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Informatica PowerCenter vs TIBCO Scribe comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Informatica PowerCenter
Ranking in Data Integration
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (9th)
TIBCO Scribe
Ranking in Data Integration
48th
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Informatica PowerCenter is 8.5%, down from 11.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Scribe is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Lars Borchers - PeerSpot reviewer
A stable and reliable product that provides a variety of features for data integration
The solution is not for newcomers. It has an old touch. The solution must improve the integration with new services. It was part of the program at Informatica when they moved to their cloud platform. It is integrated. However, from an on-premise perspective, we need to buy licenses for PowerExchange. If we want a native driver to access a special service, we need to extend our license to those services. It is expensive. I don't like that it's not all included in the solution.
GouravSuri - PeerSpot reviewer
A cloud solution that has a lot of connectors, but it should provide better documentation and scenario-based samples
Smaller customers who want to integrate with other systems don't need too much in-house expertise in terms of technology. They can hire consultants who can implement this solution for them, and they don't have to maintain any infrastructure. For a smaller setup, it is a go-to integration system wherein they don't need a lot of expertise or infrastructure. The solution's UI is pretty intuitive and easy. It is good for smaller integration use cases. I think it would be a problem for bigger use cases. Overall, I rate TIBCO Scribe a six out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Technical support, and their approach is good. They have a support portal and support tickets. If you open a ticket it has multiple levels of severity from level one to very high or critical."
"In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution."
"The interface is very clean and clear."
"The ability to scale through partitions helped us to improve the performance."
"Good interface, reasonable documentation."
"What I like the most is that we have to deal with less while writing the queries."
"The most complex task, in this case, was to read and transform BLOB data, and Java transformation in Informatica Power Center was a great solution."
"If the systems get migrated or upgraded, the amount of resources required are very minimal. We can change the connections and establish a new connection. It's very helpful."
"The most valuable feature of TIBCO Scribe is the connectors available to various products."
 

Cons

"The solution does not scale."
"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."
"Informatica, in my opinion, is very rigid and not very flexible, whereas platforms like Alteryx or Matillion are very flexible and agile."
"Now they are migrating to a new version, and they have something that is called Informatica Developer. Previously, they just had PowerCenter. Now, when they move everything to Informatica Developer it's not as good or stable like it was when it was PowerCenter, though it has some nice features. This Developer tool could be better."
"The solution could have better documentation on basic steps or blocks that specify what to do."
"The solution must improve the integration with new services."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"We need another tool for monitoring. It would be easier if all the features were consolidated into one tool."
"The solution should provide better documentation and scenario-based samples."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the solution's pricing a four out of ten. The price is very high, and it doesn't understand the market now."
"According to what I've heard and read on various blogs, it's quite expensive when compared to similar competitive products."
"It is for big enterprises. We have leveraged Informatica for big enterprises but not for small and medium enterprises because it is a very costly product as compared to other products. We propose this solution only for enterprise customers. For small to medium enterprises, we would propose the Microsoft solution. Its licensing is currently bundle-wise. It should be features-wise and not bundle-wise."
"The price is mostly reasonable."
"The solution is in the middle price range compared to other solutions."
"I rate the product's price a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
"Its maintenance is expensive."
"I would rate the pricing for this solution a six out of ten. The exact pricing depends on various products that you have."
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Comparison Review

it_user90069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 20, 2014
Informatica PowerCenter vs. Microsoft SSIS - each technology has its advantages but also have similarities
Technology has made it easier for businesses to organize and manipulate data to get a clearer picture of what’s going on with their business. Notably, ETL tools have made managing huge amounts of data significantly easier and faster, boosting many organizations’ business intelligence operations…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Insurance Company
7%
Computer Software Company
22%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about TIBCO Scribe?
The most valuable feature of TIBCO Scribe is the connectors available to various products.
What needs improvement with TIBCO Scribe?
The solution should provide better documentation and scenario-based samples.
What is your primary use case for TIBCO Scribe?
TIBCO Scribe is used to do some out-of-the-box integration with some packaged products. TIBCO Scribe is a cloud solution that has a lot of connectors, like REST connectors and database connectors t...
 

Also Known As

PowerCenter
Scribe
 

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Sample Customers

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, LexisNexis, Rabobank
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