We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and Informatica PowerExchange 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."Provides good security features."
"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."
"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."
"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."
"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendliness of the application."
"It can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process."
"We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications."
"The user interface and user experience are perfectly all right."
"The scalability is excellent."
"It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools."
"The transformation work called for Informatica PowerExchange. It was easy to work with this and very stable."
"This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."
"The data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Mainstream integration and real-time integration are the best features."
"Overall, it's a good tool. It's currently number one on the market. It pretty much has all the necessary capabilities to pull the incremental data from the source system, technically speaking."
"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."
"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."
"The setup time for App Connect could be improved."
"The product should improve its support."
"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."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."
"In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors."
"The connectivity with T24 core banking could be improved."
"V10.2 is very stable, but we are still struggling to make V10.5 stable. We found services that were down, and PowerExchange stopped working."
"Real-time has not been enhanced that much over the past few years. There has not been as many features added like they did before."
"The product is not suitable for application integration."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,"
"They should make it quick and easy for use of citizen data integration or for people or integrators developing at the customer side. They could be development teams within the business team. For them, the product owners can consider making it a little bit more seamless and a little bit more democratized."
IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews while Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8. 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 PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". 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 PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate. See our IBM App Connect vs. Informatica PowerExchange report.
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