We performed a comparison between IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 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."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."
"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."
"Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation."
"The scalability is excellent."
"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."
"The transformation work called for Informatica PowerExchange. It was easy to work with this and very stable."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools."
"The data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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."
"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."
"Its queuing and messaging features need improvement."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"Pushdown optimization could be improved."
"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 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."
"The product is not suitable for application integration."
"Integration with the largest number of databases and other systems would be important."
"Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,"
"Technical support can be improved with respect to delays in ticket response time."
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IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is ranked 14th in Cloud Data Integration with 4 reviews while Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews. IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is rated 8.6, while Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration writes "A hybrid integration platform that applies the functionality of closed-loop AI automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is most compared with IBM App Connect, IBM API Connect, IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate. See our IBM Cloud Pak for Integration vs. Informatica PowerExchange report.
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