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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Citrix DaaS

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ACitrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, or XenDesktop) is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and application virtualization solution from Citrix.

    $375

    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AInformatica PowerCenter was data integration technology designed to form the foundation for data integration initiatives, application migration, or analytics. It is a legacy product.N/A
    Pricing
    Citrix DaaSInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Editions & Modules
    Virtual Apps
    $375
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    Pricing Offerings
    Citrix DaaSInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Citrix DaaSInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Considered Both Products
    Cloud Software Group
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
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    Features
    Citrix DaaSInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Citrix DaaS and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Feature
    Citrix DaaS
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    8.5
    18 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Citrix DaaS and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Feature
    Citrix DaaS
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    7.5
    18 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings7.018 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Citrix DaaS and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Feature
    Citrix DaaS
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    8.2
    18 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings9.015 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings8.016 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings6.116 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Citrix DaaS and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Feature
    Citrix DaaS
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    9.0
    15 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings9.015 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Citrix DaaSInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (55 ratings)
    8.0
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    2.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Citrix DaaSInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloud Software Group
    DaaS is ideal in large-scale environments that require centralized, secure management. Remote workforces at large organizations. Highly regulated industries like finance. It allows for easy security and monitoring over one aspect instead of multiple remote machines. DaaS is not ideal for organizations with small budgets due to the pricing and organizations with lousy network connectivity. This would make the end-user experience terrible.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    1.- Scenaries with poor sources of data is not recomended (Very bad ROI). The solution is for medium-big enterprises with a lot of sources of data and users. 2.- Bank and finance enviroment to integrate differente data form trading, Regulatory reports, decisions makers, fraud and financial crimes because in this kind of scenary the quality of data is the base of the business. 3.- Departments of development and test of applications in enterprises because you can design enviroments, out of the production systems, to development and test the new API's or updateds made.
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    Pros
    Cloud Software Group
    • Enables remote access anywhere, to any device which eliminates managing the endpoints how traditional VPN would require.
    • Integrates well with modern applications to offer optimized user experiences similar to native applications which increases user acceptance.
    • Extremely flexible in how policies are applied to different use cases to ensure the appropriate security mitigations are in place with minimal effort.
    • Easy to maintain and expand environments to fit business needs.
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    • Informatica Powercenter is an innovative software that works with ETL-type data integration. Connectivity to almost all the database systems.
    • Great documentation and customer support.
    • It has a various solution to address data quality issues. data masking, data virtualization. It has various supporting tools or MDM, IDQ, Analyst, BigData which can be used to analyze data and correct it.
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    Cons
    Cloud Software Group
    • A single console to manage the environment.
    • The configuration is a bit complicated and we have hired Citrix administrators. But it's a good solution.
    • User profiles need improvement. They could use more stability and more functionality as well as user profile redirection.
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    • There are too many ways to perform the same or similar functions which in turn makes it challenging to trace what a workflow is doing and at which point (ex. sessions can be designed as static or re-usable and the override can occur at the session or workflow, or both which can be counter productive and confusing when troubleshooting).
    • The power in structured design is a double edged sword. Simple tasks for a POC can become cumbersome. Ex. if you want to move some data to test a process, you first have to create your sources by importing them which means an ODBC connection or similar will need to be configured, you in turn have to develop your targets and all of the essential building blocks before being able to begin actual development. While I am on sources and targets, I think of a table definition as just that and find it counter intuitive to have to design a table as both a source and target and manage them as different objects. It would be more intuitive to have a table definition and its source/target properties defined by where you drag and drop it in the mapping.
    • There are no checkpoints or data viewer type functions without designing an entire mapping and workflow. If you would like to simply run a job up to a point and check the throughput, an entire mapping needs to be completed and you would workaround this by creating a flat file target.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cloud Software Group
    Because it has been a mainstay of our business for many years.
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    Discontinued Products
    Our team enjoys using Informatica and feels that it is one of the best ETL tools on the market.
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    Usability
    Cloud Software Group
    Getting the environment setup took me three months of off and on work, with 3 complete rebuilds of the environment. Utilizing the WebUI to access the environment had presented so many random issues that we had to require end users to use the Citrix Reciever App. As it was the only stable solution. Aside from that, it hasn't required much admin intervention since the stand-up was completed.
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    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.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cloud Software Group
    Xendesktop did a great job with HA of all the components.
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    Performance
    Cloud Software Group
    The performance of XenDesktop is the best in the industry because of the fine-tuned protocol and years of updating. Overall, I don't think there is a better performer on the market. The question is if the added complexity of running XenDesktop is really worth the performance gain. While the latest version of XenDesktop is the easiest to deploy so far, it is still more challenging than the competitors.
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    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
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    Support Rating
    Cloud Software Group
    The support is great when you get an engineer that knows what they are doing but getting that individual sometimes takes a while. Overall, they are professional and polite and competent in their knowledge. Sometimes the cases are open for an extended period of time which becomes very frustrating when dealing with critical issues.
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    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.
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    In-Person Training
    Cloud Software Group
    I was self trained
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    Online Training
    Cloud Software Group
    Easy to understand and learn at my own pace
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    Implementation Rating
    Cloud Software Group
    Take it slow and read the directions each step of the way. If you are not familiar with Citrix products, use a reseller or other experienced engineer to assist you in the setup of your environment
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cloud Software Group
    Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops is platform agnostic (we can use any underlying hypervisor technology) and really flexible for any use case. Using a golden image and provisioning it (with Machine Creation Services or Provisioning Services) is powerful and really straightforward, compared to the complexity in Microsoft RDS of maintaining a coherent farm, or the limitation of VMware Horizon to run on VMware Products.
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    Discontinued Products
    While Talend offers a much more comfortable interface to work with, Informatica's forte is performance. And on that front, Informatica Enterprise Data Integration certainly leaves Talend in the dust. For a more back-end-centric use case, Informatica is certainly the ETL tool of choice. On the other hand, if business users would be using the tool, then Talend would be the preferred tool.
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    Scalability
    Cloud Software Group
    Easily scalable
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    Return on Investment
    Cloud Software Group
    • XenApp has allowed us to continue support of legacy applications and all access of those applications to users across the globe with any device.
    • XenApp can also manage software licenses by restricting number of users, number of concurrent sessions, or combination of both to required specification.
    • While initial investment in XenApp can be costly, continuing support and upgrade are very cost effective and product stability is excellent.
    • While there are competing products from Microsoft and VMware, when it comes to remote application access, XenApp is the best of breed.
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    • The data pipeline automation capability of Informatica means that few resources are needed to pre-process the data that ultimately resides in a Data Warehouse. Once a workflow is implemented, manual intervention is not needed.
    • PowerCenter did require more resources and time for installation and configuration than was expected/planned for.
    • The lack of or minimal support of unstructured data means that newer sources of dynamic/changing data cannot be easily processed/transformed through PowerCenter workflows.
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