We performed a comparison between Fivetran 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."The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."
"It is not like a traditional ETL, but it gives quite a lot of flexibility."
"The product is very easy to use and very easy to configure."
"Its arrays are powerful enough to handle migrations even when the replication is happening in the background, without causing any trouble with the ongoing traffic."
"The simplicity of the solution is its valuable feature."
"Fivetran's most valuable feature is replication."
"The most important feature of the solution is its ability to build data pipelines in less time."
"The general data ingestion is valuable. It's used for a lot of data. It provides about 90% of the data we use in our data warehouse without needing data engineering."
"It has all the advantages of the Cloud in that you can use it without worrying about infrastructure, upkeep, or upgrades."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The product is scalable and excellent for enterprise-level organizations."
"I like the fact that you can find almost any product connection that you need and the list is always expanding."
"Replication allows us to fully replicate all objects from Shop Floor Data Collection (SFDC) to in-house/on-premises database in one job."
"The solution's initial setup is quite straightforward."
"Their new licensing is very flexible. With Informatica Cloud, you have plenty of items under the same umbrella, such as services, offerings, data quality, and data masking. You have also got master data management and API management. What I really like about them is that you don't need to go to Informatica and say that you need a data integration module. You would say that you need iPaaS or Informatica Cloud. They'll then try to understand your needs and give you IPUs, which are the processing units. If I purchased a hundred IPUs from Informatica as a customer, I can use 70 IPUs for data integration. I would also need data quality, so I can use 10 IPUs for data quality. I can use the remaining 20 IPUs for API management. Down the line, if I see that my initial data integration needs for the development phase are met, then out of the 70 IPUs assigned for data integration, I can use 30 IPUs for data masking. I can shuffle these numbers in any way within the Informatica Cloud umbrella for the tenure for which I have subscribed to these IPUs. I can use all services the way I want. This flexibility is what I really love about Informatica. It also has got good connectors."
"The user interface which is very easy to use if we have any problems to solve."
"The documentation can be laid out better to make it easier to find things, and I really wish there was built-in support for changing passwords. Some features don't work as advertised for the platform/repository database, and HVR is not always the fastest at getting results."
"We use a separate tool for "reverse ETL", which is the opposite of what Fivetran does; it pushes data from your data warehouse back out to business applications. If Fivetran pulls data from those same applications, they should also enable users to push it back. I would love to do both ETL and reverse ETL in the same tool."
"Fivetran is very expensive for data sources with a lot of rows, such as email data. I would like to see cheaper pricing for data sources like that."
"I would like for them to incorporate additional transformations. A valuable aspect of the product is that it does inflight transformations and that could be expanded."
"The environment must be more development-friendly."
"Fivetran would be improved by adding the ability to integrate the data from third-party APIs."
"There was a random change to our contract in a unilateral manner after the first year. The overall cost of using Fivetran was then unclear and this is the reason I would not recommend this solution."
"It should have a few more monitoring functionalities."
"It would be helpful if there was a GenAI feature integrated into the system, especially regarding the data quality."
"Its features for partitioning and optimization could be better."
"While my company operates on the cloud, we have seen that Informatica Cloud Data Integration has some performance issues causing it to lag."
"Its pricing model can be improved. The response time from technical support can also be improved."
"Connectivity could be improved, it can be a little slow."
"One area that needs to improve is the user experience because it is very complex. The trial version is very complex so it's not easy to start using the program immediately. You must study the rules first."
"The cloud version could be better in terms of pricing."
"User/group administration could use improvement."
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Fivetran is ranked 7th in Cloud Data Integration with 19 reviews while Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews. Fivetran is rated 8.0, while Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fivetran writes "Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "A stable, scalable, and user-friendly solution". Fivetran is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory, Oracle GoldenGate and StreamSets, whereas Informatica Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Mule Anypoint Platform and Matillion ETL. See our Fivetran vs. Informatica Cloud Data Integration report.
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