--- title: Informatica PowerCenter Reviews meta\_title: 'Informatica PowerCenter Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 90 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Informatica PowerCenter works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 90 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Data Integration Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/data-integration-tools --- # Informatica PowerCenter Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Informatica PowerCenter but has limited features. Are you part of the Informatica PowerCenter team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Informatica PowerCenter® helps you unleash the value of your data. It offers a unique end-to-end data integration platform, with a broad set of capabilities to integrate raw, fragmented data from disparate sources, transforming it into complete, high-quality, business-ready information. As your environment grows and matures, PowerCenter scales to meet your expanding business needs, data volumes, and complexity, while providing insights to IT and the business * * * Seller [Informatica](https://www.g2.com/sellers/informatica) Discussions [Informatica PowerCenter Community](https://www.g2.com/products/informatica-powercenter/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Peggy O'Neill (Vice President, Industry Analyst Relations at Informatica) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/informatica-powercenter/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Pentaho Data Integration](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Pentaho Data Integration") Pentaho Data Integration 4.3/5(17) ](https://www.g2.com/products/pentaho-data-integration/reviews) [ ![AWS Glue](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "AWS Glue") AWS Glue 4.3/5(202) ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-glue/reviews) [ ![Alteryx](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alteryx") Alteryx 4.6/5(893) ](https://www.g2.com/products/alteryx/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/informatica-powercenter/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 90 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) GR Gopichand R. Senior Infosec Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/7/2021 "Best ETL Platform for Pulling the data from Multiple Sources" 5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? Informatica PowerCenter is one of the best and reliable ETL platforms for pulling data from multiple sources and it creates a powerful and strong data warehouse. I am using Informatica PowerCenter for pulling the data from heterogeneous sources and created a very strong and powerful data warehouse for data analysis and campaign operation. Its easy to use and drag and drop features make him a very strong ETL platform in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? I have not faced any issues or challanges while using this ETL platform. Everything is perfect and stable with Informatica PowerCenter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter: I will recommend Informatica PowerCenter because its one of the best ETL tool in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? We have purchased Informatica PowerCenter license for pulling the data from multiple sources and created a powerful data warehouse for data analytics and campaign operation from where the users can read the data and do some analysis and send their daily marketing campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Majoju R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Majoju R.") MR Majoju R. Lead Consultant Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/30/2022 "Information about ETL" 3/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? Performance is good with informatica etl tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? Mdm is bit complex to understand the technology Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? Performance issues with other Etl tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/20/2022 "Great product for data integration and ETL" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? The product is simple and easy to use. Supports a variety of sources for data integration. Out-of-the-box integration is provided for multiple sources. Integration could be done using APIs as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? Very slow, some tasks need to be done online only, and local changes are not allowed. Pricing seems to be on the higher side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? The usage was mainly for creating a data warehouse for the enterprise data coming from various sources, and running queries on generated data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/21/2022 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Facilities Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Facilities Services") UF Verified User in Facilities Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/18/2021 "Informatica - ETL Tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? It is straightforward to use Informatica Power Centre, and it is very intiutive. We can pull files of various formats and styles, process those files to fetch the data, and then modify the data present in the file according to the requirement. It is pretty easy to schedule the maestro job and run it any time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? Often, it is a little challenging to read log files and find out the error. Transaction rework takes a longer time, and the cost to implement a new design is high. The customer support is not very quick and takes a long time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter: If your company is looking for any ETL, then I would recommend that to got with Informatica Power Centre as it is easy to use and find and documentations online for help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? I am solving a lot of data transfer from various applications to the centralized data warehouse. It is a universal Connectivity to All Data Sources. Besides, it is the centralized Data Quality application for most of the applications. The rules , reference data, and processes can be easily reused for all types of data integration projects, including data migration, data consolidation, and MDM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 12/14/2021 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") CT Verified User in Telecommunications Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/6/2022 "Best Data Integration/ETL tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? Best ETL type data integration tool that connects to almost all types of databases. Development, Testing, and maintenance are easy to monitor. Transformation speed is pretty high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? Complexity during deployment. Transformation along with data ingestion takes comparatively larger time for the immense amount of data. Blobs file handling is complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter: Informatica is the best tool that helps the project in pulling data from multiple source systems and also helps in modifying it to fit any of your target systems and then pushing the data accordingly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? Transforming along with the data ingesting for a large amount of data that belongs to multiple databases like DB2, Oracle, MySQL, etc. Also, conversion of datatypes issue is solved too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Lalitha Y.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lalitha Y.") LY Lalitha Y. Senior Member Of Technical Staff Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/11/2022 "a revolutionary tool in DW environment" 5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? UI and ease of working on the tool developer-friendly. Enhancements and new features are good to have. Prompt assistance &technical support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? performance issues, Due to its Huge UI burden Performance degrades and causes issues while loading more frequently compared to traditional DW Tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? Loading existing legacy data to Cloud, routing the New webservices data to DW using informatica Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/1/2021 "Best ETL Tool." 5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? Informatica is best ETL(Extract, Transform, Load) tool. Withthe help of informatica we can extract data from different databases and aaply some transformations and load into target database. The best thing is that it's user friendly, a person with without prior coding knowledge can also use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? The look and feel of tool can be improves bit. Otherwise it's best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter: None. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? I am using it for extracting data and loading it into data warehouse. It has a lot of transformations available which we can apply on data and make data much feasible according to our requirements. It is very easy to use , we can extract large amount of database and apply many transformations such as SQT, filter, lookup, update strategy and so on. Loading data is also simple. W can load in two ways wich is direct loading and indirect loading. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/8/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") UF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/4/2022 "Great ETL Tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? Informatica Powercenter is a fantastic tool to handle a large volume of data. We can easily monitor jobs in it. There are lots of transformation options available. There are lots of option to connect with different sources and targets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? CLOBS and BLOBS datatypes are very complex to handle. Debugging the workflows could become hard sometimes. The User Interface could be improved to some extent. Test and Automation part also needs some improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? We are able to schedule the daily migration of large volumes of data in an effective manner. It also helps in optimizing the data for various reporting tools. It provides a very smooth platform for data migration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") UB Verified User in Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/17/2018 "Data warehouse analyst" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? Informatica power center is one of the pioneer in ETL tool and we can integrate with any of the source systems and load the same any systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? Nothing is there from my end to dislike it and it's very flexible and advanced to extract data and transfer as per business needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter: I'll strongly recite others to use their project needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? Through olap system we can give data to end users to do forecast their business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 12/17/2021 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/3/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Power Center Review" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? It is a good ETL tool. Very good features are exist in the Power cneter compared to the IICS Ex: Comparision between the folders, Mapapings, Session,Workflow and also very stable application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? Three different interfaces (Power centr Developer, Powercenter Workflow manager and Monitor) instead of a single consolidated one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? Only problem with Powercenter is during the support issue, when ever we need any technical support we need to ZIP the code and send it to Informatica support for checking. Benifits: Comparision between objects is very useful for any designer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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