the agent in the PDC installation process. Our CD server manages the PowerExchange server, which captures data from the application databases in near real-time. The agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far.

The change data capture is the most important feature of this product.

It offers a simple initial setup.

The scalability is excellent. 

It's stable.

Technical support is great. 

The product’s flexibility is valuable. It supports open APIs. It has multiple native connectors with different systems. We can also write APIs to connect to different systems. The flexibility of connecting to different systems is the biggest advantage of the tool. It is one of the best data integration tools in the market.

CDC lets customers get updates on their data quite fast. It captures the data from the last read data up to the new read data. It captures the data change and provides updates faster. These updates are much faster than uploading the data. The incremental data makes data capturing much faster.

Data transformation and mapping complexity are very crucial. Data is available in different systems in all formats. The format can be structured or non-structured. It can be PDFs, images, social media feeds, or vector DBs. PowerExchange can handle all sorts of formats.

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.

There are elements related to the fast-paced movement of data. If you combine PowerExchange with Change Data Capture (CDC), in a very fast-moving batch, PowerExchange does a good job, although it doesn't quite support that in real-time. 

The transforms and the objects that are a part and parcel of PowerCenter help speed up the development and design and also help with better performance. If you are able to club it with a very high-performing database underneath, then you get the best of both worlds through a pushdown optimization mechanism. You can exploit Informatica's innate and native transformation capabilities. You can also exploit the underlying databases, scalability, and fast processing capabilities. These things come seamlessly with PowerExchange. PowerExchange has implemented this in PowerCenter on Teradata very effectively. It's one of the best combinations for pushdown optimization where you utilize the transformation engine of Informatica, and you have a very powerful Teradata underneath. The entire Teradata construct and architecture is quite strong in terms of processing, fast movement, etc. You are able to establish the best of both worlds.

The pushdown feature is valuable. We use pushdown after transferring and when we use TPT. It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools. It is the best solution.

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.

They wanted to load data continuously, so the jobs were run twenty-four hours per day because the volume of data was huge. The big transformations were made in a data warehouse for this project and it was very fitting to do this. So the transformation work called for Informatica PowerExchange. It was easy to work with this and very stable.

A valuable feature is the way it utilizes a push down optimization. This teradata is a fantastic combination of BDO and I think is one of the features which has really been very prominent and very effective. You're using the Hadoop ecosystem to do a significant amount of necessary processing and you're using the internal transformation engine of Informatica to do that. 

Another feature of the solution is coupling up and seamlessly driving the underlying stock jobs or scoop jobs which are essentially executable within the Hadoop ecosystem. This provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation. 

A further element is the underlying metadata and the monitoring and auditing components which Informatica provides. If you're running a complex next gen, powerful analytics and modern BI analytics platform or an ecosystem, then I think these three things along with the integration with external sources and external components is seamless in terms of an SMS engine or an email or even offering integration with WhatsApp.

Along with that, Informatica has been trying to spread its tentacles across stuff like Data Life Cycle Management and a lot of things in MDM, etc. Overall it's a rich toolkit and covers a very wide aspect of data management.

The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources. I leverage everything in terms of connectors to big data such as DBMS, RDBMS, and conversion to COBOL format. 

The target system is Legacy Systems.

The performance when doing data transformations is good.

The user interface and user experience are perfectly all right.

The most valuable features are functionality and support.

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.

Overall, I am pretty satisfied.

Mainstream integration and real-time integration are the best features.

The data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature.