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Informatica PowerCenter

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What is Informatica PowerCenter?

Informatica PowerCenter is a metadata driven data integration technology designed to form the foundation for data integration initiatives, including analytics and data warehousing, application migration, or consolidation and data governance.

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PowerCenter is widely used across organizations for a variety of use cases. Users have found the product to be instrumental in addressing …
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Amazing ETL Tool

9 out of 10
December 01, 2020
Informatica PowerCenter is widely used as an integration tool across many projects. This is being used in specific departments. It lets us …
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Good ETL Platform

8 out of 10
April 06, 2017
Incentivized
Our company bought Informatica PowerCenter around 5 years ago, when we initially set up the BI team in the IT department. After that it …
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Popular Features

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  • Connect to traditional data sources (18)
    9.0
    90%
  • Business rules and workflow (18)
    9.0
    90%
  • Simple transformations (18)
    8.0
    80%
  • Complex transformations (18)
    7.0
    70%
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What is Informatica PowerCenter?

Informatica PowerCenter is a metadata driven data integration technology designed to form the foundation for data integration initiatives, including analytics and data warehousing, application migration, or consolidation and data governance.

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Features

Data Source Connection

Ability to connect to multiple data sources

8.5
Avg 8.2

Data Transformations

Data transformations include calculations, search and replace, data normalization and data parsing

7.5
Avg 8.4

Data Modeling

A data model is a diagram or flowchart that illustrates the relationships between data

8.2
Avg 8.2

Data Governance

Data governance is the practise of implementing policies defining effective use of an organization's data assets

9
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

What is Informatica PowerCenter?

Informatica PowerCenter is a metadata driven data integration technology designed to form the foundation for data integration initiatives, including analytics and data warehousing, application migration, or consolidation and data governance.

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Informatica PowerCenter is a metadata driven data integration technology designed to form the foundation for data integration initiatives, including analytics and data warehousing, application migration, or consolidation and data governance.

Reviewers rate Connect to traditional data sources and Data model creation and Business rules and workflow highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Informatica PowerCenter are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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PowerCenter is widely used across organizations for a variety of use cases. Users have found the product to be instrumental in addressing their data integration needs and solving challenges related to data quality management, master data management, data masking, and data virtualization. With PowerCenter, users can easily extract, transform, and load data from various sources such as SAP and Salesforce into their data warehouses and data marts. They appreciate how the product optimizes data for reporting tools and facilitates the generation of accurate reports.

Another common use case for PowerCenter is integrating data from disparate sources and migrating data from legacy systems to newer infrastructure. Users have found the product to be efficient in automating ETL processes and ensuring timely and efficient data loads. They also value its advanced security features, which make administration easier. Many users have praised PowerCenter's ease of use, fast development capabilities, and multi-user development environment with a check-out/check-in mechanism that supports collaborative work.

Overall, PowerCenter has become a mainstay ETL tool in organizations due to its scalability, flexibility, and robustness as an ETL engine. From loading data into data warehouses and data marts to feeding information into COTs applications or Teradata Data Warehouses, PowerCenter has proven to be an indispensable tool for enterprise-wide data integration across a range of industries including marketing, healthcare, finance, and more.

Seamless data integration capabilities: Multiple reviewers have praised Informatica PowerCenter for its seamless data integration capabilities, with users stating that it effortlessly connects to multiple sources and targets. This feature simplifies the complex process of integrating data from various systems, providing a significant advantage in terms of efficiency and productivity.

User-friendly interface: The user-friendly interface of Informatica PowerCenter has been consistently appreciated by reviewers, who find it highly intuitive and easy to navigate. Users state that the application of complicated business rule logic is straightforward, thanks to the intuitive design process for creating ETL mappings and workflows. The minimal learning time and effort required to work with PowerCenter's interface are seen as significant advantages.

Reusability and streamlined development processes: Reviewers have highlighted PowerCenter's ability to capture and share logic in mapplets, enabling reusability and streamlining development processes. This feature contributes to a seamless workflow for developers, making the development and maintenance of code in PowerCenter straightforward. Users value this functionality as it enhances efficiency and promotes consistency across projects.

Lack of Documentation: Several users have expressed frustration with the limited availability and insufficient documentation for Informatica PowerCenter. This has made it challenging for users to achieve advanced tasks and work with complex workflows, hindering their ability to fully utilize the software.

