IBM Cloud Pak for Integration vs Informatica PowerExchange comparison

"Redirection is a key feature. It helps in managing multiple microservices by centralizing control and access."

"The most valuable aspect of the Cloud Pak, in general, is the flexibility that you have to use the product."

"It is a stable solution."

"Cloud Pak for Integration is definitely scalable. That is the most important criteria."

"The most preferable aspect would be the elimination of the command, which was a significant improvement. In the past, it was a challenge, but now we can proceed smoothly with the implementation of our policies and everything is managed through JCP. It's still among the positive aspects, and it's a valuable feature."

"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."

"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."

"In terms of the return on investment, the tool is very helpful in the digital transformation process since multiple systems are available."

"The agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far."

"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 main benefit of PowerExchange is its native real-time capabilities. Competing tools are counting on third-party packages or Oracle to offer real-time capabilities. However, Informatica has a native ability to scan the data on the file system level and capture the changes almost instantly when I push it to the consumers. The solution has a powerful built-in replication engine."

"The initial setup is not easy."

"Its queuing and messaging features need improvement."

"Enterprise bots are needed to balance products like Kafka and Confluent."

"The pricing can be improved."

"Setting up Cloud Pak for Integration is relatively complex. It's not as easy because it has not yet been fully integrated. You still have some products that are still not containerized, so you still have to run them on a dedicated VM."

"I would like to have easier integration with cloud platforms."

"Informatica is very expensive in all aspects, so the pricing is something that could 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."

"One area that could be improved is performance, as PowerExchange sometimes has less performance compared to native connectors when dealing with a huge volume of data."

"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."

"The product's high costs can be an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."

"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."

"It is an expensive solution."

"The solution's pricing model is very flexible."

"There is a need to pay towards the licensing cost of the product. It is an expensive product."

"There are licensing and connector costs. Basically, Informatica is pay-as-you-use."

"An annual package license fee is required."

"The product is not very expensive."

"It's expensive. In fact, nobody would buy any product of Informatica if the price was the only consideration. It costs money, and it doesn't come cheap, but it provides value for money in many ways."

"Many users don't prefer to use the product, considering the high costs attached to the licensing part of the solution."

"The cost of PowerExchange is reasonable. It does not rely on complicated formulas or unrealistic equations. The pricing model is straightforward. There is one component, and real-time integration is included. Some other solutions require purchasing additional modules or third-party plugins for this capability."