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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cleo Integration Cloud

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/ACleo Integration Cloud is a framework providing data integration between disparate systems and people within and across organizations.N/A

    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
    Cleo Integration CloudInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cleo Integration CloudInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cleo Integration CloudInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Considered Both Products
    Cleo
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    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Cleo Integration CloudInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Cleo Integration Cloud and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Feature
    Cleo Integration Cloud
    -
    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 Cleo Integration Cloud and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Feature
    Cleo Integration Cloud
    -
    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 Cleo Integration Cloud and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Feature
    Cleo Integration Cloud
    -
    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 Cleo Integration Cloud and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Feature
    Cleo Integration Cloud
    -
    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
    Cleo Integration CloudInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cleo Integration CloudInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cleo
    CLEO Integration Cloud is well suited in any environment where you need to move and translate business data from one format to another or multiple other formats. It is very well suited to replace existing EDI systems that are cumbersome, are a lot of work to add new mappings (add customers for example), or where the support is lousy and you are constantly creating support tickets to try to resolve issues. It just works very well and is constantly improving including keeping up to changes made by various services such as Shopify.
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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
    Cleo
    • A great platform perfectly integrated with the rest of the company's software.
    • Detailed design with simple and easy access from anywhere to our information.
    • Multi-location and multi-device access.
    • We save on hardware, software and maintenance, by minimizing the user's need for powerful equipment and the programs in charge of managing and configuring them, reducing the investment in their acquisition.
    • Cleo integration is in charge of technical maintenance and updates.
    Incentivized
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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
    Cleo
    • A fully functional help manual would be good. Some topics have no help at all, "envelopeassemblybycontext" for instance.
    • A needed feature is to be able to sort files by either file type (FM, RS, BPS) or by filename. Some of our projects have almost a hundred files.
    • Better, more descriptive error messages. Sometimes a ruleset or process fails and the error message is not helpful.
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    Discontinued Products
    • 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
    Cleo
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Cleo
    Ease in understanding and setup.
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    Discontinued Products
    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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    Performance
    Cleo
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    Discontinued Products
    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
    Cleo
    Great data manager in the cloud, at a competitive price, backed by a great company and great professionals.
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    Discontinued Products
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Cleo
    Before choosing a solution, we did a detailed analysis of cost, performance, scaling and support. Cleo checked all the right boxes and we have been very satisfied with our choice.
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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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    Return on Investment
    Cleo
    • We have easily improved our EDI tenfold (or more) as far as ease of adding new customers for example
    • We have saved a ton of money by reducing chargebacks for missing ASNs for example
    • We have improved customer scorecards where they measure our EDI performance such as one large brand name customer we sell wholesale to who originally scored us around 28% and after implementing CLEO we quickly went to a 96%+ score.
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    Discontinued Products
    • 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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