We performed a comparison between Fivetran and Informatica PowerExchange 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."The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."
"The ease of usability is the most valuable feature. It's very easy and quick to set up. It also has a central hub as opposed to GoldenGate which is one direct interface. For GoldenGate I would have needed three interfaces whereas with HVR I have a central interface that manages everything."
"Fivetran is remarkably easy to use; I haven't encountered any other data integration tool that is as user-friendly."
"Making the decision to implement Fivetran was supported by the fact that they have better connectors than other competitors."
"The compare feature is the most valuable piece of it."
"The product has some seamless connectors, which are readily available."
"The solution is stable. We've never faced any stability issues."
"Fivetran can perform data migration incredibly fast, depending on the source and target."
"The scalability is excellent."
"The agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far."
"This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."
"The solution can connect to different systems i.e. mainframe, IMS or AS/400 Legacy Systems."
"From the product feature or product capability perspective, the aspects around integration, transformation, and standardization are valuable. It's fairly easy to use. It has a GUI-based interface."
"Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation."
"It is a scalable and versatile solution."
"The product's initial setup phase was not complex. The tool is easy to install onto any of the servers, and you can integrate it."
"Fivetran should add more connectors because its competitors, like Airbyte, have more connectors."
"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."
"It should have a few more monitoring functionalities."
"The customization could improve because Fivetran gives more thought to people who don't want to manage analytics workflows rather than engineers who want to be able to customize pipelines more thoroughly."
"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 experience cost issues because Fivetran is charged on a usage basis. When you reach a certain level, the tool should focus on reducing the costs. The solution is expensive when you are moving gigabytes and petabytes of data. It should also focus more on REST APIs and webhooks."
"More connectors are needed for exotic, popular, and rising star portals."
"The connections with SAP must be improved."
"The one place where it could be improved is definitely pricing. That's a very big problem. It depends product to product, but pricing is an issue."
"Informatica is very expensive in all aspects, so the pricing is something that could be improved."
"The major shortcoming of PowerExchange is high availability and failover. None of the versions we've used to date have had the out-of-the-box ability to enable failover and high-availability requirements. This is a significant challenge and risk."
"Technical support can be improved with respect to delays in ticket response time."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"The product's high costs can be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I would like to have easier integration with cloud platforms."
"The solution needs better integration with other tools."
Fivetran is ranked 13th in Data Integration with 19 reviews while Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews. Fivetran is rated 8.0, while Informatica PowerExchange 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 PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". Fivetran is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory, Oracle GoldenGate and Informatica Cloud Data Integration, whereas Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate. See our Fivetran vs. Informatica PowerExchange report.
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