We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and Informatica PowerCenter 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."It has an efficient design flow."
"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"Very scalable, flexible, and user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"It's stable to use, connect with the cloud, and to deploy."
"I would say that the most valuable feature is the array of connectors and integration tools."
"Technical support is good."
"It can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process."
"It reduces a lot of legacy coding."
"It has good standard features for ETL development."
"We can scale the product."
"What I like the most is that we have to deal with less while writing the queries."
"The greatest feature is that it is very easy to have someone come in and jump right in. It is one of the nicest tools in terms of getting a person acquainted quickly."
"Once you figure it out, it is a powerful and simple ETL tool. Its stability has been very satisfactory."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"The most valuable feature is the new Data Lake feature, which provides the basic capabilities needed."
"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."
"IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
"In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors."
"The user interface of IBM App Connect can be a little bit more user-friendly, I would say because the first-time developer is onboarded while using IBM App Connect, he or she may get a little intimidated or daunted looking at all the options available or the pipelines, et cetera."
"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."
"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."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
"I found it is kind of weird that not all of the mapping changes are treated as true changes."
"The solution can improve by providing more connectivity by having native ODBC or JDBC connections available. It will be easier and more people could start using it."
"As a connector to big data, it is not well developed. We've had problems connecting Informatica with Hadoop. The functionality to connect Informatica with Hadoop, for me it's not good."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve on the documentation for the implementation. The documents provided are not very good for a new user."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"Areas for improvement in Informatica PowerCenter include scalability and high availability or the clustering configuration because that's still very basic. The elasticity or scaling of the platform needs a lot of improvement. For example, when it comes to DR handling or building an active-active or active-passive cluster, Informatica PowerCenter is still not that powerful. Automation also needs improvement in the solution. Improving automation leads to some improvement in the stability of Informatica PowerCenter and other aspects related to it. What I'd like to see in the next release of Informatica PowerCenter is real-time capability because the solution is mainly for patches, and to have real-time integration, you need to count on some additional components from Informatica. I would expect more integration and a complete platform in terms of real-time capability or patching with minimal interventions or minimal components to be aligned together."
"It would be better if I could do all the work within a single window. If I'm working on any mapping and if I have to switch to sessions, I have to open a new window altogether. If I have to get into workflows, I have to open a new window. It was also very expensive. In the next release, I would like it to be more user-friendly."
IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Very flexible and user-friendly; embeds with other technologies; no dependency on queue manager". 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". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and TIBCO BusinessWorks, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue. See our IBM App Connect vs. Informatica PowerCenter report.
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