We performed a comparison between Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Informatica PowerCenter based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: These are two exceptional solutions under the Informatica Brand, which is synonymous with quality, reliability, and high price. Informatica Cloud Data is created and best suited for small to medium organizations and it remains somewhat limited in the regions it can be used. Informatica PowerCenter is best for large enterprises that can utilize all of the numerous options PowerCenter has to offer. Large enterprises can more easily absorb the high cost and make better use of their current bundle licensing tier.
"Informatica Cloud Data Integration is stable."
"The Mapping Designer allows for declarative ETL development (visual scripting) that leverages a wide array of different transformations."
"The solution has the best feature for parameterization."
"The program is stable and scalable."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The support is very good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are pushdown, optimization, and partitioning, which can be used for frequent data loading, especially when we have a huge data volume in our company."
"It has become an easy way to exchange information through any cloud application."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"Can manage a huge quantity of data and provide reliability."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is the flow designer functionally. It is the best out of any ETL tool. Additionally, the solution is reliable and trustable in dealing with large data sources anytime. When we're using billions of data transactions, it's smooth."
"Good interface, reasonable documentation."
"The most valuable features are the dynamic reading of the file metadata profile, and the ability to define business rules that are used to verify and validate the uploaded files."
"It is easy to use, and it is quick for developing things. It is fairly powerful, and it can integrate with a lot of different platforms without much hassle."
"It works with any multi-databases, so it works with Sybase, SQL Server. Also, the performance is really good and it is easy to use."
"Certain shortcomings in the product's UI make it an area where improvements are required."
"The biggest challenge I see is the IDE's for the cloud and automization are different."
"The vendor should have more training resources: online classes, free tutorial videos, etc."
"I would like to see more functionality added so that it is a bit closer to how much you can do with Informatica PowerCenter."
"Its pricing model can be improved. The response time from technical support can also be improved."
"There may be some types of limitations with the performance."
"It would be helpful if there was a GenAI feature integrated into the system, especially regarding the data quality."
"The cloud version of the Informatica, it's a very substandard product. They might say it's enterprise-ready but it's not at all ready. They need to add more features, such as improved data replication features. If you look at other tools, such as Matillion they are now cloud-native and flexible. Additionally, Informatica Cloud Data Integration should have a good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to Informatica Cloud Data Integration."
"Informatica, in my opinion, is very rigid and not very flexible, whereas platforms like Alteryx or Matillion are very flexible and agile."
"The licensing is difficult."
"Lacks ability to calculate cost of the product."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections."
"The multiple interfaces in Informatica PowerCenter are not great for the user experience. Because of this, I think it can cause confusion for any beginner developer."
"The solution could have better documentation on basic steps or blocks that specify what to do."
"The performance of Informatica PowerCenter could improve."
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Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 7.8, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "A stable, scalable, and user-friendly solution". 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". Informatica Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Fivetran, IBM Cloud Pak for Data and Mule Anypoint Platform, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks, AWS Glue and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). See our Informatica Cloud Data Integration vs. Informatica PowerCenter report.
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Both are powerful solutions and most of the actions can be done by both.
You should choose based on your organization and the business requirements taking a valid decision in terms of the quality and price.
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