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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

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Overview by
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## Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

### Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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## User Insights

Average based on 90 real user reviews.

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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IF

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/4/2021

"PowerCenter"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

Easy to understand modules and interfaces Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

I don't have a dislike, but occasionally, there are clunky processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you?

We solve workflow processes and execute ETL troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 ![Leah S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Leah S.")
LS

Leah S.

Data Engineer

Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.)

11/29/2020

"Secure and accurate data migration and integration"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

Informatica Powercenter is an innovative software that works with ETL-type data integration, this powerful tool facilitates data migration and the integration of different databases such as SQL Server and Oracle, all this under one interface intuitive and simple to implement, its support system is very efficient and solves errors that occur in a matter of minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

The implementation costs are high and it is probably difficult to acquire for smaller companies, it would be good if the prices are adapted to the needs of the users, besides to when I want to get more functions I have to pay more money which seems to me a negative aspect, I can also say that I dislike it when it slows down, this happens mostly when I try to process a large amount of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter:

If you are looking for software that integrates data in real time, do not hesitate to use Powercenter computing, its multiple functions and characteristics make you choose it over other software that provide similar services. It should be noted that this software provides sustainability for various data integration projects, making it one of the best options available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you?

Since we began to implement this tool in the company, it has significantly improved the workflow, since the data migration is carried out efficiently and precisely, it has also helped the integration of data from different places coalesce appropriately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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UB

Verified User in Banking

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/21/2021

"Superfast and easy to use drag and drop faciliated tool."

4/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

Very easy to learn and fast tool for processing large amount of different types of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

Sometimes it gets difficult to identify the errors using error log but that clearly depends upon our experience with the tool as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it to migrate and pre process the data. I mainly used it for xsds and xmls and it works super fast in that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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UH

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.)

10/9/2021

"Best ETL tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

Integration with Informatica Data quality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

Requires heavy local storage space to store powercenter apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter:

Please go for it. It is the leader in ETL sector Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you?

Transforming source into the data as per business requirements. It is easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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CT

Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.)

10/15/2021

"Informatica pc review"

4/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

Ease of transformation understanding and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

Could be more simple....as it is abit complex for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter:

Best ETL tool in the market to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data warehouse migration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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UR

Verified User in Retail

Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.)

6/15/2021

"powerful ETL tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

I am new to ETL development. Learned on Informatica Powercenter. Great resources on transformations. Able to visualize data flows nicely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

I find it a bit tedious to move between ifnormatica designer, informatica worklow manager and informatica monitor. As well as set up target tables, I would like to have built directly in designer rather than create a table and then link as target source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using it to bring data into Oracle Data Warehouse from many data sources. We also use to create data feeds and flat files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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DS

Daniel S.

E

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/13/2021

"Strong Industry choice"

4/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

Widespread documentation. Industry choice. Customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

The user interface feels old. There is no "undo" functionality for the designer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data merge and integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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UB

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.)

1/3/2021

"Awsome ETL Tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

I really loved the Extracting, transforming and loading data to and from different databases. Large amount of data can be processed without any hassle. The User Interface is quiet easy and simple to use. It also provides variety of transformation options to manipulate the data. It also supports processing of real-time data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

It is hard to handle BLOB and CLOB data types. Also, deployment is bit complex. Memory utilization of this tool could be improved to some extent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter:

If you have to deal with large amount of data then go for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you?

Large amount of data can be processed very easily and rapidly which saves considerable amount of time. Also it can be integrated with different data sources which makes the usage of this tool quite simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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UB

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.)

11/18/2020

"One short ETL tool for any data warehousing project"

5/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

Informatica Powercenter is widely used as an ETL tool in various big and medium size projects. It can connect to various types of sources like Databases, Flat File, CSV, Excel, XML etc. It has a various solution to address data quality issues. data masking, data virtualization. It has various supporting tools or MDM, IDQ, Analyst, bigdata which can be used to analyze data and correct it. This is also one of the popular tool for Data Migration project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

Maintenance and version upgrade of tool takes lot of effort. Also, this is not available with a Cloud service provider as SAAS service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you?

Connecting with multiple source, Harmonizing the data and Data warehousing purpose we use this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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SR

Soumyadip R.

Campus Ambassador

Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.)

4/23/2020

"Powerful tool for data processing"

5/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

The tool is very user friendly. The best thing is when you work on it and try to save a mapping or something you can easily check whether the process is correct up to that step or not and according to that you can proceed further. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

The visualization might be improved, I mean the interface of that software. They can work on the visualization part to make it more user friendly. One more aspect I want to include that when I work on it sometimes data might be lost for some time due to synchronization issues which may be resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter:

It is a very potential tool for mapping and visualization of your data, you should consider it as it is a very powerful tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has helped me to establish a connection from a Unix server to a database server which was very required for my project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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