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Apigee Edge
Apigee has been great when managing the quota based access to the APIs. It is really good and suitable when considering proxying the in-house server endpoints access with the way it provides security with API Key validation and OAuth.
Big Data Engineer
Agero, Inc.Automotive, 1001-5000 employees
Informatica PowerCenter
PowerCenter is well equipped to handle large amounts of data movement in an organization with many disparate sources and a structured development team. It excels in enforcing enterprise development standards through things like metadata manager and the monitoring capabilities (as well as being able to design monitoring rules for everything from naming standards to design practices). It is especially well suited at handling flat-file data in addition to its many connectors and native support for just about any ANSI standard database. For large development teams or the desire to remain flexible at an enterprise scale, Powercenter is a top-tier solution.For small projects or even smaller development teams with mostly a single data source, expect frustration with being able to quickly test a solution as the design flow is very structured. It is also designed in a way that segregation of duties at a very high level can also cause small development teams to be counter-productive. Each step in the design process is a separate application, and although stitched together, is not without its problems. In order to design a simple mapping for example, you would first need a connection established to the source (example, ODBC) and keep in mind that it will automatically name the container according to how you named your connection. You would then open the designer tool, import a connection as a source, optionally check it in, create a target, optionally check it in as well, and design a transformation mapping. In order to test or run it, you will need to open a separate application (Workflow Manager) and create a workflow from your mapping, then create a session for that workflow and a workflow for those one or more sessions at which point you can test it. After running it, in order to observe, you then need to open a separate application (Monitor) to see what it is doing and how well. For a developer coming from something like SSIS, this can be daunting and cumbersome for building a simple POC and trying to test it (although from the inverse, building an enterprise scalable ETL solution from SSIS is its own challenge).
Senior Data Solutions Architect
Laser Spine InstituteHospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
API Management
Apigee Edge
8.0
Informatica PowerCenter
—
API access control
Apigee Edge
9.0
Informatica PowerCenter
—
Rate limits and usage policies
Apigee Edge
9.0
Informatica PowerCenter
—
API usage data
Apigee Edge
8.0
Informatica PowerCenter
—
API user onboarding
Apigee Edge
8.0
Informatica PowerCenter
—
API versioning
Apigee Edge
4.0
Informatica PowerCenter
—
Usage billing and payments
Apigee Edge
8.0
Informatica PowerCenter
—
API monitoring and logging
Apigee Edge
10.0
Informatica PowerCenter
—
Data Source Connection
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
8.4
Connect to traditional data sources
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
9.1
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
7.8
Data Transformations
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
9.0
Simple transformations
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
9.5
Complex transformations
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
8.6
Data Modeling
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
8.2
Data model creation
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
7.7
Metadata management
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
8.5
Business rules and workflow
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
9.0
Collaboration
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
7.9
Testing and debugging
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
7.8
Data Governance
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
8.5
Integration with data quality tools
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
8.3
Integration with MDM tools
Apigee Edge
—
Informatica PowerCenter
8.6
Pros
Apigee Edge
- Manage user access, we can allow specific access to users based on their need and even customize requests of services based on user requirements.
- Allow branding, so that SFO can maintain its look and feel but still get the support and functionalities we need from Apigee.
- Integrates well with other platforms we use.
Application Development Project Manager and GIS Analyst
San Francisco International AirportAirlines/Aviation, 1001-5000 employees
Informatica PowerCenter
- Informatica has a wide range of support for databases. Pretty much every mainstream DBMS is compatible here.
- Designing ETL mappings and workflows is a very intuitive process, and takes minimal learning time and effort even for a beginner.
- Informatica's biggest strength is its sheer performance. It is unmatched in terms of handling large volumes of data.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesCons
Apigee Edge
- Only one user can be active in a proxy at a time
- No version control
- Prohibited from using JSON.stringify on Apigee objects (tokens)
- Debugging is difficult
- Unable to rename or delete policies without bumping revision
- Why would anyone give a js policy one name, display name something else, and script a different name?
- 'Trace' limited to only 20 transactions
- UI allows users to add target servers, but users must utilize the api to turn on SSL.
- I'm sure there's more, they just aren't coming to mind right now.
- Apigee forgets (expires?) your password at random intervals without notice. Every few weeks, or days, sometimes even three times in one day, I'll attempt to login to Apigee and my password will be 'wrong'. I've reset my password and Apigee still claims it's wrong. I've had to reset my password three times before it finally let me log back in.
Software Engineer
Change HealthcareInformation Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees
Informatica PowerCenter
- One of the challenges of PowerCenter is the lack of integration between the components and functionality provided by PowerCenter. PowerCenter consists of multiple components such has the repository service, integration service, metadata service. Considerable time and resources were required to install and configure these components before PowerCenter was available for use.
- In order to connect to various data sources such as Netezza database or SAS datasets, PowerCenter requires the installation and configuration of separate plug-ins. We spent considerable time trouble-shooting and debugging problems while trying to get the various plug-ins integrated with PowerCenter and get them up and running as described in the documentation.
- PowerCenter works well with structured data. That is, it is easy to work with input and output data that is pre-defined, fixed, and unchanging. It is much more difficult to work with dynamic data in which new fields are added or removed ad-hoc or if data format changes during the data ingest process. We have not been as successful in using PowerCenter for dynamic data.
- One of the challenges of learning PowerCenter is that it is difficult to find documentation or publications that help you learn the various details about PowerCenter software. Unlike SAS Institute, Informatica does not publish books about PowerCenter. The documentation available with PowerCenter is sparse; we have learned many aspects of this technology through trial and error.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Insurance Company, 51-200 employeesLikelihood to Renew
Apigee Edge
Apigee Edge 9.0
Based on 1 answer
I am not the one deciding whether to use apigee or not really. But personally, I would recommend the use of it as developing APIs on it is easy. And as a mediator between backend servers, we could easily modify request and responses in it without touching any backend code while having a centralize gateway to access our backend APIs too.
Software Engineer
Novare TechnologiesInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees
Informatica PowerCenter
Informatica PowerCenter 10.0
Based on 4 answers
Our team enjoys using Informatica and feels that it is one of the best ETL tools on the market.
Director, Business Intelligence & Analytics
Georgetown UniversityHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees
Usability
Apigee Edge
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Informatica PowerCenter
Informatica PowerCenter 9.1
Based on 3 answers
Positives;- Multi User Development Environment- Speed of transformation- Seamless integration between other Informatica products.Negatives;- There should be less windows to maintain developers' focus while using. You probably need 2 big monitors when you start development with Informatica Power Center.- Oracle Analytical functions should be natively used.- E-LT support as well as ETL support.
Data Quality Management Software Development Manager
Yapı KrediInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Performance
Apigee Edge
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Informatica PowerCenter
Informatica PowerCenter 9.6
Based on 3 answers
PowerCenter is robust and fast, and it does a great job meeting all the needs, not just the most commercially vocal needs. In the hands of an expert power user, you can accomplish almost anything with your data. It is not for new users or intermittent users-- for that the Cloud version is a better fit. Be prepared for costly connectors (priced differently for each source or destination you are working with), and just be planful of your projects so you are not paying for connectors you no longer need or want

