Informatica Cloud Data Integration Reviews

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It has all the advantages of the Cloud in that you can use it without worrying about infrastructure, upkeep, or upgrades. Informatica is in charge of all those things. Additionally, the SLA on the cloud is better.

Not all transformations are supported, unlike PowerCenter. However, I'm confident that they will include this in the roadmap.

I have over 15 years of experience working with Informatica tools, and we have worked with Informatica Cloud Data Integration in the last 12 months.

The installation is simple because it is on the cloud.

It is dependent on the number of jobs you have and so on. However, from a skill set standpoint, you only need one person to maintain this solution. You can also play a developer or administrator role. These are fairly straightforward roles with a lot of community support.

I'm not sure about the most recent pricing trends, but I don't believe it's significantly different from PowerCenter. I believe it is nearly the same.

It is dependent on the requirements. If the transformation requirements are not too complex, I believe they can use the Cloud. However, if they have too many application systems to connect to, or too many databases, and require richer transformation capabilities, they can use PowerCenter.

We have a partnership with Informatica.

I would Informatica Cloud Data Integration an eight out of ten.

The Mapping Designer allows for declarative ETL development (visual scripting) that leverages a wide array of different transformations.

The designer allows for the creation of mappings to be leveraged as templates. Within the templates, parameters can be set up that serve as variables for deployment to mapping configuration tasks.

Mapping Configuration Tasks, MCTs, are specific uses of a mapping to fit a situation or set of circumstances.

With my firm, our use of Informatica Cloud is primarily to implement a set of financial integrations from various accounting systems into a Salesforce environment.

By leveraging Informatica Cloud Mapping Designer, we were able to create sets of reusable templates that were source agnostic. This made supporting the integration for hundreds of customers feasible with just a small team of integration specialists.

There are a small number of UI bugs that occur on occasion.

In several browsers, such as Chrome, elements of the UI can disappear when navigating through steps in any of the integration tasks' wizards. Additionally, on data synchronization tasks, the source fields in a mapping can disappear altogether as well.

Also, the product is so new, that any points not covered in the documentation prove difficult to research online.

I have been using Informatica Cloud for two years.

There is currently no active failover for Informatica Cloud Secure Agents. This is the service used to process source information in client environments.

Therefore if a Secure Agent running a job goes down, the job will not wait or failover to another agent. It will fail as well.

We have not had any scalability issues so far.

Technical support is stellar. The time zone can prove an issue, as their support is all in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

We did not have a previous solution.

The installation and configuration of the Secure Agent is a breeze.

Jitterbit, SnapLogic, and MuleSoft were evaluated.

Informatica is likely to make this their flagship product. It is a solid investment to move to this ETL now. There will continue to be a slew of new features and product improvements in the near future that may increase the cost of the license.

We use Informatica Cloud Data Integration for data integration and building data pipelines.

It is one of the best tools available for data integration.

Though it is a robust tool, the cloud version could be better in terms of pricing. 

It is a stable solution.

It is a scalable product and works better than other cloud solutions. It is extensively used by 15 users in our organization. We have plans to increase the usage.

The product's technical support team is helpful and responsive.

The product's deployment process is easy. It requires two system engineers to support our consultant in setting up the environment. They have to consider how to connect it to an ecosystem of other tools, databases, and data sources.

The product generates a return on investment. It speeds up the development process.

The product is highly-priced.

I recommend Informatica Cloud Data Integration to others. It is user-friendly and supports connectivity to almost all devices. It has great technical support services as well.

I rate it an eight out of ten.

We are using Informatica Cloud Data Integration to take sources from databases to flat files or from web service to flat files. We do data integration with the tool.

Informatica Cloud Data Integration could improve the price by making it less expensive.

I have been using Informatica Cloud Data Integration for approximately four years.

Informatica Cloud Data Integration is stable.

The scalability of Informatica Cloud Data Integration is good.

We have many people in my company using this solution, approximately 100. We do not plan to increase usage.

I have not contacted the support from Informatica Cloud Data Integration.

The initial setup of Informatica Cloud Data Integration is easy. The deployment of the solution only takes a few clicks of the mouse, it takes a few minutes.

We did the implementation of Informatica Cloud Data Integration in-house.

The price of Informatica Cloud Data Integration could be reduced.

Informatica Cloud Data Integration is good overall. I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Informatica Cloud Data Integration an eight out of ten.

Migrate workloads from on-prem. That's the usual scenario for many customers in the past.  The question is if IICS could help painlessly.

Don't know yet. In a trial now. There is much to find out, first and foremost, its performance level when compared with on-prem.

Mapping designer seems to be easier to use even when compared with PowerCenter which is a great improvement.

The availability of connectors from the get-go, not just waiting for additional, extra ones to be added. That's it.

It is quite easy to use and flexible.

With recent versions of cloud-based products in use for all applications, it provides flexibility in integrating the different applications. With AWS S3 and Informatica, integration is flexible and loosely coupled.

The vendor should have more training resources: online classes, free tutorial videos, etc.

I have used this product for six months.

We have not yet had any issues with stability, as we are just beginning our journey.

Yet to be determined.

So far, so good.

We recently started migrating and using SaaS-based application solutions. On-premises, there are multiple integration platforms being used, such as BizTalk and SAP PI.

Since it is SaaS based, no setup was required, except for the installation on a secure agent.

I was not involved in pricing and licensing.

I was not involved in the selection process.

It is quite useful and flexible compared to other vendors in terms of cost of implementation and use case.

We use it to take data from one source to another.

It's a subscription service. It's in Informatica's cloud, and because we have the cloud version, we are up to date in terms of its version.

We have a lot of integrations, and it's very easy to create integrations. They have a lot of connectors.

Its pricing model can be improved. The response time from technical support can also be improved.

I have been using this solution for a little over three years.

It is very stable.

It is easily scalable.

It is not great, but it is good. Sometimes, they take a lot of time to respond.

It was really easy to set up the product.

Its pricing model can be improved.

I would recommend this product. From a technical point of view, it's a great product. It's very user-friendly. It's really easy to create integrations, and it's very stable.

I would rate it a nine out of ten.

It is a cloud-based solution. This means it has no complex software nor does the startup need to be installed. However, a cloud agent is required.

Like most cloud-based solutions, it is easy to share with others. For example, let's say I am working on a site and decide to hand-off to another team member. He can essentially pick up where I left off, provided that he has the same set of files.

Informatica goes down for maintenance quite a lot due to the upgrades. They also need to improve their security. As an administrator, I could very easily make connections to other people's machines through their agent without their knowledge.

I have used this solution for two years.

There were no stability issues.

There is a slowdown when using the mapping feature. This may be due to the processor's speed or may be a result of the complexity of the browser.

I would give the technical support a rating of 9/10. They are very good, once they are aware of the issues. However, sometimes we need to fill out multiple help desk tickets and give them reminders in order to get an active response.

We are partners with a number of different companies. This is the first cloud-based solution. It serves the client's needs well, as the solution is not overly complex, such as during replication between different databases or systems.

The setup was very straightforward. Once the agent is installed, you can then be up and running.

We work with Informatica to establish the pricing and licensing fees. I personally have not sold this product to clients, but I have been involved with presales and demos.

We chose to be Informatica partners, so we just ended up with this version.

Understand the needs of your organization. I strongly advise an understanding of the Informatica PowerCenter, so as to achieve the full effectiveness of this tool.

For simple replication, it works well. However, there are some other free tools that can also do the trick of replication just as nicely.