We performed a comparison between Confluent and Informatica Cloud Data Integration based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Confluence's greatest asset is its user-friendly interface, coupled with its remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate with a vast range of other solutions."
"I find Confluent's Kafka Connectors and Kafka Streams invaluable for my use cases because they simplify real-time data processing and ETL tasks by providing reliable, pre-packaged connectors and tools."
"I would rate the scalability of the solution at eight out of ten. We have 20 people who use Confluent in our organization now, and we hope to increase usage in the future."
"The most valuable is its capability to enhance the documentation process, particularly when creating software documentation."
"Their tech support is amazing; they are very good, both on and off-site."
"Implementing Confluent's schema registry has significantly enhanced our organization's data quality assurance."
"The benefit is escaping email communication. Sometimes people ignore emails or put them into spam, but with Confluence, everyone sees the same text at the same time."
"The documentation process is fast with the tool."
"The features I find most valuable is the synchronization, verification, functionalities and all the data integration features."
"The most valuable feature is the building of mockups and tasks."
"REST API: Excellent for scripting control and reporting mechanisms"
"The support is very good."
"Data synchronization tasks."
"The program is stable and scalable."
"I do a quite a lot of data transformations, and the fact that I can do them without changing any of my SQL queries from the code, using the inbuilt tools, is very helpful."
"The Mapping Configuration and PowerCenter wizards are valuable. We use them to run our business logic."
"The Schema Registry service could be improved. I would like a bigger knowledge base of other use cases and more technical forums. It would be good to have more flexible monitoring features added to the next release as well."
"It requires some application specific connectors which are lacking. This needs to be added."
"The product should integrate tools for incorporating diagrams like Lucidchart. It also needs to improve its formatting features. We also faced issues while granting permissions."
"The pricing model should include the ability to pick features and be charged for them only."
"In Confluent, there could be a few more VPN options."
"there is room for improvement in the visualization."
"Confluent has a good monitoring tool, but it's not customizable."
"It could have more themes. They should also have more reporting-oriented plugins as well. It would be great to have free custom reports that can be dispatched directly from Jira."
"The vendor should have more training resources: online classes, free tutorial videos, etc."
"A general improvement in icons and the virtual interface would be good."
"I would like to see support for more data sources."
"I would like to see more functionality added so that it is a bit closer to how much you can do with Informatica PowerCenter."
"There may be some types of limitations with the performance."
"The cloud version could be better in terms of pricing."
"The error information provided is not informative, as compared to Power Center."
"There is room for improvement at the highest level in terms of useability and connectors for various types of new applications. The row processing performance could be better because you experience some latency dealing with high volumes of data. Most organizations will be dealing with multiple cloud applications, so you could see performance issues moving from one system to another."
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Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 21 reviews while Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews. Confluent is rated 8.4, while Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Confluent writes "Has good technical support services and a valuable feature for real-time data streaming ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "A stable, scalable, and user-friendly solution". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas Informatica Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Fivetran and IBM Cloud Pak for Data. See our Confluent vs. Informatica Cloud Data Integration report.
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