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We performed a comparison between Boomi AtomSphere Integration, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, and Zapier based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"AtomSphere Integration will suit those looking for small automation and simple integrations.""The product's initial setup phase was easy.""The platform is user-friendly.""The iPaaS functionality is very mature. The browser based IDE is also very mature and stable.""It's very user-friendly and designed to be easy to use for the end user.""The tool's most valuable features I've found are related to debugging and testing. It makes it easy to track execution, documents, and process history. This functionality is particularly useful for identifying issues with data and providing insights to the business.""Very effective with its drag-and-drop feature.""I really appreciate the on-the-go access through the browser and the B2B integration."

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"The product improves data quality.""The user interface which is very easy to use if we have any problems to solve.""The most valuable features of the solution are pushdown, optimization, and partitioning, which can be used for frequent data loading, especially when we have a huge data volume in our company.""It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.""The support is very good.""REST API: Excellent for scripting control and reporting mechanisms""Data integration is the most valuable feature. The ability to connect to any of the sources and enterprise applications makes our lives easier.""Informatica Cloud Data Integration is stable."

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"There are a few valuable features, like the stability that it comes with and also the number of features that it offers. I've used other services like Pabbly, but they don't offer similar numbers of applications that Zapier has or allows to integrate with – it's maximum.""The product's most valuable feature is automation.""The ability to connect web applications to trigger actions in another app after having enriched, formatted, delayed, grouped, and filtered is really valuable for many businesses.""Zapier handles everything under the sun that you would think you need in automation. It is the most mature integration platform and service on the market.""Zapier’s most valuable feature is its ability to interconnect applications or devices.""The solution is a SaaS and does not require a complex setup.""What's most valuable in Zapier is its simplicity, seamlessness, and smooth plug-in, so you won't need to build code for every action. I'm not a developer, but I can use Zapier.""Zapier is a really good tool for connecting multiple different platforms and data sources. For example, with Quickbase, I can easily integrate data from other sources like AWS or task-tracking platforms such as ClickUp or Asana."

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Cons
"The solution is complex. There's a few items and features that are hard to understand. They should work to simplify the functionality so new users don't struggle.""There should be more scripting possibilities.""The deployment was simple, but the implementation is missing a lot of capabilities.""We encountered stability issues occasionally, one to two times a year.""It crashes if we run high-volume integration.""There are very few string handling functions and few mathematical functions are available.""Documentation could be improved.""There are still some areas that need improvement. For example, when updates are going on, the product becomes very slow."

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"The integration process is not easy.""I have received feedback from certain teams and there is a steep learning curve to use this solution.""It would be helpful if there was a GenAI feature integrated into the system, especially regarding the data quality.""Certain applications are not being synced with the ION.""While my company operates on the cloud, we have seen that Informatica Cloud Data Integration has some performance issues causing it to lag.""I would also like to have profiling functionalities and quality transformations in the cloud.""User/group administration could use improvement.""The cloud version could be better in terms of pricing."

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"Zapier needs more YouTube or video tutorials or more training for people. That would help a lot. In particular, Zapier should have documentation for every connector. Its documentation needs to be more detailed and visual.""Being able to share Zaps and organize them with teammates would allow sharing and refining scenarios and even combining steps that require different people's credentials.""Some apps are not available yet. For instance, a connection with Joomla! would be great. In general, all the most-used apps are available, but I bumped into Joomla! with a client.""I think that this solution should have more apps connected to it.""At the moment, they allow a limited number of apps. I look forward to getting more apps for each package.""With Zapier, improvements are required in the areas of concerns like bugs, ease of use, and documentation.""My biggest concern with Zapier would be their pricing strategy.""Zapier could be a little faster, but that might not be possible. I would encourage Zapier to make more API endpoints for each application"

