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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Maia by Matillion

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMaia by Matillion is an autonomous data engineering platform designed to automate the lifecycle of data pipelines through AI-driven orchestration. The solution functions as an enterprise "digital workforce" that translates natural language requirements into production-ready DataPipelines, leveraging a Pushdown Architecture to execute transformations natively within cloud data warehouses.N/A

    Salesforce Data 360

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Data 360 (formerly Salesforce Data Cloud, or Salesforce Genie) is a solution to put data to work for customers. It is deeply embedded in the Einstein 1 Platform, which means any external data lake or warehouse can now drive actions and workflows inside of the Salesforce CRM.

    $108,000

    per year per org

    Pricing
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Maia by MatillionSalesforce Data 360
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Data Cloud for Marketing
    $108000
    per year per org
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Maia by MatillionSalesforce Data 360
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBilled directly via cloud marketplace on an hourly basis, with annual subscriptions available depending on the customer's cloud data warehouse provider.
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    Community Pulse
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Maia by MatillionSalesforce Data 360
    Considered Multiple Products
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    Matillion
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Matillion is affordable, easy to use with a graphical interface
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    In my opinion Matillion provides more flexibility then the other tools I mentioned.
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Removes most of the complexity around setting up and preparing things.
    If you could describe with words what needs to be done to move data from A to B, the implementation in Matillion would probably be the most similar in terms of simplicity of understanding what you are doing …
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Ease of use and its features,easy integration with AWS
    Incentivized
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    86%
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    53 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    59 Answers
    100%
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    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    42 Answers
    100%
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    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    52 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Maia by MatillionSalesforce Data 360
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Maia by Matillion and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    8.5
    18 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Maia by Matillion
    8.7
    143 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.9
    9 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Connect to traditional data sources9.018 Ratings9.0142 Ratings8.19 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL8.014 Ratings8.3100 Ratings7.86 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Maia by Matillion and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    7.5
    18 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Maia by Matillion
    8.8
    143 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Simple transformations8.018 Ratings9.5143 Ratings8.810 Ratings
    Complex transformations7.018 Ratings8.2142 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Maia by Matillion and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    8.2
    18 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Maia by Matillion
    8.4
    135 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Data model creation9.015 Ratings9.133 Ratings8.310 Ratings
    Metadata management8.016 Ratings9.140 Ratings7.89 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow9.018 Ratings8.4126 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Collaboration6.116 Ratings7.8127 Ratings7.710 Ratings
    Testing and debugging9.017 Ratings7.9128 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Maia by Matillion and Salesforce Data 360
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    9.0
    15 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Maia by Matillion
    8.2
    23 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Salesforce Data 360
    7.0
    10 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Integration with data quality tools9.015 Ratings8.222 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools9.013 Ratings8.220 Ratings6.48 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Maia by MatillionSalesforce Data 360
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (21 ratings)
    8.7
    (145 ratings)
    8.2
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.5
    (144 ratings)
    8.2
    (12 ratings)
    Performance
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
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    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Data Sources
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
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    8.2
    (131 ratings)
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    9.1
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Maia by MatillionSalesforce Data 360
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Matillion
    Great: Need to query simpler APIs, or utilize well known services such as GSheets etc.? Matillion has got some of the best and easiest to use connectors out there. Not so great: Do you need have a competent CI/CD flow that you will be able to update / compare from Matillion as well as other sources at the same time? Good luck, you will need to be extra careful, as you might have to have a deeper dive into your servers Terminal each time you have a git conflict.
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    Salesforce
    Great tool for client management, sales tracking, cases studies. Using is as the source of truth for all client communication. Allowing more integration options for cc and ACH payments. Right now the options are limited and only integrate with strict processing capabilities that are not always in the businesses best interest.
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    Pros
    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.
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    Matillion
    • The user interface of your data pipelines makes it easier for people who aren’t as techy as data engineers to observe what's going on.
    • Customer support is quick, not always as efficient as you would want it to be, but still.
    • Nice documentation available.
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    Salesforce
