Try our new research platform with insights from 80,000+ expert users
Informatica PowerCenter Logo

Informatica PowerCenter Reviews

Vendor: Informatica
4.0 out of 5
Badge Leader

What is Informatica PowerCenter?

Featured Informatica PowerCenter reviews

Informatica PowerCenter mindshare

Product category:
As of July 2025, the mindshare of Informatica PowerCenter in the Data Integration category stands at 8.5%, down from 11.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration

PeerResearch reports based on Informatica PowerCenter reviews

TypeTitleDate
CategoryData IntegrationJul 30, 2025Download
ProductReviews, tips, and advice from real usersJul 30, 2025Download
ComparisonInformatica PowerCenter vs Azure Data FactoryJul 30, 2025Download
ComparisonInformatica PowerCenter vs SSISJul 30, 2025Download
ComparisonInformatica PowerCenter vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)Jul 30, 2025Download
Suggested products
TitleRatingMindshareRecommending
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)4.04.2%93%185 interviewsAdd to research
Tableau4.2N/A89%307 interviewsAdd to research
 
 
Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

Room for Improvement

ROI

Pricing

Popular Use Cases

Service and Support

Deployment

Scalability

Stability

Review data by company size

By reviewers
By visitors reading reviews

Top industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
7%
Government
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
Retailer
5%
University
3%
Energy/Utilities Company
3%
Educational Organization
3%
Comms Service Provider
2%
Construction Company
2%
Media Company
2%
Hospitality Company
2%
Non Profit
2%
Consumer Goods Company
2%
Real Estate/Law Firm
2%
Transportation Company
2%
Performing Arts
2%
Legal Firm
2%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Wholesaler/Distributor
1%
Aerospace/Defense Firm
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Marketing Services Firm
1%

Compare Informatica PowerCenter with alternative products

Learn more about Informatica PowerCenter

Informatica PowerCenter customers

Related questions

 

Informatica PowerCenter reviews

Sort by:
NM
Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Informatica PowerCenter
Jun 19, 2025
Powerful data management techniques impress and support streamlined workflows

Pros

"The functions in Informatica PowerCenter that I have found most valuable are the way it manages the volume of data, the push down optimization, and the performance aspects of it, mostly related to parallelism techniques."

Cons

"With all these no code/low code platforms, Informatica still forces us to use the ANSI format of SQL for joins, especially left outer join."
PC
Professor of Economics of Informatic at CMAYOR
Verified user of Informatica PowerCenter
Mar 3, 2025
Enables seamless integration of diverse data sources for effective analysis

Pros

"My overall experience with Informatica PowerCenter is positive."
Find out what your peers are saying about Informatica PowerCenter. Updated April 2025
863,776 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Deepak Shiv - PeerSpot user
Resource Manager at Pyramid Consulting
Verified user of Informatica PowerCenter
Jun 4, 2024
Product version discussed: 10.5.1
Provides multiple transformations in one toolset and helpful when extracting data from multiple sources

Pros

"Error handling capability is quite good in Informatica PowerCenter because it provides a very detailed session log, which is really helpful to identify errors. "

Cons

"When I deal with very large amounts of data, there have been performance issues."
YT
Developer, Architect at L'Oreal
Verified user of Informatica PowerCenter
Oct 12, 2022
Product version discussed: 10.4
Stable, provides good support, and integrating it with other systems is very fast, but its pricing is expensive

Pros

"What I like most about Informatica PowerCenter is that it's the best tool in the market for data integration. Currently, I work in L'Oréal, where a new system from SAP is used. Informatica PowerCenter integration with SAP is very, very fast and very, very simple, so you have the server flow from SAP, and through Informatica PowerCenter, you can ingest the data and make that data available for the business more quickly."

Cons

"What needs improvement in Informatica PowerCenter is the cloud experience because, nowadays, other companies, such as AWS, Azure, and Google, have more experience in the cloud. The pricing for Informatica PowerCenter on the cloud is also very expensive for customers, so some customers prefer open-source tools or lower-priced tools, such as Azure. From my point of view, Informatica must work on the pricing policy and review the policy on the cloud for Informatica PowerCenter or propose more tools with lower pricing. Clients want the automatic integration of Informatica PowerCenter with other tools. Currently, the integration process is manual, and you have to add other tools to facilitate the integration, especially with the DevOps methodology. You need scripts and tools for the integration, and you'll need to use other integration tools if you want automatic deployment for Informatica PowerCenter, so this is another area for improvement in the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for the integration with APIs to be simpler, because currently, the API integration feature of Informatica PowerCenter is very difficult. It's not intuitive. You have to facilitate API integration and the real-time streaming of messages in Kafka, for example, so that should be improved."
HK
Developer and Team Lead at ZIM
Verified user of Informatica PowerCenter
Jan 31, 2024
A tool that offers great integration capabilities

Pros

"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."

Cons

"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required, considering the fact that the present licensing charges of the tool are expensive."
Lars Borchers - PeerSpot user
Senior BI Backend Developer at ALD Automotive Portugal
Verified user of Informatica PowerCenter
Jul 7, 2023
Product version discussed: 10.5.3
A stable and reliable product that provides a variety of features for data integration

Pros

"The reliability of the product and the way of orchestration of different services is valuable to us."

Cons

"The solution must improve the integration with new services."
Ramesh SV - PeerSpot user
Senior Technical Lead / Practise Architecht at TEKsystems (ex Aston Carter)
Verified user of Informatica PowerCenter
Sep 14, 2022
Product version discussed: 10.4
Simple integration, beneficial data transformation, and user-friendly

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is data transformation and user-friendliness."

Cons

"Informatica PowerCenter could improve the data threshold for large sets of data. Additionally, they should add real-time integration."
Katarzyna Palikowska - PeerSpot user
ETL Developer at Det Norske Veritas
Verified user of Informatica PowerCenter
Mar 22, 2023
Issue-free and reliable with good traceability

Pros

"The setup is straightforward. "

Cons

"While on-premises is a better product, we really need to move to the cloud and need the cloud to be as robust as this product."