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We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerExchange and SAP Replication 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Informatica PowerExchange vs. SAP Replication Server Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"From the product feature or product capability perspective, the aspects around integration, transformation, and standardization are valuable. It's fairly easy to use. It has a GUI-based interface.""Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation.""The transformation work called for Informatica PowerExchange. It was easy to work with this and very stable.""The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources.""It is a scalable and versatile solution.""It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools.""The user interface and user experience are perfectly all right.""The product’s flexibility is valuable."

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"SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience.""We can customize any workflow and we also like the business domain modeling that can be done.""It speeds up the performance in terms of how fast you are able to access the data, look at it, get it reported to you, and send it to somebody. It also reduces the amount of storage.""SAP is renovating different things. We are using external tools to connect as of now. It is going well, and now the new generation integration platforms are going to be pretty easy."

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Cons
"The product is not suitable for application integration.""Pushdown optimization could be improved.""The solution needs better integration with other tools.""V10.2 is very stable, but we are still struggling to make V10.5 stable. We found services that were down, and PowerExchange stopped working.""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.""The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult.""Real-time has not been enhanced that much over the past few years. There has not been as many features added like they did before.""Informatica is very expensive in all aspects, so the pricing is something that could be improved."

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"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing and faster support.""I would like to see it become mobile-friendly.""The private solution is expensive. If you're in a situation where you're paying IBM or AWS or somebody just to host you specifically, you're paying people to run it and you're taking care of all the upgrades.""Improvement is a never ending story, and HANA is doing some improvements. We are able to adopt that, and we have to do it by integration with HANA. They are very major changes that we need to see."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "An annual package license fee is required."
  • "The cost of PowerExchange is reasonable. It does not rely on complicated formulas or unrealistic equations. The pricing model is straightforward. There is one component, and real-time integration is included. Some other solutions require purchasing additional modules or third-party plugins for this capability."
  • "It's expensive. In fact, nobody would buy any product of Informatica if the price was the only consideration. It costs money, and it doesn't come cheap, but it provides value for money in many ways."
  • "There is a need to pay towards the licensing cost of the product. It is an expensive product."
  • "Many users don't prefer to use the product, considering the high costs attached to the licensing part of the solution."
  • "The product is not very expensive."
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  • "It's a very expensive solution."
  • "You can pick one of the hosted cloud services as opposed to owning it and doing it yourself. Your cost of ownership on the hardware, the data storage, and the maintenance all go down. It depends on what service you use."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product is not very expensive. However, the price can grow depending on the customer’s needs and the data feed they want. It depends on how many tables and ingestion pipelines the customers have… more »
    Top Answer:Informatica is now moving to the cloud. PowerExchange is not being promoted as it used to be. The product is not suitable for application integration. There are other tools in the market that are… more »
    Top Answer:SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience.
    Top Answer:The reason why there has been a move toward cloud services and service as a software is because it's so much easier. There are fewer databases, and the cost is lower to have it hosted. You can pick… more »
    Top Answer:The price could be cheaper. There is room for improvement in terms of pricing and faster support.
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    Also Known As
    PowerExchange, Connectors
    Sybase Replication Server
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    Overview

    Informatica PowerExchange Connectors provides high performance, out-of-the-box connectivity without having to develop custom data access programs.

    Information and data-driven insight is what powers business today. But to get the most from your enterprise data, you need a way to bring transactional, streaming, social media, and other data together – regardless of its format and whether it’s structured or unstructured – and be able to analyze it. The challenge is moving, replicating, and centralizing a wide variety of data efficiently, cost-effectively, and quickly enough to meet business demands for active insight. SAP® Replication Server® can help. SAP Replication Server enables the continuous movement of mission-critical application data.

    Sample Customers
    ACH Food, BNSF Railway Company, Illinois State University
    Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company25%
    Insurance Company25%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm27%
    Insurance Company12%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Government7%
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    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business37%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise53%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise80%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise72%
    Buyer's Guide
    Informatica PowerExchange vs. SAP Replication Server
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Informatica PowerExchange vs. SAP Replication Server and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    769,236 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews while SAP Replication Server is ranked 27th in Data Integration with 6 reviews. Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8, while SAP Replication Server is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Replication Server writes "Eliminates replication and allows you to use only one database, speeding up performance and reducing amount of storage". Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate, whereas SAP Replication Server is most compared with Qlik Replicate, Oracle GoldenGate, Fivetran, Azure Data Factory and SSIS. See our Informatica PowerExchange vs. SAP Replication Server report.

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