We performed a comparison between Ab Initio Co>Operating System and Informatica PowerCenter 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."Co>Operating System's most valuable feature is its ability to process bulk data effectively."
"Ab Initio reaches the highest performance and is very flexible in processing huge amounts of data."
"It has helped us monetize."
"Once you figure it out, it is a powerful and simple ETL tool. Its stability has been very satisfactory."
"I found the map links, work links, and workflows valuable. They are important features."
"Good product if you are trying implement data quality, data integration, and data management projects."
"UI-based ability to create data mapping."
"One of the most valuable features for us is the metadata repository because it can easily understand the lineage of first target mapping. My company and I also find Informatica really easy to use—when a consultant joins our company, in just a few days to a few weeks, they can understand how to use it—so we prefer to use this ETL tool."
"Technical support, and their approach is good. They have a support portal and support tickets. If you open a ticket it has multiple levels of severity from level one to very high or critical."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"An awesome improvement would be big data solutions, for example, implementing some kind of business intelligence or neural networks for artificial intelligence."
"Co>Operating System would be improved with more integrations for less well-known technologies."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
"Support could be better."
"The initial setup is not straightforward. You need expertise to do it."
"The documentation could be improved."
"We had stability issues, mostly with JVM size."
"As a connector to big data, it is not well developed. We've had problems connecting Informatica with Hadoop. The functionality to connect Informatica with Hadoop, for me it's not good."
"I would like to see improvements made to the custom transformations. It should be more open for users that want to write their own code and use cases."
"It should be more cloud-centric than on-prem-centric."
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Ab Initio Co>Operating System is ranked 28th in Data Integration with 2 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. Ab Initio Co>Operating System is rated 9.6, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Ab Initio Co>Operating System writes "Excellent bulk data processing for large enterprises". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Stable, provides good support, and integrating it with other systems is very fast, but its pricing is expensive". Ab Initio Co>Operating System is most compared with SSIS, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory and Talend Data Management Platform, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue. See our Ab Initio Co>Operating System vs. Informatica PowerCenter report.
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