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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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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
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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 8.1

Data Governance

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

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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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Frequently Asked Questions

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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Reviews and Ratings

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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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Reviews

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May 03, 2022

Informatica PowerExchange Connectors: the data with quality and reliability for the enterprise

Jaime Maña | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jaime Maña
Business Developer / Advisor EDM
Freelance (Capital Markets, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
May 31, 2021

Old yet powerful ETL Tool

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Informatica Powercenter is the centerpiece of our overall enterprise data warehouse strategy. It's a critical enablement to ensure we can feed in multiple data stream and transform them into digestible data within our data warehouse. With its flexible capabilities and API availability, we were able to feed in industry standard data format as well as home grown data structure. Overall, we are very pleased with their capability and contribution to our data warehouse strategy.
December 01, 2020

Amazing ETL Tool

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Banking Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
November 19, 2019

The data integration leader

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
April 12, 2019

Informatica Power Center review

Gurcan Orhan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gurcan Orhan
Data Quality Management Software Development Manager
Yapı Kredi (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have many developers who will use Informatica Power Center for more than 80% of their work, multi-user development will reduce your administration effort with less chance of losing code.
When data is loaded to the Informatica Application Server, transformations perform very fast. It also supports push down ETL if your ETL mappings are simple or have average complexity.
March 08, 2019

PowerCenter outpowers the cloud version

Verified User
Manager in Finance and Accounting
Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think anything where you need to shuttle data in/out of one complex system and into another is a great fit for PowerCenter (on prem). The “Upsert” function of updating and inserting has saved us countless dollars in storage space and the in/out transfer of data to the cloud, so if you are pulling data out of your on-prem systems and moving it to the cloud, this is the tool for you. Coupled with a good Data Warehouse or Data Lake strategy, you can be ELT instead of ETL, as well. Makes feeding your BI Tools fast and easy.
December 19, 2018

Informatica PowerCenter, an Enterprise ETL Tool

Verified User
Director in Professional Services
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Informatica PowerCenter is great for creating data marts or data warehouses in star schema.

Informatica PowerCenter doesn't provide native capabilities for data cleansing, such as USPS zip code validation. You must code this manually.
December 10, 2018

A powerful ETL solution which focuses on enterprise scalability, flexibility, and code re-usability

Jody Gitchel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jody Gitchel
Senior Data Solutions Architect
Laser Spine Institute (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
PowerCenter is well equipped to handle large amounts of data movement in an organization with many disparate sources and a structured development team. It excels in enforcing enterprise development standards through things like metadata manager and the monitoring capabilities (as well as being able to design monitoring rules for everything from naming standards to design practices). It is especially well suited at handling flat-file data in addition to its many connectors and native support for just about any ANSI standard database. For large development teams or the desire to remain flexible at an enterprise scale, Powercenter is a top-tier solution.

For small projects or even smaller development teams with mostly a single data source, expect frustration with being able to quickly test a solution as the design flow is very structured. It is also designed in a way that segregation of duties at a very high level can also cause small development teams to be counter-productive. Each step in the design process is a separate application, and although stitched together, is not without its problems. In order to design a simple mapping for example, you would first need a connection established to the source (example, ODBC) and keep in mind that it will automatically name the container according to how you named your connection. You would then open the designer tool, import a connection as a source, optionally check it in, create a target, optionally check it in as well, and design a transformation mapping. In order to test or run it, you will need to open a separate application (Workflow Manager) and create a workflow from your mapping, then create a session for that workflow and a workflow for those one or more sessions at which point you can test it. After running it, in order to observe, you then need to open a separate application (Monitor) to see what it is doing and how well. For a developer coming from something like SSIS, this can be daunting and cumbersome for building a simple POC and trying to test it (although from the inverse, building an enterprise scalable ETL solution from SSIS is its own challenge).
April 18, 2018

Sheer Performance (but not for MacOS!)

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
One of the main strengths of Informatica Enterprise Data Integration is its performance. If your business requirements include processing of huge volumes of data, then Informatica is strongly recommended over other tools. I would recommend Informatica over Talend.

On the other hand, if your business primarily works on Apple machines, Informatica Enterprise Data Integration is a resounding NO. Running Informatica on a VM or a Remote Desktop completely kills its efficiency.
March 31, 2017

PowerCenter works well with large, structured data files

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Insurance Company, 51-200 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend

PowerCenter is well suited for processing of large amounts of data that is structured and pre-defined. It is well-suited for large organizations that have the resources to install, configure and support PowerCenter. It is well suited for large organizations that have a large number of data consultants/analysts that do not have a software development/programming background.

PowerCenter is not a good fit for smaller, agile organizations that work with unstructured data and changing/dynamic data.

March 09, 2017

My personal view of Informatica Enterprise Data Integration tools based on my 10+ years of user experiences.

LH
Luoming Hou
Sr. ETL Analyst and Admin
Costco Wholesale (Wholesale, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Informatica Enterprise data integration tools are well suited in extracting/loading/transforming large amounts of data as batch loads. It can also be easily integrated with Hadoop on big data applications. But its real-time integration with MQ or Tibco may be a little overlapped with them for the functionalities.
August 03, 2016

Day to day user's opinion of PowerCenter

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
PowerCenter is the top of the line tool for migrating data from one source to another. It excels at filtering and modifying data before deploying it into a target environment, usually for end user use.

However, if you are looking for a tool to simply look at data from one source, there are other products out there. This is really designed for aggregating data and filtering/manipulating it into useful information.
May 21, 2016

PowerCenter for ETL

Sadu Kurahatti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sadu Kurahatti
Sr Consultant
Sevatec, Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
PowerCenter is ideal where there is a need to implement complex data migration rules and perform incremental data load. It is very efficient, easy to maintain and modify the code. It is also very efficient in connecting to data sources including XML, Flat files, spreadsheets, RDBMS, mainframe etc.
February 29, 2016

One stop for all ETL needs

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In scenarios where we have to integrate data from heterogeneous sources into targets PowerCenter is the best tool as it can extract as well as load data by using native drivers of each of the different databases with a performance that is not matched by any of its competitors. By bringing power exchange, data quality, metadata management and data discovery under one instance, Informatica has simplified PowerCenter integration with above mentioned tools as well as maintenance of the instance.
October 30, 2015

PowerCenter is a Industry Leading integration tool

Brian Randolph | TrustRadius Reviewer
Brian Randolph
Data Integration Data Quality Specialist
CARFAX (Information Services, 501-1000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
PowerCenter is by far the industry leader when it comes to extract, transform and load applications. The ability to access a multitude of data sources and targets makes the product versatile. And the graphic user interface makes it easy to learn and use the tool with limited knowledge. Even business users can understand the mappings and logic applied.
March 20, 2014

Informatica - Review at a glance

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Broadcast Media Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
The tool should satisfy these criteria:
  • Extraction of the data from legacy sources (usually heterogenous)
  • Data transformation (data optimized for transaction --> data optimized for analysis)
  • Synchronization and cleansing of the data
  • Loading the data into data warehouse.
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