We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerExchange and Workato 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."It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools."
"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 solution can connect to different systems i.e. mainframe, IMS or AS/400 Legacy Systems."
"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."
"The product’s flexibility is valuable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"It is very easy to use. It takes complex workloads away, and it provides very smooth integration. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box connectors. It has got a lot of out-of-the-box APIs, which makes it really easy to integrate with applications for different use cases, whether it is in finance, HR, or customer operations. It is by far our favorite integration product."
"It's easy to understand, makes flows and is efficient."
"Their automation and workflows are very strong, and you can build the workflows very easily and quickly."
"Workato is low code, intuitive, and easy to use."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features are easy integration, quick tab to develop, quick tab to market, and interactive integration platform."
"It is easier to use than other technical open-source technologies."
"Informatica is very expensive in all aspects, so the pricing is something that could be improved."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"The major shortcoming of PowerExchange is high availability and failover. None of the versions we've used to date have had the out-of-the-box ability to enable failover and high-availability requirements. This is a significant challenge and risk."
"They should make it quick and easy for use of citizen data integration or for people or integrators developing at the customer side. They could be development teams within the business team. For them, the product owners can consider making it a little bit more seamless and a little bit more democratized."
"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."
"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."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
"I would like to have easier integration with cloud platforms."
"It is tedious to make a tailor-fit function."
"A limitation is that their cloud presence is only in North America and Europe."
"From the deployment point of view, our customers encounter platform downtime where it does not serve the actual request on the systems."
"The only minor drawback would be if there was a UI at the front of it, for apps and for a portal as well, it would make it really easy. It would be really useful if there were more apps capabilities."
"Workato's Extract, transform, and load (ETL) and extract, load, and transform (ELT) are not very strong and could be improved for very complex transformations."
"I would like to see the dashboarding and reporting processes improved."
"The management dashboard in the solution is an area with shortcomings that needs improvement."
Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews while Workato is ranked 8th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 9 reviews. Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8, while Workato is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Workato writes " Great automation and strong workflows useful for integration". Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate, whereas Workato is most compared with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, MuleSoft Composer, Azure Data Factory, Oracle Integration Cloud Service and Alteryx Designer. See our Informatica PowerExchange vs. Workato report.
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