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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AF5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks stemming from the OW ASP Top 10, persistent and coordinated threat campaigns, bots, and layer 7 DoS.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
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    178 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    158 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    174 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    129 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    142 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    -
    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 F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    -
    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 F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    -
    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 F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    -
    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
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (180 ratings)
    8.0
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.7
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    It is doing its job effectively, and its scalability is superb. So, if you have a mixed environment with cloud and on-premise systems to protect this product, provide a solution to the challenge. However, its management is more suited to DevOps teams rather than to the ones responsible for on-premise systems, making the management a bit more complex.
    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
    F5
    • Layer seven attacks are becoming far more common. Traditionally it was always layered three, layer four, where you get an additional firewall, but with the application layer attacks become more frequent, more popular, et cetera. So having the web application firewall protecting us, and then with the recent Log4j, that's the most recent use case when it gave us that instant level of protection whilst we remediated the Log4j that we had that and the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was protecting us.
    • I have a great relationship with the account manager, my account manager, and I think he drives the best price possible, um, for me, and I'm happy with that price.
    • F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is always innovating and evolving.
    • We run a very competitive proof value where we run numerous competitors against each other, and then we evaluate from that and then make the selection, and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was the winner.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    F5
    • Lack of warnings, currently the console does not provide a warning when deleting key-value entry.
    • The web GUI could use some tweaking, currently no undo option when removing exclusion rules.
    • Configuration complexity, currently menus and options are hidden, making it hard to configure vs on prem.
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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
    F5
    We gave it an 8 because it protects our web apps well and is reliable. The WAF is flexible and meets most of our needs. It could improve in user interface and make integrations easier, but overall, it’s a solid and effective security tool for us.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Read full review
    Usability
    F5
    I believe is a solution that was designed from the start to be simple and easy to use. Coming from Imperva, it simply eased the burden and complexity of managing and securing our apps on different environments (cloud and on-prem). It easy to scale and very quick to deploy (as a cloud waf should be), provide us with DevOps integrations, visibility and automatic insights from multiple events that guarantee peace of mind for us analysts and opp managers.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    F5
    Seems no issue
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    F5
    Unnoticed slowness
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    F5
    I never contacted support for this product.
    Incentivized
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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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    Online Training
    F5
    Online training saves me lots of time
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    F5
    Just make sure you origin servers have F5 IPs allowed.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    The other one that I've used in the past, they're very similar and I haven't used it recently, so I can't do a side-by-side comparison today. But I can say that F5 does everything we want it to do consistent with what this other product did do and it's got enhanced features and of course we have a long history with F5 as a product set in general.
    Incentivized
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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
    F5
    Dont see any issue so far
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    F5
    • The biggest gain for us was speed. Before F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, onboarding a new app to our WAF stack meant manual rule tuning, traffic sampling and regression testing. Right now, we spin up a service, tag it with the right policy and its ready (production ready) within hours
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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