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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

    Oracle GoldenGate

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) GoldenGate is a managed service providing a real-time data mesh platform, which uses replication to keep data highly available, and enabling real-time analysis.

    $250

    Per License

    Qlik Replicate

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AQlik Replicate enables organizations to accelerate data real-time replication, ingestion and streaming via change data capture, across a wide range of heterogeneous databases, data warehouses and data lake platforms.N/A
    Pricing
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Oracle GoldenGateQlik Replicate
    Editions & Modules
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    Data Integration
    $250.00
    Per License
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Oracle GoldenGateQlik Replicate
    Free Trial
    NoYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeRequired
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    Oracle
    Chose Oracle GoldenGate
    They are system-limited. Oracle GoldenGate provides more flexibility to use in different use cases and topologies. Most of the other tools are not matured like the Oracle GoldenGate. Oracle GoldenGate is best compared to other tools in terms of high performance, configuration …
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    Qlik
    Chose Qlik Replicate
    We tried to use Oracle GoldenGate for our Oracle source replication needs but, had too many issues with a number of our tables due to churn or size. Qlik Replicate had no issues. And, we can tune our tasks to not impact the source systems we are pulling from.
    Incentivized
    Chose Qlik Replicate
    I found this as my lifesaver in terms of its efficacy and approachable to scale the streaming data from our ecommerce platform and analytics of data made much easier than compared to others. As it's partners with azure and other platforms which made our applications faster to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Qlik Replicate
    Great tool for data replication solution for Oracle/SQLServers/etc. Real easy to get it set up and start realizing business value. Getting the PoC accomplished in a short window. Product costing and easy to start small and scale as needed. It helped cover most of our ask …
    Incentivized
    Chose Qlik Replicate
    Far less complex to manage
    Incentivized
    Chose Qlik Replicate
    We helped attunity (prior owners if replicate) build out new features and worked through bugs with them. Their product was not great when we originally started but there were no other solutions in the market except for Golden Gate which had a hefty price tag associated with it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Qlik Replicate
    We selected Qlik Replicate because it was the easiest to use with the least network overhead. The team was able to master the application in under an hour--significantly less than IBM or Informatica.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
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    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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    91%
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    Features
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Oracle GoldenGateQlik Replicate
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle GoldenGate and Qlik Replicate
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    8.5
    18 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Oracle GoldenGate
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    Connect to traditional data sources9.018 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL8.014 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle GoldenGate and Qlik Replicate
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    7.5
    18 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Oracle GoldenGate
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    Qlik Replicate
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    Simple transformations8.018 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations7.018 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle GoldenGate and Qlik Replicate
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    8.2
    18 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Oracle GoldenGate
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    Qlik Replicate
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    Data model creation9.015 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management8.016 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow9.018 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration6.116 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging9.017 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle GoldenGate and Qlik Replicate
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    9.0
    15 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Oracle GoldenGate
    -
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    Qlik Replicate
    -
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    Integration with data quality tools9.015 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools9.013 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Oracle GoldenGateQlik Replicate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (21 ratings)
    9.1
    (41 ratings)
    8.6
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    8.3
    (32 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
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    -
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    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    10.0
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    Online Training
    -
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    10.0
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    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
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    10.0
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Oracle GoldenGateQlik Replicate
    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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    Oracle
    I think it's a great product. We apply Oracle GoldenGate to several use cases in our organization. 1. Business Continuity Planning, 2. Query Offloading through data replication to a reporting instance of our data, 3. looking into data transformations to help support various queries for different teams within the business.
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    Qlik
    Qlik Replicate works very well with relational data platforms, both on premise and in the cloud, for example Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and others, it also works very well with DB2. If the data source is MongoDB, it is more complicated and currently there is no possibility of sending data to MongoDB.
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    Pros
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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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    Oracle
    • As the product under the Oracle umbrella, it perfectly and natively supports the Oracle database very well.
    • For the standard scenario and use cases, the configuration is straight-forward (in our case uni-direction copy from source to target).
    • It is robust and the performance meets our SLA, even for a large amount of data volume.
    • The error report is not only detailed but hits the right points, so trouble shooting is easy.
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    Qlik
    • Replicate is extremely stable and does not generate a lot of alerts/failures/issues that take up time to troubleshoot.
    • It is very easy to add new source tables to a Replicate task so that we're always in sync with new data available from the CRM.
    • It's nice that Qlik Replicate also allows you to create a job to stop and then restart your tasks during maintenance windows that occur on both the source and target systems.
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    Cons
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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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    Oracle
    • The earlier versions of Golden Gate were complex to use as there was no front end. All that works was the command line.
