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Overview

PowerCenter

4.5

(42)

Pricing

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About PowerCenter

PowerCenter is a cloud-based enterprise data integration platform that helps businesses with data integration life cycle. The platform enables users to manage data integration agility, enterprise scalability, operational confidence and data integration projects.

PowerCenter’s key features include business collaboration, IT collaboration, re-usability, automation, operations, governance oversight, real-time data, prototype, profiling, validation, automated data validation testing, data transformation and connectivity to cloud applications. Additionally, the platform allows users to monitor reinforce coding and production providing support for adaptive load balancing, grid computing, pushdown optimization, partitioning and more.

PowerCenter add-on packages include data integration hub, B2B data exchange, PowerExchange for cloud applications and PowerCenter productivity. Pricing of the product is available on request and support is extended via phone, online help desk and documentation.

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PowerCenter Features

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Configurable Workflow
Dashboard
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Data Import/Export
Data Management
Multiple Data Sources
Reporting/Analytics
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Web Services
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Data Transformation
Data Visualization
ETL
Metadata Management
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring

PowerCenter User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

55%

40%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for money

4.0

Customer support

4.1

Functionality

4.4

Verified

Reviewer

Construction

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Power Center Brazilian. Experience

At my company we work with maps for each transformation Mode, maps for extraction, transformation and load. It's good to learn well each one. From The ETL softwares I've worked with, Power Center is The easier tô learn.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Transformation of data by Any kind of e trance (from csv filés, txt, from bank tables).

Cons:

The Source Qualifier filters and debugger Mode.

Sri Ramani B.

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Ease to use

Ease to work

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It Works vwell with large structured data files PowerCenter processes input files, performs specified transformations, and maps the input data format to the output data format very quickly. The PowerCenter backend implementation seems to be optimized to process and map structured input records to structured output records and load the records into a database. One of the strengths of PowerCenter is performance of processing petabytes of structured input data files. PowerCenter does not require a software development experience or education. After providing initial hands-on training, the data consultants (who are statisticians, subject matter experts) in our organization were able to implement data ingest and data transformation tasks fairly easily. PowerCenter supports multiple DBMS technologies (for example, Oracle, Netezza). This flexibility allows it to be used by multiple departments within AT&T organization.

Cons:

PowerCenter processes input files, performs specified transformations, and maps the input data format to the output data format very quickly. The PowerCenter backend implementation seems to be optimized to process and map structured input records to structured output records and load the records into a database. One of the strengths of PowerCenter is performance of processing petabytes of structured input data files. PowerCenter does not require a software development experience or education. After providing initial hands-on training, the data consultants (who are statisticians, subject matter experts) in our organization were able to implement data ingest and data transformation tasks fairly easily. PowerCenter supports multiple DBMS technologies (for example, Oracle, Netezza). This flexibility allows it to be used by multiple departments within our organization.

Anandh S.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed October 2016

Informatica Power Center

Product Met expectations. Could have better customer support and timely resolution of user queries.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Nikki H.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2023

PowerCenter in Data Integration & BI

I like it. we use it for daily batch load monitoring, issue debug and etc. However, it's super hard to upgrade from Informatica PowerCenter to IICS.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

multiple tools available for development, support and troubleshoot - workflow monitor, workflow manager, workflow designer, repository manager, etc.

Cons:

it's not an easy job to track back from target to source

natasha s.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2019

Informatica for every ETL demand

Informatica has simplified PowerCenter integration with power exchange, data quality, metadata management and data discovery tools. I highly recommend this tool for all your ETL processes.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

PowerCenter is being used across the organization for all our ETL needs weather to load data from different sources, collect data from different flat file or integrate multiple systems for reporting requirement. This is the best and easiest tool for pulling data from source systems, modifying it and load to target system. It also provide the best performance when processing huge data in batch PowerCenter supports various DBMS technologies for e.g: Oracle, Netezza. This flexible nature of it allows it to be used by multiple departments. And last but not ;least it is very easy to learn and use

Cons:

There is no or less password encapsulation in this software rest everything is great.

Sriram K.

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2017

Awesome Tool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

When joining Informatica I have to say, the whole process was a very nice and comforting transition. I was very impressed by level of care, focus and how they approached the recruitment process. The Human resources and Management team are a really great bunch of people and I believe we made the right choice together. They gave me confidence in how the company is run, they were clear and concise on how the company structure works and what the expectations are. The company progression is great, already I'm gaining more responsibility and growing and learning more about the industry, so on this I would certainly recommend Informatica as a prospect to anyone looking for an Innovative, Positive, growing and fun company to work for

Cons:

Scheduler tools can manage dependencies accross many systems and environments. For instance you can configure it so that your informatica job only runs after the successful completion of some other system's windows job and/or another system's batch job.

Siddharth R.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2022

Best ETL tool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to integrate with any DB, flat file. Core concepts are very similar to sql. Very easy to understand the flow of data from source to target.

Cons:

No auto refresh functionality. Lack of a Script to automatically generate the parameter file.

Saurabh A.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

Informatica

I like ease of working with this software but would prefer Informatica to focus more on Data Science

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to Learn Multiple connectors for data transfer Handles multiple data sources IDQ and Informatica MDM were real game changer compared to other ETL tools

Cons:

Not so compatible with upcoming technologies for Big Data and Data Science. Informatica cloud needs to be marketed more and made compatible like Powecenter

krystal p.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

Great Product for All Medium to Large Companies

I have been using it 15 plus years to development, installation administration - all aspects

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It allows you to integrate multiple datasets from different sources.

Cons:

What I like the least about this software is the costs of the licensing.

Reasons for choosing PowerCenter

Ability to integrate data from multiple data sources easy, gui based transformations makes coding easy, has been a stable product on the market for years

Darpan P.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

User friendly tool for ETL developer

PowerCenter is an great tool for ETL if it involves multiple kind of data sources / targets.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

One of the Important pro is that GUI interface is very easy to use and understand. I have used other ETL tool like SSIS but Informatica PowerCenter helps developing ETL is easiest way. Transformation works great and efficiently.

Cons:

When compared with SSIS, informatica PowerCenter doesn't perform well when source and/or target database is SQL Server. However that is understood because SSIS and SQL Server both are native to Microsoft. Sometimes the buffer space gets filled quickly even if lookup query doesn't seem to be heavy. Just as a suggestion - It would have been great if there was a inbuilt performance tuning tool that could suggest way to improve mapping performance.

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