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The Platinum package is good for licensing, but I’m not sure about the cost and improvements."
  • "They do not charge by the number of people using the software (client-server model), but rather they charge based on the number of connections used. This makes it very cost effective."
  • "The licensing model of Dell Boomi is based on a ‘pay-per-use’ model."
  • "This solution is very economical (based on the connections)."
  • "The pricing is a bit complex. While the entry fee may be lower than other solutions, it could be expensive depending on your usage."
  • "When it comes to pricing, it's not so much about being less expensive as it is about how they don't tie to the hardware on the underlined VMware that you run on, as other vendors do"
  • "The cost of the solution is in the neighborhood of $20,000 annually. There are no costs above the standard licensing fee."
  • "Approximately 20k annually."
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  • "It is cost effective and an easily accessible tool."
  • "The pricing structure is good, but having to pay for extra drivers to be used in an ICS environment makes me a little nervous."
  • "Licensing is difficult to understand, but the team is always available to explain anything. They are very helpful."
  • "My understanding is that Informatica is quite expensive compare to other tools that are available in the market."
  • "Our customers sometimes are able to negotiate a much better price for Informatica Cloud Data Integration based on their relationship with the vendor."
  • "Its pricing model can be improved."
  • "I'm not sure about the most recent pricing trends, but I don't believe it's significantly different from PowerCenter. I believe it is nearly the same."
  • "The price of Informatica Cloud Data Integration could be reduced."
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  • "There is a free plan that is, of course, limited. However, it allows you to understand and check true scenarios for a while."
  • "Think your Zaps through to make sure you don't use more Zaps than you need."
  • "It's very straightforward licensing. There's only one cost you have to pay, and if you want a relevant pricing plan, I think you have two or three different models or packages which include the number of notifications or Zaps, as they call it, that you can program."
  • "The price of Zapier is approximately $75 monthly."
  • "Zapier is a paid service. Its license renews monthly, and Zapier will downgrade your subscription to the free version when your credit card doesn't have funds. That significantly impacts your service because everything halts completely. Zapier doesn't have any hidden costs."
  • "Per task, there is a monthly plan involving 15 euros...Also, in different forms, they just give you the ability to use different features. They charge 18.58 euros for the first standard plan, which includes 750 tasks. So, it is about 25 cents per task."
  • "It's very affordable."
  • "The least expensive plan is $24 a month, and you can go all the way to $800 a month if you're a huge company using many tasks."
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    Top Answer:I have worked as an Integration Architect/Developer for many years and have used Mulesoft, Boomi, Informatica, Workato… more »
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    Top Answer:The product's most valuable feature is automation.
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    Overview

    The Boomi AtomSphere integration platform as a service (iPaaS) supports all your application integration processes – between cloud platforms, software-as-a-service applications, and on-premises systems. Your entire team has online access to a powerful range of integration and data management capabilities, that can be realized in a fraction of the time of legacy middleware technologies.

    Informatica Cloud Data Integration is a cloud-native cloud data integration solution that enables users to connect a large number of applications and data sources across on-premises and integrate the data sources at scale on the cloud. The product is built on microservices-driven management and integration platform as a service (iPaaS) and assists organizations to govern costs, increase productivity and collaboration, and simplify their experience. Informatica Cloud Data Integration allows companies to deliver data and analytics to lines of business in a timely manner, build data warehouses on Amazon Redshift, Google Cloud BigQuery, Snowflake, and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, and utilize the required data integration patterns, including elastic processing, extract, load, and transform (ELT), and extract, transform, and load (ETL).

    The solution allows users to to build enterprise-scale integration workloads within hours while it improves the productivity of development teams by providing them a codeless, drag-and-drop user interface. Companies can benefit from integration features built for data warehousing and optimized connectors for bulk loads of billions of records. Informatica Cloud Data Integration offers organizations the option of going serverless at scale by allowing them to process data integration jobs from cloud-hosted as well as managed environments. The Spark-based engine allows the solution to handle high-volume data demands and complex data integration tasks.

