About PowerCenter

PowerCenter is a cloud-based enterprise data integration platform that helps businesses with data integration life cycle. The platform enables users to manage data integration agility, enterprise scalability, operational confidence and data integration projects. PowerCenter’s key features include business collaboration, IT collaboration, re-usability, automation, operations, governance oversight, real-time data, prototype, profiling, validation, automated data validation testing, data transformation and connectivity to cloud applications. Additionally, the platform allows users to monitor reinforce coding and production providing support for adaptive load balancing, grid computing, pushdown optimization, partitioning and more. PowerCenter add-on packages include data integration hub, B2B data exchange, PowerExchange for cloud applications and PowerCenter productivity. Pricing of the product is available on request and support is extended via phone, online help desk and documentation.
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PowerCenter pricing

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Value for Money
4.0
Functionality
4.4
Ease of Use
4.2
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Martha Leah
Martha Leah
  • Industry: Oil & Energy
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5.0
Reviewed on 11/10/2024

Power Centre Review

Pros

The ETL by Informatica is beautiful. The Infortica ETL process makes the job of a DBA / DBM very easy.

Cons

Well, I cannot remember any cons. Power Center is very good. Informatica did an awesome job.

Manali
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Features
3
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

4.0
Reviewed on 31/07/2019

Good but require to inbuilt multiple function

It's good but yeah not too good

Pros

1. Drag and drop services
2. Easily maintain
3. Run multiple batch jobs
4. Define methods with logistics

Cons

1. Can't schedule in workflow
2. Job running status logs are too long
3. Doesn't have parallel off functionality
4. Can't be sync with repository automatically

Joan
Joan
  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
1
Features
1
Ease of Use
1
Customer Support
1

2.0
Reviewed on 17/04/2023

POWERCENTER: The old legacy to be avoided

Pros

If you are a PowerCenter expert you can do almost any data transformation.

Cons

It is very complex and difficult to use. Super expensive and with minimal suport.

Nikki
  • Industry: Government Administration
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4.0
Reviewed on 21/12/2023

PowerCenter in Data Integration & BI

I like it. we use it for daily batch load monitoring, issue debug and etc. However, it's super hard to upgrade from Informatica PowerCenter to IICS.

Pros

multiple tools available for development, support and troubleshoot - workflow monitor, workflow manager, workflow designer, repository manager, etc.

Cons

it's not an easy job to track back from target to source

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4.0
Reviewed on 26/05/2019

One of the best ETL ( Extract, Transform, Load) Tools

Pros

1. Able to process a huge record size. In the latest project, we used Informatica to load approx 5 Million records daily. There were no performance issues due to the data size.
2. . PowerCenter has very easy to use drag and drop interface which can be used in integration with other applications.
3. Good tool to manage legacy data and to make compatible with modern applications.
4. PowerCenter also has other additional features like the ability to profile data, visualize graphical data flow etc. Data validation can also be done very easily using the validation feature.

Cons

There is a huge licensing fee which is worth it as the product is one of the best ETL tools, but projects which smaller budget find it challenging to justify the cost.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5.0
Reviewed on 28/12/2018

Informatica - Performance with ease

I have been working on the tool since last 8+ years and the tool has never failed me.
I could design almost everything i could think of in terms of data flow and transformations.

Pros

The ease of development, debugging, migrating and maintaining the code.
Heavy duty performer and can scale to perform multi-threading.

Cons

It does not have strong ELT features or market - so cannot leverage the high computing capability.
Still based out of legacy ETL process which needs to be migrated.

Aniket
Aniket
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4.0
Reviewed on 23/10/2018

Informatica PowerCenter ETL Tool

I have used Informatica PowerCenter data masking module for masking Production data in the TEST and DEVELOPMENT environments. It has worked out pretty well.

Pros

Informatica PowerCenter is a user friendly tool.

Cons

The price of Informatica PowerCenter tool is a bit high

Abhisha
Abhisha
  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
3

5.0
Reviewed on 11/10/2018

Good ETL tool

I was using Informatica PowerCenter as an ETL to to feed data into Teradata datawarehouse that houses customer information for an insurance company.

Pros

Informatica PowerCenter is a good ETL tool for users who wish to develop a datawarehouse but do not have much programming experience. It has a nice interface where the user can simply drag and drop to create a data flow. It is very intuitive and user friendly.

