IBM App Connect vs Informatica Enterprise Data Lake comparison

IBM and Informatica are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Informatica users who would recommend it.

IBM App Connect

Read 25 IBM App Connect reviews

1,608 Views
988 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

Informatica Enterprise Data...

Read 1 Informatica Enterprise Data Lake review

227 Views
204 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

IBM App Connect

Informatica Enterprise Data...

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and Informatica Enterprise Data Lake based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Informatica, Salesforce and others in Cloud Data Integration.

To learn more, read our detailed Cloud Data Integration Report (Updated: May 2025).

Buyer's Guide

Cloud Data Integration

May 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 851,042 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

IBM App Connect

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Data Integration (6th)

Informatica Enterprise Data...

Average Rating

7.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (41st)

Featured Reviews

Mehdi El Filahi

Co-Founder at tenekit

Offers flexible adapters, good scalability but logging can be difficult at times

There is room for improvement in the logging messages. Sometimes, if you put someone new into App Connect, they can abandon it the same day. The logging is really painful. However, IBM has made efforts to integrate with Elasticsearch for logging, so that's an improvement. Overall, the logging can be difficult at times. One more important point is that if IBM improves its CI/CD capabilities, it will make a big difference. Right now, I have to create my own CI/CD setup from scratch for every client, which is inefficient. Back in 2013, I worked with Sonic ESB, and even then, it had CI/CD with Maven. With App Connect, you need to build everything yourself when using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, or CircleCI. IBM really needs to provide official support for this.

Read full review

reviewer2330691

Data Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

A scalable tool that needs a lot of maintenance due to its unstable nature

Governance, data dictionary, and data cataloging are not available in Informatica Enterprise Data Lake. A lot of businesses are facing issues related to understanding the area revolving around insights of data. At Informatica Enterprise Data Lake's level, in our company, we have a lot of redundant data in a lot of our core systems. The basic thing that our company wants is for the product to develop a reporting layer and access data from the document layer so that we can avoid duplication in projects, databases, and data. There is a lot of maintenance to be done owing to the instability users may face every time because of the huge processing capacity as the company has around more than 50 nodes, which causes a lot of maintenance issues because of which a lot of people don't benefit from the platform as it functions in a slow manner. Informatica Enterprise Data Lake's setup process was complex since it doesn't support a lot of real-time systems. Every time, we have to find different tools we can use in our company with the solution since it doesn't support many real-time systems. Even if our company invests in some tools, Informatica Enterprise Data Lake creates too many small files with some issues, which we cannot read because we invested in HBase and Kudu, but performance-wise, the process is slow.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"One of the most beneficial features is the ability to handle multiple communication technologies, like integrating Kafka flows, which is helpful as other teams heavily use it. Regarding error handling, I initially wrote most of the handling myself. While built-in features for error handling are built-in, it largely depends on the developer. We use a custom solution that catches all exceptions, logs them in a database, and replays them as needed. It has been effective for us for over twenty years."

"I recommend IBM App Connect Enterprise to everyone."

"Technical support is good."

"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."

"The solution is very fast-paced when it comes to making things right. We can quickly download what we need if we need any app migrations for our software business. We can download it plenty of times when we need to use it. It gives us very high speed for delivering any development."

"It can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process."

"Provides good security features."

"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."

More IBM App Connect pros

"The process of using the tool's scalability option is well documented."

Cons

"The installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."

"IBM App Connect occasionally crashes for various reasons, requiring problem-solving intervention."

"IBM App Connect is scalable. From the administration side, they need to improve the RBAC model, as well as the clustering of this product. It will be good if we can start up the cluster, via IBM Connect Console. Some other products like MuleSoft, are providing this type of administration. MuleSoft is easy to use and user friendly."

"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."

"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."

"The interface could be better."

"More connectors could be available for the product as some of the third-party software doesn't have default connectors."

"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."

More IBM App Connect cons

"Informatica Enterprise Data Lake's setup process was complex since it doesn't support a lot of real-time systems."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is very expensive if we want to scale."

"Initially, App Connect was quite expensive because the cost was based on the number of processors we used. However, it's now based on containers, which means we can be more specific about our consumption and get a better price."

"IBM App Connect's pricing is high compared to other products."

"App Connect is not cheap."

"The cost depends upon the consumer."

"The price could be better."

"The licensing cost for IBM App Connect is very high."

"The solution's pricing isn't cheap, but you can get good discounts based on your competitive deal."

"The licenses attached to the solution are highly priced."

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Cloud Data Integration solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

851,042 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

45%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

No data available

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM App Connect?

I like the adapters. The adapters help us achieve scalability. If you want to connect to SAP, there's an adapter. Salesforce? There's an adapter. You want to connect to another system? There's like...

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM App Connect?

IBM App Connect's pricing is high compared to other products.

See all answers

What is your primary use case for IBM App Connect?

I have been using IBM App Connect for application integration.

See all answers

What do you like most about Informatica Enterprise Data Lake?

The process of using the tool's scalability option is well documented.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Informatica Enterprise Data Lake?

The licenses attached to the solution are highly priced. Informatica has licensing models for every product and for every feature, like the web service feature, which is something my company doesn'...

See all answers

What needs improvement with Informatica Enterprise Data Lake?

See all answers

Comparisons

webMethods.io vs IBM App Connect

Compared 33% of the time

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration vs IBM App Connect

Compared 22% of the time

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform vs IBM App Connect

Compared 11% of the time

TIBCO BusinessWorks vs IBM App Connect

Compared 9% of the time

IBM InfoSphere DataStage vs IBM App Connect

Compared 4% of the time

More IBM App Connect Competitors

No data available

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

IBM App Connect

May 2025

Download IBM App Connect product report

Buyer's Guide

Data Integration

May 2025

Download Informatica Enterprise Data Lake product report

Also Known As

IBM Cast Iron

Informatica Intelligent Data Lake, Intelligent Data Lake

Overview

Rapidly connect public clouds, private clouds and on-premises application

App Connect Professional is IBM’s cloud integration offering which delivers an integration solution
• With ease-of-use, flexibility and increased responsiveness to the evolving business needs, while removing the daunting complexities of integration.
• Provides the powerful combination of a ‘simple integration experience’ for business users looking to automate how their applications talk to each other; coupled with a ‘configuration based integration’ approach for IT.
• App Connect Professional is for the teams and integration developers who need to solve more complex problems and need powerful tooling for integration scenarios

IBM

The Intelligent Data Lake enables raw big data to be systematically transformed into fit-for-purpose data sets for a variety of data consumers. Data scientists and analysts can quickly find the data they’re looking for using semantic and faceted search. They can see data profiles, lineage, and other relationships to know whether they can trust the data and whether it’s fit-for-use in their analytic projects.

Informatica

Sample Customers

United Way of Allegheny County, Saint-Gobain CPS, Ricoh, SunTrust Banks Inc.

Information Not Available

Buyer's Guide

Cloud Data Integration

May 2025

Download Free Report

Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Informatica, Salesforce and others in Cloud Data Integration. Updated: May 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

851,042 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our list of best Cloud Data Integration vendors.

We monitor all Cloud Data Integration reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.