I was using Informatica PowerCenter as an ETL to to feed data into Teradata datawarehouse that houses customer information for an insurance company.

Informatica PowerCenter is a good ETL tool for users who wish to develop a datawarehouse but do not have much programming experience. It has a nice interface where the user can simply drag and drop to create a data flow. It is very intuitive and user friendly.

PowerCenter is a heavy software and installation is not a trivial task. It uses a lot of memory and it could crash the system if it does not have enough resources.

It's good but yeah not too good

1. Drag and drop services 2. Easily maintain 3. Run multiple batch jobs 4. Define methods with logistics

1. Can't schedule in workflow 2. Job running status logs are too long 3. Doesn't have parallel off functionality 4. Can't be sync with repository automatically

If you are a PowerCenter expert you can do almost any data transformation.

It is very complex and difficult to use. Super expensive and with minimal suport.

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.

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

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

Ease to work

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.

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.

1. Able to process a huge record size. In the latest project, we used Informatica to load approx 5 Million records daily. There were no performance issues due to the data size. 2. . PowerCenter has very easy to use drag and drop interface which can be used in integration with other applications. 3. Good tool to manage legacy data and to make compatible with modern applications. 4. PowerCenter also has other additional features like the ability to profile data, visualize graphical data flow etc. Data validation can also be done very easily using the validation feature.

There is a huge licensing fee which is worth it as the product is one of the best ETL tools, but projects which smaller budget find it challenging to justify the cost.

I have been working on the tool since last 8+ years and the tool has never failed me. I could design almost everything i could think of in terms of data flow and transformations.

The ease of development, debugging, migrating and maintaining the code. Heavy duty performer and can scale to perform multi-threading.

It does not have strong ELT features or market - so cannot leverage the high computing capability. Still based out of legacy ETL process which needs to be migrated.

I have used Informatica PowerCenter data masking module for masking Production data in the TEST and DEVELOPMENT environments. It has worked out pretty well.

Informatica PowerCenter is a user friendly tool.

The price of Informatica PowerCenter tool is a bit high

Overall as a data analyst. Informatica is the one of the best etl tool to be used nowadays.

The best thing about informatica power center is that we can use it with multiple source types.

I guess the GUI can be improved as it is less user friendly or you can say boring.

Drag and drop function is easy for the developers and users to complete development faster. Powerful out of box functions are added advantage.

Initially the licensing was a bit expensive however with competition from market helped make competitively priced.

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

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.

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.

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

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

J'utilise Informatica PowerCenter comme ETL pour fournir des données à l'entrepôt de données Teradata qui héberge les informations client de la compagnie d'assurance.

Pour les utilisateurs qui souhaitent développer un entrepôt de données mais qui n'ont pas beaucoup d'expérience en programmation, Informatica PowerCenter est un bon outil ETL. Il a une belle interface où les utilisateurs peuvent glisser-déposer pour créer des flux de données. C'est très intuitif et convivial.

PowerCenter est un logiciel lourd et l'installation n'est pas facile. Il utilise beaucoup de mémoire, et s'il n'y a pas assez de ressources, il peut planter le système.

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

It allows you to integrate multiple datasets from different sources.

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

Powercenter by Informatica is a strong ETL tool which has all the features and functionality making it the best choice for your data warehouse needs. The GUI interface makes designing a mapping super-easy. The tool contains various transformation that can be used to translate your business needs

There is no actual CONS that I have seen with tool. Have been using it for so many years and I am completely happy with it.

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

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

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

I have using Informatics Powercenter for ETL and data integration needs for the past 12 years and its one of the best tool available in the market.

It can connect to almost all types for sources and targets, it has so many built in transformations which can be readily used to meet the business needs.

Its performance when dealing with huge volume of data is not that great when compared to Ab-initio. Also, its very expensive.

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.

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

If you need to do a fast ETL/ELT process and you do not want complications, this is your application. Informatics (on-premises) is quick to deploy and you can start to develop your process really quickly. The Informatica Knowled Base is very complete and you can find in it some templates to use. In all the development process, you can see and following the data per each transformation. You can launch a part of the process, simulating the data output. The quality of the solution is fantastic and his support is great, they usually respond to a problem in hours.

Great support and knowledge base. Easy to learn

Currently the managing of EII processes (like Restful or SOAP) are not well supported by the on-premise solution.

So far the best ETL tool I have used.

This tool has so many functionalities and options to use for data flow and transformations

Didn't meet my expectations when tried to use it along with other Cloud AWS services

I am working on Informatica Power Center since 2000 as I have a good amount of expertise with this tool.

Ease of Use

Too many tools

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

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.

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.

Informatica is known to have a love/hate relationship with the majority of its users. The main reason for this is the steep learning curve of its vast amount of features. A lot of the features are very "hidden" without a knowledge both deep and wide of the software. Other than with lengthy experience, it is very hard to understand how to tackle a lot of specific problems. However, the majority of the solutions it can provide are very straight forward and can be created very quickly. There is very good customer support provided with the product but the code Informatica is built on is old and a lot of features that the community desires cannot be added. This does not necessarily take away from the functionality but more the overall quality since the product will someday be too out of date. In conclusion, it is one of the best ETL tools and is great value but its main issue is the steep learning curve that will still hit you every couple months.

It's level details about the issue and various tool for each activities

We require a better system configuration to support the software there is no lighter version of it

Excellent for ETL (extract, transform, load) use cases.

User Interface tool is a large process. There are atleast few tools which have to opened to finish an ETL job