We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter, TIBCO BusinessWorks, and Unifi based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."It provides everything I need. Nothing is missing. PowerCenter is a good tool for on-premise databases."
"Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
"The most valuable aspects of Informatica PowerCenter are the many features, ease of use, and user-friendliness."
"I like the automated scheduling feature."
"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."
"What I like the most is that we have to deal with less while writing the queries."
"Good interface, reasonable documentation."
"The setup is very simple."
"The most valuable part of the solution is the ease-of-use and ease of deployment."
"It is a very robust system."
"Good TIBCO BusinessWorks features are the admin console and the ability to roll back to the previous version."
"The OSGI console is available to debug different issues and get low level informations on the applications development, like bundle, dependencies, etc."
"The most important thing is that it is easy for developers to work with."
"The Business Studio interface based on SCA Standards helps to show the business logic at first look and improve code maintenance."
"One of the most valuable features is that it's a simple development. It takes a short time to get services to work."
"The most valuable feature is the integration."
"It's easy to manage and support the user, our guests, and our customers if they have a problem."
"The controller makes it easy to control everything from one platform. The management is easy."
"The documentation could be improved."
"Integrating new tools can be tricky and challenging."
"The solution could have better documentation on basic steps or blocks that specify what to do."
"It would be good to recreate the entire interface to make it easier for users to build workflows."
"Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections."
"This solution needs the functionality to do batch processing of data. It also lacks connectivity to NoSQL, unstructured data sources."
"We had to take on a large volume of data from the legacy Sybase system. This was taking a very long time, i.e., more than a day. We were trying to improve it with partitions to gpload, but we were told that we can't go more than four partitions."
"The UI is outdated and old-fashioned, at least in our current version. Also, we have experienced some stability issues with the Workflow Monitor application."
"I would like the solution to be integrated into the cloud."
"There is room for improvement on the learning side."
"I'd like to see a new cloud approach in the next release. They need to work on integrations, stability and management issues on their cloud platform."
"TIBCO BusinessWorks could be improved with cloud support."
"Improve Business Studio's stability to further minimize development time."
"They don't support out of the box - you have to buy adapters or you have to have the technology."
"The cost of this product is too expensive for smaller companies or those with a small number of integrations."
"There are multiple plugins which increase the number of product installations."
"It's stable, but it depends on the office and location."
"There are issues with certain Apple devices."