    • Allows use to bring external data into Salesforce as zero-copy
    • Is able to present data using standard Salesforce reports familiar to our users
    • Allows us to establish multiple relationships between our CRM data and the external data to contextualize the imported data.
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    Cons
    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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    Matillion
    • Matillion is brilliant at importing data -- it would be amazing to have more ways to export data, from emailed exports to API pushes.
    • Any Python that takes more than a few lines of code requires an external server to run it. It would be great to have more integration (perhaps in a connected virtual environment) to easily integrate customized code.
    • Troubleshooting server logs requires quite a bit of technical expertise. More human readable detailed error handling would be greatly appreciated.
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    Salesforce
    • pricing or costing visibilty, we can't estimate what would be consumption this month and suddenly we get surprised
    • CI/CD can be improved, that looks a difficult and hard
    • Also sandbox comes with many limitation so very hard to replicate production like environment to test
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Matillion
    With the current experience of Matillion, we are likely to renew with the current feature option but will also look for improvement in various areas including scalability and dependability. 1. Connectors: It offers various connectors option but isn't full proof which we will be looking forward as we grow. 2. Scalability: As usage increase, we want Matillion system to be more stable.
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    Salesforce
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    Usability
    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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    Matillion
    We are able to bring on new resources and teach them how to use Matillion without having to invest a significant amount of time. We prefer looking for resources with any type of ETL skill-set and feel that they can learn Matillion without problem. In addition, the prebuilt objects cover more than 95% of our use cases and we do not have to build much from scratch.
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    Salesforce
    Most of the daily use features, are very usr friendly, intuitive, every end user can learn how to manage and operate basic activities such as enter information, send an email, send a campaign, create an email marketing template, run a report on the renewals for the month, open and close a support case, create new account or a new contact, etc
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    Performance
    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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    Matillion
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    Matillion
    Overall, I've found Matillion to be responsive and considerate. I feel like they value us as a customer even when I know they have customers who spend more on the product than we do. That speaks to a motive higher than money. They want to make a good product and a good experience for their customers. If I have any complaint, it's that support sometimes feels community-oriented. It isn't always immediately clear to me that my support requests are going to a support engineer and not to the community at large. Usually, though, after a bit of conversation, it's clear that Matillion is watching and responding. And responses are generally quick in coming.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Matillion
    We were able to control on access and built various enviroment for implementation
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    Salesforce
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Matillion
    Fivetran offers a managed service and pre-configured schemas/models for data loading, which means much less administrative work for initial setup and ongoing maintenance. But it comes at a much higher price tag. So, knowing where your sweet spot is in the build vs. buy spectrum is essential to deciding which tool fits better. For the transformation part, dbt is purely (SQL-) code-based. So, it is mainly whether your developers prefer a GUI or code-based approach.
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    Salesforce
    we have evaluated Snowflake, adobe rt-cdp as well. They also offer a very strong capabilities but the Data 360 is more suitable for us because of the same Salesforce ecosystem. The main key factor is without any custom code we were able to include it into our automations. And ofcourse with agentforce already in plans, we had to pick Data 360
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
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    Matillion
    We're using Matillion on EC2 instances, and we have about 20 projects for our clients in the same instance. Sometimes, we're struggling to manage schedules for all projects because thread management is not visible, and we can't see the process at the instance level.
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    Salesforce
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Matillion
    • Matillion has been the backbone of my company's analytical functionalities for 10+ years, so it has a good ROI.
    • The price is ok for what our company built with it, but it starts to be less competitive if the tool is not used at its fullest.
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    Salesforce
    • Salesforce Data Cloud has a positive impact on me as a realtor because it is easy to generate reports on customer data and see what is needed to be bumped to the next level. We have to earn a certain commission by the end of the year and it makes it easy to see how close you are
    • It has a positive impact on keeping track of customers because it is nice to have it all in one place which is a nice time saver
    • I like that you can even see customer info from other agents making it nice to compare and try and pass others
    • Makes the customers journey smooth sailing because everything is in one place
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    ScreenShots

    Maia by Matillion Screenshots

    Screenshot of Matillion's GUI, used to orchestrate jobs with control data flow functionality, automating the ETL process.Screenshot of where structured and semi-structured data can be prepared to create clean data sets that can be used with any BI/reporting/visualization tool of choice. Matillion reads and combines data across a target warehouse external storage, such as S3 or Blob.Screenshot of Matillion's self-validating components, sample and row counts. If a job does fail, the warehouse queue services available with Matillion can be used get an alert to a connected email or Slack account.Screenshot of the SQL component used to run custom scripts from within Matillion. With hundreds of pre-built connectors out of the box, Matillion can handle complex transformation needs.