Verified User
Manager in Finance and Accounting
Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employeesSupport Rating
Apigee Edge
Apigee Edge 6.0
Based on 1 answer
Quite hard to get support, at least on the coding side, when we encounter blockers. But general concerns, they would schedule a call to you for them to get a whole picture of your concern. Albeit in my experience, bad really as they haven't replied about the progress, but otherwise seems to have been fixed.
Software Engineer
Novare TechnologiesInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees
Informatica PowerCenter
Informatica PowerCenter 8.6
Based on 2 answers
Informatica power center is a leader of the pack of ETL tools and has some great abilities that make it stand out from other ETL tools. It has been a great partner to its clients over a long time so it's definitely dependable. With all the great things about Informatica, it has a bit of tech burden that should be addressed to make it more nimble, reduce the learning curve for new developers, provide better connectivity with visualization tools.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employeesAlternatives Considered
Apigee Edge
Somewhere in the middle. Based on its current offerings and subscription model

Verified User
Employee in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employeesInformatica PowerCenter
PowerCenter is the industry leader when it comes to interfacing with multiple source and target systems. The graphical interface increases employee productivity while reducing human resource expenditures and training requirements. These other tools offer some similar capabilities, but lack the range and depth when compared with the PowerCenter platform.
Data Integration Data Quality Specialist
CARFAXInformation Services, 501-1000 employees
Return on Investment
Apigee Edge
- Unruly, difficult to maintain, unable to test, difficult to troubleshoot and debug. Every ticket that requires Apigee work increases stress and anxiety.
Software Engineer
Change HealthcareInformation Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees
Informatica PowerCenter
- Positive - Easy to maintain processes built in Informatica Power Center.
- Positive - Rapidly build and deploy ETL data mappings.
- Positive - Develop the overall workflow process to run all ETL processes for the project.
- Negative - Informatica Power Center can be a bit expensive, so your application needs to warrant the enterprise support.

Verified User
Director in Professional Services
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPricing Details
Apigee Edge
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Informatica PowerCenter
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No