Cons

PowerCenter is a heavy software and installation is not a trivial task. It uses a lot of memory and it could crash the system if it does not have enough resources.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

5.0
Reviewed on 18/11/2018

Informatica Power center

Overall as a data analyst. Informatica is the one of the best etl tool to be used nowadays.

Pros

The best thing about informatica power center is that we can use it with multiple source types.

Cons

I guess the GUI can be improved as it is less user friendly or you can say boring.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

5.0
Reviewed on 25/12/2018

Market leader in ETL

Pros

Drag and drop function is easy for the developers and users to complete development faster.

Powerful out of box functions are added advantage.

Cons

Initially the licensing was a bit expensive however with competition from market helped make competitively priced.

Sri Ramani
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

5.0
Reviewed on 5/03/2018

Ease to use

Ease to work

Pros

It Works vwell with large structured data files PowerCenter processes input files, performs specified transformations, and maps the input data format to the output data format very quickly. The PowerCenter backend implementation seems to be optimized to process and map structured input records to structured output records and load the records into a database. One of the strengths of PowerCenter is performance of processing petabytes of structured input data files.
PowerCenter does not require a software development experience or education. After providing initial hands-on training, the data consultants (who are statisticians, subject matter experts) in our organization were able to implement data ingest and data transformation tasks fairly easily.
PowerCenter supports multiple DBMS technologies (for example, Oracle, Netezza). This flexibility allows it to be used by multiple departments within AT&T organization.

Cons

PowerCenter processes input files, performs specified transformations, and maps the input data format to the output data format very quickly. The PowerCenter backend implementation seems to be optimized to process and map structured input records to structured output records and load the records into a database. One of the strengths of PowerCenter is performance of processing petabytes of structured input data files.
PowerCenter does not require a software development experience or education. After providing initial hands-on training, the data consultants (who are statisticians, subject matter experts) in our organization were able to implement data ingest and data transformation tasks fairly easily.
PowerCenter supports multiple DBMS technologies (for example, Oracle, Netezza). This flexibility allows it to be used by multiple departments within our organization.

natasha
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5.0
Reviewed on 13/06/2019

Informatica for every ETL demand

Informatica has simplified PowerCenter integration with power exchange, data quality, metadata management and data discovery tools. I highly recommend this tool for all your ETL processes.

Pros

PowerCenter is being used across the organization for all our ETL needs weather to load data from different sources, collect data from different flat file or integrate multiple systems for reporting requirement.

This is the best and easiest tool for pulling data from source systems, modifying it and load to target system.

It also provide the best performance when processing huge data in batch

PowerCenter supports various DBMS technologies for e.g: Oracle, Netezza. This flexible nature of it allows it to be used by multiple departments.

And last but not ;least it is very easy to learn and use

Cons

There is no or less password encapsulation in this software rest everything is great.

Sriram
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5.0
Reviewed on 8/06/2017

Awesome Tool

Pros

When joining Informatica I have to say, the whole process was a very nice and comforting transition. I was very impressed by level of care, focus and how they approached the recruitment process.
The Human resources and Management team are a really great bunch of people and I believe we made the right choice together. They gave me confidence in how the company is run, they were clear and concise on how the company structure works and what the expectations are.
The company progression is great, already I'm gaining more responsibility and growing and learning more about the industry, so on this I would certainly recommend Informatica as a prospect to anyone looking for an Innovative, Positive, growing and fun company to work for

Cons

Scheduler tools can manage dependencies
accross many systems and environments. For instance you can
configure it so that your informatica job only runs after the
successful completion of some other system's windows job and/or
another system's batch job.

Daniel
Daniel
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
2
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5

4.0
Reviewed on 21/11/2016

A complete integration platform with a high focus on ETL/ELT processes

If you need to do a fast ETL/ELT process and you do not want complications, this is your application. Informatics (on-premises) is quick to deploy and you can start to develop your process really quickly. The Informatica Knowled Base is very complete and you can find in it some templates to use.
In all the development process, you can see and following the data per each transformation. You can launch a part of the process, simulating the data output.
The quality of the solution is fantastic and his support is great, they usually respond to a problem in hours.

Pros

Great support and knowledge base. Easy to learn

Cons

Currently the managing of EII processes (like Restful or SOAP) are not well supported by the on-premise solution.

