Informatica PowerExchange pros and cons

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.

Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation.

The solution can connect to different systems i.e. mainframe, IMS or AS/400 Legacy Systems.

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.

Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,

The solution could be made more user-friendly. The configurations are also quite difficult.