Complex Installation and Configuration: Many reviewers have encountered difficulties during the installation and configuration process of Informatica PowerCenter. The software consists of multiple components that require significant time and resources to set up effectively, causing inconvenience for users.

Limited Integration Capabilities: Some users have found it difficult to integrate code from other languages like Java, Python, or R into Informatica PowerCenter. This limitation forces users to build multiple hops in a data pipeline, resulting in additional complexity and potential inefficiencies in their workflow.

Users recommend Informatica PowerCenter for various tasks such as data migration, ETL, and data integration. They find it to be a reliable tool with strong support and powerful mapping and visualization capabilities. Additionally, users mention its ability to connect and fetch data from different source systems, as well as its capabilities for processing and transforming data. Informatica PowerCenter is highly recommended for companies dealing with large amounts of data and those in need of real-time data integration. Users also mention its plugins for integrating with other applications. While some users acknowledge that Informatica PowerCenter is more expensive than other software, they still recommend it as the best ETL tool in the market.

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December 01, 2020

Amazing ETL Tool

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Informatica PowerCenter is widely used as an integration tool across many projects. This is being used in specific departments. It lets us connect to endless sources in order to pipe data out into different available repositories. Primarily it feeds our various data warehouse and data marts. Also this is being used in Salesforce implementation project to transfer data from Flat files and Relational databases to Salesforce Objects.
  • Extracting, transforming and loading data to and from different databases.
  • Development, testing and maintenance of code is fairly simple.
  • Good performance even during processing of large amount of data.
  • Amazing ability to connect with different types of sources and targets available in the market.
  • Performance with ODBC drivers is comparatively slow which ends up in taking a lot of time.
  • Deployment is bit complex.
  • Clobs and Blobs datatypes are very difficult to handle.
This is an amazing tool to handle large data in multiple batches. Also, this is best suited if you have data in different data sources but if you are looking for a tool to use with single data source then there are multiple tools available in the market which are comparatively cheaper.
Data Source Connection (2)
85%
8.5
Connect to traditional data sources
90%
9.0
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL
80%
8.0
Data Transformations (2)
95%
9.5
Simple transformations
100%
10.0
Complex transformations
90%
9.0
Data Modeling (5)
82%
8.2
Data model creation
80%
8.0
Metadata management
80%
8.0
Business rules and workflow
90%
9.0
Collaboration
80%
8.0
Testing and debugging
80%
8.0
Data Governance (2)
90%
9.0
Integration with data quality tools
90%
9.0
Integration with MDM tools
90%
9.0
  • Reduced time for transforming data.
  • Multiple projects are being handled.
  • Availability of easy resources in the market to employee.
This is great tool to handle large data in multiple data sources.
It is very simple to use and supports multiple functionalities which makes your life easy.
On-time and satisfactory replies from support team if any issue is raised.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Informatica Powercenter is widely used as an integration tool, very commonly across projects as well as across organizations. It addresses a whole suite of data problems, starting with data integration, data quality management, master data management, data masking, data virtualization, etc. The tool is extremely popular for its ability to gather data from disparate sources and homogenize it for consumption. There are several models it can be used in: Integrate data from data sources and landing it in a staging area for consumption, in data migration projects for moving data from legacy systems to newer infrastructure.
  • Data integration - Informatica has always been a leader in the data integration space. The company has maintained its position by innovative solutions, keeping pace with technology development, providing connectors to most of the common platforms, and improving on services with time. It has the ability to integrate data from multi-cloud, hybrid, on-premise infrastructure setup. The data integration can happen in batch or in real time. The performance of Informatica data integration is among the best in class.
  • Data migration - Informatica is widely used as a data migration tool. Lots of enterprises run their software on legacy infrastructure and at some point run into limitations associated with them. The large databases they use at that time make it extremely difficult to switch to the latest infrastructure and have a list of challenges. Informatica is great at addressing these challenges. It allows developers to create rule-based workflows that can be used to migrate any amount of data from old to the new infrastructure. Since Informatica is so successful at this, there is always use cases for reference and trained resources for executing a project.
  • Application Integration - The corporate world is full of mergers and acquisitions which lead to one company's IT assets being moved/merged to another one. This requires a huge amount of work to homogenize the two systems so they can co-exist without breaking each other. Informatica is great at building pipelines to integrate many disparate applications.