Siddharth
  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

5.0
Reviewed on 28/02/2022

Best ETL tool

Pros

Easy to integrate with any DB, flat file. Core concepts are very similar to sql. Very easy to understand the flow of data from source to target.

Cons

No auto refresh functionality. Lack of a
Script to automatically generate the parameter file.

Saurabh
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Features
3
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4.0
Reviewed on 15/10/2019

Informatica

I like ease of working with this software but would prefer Informatica to focus more on Data Science

Pros

Easy to Learn
Multiple connectors for data transfer
Handles multiple data sources
IDQ and Informatica MDM were real game changer compared to other ETL tools

Cons

Not so compatible with upcoming technologies for Big Data and Data Science.
Informatica cloud needs to be marketed more and made compatible like Powecenter

krystal
  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5.0
Reviewed on 2/10/2019

Great Product for All Medium to Large Companies

I have been using it 15 plus years to development, installation administration - all aspects

Pros

It allows you to integrate multiple datasets from different sources.

Cons

What I like the least about this software is the costs of the licensing.

Darpan
Darpan
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

4.0
Reviewed on 19/12/2018

User friendly tool for ETL developer

PowerCenter is an great tool for ETL if it involves multiple kind of data sources / targets.

Pros

One of the Important pro is that GUI interface is very easy to use and understand. I have used other ETL tool like SSIS but Informatica PowerCenter helps developing ETL is easiest way.
Transformation works great and efficiently.

Cons

When compared with SSIS, informatica PowerCenter doesn't perform well when source and/or target database is SQL Server. However that is understood because SSIS and SQL Server both are native to Microsoft.
Sometimes the buffer space gets filled quickly even if lookup query doesn't seem to be heavy.
Just as a suggestion - It would have been great if there was a inbuilt performance tuning tool that could suggest way to improve mapping performance.

Sagar
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5

5.0
Reviewed on 3/07/2018

Strong ETL Tool for your data warehousing need

Pros

Powercenter by Informatica is a strong ETL tool which has all the features and functionality making it the best choice for your data warehouse needs. The GUI interface makes designing a mapping super-easy. The tool contains various transformation that can be used to translate your business needs

Cons

There is no actual CONS that I have seen with tool. Have been using it for so many years and I am completely happy with it.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
4

4.0
Reviewed on 12/05/2019

Best tool in Market

Pros

It's level details about the issue and various tool for each activities

Cons

We require a better system configuration to support the software there is no lighter version of it

Raviteja
  • Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

5.0
Reviewed on 20/06/2019

Used to be the best ETL tool, has to catchup alot with new Cloud services

So far the best ETL tool I have used.

Pros

This tool has so many functionalities and options to use for data flow and transformations

Cons

Didn't meet my expectations when tried to use it along with other Cloud AWS services

Sarathy
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

5.0
Reviewed on 24/10/2016

Informatica Powercenter

I have using Informatics Powercenter for ETL and data integration needs for the past 12 years and its one of the best tool available in the market.

Pros

It can connect to almost all types for sources and targets, it has so many built in transformations which can be readily used to meet the business needs.

Cons

Its performance when dealing with huge volume of data is not that great when compared to Ab-initio. Also, its very expensive.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

4.0
Reviewed on 29/11/2018

Power Center Brazilian. Experience

At my company we work with maps for each transformation Mode, maps for extraction, transformation and load. It's good to learn well each one. From The ETL softwares I've worked with, Power Center is The easier tô learn.

Pros

Transformation of data by Any kind of e trance (from csv filés, txt, from bank tables).

Cons

The Source Qualifier filters and debugger Mode.

Dan
Dan
  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5.0
Reviewed on 29/07/2019

Great tool but expensive

Pros

It helps with our ETL process, and allows us to successfully build and schedule complicated workflows.

Cons

The price. This software does a lot of great things, but we pay way too much for this service yearly.

Verified Reviewer
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5.0
Reviewed on 29/04/2018

Excellent ETL tool with support for Data Integration with multiple systems.

Pros

1) Stable ETL tool with excellent Monitoring and Workflow Logging Capabilities
2) Excellent support and Forums to clarify any queries.

Cons

1) Licensing cost is high as compared to other ETL tools
2) Need to enhance support for Big Data Components

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