We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerExchange and Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics 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."The transformation work called for Informatica PowerExchange. It was easy to work with this and very stable."
"Overall, it's a good tool. It's currently number one on the market. It pretty much has all the necessary capabilities to pull the incremental data from the source system, technically speaking."
"The agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far."
"The main benefit of PowerExchange is its native real-time capabilities. Competing tools are counting on third-party packages or Oracle to offer real-time capabilities. However, Informatica has a native ability to scan the data on the file system level and capture the changes almost instantly when I push it to the consumers. The solution has a powerful built-in replication engine."
"This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."
"The product’s flexibility is valuable."
"Mainstream integration and real-time integration are the best features."
"It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools."
"We use Lumada’s ability to develop and deploy data pipeline templates once and reuse them. This is very important. When the entire pipeline is automated, we do not have any issues in respect to deployment of code or with code working in one environment but not working in another environment. We have saved a lot of time and effort from that perspective because it is easy to build ETL pipelines."
"The solution has a free to use community version."
"The amount of data that it loads and processes is good."
"Data transformation within Pentaho is a nice feature that they have and that I value."
"The area where Lumada has helped us is in the commercial area. There are many extractions to compose reports about our sales team performance and production steps. Since we are using Lumada to gather data from each industry in each country. We can get data from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia at the same time. We can then concentrate and consolidate it in only one place, like our data warehouse. This improves our production performance and need for information about the industry, production data, and commercial data."
"Flexible deployment, in any environment, is very important to us. That is the key reason why we ended up with these tools. Because we have a very highly secure environment, we must be able to install it in multiple environments on multiple different servers. The fact that we could use the same tool in all our environments, on-prem and in the cloud, was very important to us."
"I can create faster instructions than writing with SQL or code. Also, I am able to do some background control of the data process with this tool. Therefore, I use it as an ELT tool. I have a station area where I can work with all the information that I have in my production databases, then I can work with the data that I created."
"We can schedule job execution in the BA Server, which is the front-end product we're using right now. That scheduling interface is nice."
"The solution needs better integration with other tools."
"The connectivity with T24 core banking could be improved."
"I would like to have easier integration with cloud platforms."
"The one place where it could be improved is definitely pricing. That's a very big problem. It depends product to product, but pricing is an issue."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"The product's high costs can be an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."
"Integration with the largest number of databases and other systems would be important."
"The testing and quality could really improve. Every time that there is a major release, we are very nervous about what is going to get broken. We have had a lot of experience with that, as even the latest one was broken. Some basic things get broken. That doesn't look good for Hitachi at all. If there is one place I would advise them to spend some money and do some effort, it is with the quality. It is not that hard to start putting in some unit tests so basic things don't get broken when they do a new release. That just looks horrible, especially for an organization like Hitachi."
"I would like to see support for some additional cloud sources. It doesn't support Azure, for example. I was trying to do a PoC with Azure the other day but it seems they don't support it."
"It could be better integrated with programming languages, like Python and R. Right now, if I want to run a Python code on one of my ETLs, it is a bit difficult to do. It would be great if we have some modules where we could code directly in a Python language. We don't really have a way to run Python code natively."
"I could not connect to our Hadoop environment in an easy and flexible way, and it was important to scale our data warehouse."
"Its basic functionality doesn't need a whole lot of change. There could be some improvement in the consistency of the behavior of different transformation steps. The software did start as open-source and a lot of the fundamental, everyday transformation steps that you use when building ETL jobs were developed by different people. It is not a seamless paradigm. A table input step has a different way of thinking than a data merge step."
"One thing that I don't like, just a little, is the backward compatibility."
"I would like to see improvements made for real-time data processing."
"In the Community edition, it would be nice to have more modules that allow you to code directly within the application. It could have R or Python completely integrated into it, but this could also be because I'm using an older version."
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Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews while Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is ranked 16th in Data Integration with 48 reviews. Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8, while Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics writes "It's flexible and can do almost anything I want it to do". Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate, whereas Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Talend Open Studio, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and AWS Glue. See our Informatica PowerExchange vs. Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics report.
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