We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and SAP Process Orchestration based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution."
"The most valuable features are the metadata repository and the data warehouse application console."
"Once you figure it out, it is a powerful and simple ETL tool. Its stability has been very satisfactory."
"It has very good monitoring and process monitoring."
"One of the most valuable features for us is the metadata repository because it can easily understand the lineage of first target mapping. My company and I also find Informatica really easy to use—when a consultant joins our company, in just a few days to a few weeks, they can understand how to use it—so we prefer to use this ETL tool."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"We can scale the product."
"What I like the most is that we have to deal with less while writing the queries."
"It is simple to transfer files."
"The standard adapter with EBA abilities is the most valuable feature. It has good process integration."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The monitoring is one of the greatest features in Process Orchestration because it is user-friendly and easy for somebody who is not experienced."
"I rate the product's setup phase a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy since it is a very easy process."
"It provides essential features such as continuous monitoring of all interfaces are crucial for our needs."
"SAP Process Orchestration has all the features that are necessary."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"Informatica PowerCenter is outdated and would benefit from modernization. They should have a very good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to AACF. Informatica PowerCenter there is no point in using it, you have to use a cloud version."
"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."
"The licensing is difficult."
"Informatica are very rigid when it comes to cloud migrations which discourages customers in moving their solution to the cloud."
"The developer tool documentation can be enhanced with a more clear explanation of each utility, accompanied by relevant examples, so that developers are able to create programs with ease."
"Requires an established data center because there is no option for software as a service."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve the data threshold for large sets of data. Additionally, they should add real-time integration."
"The monitoring governance offered by SAP is too technical and needs to be geared more toward business users."
"Data modeling is an area of concern in the product where improvements are required."
"I think the main area that SAP PO should improve on is offering pre-delivered content like they do when you use SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI). SAP should not forget that they still have a lot of customers using Process Orchestration and they should focus more on providing pre-delivered content in SAP PO."
"In terms of technical support, it would be helpful if they handled the tickets a bit faster when queries are sent to them."
"It would be beneficial to enhance the ease of implementing new projects and improve overall stability in our implementations."
"Process Orchestration doesn't provide authentication for data sent to us, meaning we have to rely on client certificate-based or basic authentication."
"The cloud capability features need improvement."
"SAP Process Orchestration could improve from an API standpoint. This is not an API management tool, which is one of its drawbacks. However, SAP has released an SAP Cloud Platform Integration which has all of the features, such as API management along with process integration to replace what they had previously."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while SAP Process Orchestration is ranked 1st in Business-to-Business Middleware with 28 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while SAP Process Orchestration is rated 8.2. 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 Process Orchestration writes "A tool that can be useful for small integrations and large integrations". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas SAP Process Orchestration is most compared with Mule Anypoint Platform, SAP Data Services, webMethods Integration Server, IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services and Boomi AtomSphere Integration. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. SAP Process Orchestration report.
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