    • The cost of the product can be a detriment to most companies.
    • The product has been augmented over the years and has so many features that it can be overwhelming.
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    Qlik
    • The base Replicate web GUI is lacking. If you have dozens or more tasks, it's hard to get a sense of how they're performing. Enterprise Manager solves all of these problems but is a separate install.
    • The support portal is extremely difficult to navigate. It's hard to track down exactly what you're looking for.
    • It would be helpful to have better documentation and example queries for the tables in the Enterprise Manager analytics database.
    • Destination databases that don't support common DDL commands behave unpredictably. And the replication of schema changes isn't consistent.
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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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    Oracle
    Oracle GoldenGate is a core part of our business.
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    Qlik
    The availability of the replicated data in disparate environments has is now crucial. Replacing a product like Qlik Replicate would require significant time, investments, and work. In addition, Qlik Replicate is reasonably reliable with few failures.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    Once set up, it's very easy to use and keep running, it's getting to that point that can make it cumbersome to some. Also, depending on the data that you want to replicate, the configuration files can become quite cumbersome to maintain. Learning curve can be high for some who are not as experienced with databases and transactions.
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    Qlik
    We now have greater business flexibility and scalability, and our big data integration projects have a quick rate of growth, which has been profitable for us. Independent of the sources involved, maintaining data consistency between sources is easy. One of my favorite features is the way it lets owners of the source system start and stop processes from updating their system windows.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
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    Oracle
    Oracle GoldenGate has only gone down for us when the data being sent was bad.
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    Qlik
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Oracle
    Oracle GoldenGate's performance is great for our use cases. Your mileage may vary.
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    Qlik
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    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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    Oracle
    Oracle Support for Oracle GoldenGate has been quite responsive and quite helpful in the few situations where we've needed it. Furthermore, the documentation on Oracle GoldenGate is so good that we often do not need to contact support with issues as the fix is already documented and able to be run by us without needing to open a ticket.
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    Qlik
    The issue I've had is that Qlik does an awful job of keeping their customers informed when new versions of the software are available. We found that we were using a version that was no longer supported and could never get help. When it came time to get us upgraded so that we were on a current version, no one knew how to help get us to where we needed to be. We had to purchased professional services time and even then I was basically on my own to get everything built out and set up. Qlik needs to be more proactive with communicating about new releases and how to get your version upgraded in the most secure, safe way possible.
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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
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    Oracle
    We've had Oracle consultants come as well for training days to talk about new features, parts of Oracle GoldenGate we may not be using and things of that nature. The consultants they send are great as they're very knowledgeable about all things Oracle GoldenGate and great resources for any questions or concerns you may have with the product.
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    Qlik
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    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
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    Oracle
    We used Oracle University for our Oracle Golden Gate Training and it was top notch. We were able to turn our whole DBA team to Oracle GoldenGate newbies to Oracle GoldenGate troubleshooting experts in a matter of a few days, while this obviously did not come cheap, the company felt that it was worth the investment.
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    Qlik
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
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    Oracle
    If Oracle GoldenGate is new to your organization, expose as many DBAs as possible to it. Having your whole team fluent in it will overcome early operational hurdles and allow it to more quickly become an accepted and supported part of your supported platform for your team that will enable the business to use it to its fullest.
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    Qlik
    Follow the directions from the Qlik documentation. They are pretty straight forward and easy enough to follow. If you follow these, then you are not likely to have issues on implementation.
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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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    Oracle
    We use Oracle Data Guard as a backup tool, but not for data replication. Data Guard is not suited for real-time data replication in our non-normalized reporting database nor for the database we are using for our upgrade project, as Data Guard is not able to transform data and is not able to synchronize data into different schemas, which is necessary for our project. Additionally, our project database is on Oracle 12g not 11i: I am not 100% sure Data Guard is able to replicate from 11i to 12g
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    Qlik
    Great tool for data replication solution for Oracle/SQLServers/etc. Real easy to get it set up and start realizing business value. Getting the PoC accomplished in a short window. Product costing and easy to start small and scale as needed. It helped cover most of our ask compared to other solutions.
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
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    Oracle
    Have never had any issues with scaling Oracle GoldenGate itself, however Oracle GoldenGate Monitor does have scaling issues, but with Oracle GoldenGate now able to be monitored by Oracle Enterprise Manager, this is no longer an issue, in my opinion.
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    Qlik
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    Return on Investment
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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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    Oracle
    • In earlier versions, DDL support was limited as well as the need of primary key constraints in the source tables. This made me create partitions, sub-partitions, truncatations and perform other operations upon they are performed in source systems and I need to discuss with source system administrators and need to convince them to let them create primary keys for replicated tables.
    • But both issues are solved now.
    • Installation is straightforward, easy.
    • Deployed everything within Oracle Data Integrator.
    • Developing 1000 of ODI interfaces for loading into Operational Data Store took not more than 100 man/days. But, adding them to Golden Gate is taking not more than 5 man/days.
    • Management Pack and VeriData are additional packs for your management and data verification needs.
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    Qlik
    • Prior to using Qlik Replicate, we used an ETL solution to copy data from the Oracle ERP system to the Microsoft SQL Server BI system at a 15-minute interval. It was very tedious to maintain. Qlik Replicate is much easier to use and we replicate data near real-time now.
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