We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and SAP Data Services based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SAP Data Services wins out in this comparison. The main difference between the two solutions is that Informatica PowerCenter cannot do batch processing and users also consider it to be expensive.
"Among all the solutions I have used, I found Informatica PowerCenter to be much more stable in terms of application."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"It is an excellent ETL tool."
"Good product if you are trying implement data quality, data integration, and data management projects."
"UI-based ability to create data mapping."
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"I would recommend that others considering the solution go ahead and use it for any batch and high volume loads with complex transactions."
"I like the completeness of the way I can build ETL workflows."
"It is a powerful product with a broad range of features."
"The feature of SAP Data Services has enhanced our company's business processes because we are able to run around 800 jobs in areas like data extraction and transaction objects."
"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."
"The most valuable features of SAP Data Services lie in its ability to effectively observe and interpret the information within data related to people or facts, stands out."
"Its integration capabilities and the data migration capabilities are the most valuable. It is very good for SAP and non-SAP tools. It has very good integration with SAP, but it also has the capabilities to connect to other systems. We find it very helpful and stable."
"The user interface is ok."
"The most valuable feature is the ETL functionality."
"The product's most valuable features are data validation and rules."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"In the future, I would like to see Informatica PowerCenter integrate a more powerful dashboard."
"Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections."
"What needs improvement in Informatica PowerCenter is the cloud experience because, nowadays, other companies, such as AWS, Azure, and Google, have more experience in the cloud. The pricing for Informatica PowerCenter on the cloud is also very expensive for customers, so some customers prefer open-source tools or lower-priced tools, such as Azure. From my point of view, Informatica must work on the pricing policy and review the policy on the cloud for Informatica PowerCenter or propose more tools with lower pricing. Clients want the automatic integration of Informatica PowerCenter with other tools. Currently, the integration process is manual, and you have to add other tools to facilitate the integration, especially with the DevOps methodology. You need scripts and tools for the integration, and you'll need to use other integration tools if you want automatic deployment for Informatica PowerCenter, so this is another area for improvement in the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for the integration with APIs to be simpler, because currently, the API integration feature of Informatica PowerCenter is very difficult. It's not intuitive. You have to facilitate API integration and the real-time streaming of messages in Kafka, for example, so that should be improved."
"It should be more cloud-centric than on-prem-centric."
"If we could have the option of performance improvement within Informatica, and if it could have more features, that would be ideal."
"Requires an established data center because there is no option for software as a service."
"Its licensing can be improved. It should be features-wise and not bundle-wise. A bundle will definitely be costly. In addition, we might use one or two features. That's why the pricing model should be based on the features. The model should be flexible enough based on the features. Their support should also be more responsive to premium customers."
"There should be some kind of enhancement that can be done on the admin side of certain sites where we can assign the roles and responsibilities. We should be able to control who is using the tool and how."
"The description of error messages isn't extensive, although they point to the problem. With other solutions, like Talend, I was able to use the debugger to get directly to the problem, but with SAP Data Services the debugger is not working. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the version specifically, but I'm using it in an enterprise environment and I can't do an upgrade."
"It will work fine only in an SAP environment. It could be said that the integration with other vendors could be better."
"The migration of the solution between different environments is quite complex."
"The solution shows a lack of cloud support data services."
"There needs to be multi-language support, however, my understanding is they are working on multi-language now."
"The initial setup is complex."
"It's an ETL that is very good with relational databases but not as good with files and semi-structured files."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while SAP Data Services is ranked 10th in Data Integration with 45 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while SAP Data Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Stable, provides good support, and integrating it with other systems is very fast, but its pricing is expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Services writes "Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and Talend Open Studio, whereas SAP Data Services is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Syniti Data Quality, SAP Process Orchestration, Palantir Foundry and SSIS. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. SAP Data Services report.
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