We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter, SAS Access, and SnapLogic based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."The interface is very clean and clear."
"In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution."
"It is very comprehensive in terms of connector and transformation capabilities from both a source and target perspective."
"It's very easy to use it to develop mappings and workflows."
"Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
"I like the completeness of the way I can build ETL workflows."
"We can scale the product."
"The setup is very simple."
"The most valuable part of SAS/ACCESS is what it is made for: connecting to remote systems that are not part of your physical SAS environment."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the ease of access to the data in those databases."
"The most valuable feature is you have native access to the external databases."
"It's more developer-friendly, and development can be done at a faster phase."
"It is a scalable solution."
"They are very good at building out new aspects according to customer requirements."
"The feature I found most valuable in SnapLogic is low-code development. Low-code development has been very useful for simple processes, which is required for business users such as extracting details from a file or getting things reported by calling your web service. Calling your web service also becomes easier with SnapLogic because of the snaps available, so if you have the documentation, you can call an API. You don't have to write all those clients to call an API, so that is another feature I found very easy in SnapLogic. Configuring and managing all the file systems also become very handy with the solution."
"What I found most valuable in SnapLogic is the ETL feature, particularly the Transform Snap Pack, for example, any kind of reading or writing on Transform Snaps. Other than that, all the third-party connectivity tools such as the SAP Snap Pack, Salesforce Snap Pack, Workday Snap Pack, even the ServiceNow Snap Pack, I find all those are pretty useful in SnapLogic."
"By using snaps instead of functions in code, you can see the building blocks of the integration visually. This helps a lot."
"SnapLogice is a low-code development tool."
"The solutions ability to connect "snaps" or components to the graphic user interface is very intuitive, prevents errors, and makes implementations easy."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve on the documentation for the implementation. The documents provided are not very good for a new user."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve by having a single interface because half of the system is still in the legacy interface and many other elements are moved to the developer client. It would be good if there was a single interface for the end user and developers."
"The solution can improve by providing more connectivity by having native ODBC or JDBC connections available. It will be easier and more people could start using it."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"The solution's commercial cost is very high. Other open-source tools can do the tool's functions for free. The world is moving to the cloud, but the solution hasn't updated its drivers. I presume that its downfall will start soon. The tool is trying to cross-sell or upsell without helping customers derive benefits from the existing products. They have multiple tools and licenses. It is better to bring the smaller tools in one umbrella."
"The pricing could be improved."
"We need another tool for monitoring. It would be easier if all the features were consolidated into one tool."
"I can't really recall any missing feature or general improvement that is needed. We don't really add too many new kinds of databases and therefore our needs are already met."
"The pricing model needs to be reconsidered and adjusted."
"The solution can provide access to the newer databases that come out sooner."
"It needs some more snaps. I would like to see some of the features be changed in some of the snaps."
"Connecting to data behind enterprise firewalls has been tricky."
"We'd like zero downtime in the future."
"SnapLogic doesn't provide any on-premises software, so users have only cloud-based software to use."
"One of the areas for improvement in SnapLogic is that the connectors for some of the applications should be more available in terms of testing in the dev environment. Another area for improvement is that the logging should be standardized, for example, the integration with an ELK stack should be required out-of-the-box, so you can ship the log and have it in the ELK stack. There should be integration with ELK stack for the log shipping."
"The support is the most important improvement they could make."
"I am looking for more scheduling options. When it comes to scheduling, there are different tools in the market."
"There is room for improvement with APM management and how task execution looks."
