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Informatica Cloud Data Integration vs. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Informatica Cloud Data Integration

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AInformatica Cloud Data Integration, for Cloud ETL and ELT, enables users to ingest, integrate and cleanse data within Informatica's cloud-native ETL and ELT solution. Users can link source and target data with thousands of connectors that recognize metadata, to make it easier to run complex integrations.N/A

    SSIS

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a data integration solution.N/A
    Pricing
    Informatica Cloud Data IntegrationSSIS
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Informatica Cloud Data IntegrationSSIS
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Informatica Cloud Data IntegrationSSIS
    Considered Both Products
    Informatica
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    Microsoft
    Chose SSIS
    These are all great products and, honestly, can move data faster. They include more enterprise features and have some great qualities about each. However, they all cost a lot depending on the implementation you need. With SQL Server Integration Services, you do not have any …
    Incentivized
    Chose SSIS
    Selection was done because of: 1. Lower Cost, 2. RDBMS was SQL Server and SSIS is tightly coupled for optimal performance
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    84%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    Informatica Cloud Data IntegrationSSIS
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Informatica Cloud Data Integration and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Informatica Cloud Data Integration
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.0
    56 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Connect to traditional data sources10.02 Ratings9.056 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL10.02 Ratings5.043 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Informatica Cloud Data Integration and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Informatica Cloud Data Integration
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    6.8
    56 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Simple transformations10.02 Ratings8.956 Ratings
    Complex transformations7.02 Ratings4.755 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Informatica Cloud Data Integration and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Informatica Cloud Data Integration
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.5
    54 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Data model creation9.01 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Metadata management9.01 Ratings6.035 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow9.01 Ratings7.145 Ratings
    Collaboration7.02 Ratings9.140 Ratings
    Testing and debugging7.02 Ratings6.451 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Informatica Cloud Data Integration and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    Feature
    Informatica Cloud Data Integration
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    5.4
    43 Ratings
    40% below category average
    Integration with data quality tools9.01 Ratings6.238 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools9.01 Ratings4.638 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Informatica Cloud Data IntegrationSSIS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (56 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Informatica Cloud Data IntegrationSSIS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Informatica
    We use it a lot for importing data. We transform the incoming data to match the formatting of our CRM. We also match on existing records to avoid creating duplicates. Informatica handles all of this exceptionally well. Our users are system administrators. The tool is not well-suited for users who do not have a technical background
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    As I mentioned earlier SQL Server Integration Services is suitable if you want to manage data from different applications. It really helps in fetching the data and generating reports. Its automation make it very easy and time efficient. It works well with large database as well. But it doesn't work well with real time data, it will take some time to gather the real time data. I would not recommend using it in a real time/fast-paced environment.
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    Pros
    Informatica
    • Data synchronisation
    • Data replication
    • Data integration
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    Microsoft
    • Standard ETL use cases for daily loads
    • Loading incoming data from Vendors which is placed on FTP and adding them to the SQL Warehouse
    • Creating outgoing data files and writing them to Vendor FTPs
    • Easy Active Directory integration for seamless connections to SQL Server
    • CI/CD by hosting the code on visualstudio.com
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    Cons
    Informatica
    • There is a moderately steep learning curve
    • Has some idiosyncrasies
    • Can be finicky with date formats
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    Microsoft
    • Connection managers for online data sources can be tricky to configure.
    • Performance tuning is an art form and trialing different data flow task options can be cumbersome. SSIS can do a better job of providing performance data including historical for monitoring.
    • Mapping destination using OLE DB command is difficult as destination columns are unnamed.
    • Excel or flat file connections are limited by version and type.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Informatica
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Some features should be revised or improved, some tools (using it with Visual Studio) of the toolbox should be less schematic and somewhat more flexible. Using for example, the CSV data import is still very old-fashioned and if the data format changes it requires a bit of manual labor to accept the new data structure
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    Usability
    Informatica
    There is a learning curve with Informatica. It is not always intuitive to use. It is best suited for technical users such as system administrators
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    Microsoft
    SSIS is a great tool for most ETL needs. It has the 90% (or more) use cases covered and even in many of the use cases where it is not ideal SSIS can be extended via a .NET language to do the job well in a supportable way for almost any performance workload.
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    Performance
    Informatica
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    SQL Server Integration Services performance is dependent directly upon the resources provided to the system. In our environment, we allocated 6 nodes of 4 CPUs, 64GB each, running in parallel. Unfortunately, we had to ramp-up to such a robust environment to get the performance to where we needed it. Most of the reports are completed in a reasonable timeframe. However, in the case of slow running reports, it is often difficult if not impossible to cancel the report without killing the report instance or stopping the service.
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    Support Rating
    Informatica
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    The support, when necessary, is excellent. But beyond that, it is very rarely necessary because the user community is so large, vibrant and knowledgable, a simple Google query or forum question can answer almost everything you want to know. You can also get prewritten script tasks with a variety of functionality that saves a lot of time.
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    Implementation Rating
    Informatica
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    The implementation may be different in each case, it is important to properly analyze all the existing infrastructure to understand the kind of work needed, the type of software used and the compatibility between these, the features that you want to exploit, to understand what is possible and which ones require integration with third-party tools
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    Alternatives Considered
    Informatica
    It is really easy to comply and understand its features.
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    Microsoft
    I think SQL Server Integration Services is better suited for on-premises data movement and ADF is more suited for the cloud. Though ADF has more connectors, SQL Server Integration Services is more robust and has better functionality just because it has been around much longer
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    Return on Investment
    Informatica
    • Really greatest than any other conventional application.
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    Microsoft
    • Without this, we would have to manually update a spreadsheet of our SQL Server inventory
    • We would also have poor alerting; if an instance was down we wouldn't know until it was reported by a user
    • We only have one other person who uses SQL Server Integration Services , he's the expert. It would fall to me without him and I would not enjoy being responsible for it.
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