We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and webMethods Integration Server 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."Complex transformations can be easily achieved by using PowerCenter. The processing layer does transformations and other things. About 80% of my transformations can be achieved by using the middle layer. For the remaining 15% to 20% transformations, I can go in and create stored procedures in the respective databases. Mapplets is the feature through which we can reuse transformations across pipelines. Transformations and caching are the key features that we have been using frequently. Informatica PowerCenter is one of the best solutions or products in the data integration space. We have extensively used PowerCenter for integration purposes. We usually look at the best bridge solution in our architecture so that it can sustain for maybe a couple of years. Usually, we go with the solution that fits best and has proven and time-tested technology."
"Once you figure it out, it is a powerful and simple ETL tool. Its stability has been very satisfactory."
"The setup is very simple."
"The ability to scale through partitions helped us to improve the performance."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring tools and the reporting manager."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is data transformation and user-friendliness."
"Among all the solutions I have used, I found Informatica PowerCenter to be much more stable in terms of application."
"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."
"The tool supports gRPC."
"The most valuable feature of the webMethods Integration Server is its reliability. It has a lot of great documentation from the service providers. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"The main assets are its flow language, debugging, and Broker. Flow language is far better and more flexible for debugging."
"What I found most valuable in webMethods Integration Server is that it's a strong ESB. It also has strong API modules and portals."
"From a user perspective, the feature which I like the most about Integration Server is its designer."
"It's a visual tool, so our transformations can be quickly implemented without a lot of fuss. The fact that we have an easy way to expose REST services is also very interesting. It offers the possibility to connect over GMS to synchronize message brokers."
"I like the stability of the webMethods Integration Server."
"Broker and UM are the best features."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
"The solution could have better documentation on basic steps or blocks that specify what to do."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"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."
"It would be good to recreate the entire interface to make it easier for users to build workflows."
"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."
"Informatica are very rigid when it comes to cloud migrations which discourages customers in moving their solution to the cloud."
"While Informatica is great for data-integration, it does not have any analytics features. Thus, organizations have to always look for another product for their BI needs."
"We need more dashboards and reporting engines that can provide detailed information for management. In short, we need better analytics."
"I would like to see the price improve."
"The product needs to be improved in a few ways. First, they need to stabilize the components of the whole platform across versions. Also, they should stop replacing old components with brand new ones and, rather, improve by evolution."
"We'd like for them to open up to a more cloud-based solution that could offer more flexibility and maybe a better rules engine or more integration with rules engines."
"The interface needs some work. It is not very user-friendly."
"The solution has big instances when deployed under microservices or in a containerized platform. They need to improve that so that it is competitive with other integration solutions, like Redis and Kafka. Deployments under microservices with those solutions are much more lightweight, in the size of the runtime itself, compared with Software AG."
"Version control is not very easy. The packages and the integration server are on Eclipse IDE, but you can't compare the code from the IDE. For example, if you are working on Java code, doing version control and deployment for a quick comparison between the code isn't easy. Some tools or plug-ins are there, such as CrossVista, and you can also play with an SVN server where you have to place your package, and from there, you can check, but you have to do that as a separate exercise. You can't do it from the IDE or webMethods server. You can't just right-click and upload your service."
"webMethods Integration Server needs to add more adapters."
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Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 60 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while webMethods Integration Server 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 webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with webMethods.io Integration, IBM Integration Bus, Mule ESB and TIBCO BusinessWorks. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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