    Informatica Cloud Data Integration Features

    Informatica Cloud Data Integration provides its users with various features and tools. Among the key capacities of the product are:

    • Advanced Pushdown Optimization: Informatica Cloud Data Integration offers a feature that provides users with the benefits of ELT while maintaining their data flow definitions at a logical or abstract level. This feature allows users to choose a runtime option that complies with the workload as well as send their data processing work to cloud ecosystem pushdown, cloud data warehouse pushdown, Spark serverless processing, or traditional ETL.

    • Connectors for all major data sources: This feature provides out-of-the-box connectivity to a large number of cloud and on-premise systems, data stores, analytics and BI tools, and enterprise and middleware applications.

    • Data transformation capabilities: This feature allows users to process data transformation in real time or batch by using a variety of transformation types, such as cleansing, masking, aggregation, fileting, parsing, and ranking.

    • Spark-based complex data integration: Informatica Cloud Data Integration Elastic allows specialists to use elastic clusters to process their data transformation.

    • Codeless integration: This feature facilitates the creation of simple-to-sophisticated data integration projects with a visual mapping designer that speeds up pre-build transformations for development through a variety of endpoints across cloud and on-premises.

    • Serverless data integration: Users can achieve cloud data integration in a mode called Advanced Serverless, where they can benefit from a fully managed environment with no software, no cloud administration, and no servers or clusters to manage.

    • Taskflow orchestration: This feature allows users to combine batch and real-time integration through a taskflow designer in order to create simple-to-sophisticated orchestrations.

    • Intelligent structure discovery: This feature uses the CLAIRE engine to automatically understand the parsing model for complicated files based on their structure.

    • Change data capture: Utilizing the prebuilt task wizards and Change Data Capture tool, users can automatically pull only the updated or incremental data from source systems to the targets on a frequent basis.

    • Security: The product offers various features which ensure the highest level of data and workload security and comply with various policies.

    Informatica Cloud Data Integration Benefits

    Informatica Cloud Data Integration brings multiple benefits to its users. These include:

    • The product offers optimized connectivity to various systems through custom build-connectors.

    • Users can benefit from improved elasticity and performance by utilizing Spark clusters and auto-tuning.

    • The tool allows developers to focus on business logic by facilitating infrastructure management through serverless deployment features.

    • Informatica Data Cloud Integration provides user flexibility by connecting to any database, cloud data lake, on-premise apps, and data warehouses.

    • Through a zero-coding environment and role-appropriate user experience, the solution is suitable for all types of users.

    • The solution offers consistent experience and unified metadata across all cloud services.

    • Users can leverage enterprise-level performance for integration design with no coding required.

    • Informatica Data Cloud Integration scales as a business grows, providing a high level of adaptability.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Divya R., a senior consultant at Deloitte, rates Informatica Cloud Data Integration highly because it is a UI-based tool with great scripting.

    A data architect at a retailer likes Informatica Cloud Data Integration because of its flexible licensing, good connectors, and timely upgrades and patches.

    Zapier is a tool for primarily non-technical users to connect together web apps.

    An integration between two apps is called a Zap. A Zap is made up of a Trigger and one or more Actions or Searches.

    Whenever the trigger happens in one app, Zapier will automatically perform the actions or searches in another app in order.

    Zaps are very lightweight and easy to set up. Zaps do not import or export old data (they only operate on new items created after the Zap is enabled). Zaps are also not kept in sync ("two way syncing") after the Zap is triggered.

    Zaps are deceivingly simple if you're used to dealing with complex and difficult integrations. Their simplicity is what enables anyone to create them.


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    DocuSign Inc., Innotas, Certent, Renesas Electronics America (REA), Kelly-Moore Paints, Mindjet, City of McKinney, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (RBA), Daylight Transport, A10 Networks
    Chicago Cubs, Telegraph Media Group
    BuzzFeed, Groupon, Spotify, Columbia University, FOX
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    Pharma/Biotech Company21%
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    Financial Services Firm16%
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    Computer Software Company21%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Financial Services Firm6%
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise54%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise63%
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