--- title: "PowerCenter Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of PowerCenter Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/powercenter-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Resource Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/resource-management-comparison/) / PowerCenter Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/powercenter-profile/reviews/) # PowerCenter Review Wondering if PowerCenter is right for your organization? Our Resource Management Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview PowerCenter 4.5 [(42)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/powercenter-profile/reviews/) Pricing Pricing available upon request ### 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. Do you work for PowerCenter? [Manage this product listing](https://www.g2.com/products/teamboard-for-monday-com/claim_requests/new?auto=true) Wondering if PowerCenter is right for your organization? Our Resource Management Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. ## PowerCenter User Interface ## Popular PowerCenter Alternatives Main Product PowerCenter 4.5 [(42)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/powercenter-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.24Ease of use - 4.03Value for money - 4.13Customer support - 4.38Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [Microsoft Power BI](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/microsoft-power-bi-profile/) 4.6 [(1891)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/microsoft-power-bi-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.13Ease of use - 4.41Value for money - 4.16Customer support - 4.49Functionality Pricing Starting at $10.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [ImportYeti](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/importyeti-profile/) 4.9 [(215)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/importyeti-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.80Ease of use - 4.86Value for money - 4.95Customer support - 4.77Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [Tableau](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/tableau-profile/) 4.6 [(2360)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/tableau-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.12Ease of use - 4.20Value for money - 4.24Customer support - 4.49Functionality Pricing Starting at $15.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Microsoft SQL Server](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/microsoft-sql-server-profile/) 4.6 [(1981)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/microsoft-sql-server-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.31Ease of use - 4.27Value for money - 4.26Customer support - 4.57Functionality Pricing Starting at $209.00 one time Get Price Alternative Product [Google Data Studio](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/google-data-studio-profile/) 4.5 [(338)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/google-data-studio-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.13Ease of use - 4.72Value for money - 3.68Customer support - 4.33Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price ## PowerCenter Pricing and Plans Starting price: Connect with an advisor for pricing Free Trial Free Version Confused about pricing? 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Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates. ## PowerCenter Features - Popular features found in Resource Management Calendar Management Collaboration Tools Forecasting Multiple Projects Project Planning Reporting/Project Tracking Task Management Time & Expense Tracking Utilization Reporting - More features of PowerCenter Activity Dashboard Alerts/Escalation API Dashboard Data Management Data Transformation Data Visualization ETL Metadata Management Multiple Data Sources Real-Time Data Real-Time Monitoring Reporting/Analytics Reporting & Statistics Web Services ## PowerCenter User Reviews ## PowerCenter customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Total reviews: 42 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 23 reviews (55%) - 4 stars: 17 reviews (40%) - 3 stars: 1 reviews (2%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (2%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.2/5 - Value for money: 4.0/5 - Customer support: 4.1/5 - Functionality: 4.4/5 --- ### Power Center Brazilian. Experience - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Ease to use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sri Ramani B. - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Ease to work #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Informatica Power Center - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Anandh S. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: October 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Product Met expectations. Could have better customer support and timely resolution of user queries. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 --- ### PowerCenter in Data Integration & BI - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Nikki H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Government Administration - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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 --- ### Informatica for every ETL demand - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: natasha s. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Awesome Tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sriram K. - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Best ETL tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Siddharth R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Informatica - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Saurabh A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I like ease of working with this software but would prefer Informatica to focus more on Data Science #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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 --- ### Great Product for All Medium to Large Companies - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: krystal p. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have been using it 15 plus years to development, installation administration - all aspects #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### User friendly tool for ETL developer - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Darpan P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered PowerCenter is an great tool for ETL if it involves multiple kind of data sources / targets. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- Showing 1 - 10 of 42 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/powercenter-profile/reviews/) ## PowerCenter Popular Comparisons [Microsoft Power BI vs PowerCenter](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/microsoft-power-bi-profile/vs/powercenter/)[ImportYeti vs PowerCenter](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/importyeti-profile/vs/powercenter/)[Tableau vs PowerCenter](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/powercenter-profile/vs/tableau/) ## Other Top Recommended Resource Management Software [Smartsheet](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/smartsheet-profile/) **4.5** (3545) Recently recommended **55** times [Wrike](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/wrike-profile/) **4.4** (3039) Recently recommended **49** times [NetSuite SuiteProjects Pro](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/openair-profile/) **3.9** (44) Recently recommended **24** times [Deltek Polaris](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/2130-Polaris-PSA/) **4.6** (212) Recently recommended **17** times Stuck Between Options? 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