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Informatica Data Engineering Streaming [EOL] vs Informatica PowerCenter comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Informatica Data Engineerin...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Informatica PowerCenter
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
85
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (4th), Data Visualization (13th)
 

Featured Reviews

DK
BI Practice Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Helps with real-time data processing and improves decision-making overall
It improves decision-making overall for the company. Informatica is usually the tool for setting up the data, streaming the data into your data warehouse from your source, transforming the data, and preparing and modeling it into some desired format. It improves the performance. You need to know how to use it and how to implement it, but it improves performance.
Garima Goel - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro
Has supported complex data pipeline creation but performance tuning and monitoring responsiveness need improvement
Sometimes, I see various performance issues with Informatica PowerCenter, including caching concerns, whether it's a joiner transformation or other transformations, so I believe the team can enhance the performance perspectives of these transformations. Additionally, sometimes the Informatica Monitor hangs or takes time to open the current run or logs, which the team can also look into. Informatica is transitioning to cloud solutions and discontinuing on-premise support after 2026, so when we discuss Informatica Cloud and its support, it becomes quite expensive for the organization compared to peers such as SnapLogic or Netezza, which offer lower pricing. Informatica Cloud Intelligence's pricing is notably high.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It improves the performance."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a scalable solution; expanding is easy, and we can execute multiple workflows based on events, and I don't see any constraints, and it looks pretty good."
"Error handling capability is quite good in Informatica PowerCenter because it provides a very detailed session log, which is really helpful to identify errors."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"The features I find most valuable is that the solution is very user-friendly and the graphical design is very easy to understand."
"The technical support is excellent."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a very stable product."
"It has a Data Catalog that uses the Model repository."
"The solution provides good performance with an easy to use interface and reasonable documentation."
 

Cons

"Skill requirement is required. There is a learning curve."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
"It would be better if I could do all the work within a single window. It was also very expensive."
"Support could be better."
"Lacks ability to calculate cost of the product."
"With all these no code/low code platforms, Informatica still forces us to use the ANSI format of SQL for joins, especially left outer join."
"I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption. It would be nice if they could be cheaper, because the training is very expensive as they do everything online."
"Some of the conversions are done inside the product. We use work tables that are created by the engine itself, but the names of the work tables are very long, and they don't have any meaning, which makes it a bit difficult to understand and follow exactly what is happening inside."
"PowerCenter could be improved by having more big data components. Normally, we prefer Informatica as a relational database, but nowadays, companies are trying to understand and use big data components. I think it would be useful if we had more chances to create a hub ecosystem because customers try to use some data integration tasks by SQL, Spark and Spark codes, and Scala, but at the end of the day, the company will understand that we need to trace all the steps. An ETL tool is a must for that company, if we're talking about the regulated industries like finance, telcos, etc. If Informatica's biggest ecosystems feature were okay, I would prefer to use it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Cost could be improved."
"I rate the solution's pricing a four out of ten. The price is very high, and it doesn't understand the market now."
"Its maintenance is expensive."
"According to what I've heard and read on various blogs, it's quite expensive when compared to similar competitive products."
"The price is mostly reasonable."
"We have a site license, but we do pay by the division."
"We have found the pricing very cost-effective. The licensing is CPU and data source-based."
"We are using an annual license for Informatica PowerCenter."
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Comparison Review

it_user90069 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 20, 2014
Informatica PowerCenter vs. Microsoft SSIS - each technology has its advantages but also have similarities
Technology has made it easier for businesses to organize and manipulate data to get a clearer picture of what’s going on with their business. Notably, ETL tools have made managing huge amounts of data significantly easier and faster, boosting many organizations’ business intelligence operations…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
33%
Construction Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Media Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Government
6%
 

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise76
 

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Also Known As

Big Data Streaming, Informatica Intelligent Streaming, Intelligent Streaming
PowerCenter
 

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