We performed a comparison between ETL Solutions Transformation Manager and Informatica PowerCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Back in the day, we could only get reports and analyze what happened after the fact, but today now we can generate real-time insights. Transformation Manager feeds your data science projects. We generate models and then give them to the clients, so they can come up with real-time predictions and recommendations in addition to reporting."
"It is a reliable solution."
"It is among the best, even if not widely known."
"It is easy to use, and it is quick for developing things. It is fairly powerful, and it can integrate with a lot of different platforms without much hassle."
"The features I find most valuable is that the solution is very user-friendly and the graphical design is very easy to understand."
"The performance and design of Informatica have been very valuable. I find the performance faster than, say, Oracle Data Integrator or DataStage."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
"Informatica PowerCenter has been implementing mapping design, data flow, and workflow execution for years."
"Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"They should build a functional architecture based on queuing."
"Transformation Manager reporting could be better. There are better options for reporting tools these days. We use Microsoft BI sometimes, but Tableau is becoming too expensive. Microsoft BI's visualization features are maturing."
"There is room for improvement in the solution's visualization tool."
"The solution does not scale."
"We had stability issues, mostly with JVM size."
"It would be good to recreate the entire interface to make it easier for users to build workflows."
"Now they are migrating to a new version, and they have something that is called Informatica Developer. Previously, they just had PowerCenter. Now, when they move everything to Informatica Developer it's not as good or stable like it was when it was PowerCenter, though it has some nice features. This Developer tool could be better."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"The solution must improve the integration with new services."
"Support could be better."
"The documentation could be improved."
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ETL Solutions Transformation Manager is ranked 32nd in Data Integration with 3 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. ETL Solutions Transformation Manager is rated 9.0, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ETL Solutions Transformation Manager writes "It lets us create models so we can generate real-time predictions and insights for a our clients". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Stable, provides good support, and integrating it with other systems is very fast, but its pricing is expensive". ETL Solutions Transformation Manager is most compared with webMethods Integration Server, Axway AMPLIFY Application Integration, TIBCO Spotfire, Denodo and Altair Monarch, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue. See our ETL Solutions Transformation Manager vs. Informatica PowerCenter report.
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