"It has a Data Catalog that uses the Model repository."
"Enterprise-scale ETL solution that's very stable and is easy to scale. It integrates and connects with multiple new systems, both structured and semi-structured."
"Once you have learned Informatica, it is very easy to use."
"The technical support for Informatica PowerCenter is good."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring tools and the reporting manager."
"Can manage a huge quantity of data and provide reliability."
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"The flexibility to use already-developed components is really good. You can use it for Excel-related operations and other things."
"The OCR was quite stable and flexible."
"The most valuable features are workflow and process automation."
"The ability to script information from websites is most valuable. It also seems to be fairly robust and reasonably easy to manage on a server-based deployment. We have a number of robots operating on the central server."
"Provides valuable tools working in integration with RPA tools."
"The pricing of the solution is quite good."
"It is stable and scalable."
"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."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"The documentation could be improved."
"Integrating new tools can be tricky and challenging."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"Support could be better."
"What I didn't like about it is that the platform itself is not great at distributed processing. When you need high parallel processing, it has some inherent issues. We had to use Java transformation, and it did not go very well. I have heard that it is going to the cloud, but we haven't tried that."
"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."
"There is really nothing special about the capabilities of this product."
"We are on version 10.6, and the current version seems to be 11. Kofax is cycling the capabilities of the product very quickly. One of the difficulties has been to actually keep up with the capabilities as they've evolved. On the one hand, it is good that the product is getting better, but on the other hand, it is difficult to implement the best way with a product that is evolving constantly."
"The interface could be better from a usability standpoint."
"Its documentation is not widely available on the web. They should work on the availability of its documentation. In Automation Anywhere, there is a feature called Discovery Bot that automatically records the process steps and suggests a possible bot. I am not sure if such a feature is available in Kofax. If it is not available, it will be very good to have this feature. "
"Exception handling needs to be improved."
"The process discovery could be a bit better."
"The solution could use some AI integrated features."
"I would like to see them further enhance the OCR, specifically in the multi-language support."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 1st in Data Integration Tools with 32 reviews while Kofax RPA is ranked 12th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 7 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Kofax RPA is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "A stable, scalable, and mature solution for complex transformations and data integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kofax RPA writes "Stable, scalable, and provides flexibility to use already-developed components, but its documentation is not widely available and it needs a feature similar to Discovery Bot". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, AWS Glue and Informatica PowerExchange, whereas Kofax RPA is most compared with UiPath, ABBYY FlexiCapture, Blue Prism, Microsoft Power Automate and Automation Anywhere (AA).
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