We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerExchange and Zapier based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This product is easy to install and it can be done in a few hours."
"It is easy to integrate the solution with other tools."
"The product's initial setup phase was not complex. The tool is easy to install onto any of the servers, and you can integrate it."
"The agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far."
"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 transformation work called for Informatica PowerExchange. It was easy to work with this and very stable."
"The product’s flexibility is valuable."
"The user interface and user experience are perfectly all right."
"The solution is a SaaS and does not require a complex setup."
"There are a few valuable features, like the stability that it comes with and also the number of features that it offers. I've used other services like Pabbly, but they don't offer similar numbers of applications that Zapier has or allows to integrate with – it's maximum."
"What's most valuable in Zapier is its simplicity, seamlessness, and smooth plug-in, so you won't need to build code for every action. I'm not a developer, but I can use Zapier."
"The product's most valuable feature is automation."
"Zapier's interface, for me, is the solution's greatest value proposition. It is designed and developed for people who don't have a clue about what they're trying to do. It has a very user-friendly interface."
"We find it effortless to set up. We really don't have to do anything other than finding the application in the Zapier catalog. And as long as the application has been re-integrated into Zapier, they're able to then just provide the connection details and hook it up."
"The ability to connect web applications to trigger actions in another app after having enriched, formatted, delayed, grouped, and filtered is really valuable for many businesses."
"Webhooks are the most valuable feature of Zapier."
"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."
"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."
"The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult."
"Technical support can be improved with respect to delays in ticket response time."
"Pushdown optimization could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"I would like the stability to improve."
"System-to-system is fine, but when it comes to system-to-user, where Zapier is helping to communicate to a user, that's a one-way communication. If that user has to perform some action on that notification, the action isn't handled by Zapier. So there's no way to orchestrate that and it's very cumbersome."
"The solution does not work properly when we apply filters and we get errors."
"After mapping them out, and they'd worked for a while, I've had Zapier fail."
"My biggest concern with Zapier would be their pricing strategy."
"There is room for improvement in the support. They are not responsive, and they don't take much time to get resolved."
"It is not worth the money if you have a little bit of a technical mind...Zapier is not able to set up different modules. When automation doesn't work, it's not that easy to find why it didn't work."
"At the moment, they allow a limited number of apps. I look forward to getting more apps for each package."
"Some apps are not available yet. For instance, a connection with Joomla! would be great. In general, all the most-used apps are available, but I bumped into Joomla! with a client."
Informatica PowerExchange is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 19 reviews while Zapier is ranked 10th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews. Informatica PowerExchange is rated 7.8, while Zapier is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerExchange writes "Handles big data better than competitors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zapier writes "A tool for automation purposes requiring an easy initial setup while offering a very helpful technical support team ". Informatica PowerExchange is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory, SSIS and Qlik Replicate, whereas Zapier is most compared with AWS Glue, Alteryx Designer, Tray.io, MuleSoft Composer and Coefficient. See our Informatica PowerExchange vs. Zapier report.
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