Informatica Data Engineering Streaming vs Workato comparison

The compared Informatica and Workato solutions aren't in the same category. Informatica is ranked #17 in SA , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 1.5% mindshare in the category. Workato is ranked #7 in PaaS , with an average rating of 8.4, and holds a 4.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Informatica users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Workato users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Informatica Data Engineerin...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Streaming Analytics (17th)

Workato

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (7th)

Mindshare comparison

Informatica Data Engineering Streaming and Workato aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Informatica Data Engineering Streaming is designed for Streaming Analytics and holds a mindshare of 1.5%, up 1.1% compared to last year.
Workato, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 4.7% mindshare, up 4.2% since last year.

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Reviewer43443

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.

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Rohit Sircar

Integration Solutions Lead | Digital Core Transformation Service Line at Hexaware Technologies Limited

Great automation and strong workflows useful for integration

The initial setup is quite straightforward. When connecting Workato with your on-premises system, you have to install the Workato agent on your network. It was not complex but a long process to configure and settle. Workato has not gone live for us yet, so only the developers are currently using it. But in terms of users, we will have close to 250 and maybe 30 additional direct users. We are seeing a lot of different use cases where we can add new recipes because we started small, and there are many different areas where we can implement Workato for automation.

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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."

"Workato allows us to streamline our operations by replacing multiple legacy systems with a single integrated platform."

"Workato reduces total development time as it generates code seamlessly and integrates with SQL databases or APIs through configuration."

"I absolutely think it is worth the money to have Workato as a tool."

"Workato is less expensive and offers similar integration capabilities."

"Workato is low code, intuitive, and easy to use."

"The initial setup was very easy."

"Their automation and workflows are very strong, and you can build the workflows very easily and quickly."

"It is easier to use than other technical open-source technologies."

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Cons

"Skill requirement is required. There is a learning curve."

"Integrating on-prem applications is challenging, even though they have an on-prem agent."

"I would like to see the dashboarding and reporting processes improved."

"The only minor drawback would be if there was a UI at the front of it, for apps and for a portal as well, it would make it really easy. It would be really useful if there were more apps capabilities."

"Workato could be improved by adding a proper debugging feature. Currently, there's no way to set breakpoints to stop the process and debug an error as you can in other tools like webMethods."

"One area for improvement is the CI/CD pipeline, which lacks a version control system similar to GitHub for easier deployment."

"The management dashboard in the solution is an area with shortcomings that needs improvement."

"Based on my experience, it would be really beneficial if the unit tests were improved because when you change a recipe significantly, they do not work anymore, and you have to remake them all."

"Currently, Workato is a low-code platform without native programming capabilities. I would appreciate having a dedicated programming language for tasks like transformations and functional programming."

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"Speaking about price, I would say that it's market-related. Also, there are costs in addition to the standard license fees since different add-ons depend on what you require."

"On a scale of one to ten, the pricing is around a six. We have a consumption model and the pricing is higher. If you are using any kind of ML-based approach, machine learning, or some advanced analytics, you may have to pay more."

"Workato is an expensive solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

21%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Informatica Data Engineering Streaming?

Skill requirement is required. There is a learning curve.

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What is your primary use case for Informatica Data Engineering Streaming?

We implement business intelligence solutions, including data warehousing tools, data integration to load data into warehouses, and then creating reports.

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What advice do you have for others considering Informatica Data Engineering Streaming?

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. Usually, Informatica is for big clients because of its pricing, and it also requires some skill sets. It requires investment into a proper da...

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What do you like most about Workato?

Workato is low code, intuitive, and easy to use.

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What needs improvement with Workato?

Currently, Workato is a low-code platform without native programming capabilities. I would appreciate having a dedicated programming language for tasks like transformations and functional programmi...

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What is your primary use case for Workato?

I am an integration consultant, and I use Workato ( /products/workato-reviews ) for integration. Recently, one of my clients wanted to migrate from using Workato ( /products/workato-reviews ) to an...

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Also Known As

Big Data Streaming, Informatica Intelligent Streaming, Intelligent Streaming

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Overview

Informatica Intelligent Streaming allows organizations to prepare and process streams of data and uncover insights while acting in time to suit business needs. It can scale out horizontally and vertically to handle petabytes of data while honoring business service level agreements (SLAs). Intelligent Streaming provides pre-built high-performance connectors such as Kafka, HDFS, NoSQL databases, and enterprise messaging systems and data transformations to enable a code-free method of defining your data integration logic.

Informatica

Named a Leader in iPaaS for Dynamic Integrations by Forrester, Workato is a modern automation and integration platform. With its enterprise-grade capabilities, you can seamlessly integrate and orchestrate workflow automation across cloud and on-premise applications, files and databases without coding.

The Workato team comes from a deep background in building integration products and will continue to expand and change the automation and integration space.

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