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- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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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.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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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

- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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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.
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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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
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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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.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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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.

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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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

- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used for 2+ years
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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.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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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.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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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.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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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.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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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.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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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.

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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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.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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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.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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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
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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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.

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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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.
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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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.
- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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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
- Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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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
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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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.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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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.

- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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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.
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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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