  • Data warehousing - Informatica is very commonly used for building data warehouse systems to fulfill the needs of enterprises and data marts to service requirements of individual requirements. This helps organizations' ability to use data sets for driving decision making. For example, Sales teams can decide how their previous sales efforts have performed in various geographies by analyzing the data warehouse data for sales.
  • Tool Management - Informatica over time has become a behemoth of data integration and warehousing world. It has built a vast array of tools to address various user needs. This does not bode well for the future looking at all the newer technologies which do not have so much of tech burden. Most new tools have a great cloud version where you can hop onto a URL, do your work and deploy it in minutes. With Informatica, you still have multiple client tools just to be able to deploy a single workflow and monitor as it runs. This can be both confusing and overwhelming to users.
  • Only commercial data integration - There is no open-source version of Informatica PowerCenter so it is not the most useful for small enterprises or individuals that wish to use it but can't afford the maintenance fee that can be quite a burden. Such users head over to open-source competitors that provide data integration services.
  • Lack of integration with other technologies - It is not very easy to blend in code from other languages like Java, Python, R, etc. Most of the tools these days provide such functionality making lives of users easier. Lack of such capability may cause users to build multiple hops in a data pipeline.
  • Inbuilt reporting - Although Informatica has been around for the longest time, it has not made the best use of all the data capabilities it has. With the amount of data flowing through power center, it should have been easy to provide some sort of reporting features that add immense value to a user's work. However, Informatica has not made great use of this opportunity.
Informatica PowerCenter, being a very mature technology leader, is well suited for large data integration projects where many different data sources exist and multiple departments need to use the data. In such cases, it is best to use a tool like power center to create a data warehouse and datamarts. These organizations usually can have in-house Informatica admins that can take care of software maintenance, contribute to performance improvement, troubleshooting, etc. They are also looking for a long term solution rather than a quick fix for data access issues. The tool may not be well suited for smaller organizations that tend to be more nimble and prefer more flexibility in building their technology landscape rather than being tied to a single tool that may define their overall data warehousing strategies. This also means that organizations do not have to maintain large software and employ dedicated people for doing that.
Data Source Connection (2)
80%
8.0
Connect to traditional data sources
90%
9.0
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL
70%
7.0
Data Transformations (2)
85%
8.5
Simple transformations
90%
9.0
Complex transformations
80%
8.0
Data Modeling (5)
78%
7.8
Data model creation
70%
7.0
Metadata management
90%
9.0
Business rules and workflow
90%
9.0
Collaboration
70%
7.0
Testing and debugging
70%
7.0
Data Governance (2)
75%
7.5
Integration with data quality tools
70%
7.0
Integration with MDM tools
80%
8.0
  • In large implementation projects, the biggest contribution of Informatica has been to standardize the way things are done, get everyone across the organization on the same page in terms of what to expect, how long will the data processing takes, what data quality is to be expected, etc.
  • In projects with hundreds of data pipelines, Informatica makes it easy to define data pipelines that can be auto-configured instead of building one for each table. This greatly reduces the development effort and enables flexibility in massive data migration projects.
  • Informatica provides connectors to a multitude of database systems. It's connectors with Redshift, SAP/HANA have gone a notch beyond in order to tailor the data as per the needs of target systems and makes use of their strengths.
  • A negative impact has been that departments across the boards are highly dependent on the Informatica setup to deliver their data. Given the usually large scope of projects, the lead time for delivery of a solution can be significant causing losses, monetary or otherwise.
Informatica is a mature enterprise data integration platform for ETL jobs. Informatica has a suite full of tools other than PowerCenter that can be used for various use cases. It makes sense to know what the entire suite offers rather than just power center so large organizational needs can be better tailored to fit them. It provides great abilities to connect the maximum number of data sources irrespective of being SQL or no-SQL based. Informatica is also database agnostic and can work as well with a legacy database as with the latest ones. The range of connectors it provides enable fast processing speeds which are critical with the increasing amount of data being processed every day. we selected Informatica for all these benefits and to give the client organization a base to have a great data warehouse for years and not just for the short term.
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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