We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Informatica PowerExchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."IBM InfoSphere Information Server is stable."
"This solution is extremely flexible and scalable."
"The integration with different technologies is the most valuable feature."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is a scalable and versatile solution."
"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 agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far."
"Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation."
"The scalability is excellent."
"It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"There are certain shortcomings in the cloud side of the solution, where improvements are required."
"This solution would benefit from the engine being made more lightweight."
"IBM InfoSphere Information Server should be more scalable. It should have the option to change the configuration to run on a single, non-multiple node, or multi-threading processing."
"Their technical support needs improvement."
"Pushdown optimization could be improved."
"The solution needs better integration with other tools."
"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."
"I would like to have easier integration with cloud platforms."
"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."
"Informatica is very expensive in all aspects, so the pricing is something that could be improved."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
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IBM InfoSphere Information Server is ranked 36th in Data Integration with 7 reviews while Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews. IBM InfoSphere Information Server is rated 8.4, while Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere Information Server writes "Prompt support, reliable, but lacking scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". IBM InfoSphere Information Server is most compared with IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Qlik Replicate, IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog, IBM Cloud Pak for Data and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate. See our IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. Informatica PowerExchange report.
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