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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."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"What I like most about Informatica PowerCenter is that it's the best tool in the market for data integration."
"This is an amazing solution."
"We use Informatica PowerCenter to transfer the transitional database to and from the data warehouse, and this is very efficient as it enables us to quickly find our data reports and the data, so we can build AI models."
"Technical support, and their approach is good. They have a support portal and support tickets. If you open a ticket it has multiple levels of severity from level one to very high or critical."
"Real time is amazing; if you have AI use cases, you can predict if it's a threat or if it's a positive or negative transaction."
"The support is valuable; when we face a production problem, being able to get support is valuable and it brings efficiency."
"Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
 

Cons

"Skill requirement is required. There is a learning curve."
"Support could be better."
"The performance of Informatica PowerCenter could improve."
"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required, considering the fact that the present licensing charges of the tool are expensive."
"PowerCenter could integrate better with cloud applications. We had to do a lot of configuration work using API integrations to connect with cloud applications. Informatica Cloud Data Integration has a generic connector that you can use directly, so it's much easier."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve on the documentation for the implementation. The documents provided are not very good for a new user."
"We need another tool for monitoring. It would be easier if all the features were consolidated into one tool."
"Technical support could be faster."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I would rate the pricing for this solution a six out of ten. The exact pricing depends on various products that you have."
"It's much more expensive, almost three times more expensive than most other solutions."
"The price is mostly reasonable."
"The solution is in the middle price range compared to other solutions."
"The price could be better. It's very expensive. On a scale from one to five, I would give Informatica PowerCenter's price a one."
"Our customers pay a licensing fee yearly."
"The price of this solution is high."
"A basic setup can be from $100,000 and up annually."
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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
32%
Construction Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Educational Organization
5%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Insurance Company
6%
 

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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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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