--- 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) ![Nelson E.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nelson E.") NE Nelson E. Manager, Business Intelligence and Vendor Management Health, Wellness and Fitness Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/21/2016 "A true ETL Tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? Easy to use even for those that are new to a new ETL tool. Ability to integrate to Cloud solutions. Easy to learn and design and troubleshot. Very reliable on a Unix environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? It needs to incorporate more features in the Standard Edition. All Standard edition is lacking was custom built and integrated with the tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? Daily production report and key executive information through Informatica as a data integration tool. Informatica is the main ETL tool to integrate into the EDW and therefore it is a critical tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Kushal R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kushal R.") KR Kushal R. Associate Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/22/2016 "Its great working with informatica things get so easy." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? The versatility is a big plus, you can basically work with any kind of structured data source: flat files, most of the databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? One thing i don't like is you have to close and open the folders to see the changes reflected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? Informatica is great for ETL it makes working with data so much easier. There is everything available for everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Research](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Research") CR Verified User in Research Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/4/2016 "Informatica power center 9.6.1" 5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? Debugger option in PowerCenter designer and ease of using IPC and easy to generate SQL statements as you no need to worry in writing huge sequel statements with IPC you can do it easily and effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? There are still bugs in the tool which are to be fixed like tracing problem while running multiple workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? I usually load the flat file data that comes everyday at particular time to database Target table and transposing the given set of data using informatica normalizer transformation. IPC is an easy and convenient tool to extract transform and load the source data into target. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management") UN Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/29/2016 "As good as it gets" 5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? I like the fact that Informatica is solely focused on ETL and they set the industry standard that other tools try to reach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? Not much to dislike about the product except the way some of the things are arranged and organized. This is a small price to pay for the unbeatable stability and unparalleled performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter: This is as good as it gets. The only option I would recommend is to look at the Cloud version as it offers additional functionality that the on premise version does not. Not to mention the fact that all the tools are headed to the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? We are trying to solve enterprise ETL functionality and are realizing very consistent performance that we do not see with other products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Michael R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Michael R.") MR Michael R. Data Warehouse Administrator Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/5/2016 "PowerCenter as an on-premise integration and management tool" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? PowerCenter does what it does very well. The support structure, often bemoaned in public, actually works pretty well for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? Price. The cost associated with just implementing the core product is very large. Charging extra for management tools (in-client source control, metdata manager, etc) is untenable for my org. Management of the tool is haphazard without them; we had to "reverse-engineer" the metadata to prevent our developers from digging and digging through endless menus just to determine whether their source definitions exist already, or not. The built-in scheduler is quite anemic and also required us to use cludgy workarounds. Team needs to be trained up to it. That's not unique. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter: Get your table structures, design, architecture, and EA ownership right first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? Our ETL runs faster thanks in part to better software (bulking and parallelization), but it's not clear how much performance we gained just from a brand new and better table and workflow design. We are able to run our ETL multiple times per day to provide an integrated look into the University's admissions and registration stats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") IR Verified User in Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/4/2017 "Great product" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? Will highly recommend this product , it makes charting, reporting very easy, with various building blocks needed to generate exec reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? The tool sometimes take some hands on learning in the initial stages to get accustomed to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? reporting, retail analytics, data science Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Niranjan S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Niranjan S.") NS Niranjan S. Consultant Management Consulting Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/12/2016 "The best ETL tool ever!" 5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? Informatica PowerCenter is my go to solution for any ETL need. It is flexible, easy to understand and easy to maintain. It is easier to debug and absolutely simple to build any logic you have in mind. The security is very straight forward which avoids unnecessary confusions and saves time to concentrate on developing and testing the applications. The command line comes to rescue when you need to create a custom solution. Deployment groups and simple XML migration saves time and energy during migrations. The inbuilt version control saves lots of time when something is modified by mistake. The ETL templates for SCD saves time and avoids complexity by providing a simple method to implement complex SCDs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? Though the tools is reliable compared to other tools like ODI, frequent crashes, screen hang causes troubles. One notable issue is when you try to change the domain name in Informatica Workflow monitor-impossible to change! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter: Simple interface, easy to learn, use and administer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? Any ETL problem can be handled by Informatica, I work with a very big EBS implementation and developing a data warehouse was so easy with Informatica, Earlier we were considering Oracle's ODI but later realized the flexibility which was readily available in Informatica was missing in ODI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Oil & Energy](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Oil & Energy") CO Verified User in Oil & Energy Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/1/2016 "Leader in Data Integration" 5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? Informatica offers integration with wide range of databases and enterprise application integration with a interface helping easy to support and sustain application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? Need seamless job scheduling with dependency flexibility like control or autosys scheduling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? Integrate data from wide range of source for enterprise integration and business decision support system.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/25/2016 "Occasionally use for fast ETL development" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? Powerful tools, get results very quickly with full functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? Too many features, easy to make wrong choices if you don't know what you are doing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter: One of the best data integration tools out there in the market today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? Discover data quickly for timely data delivery Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 8/28/2016 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Samrat M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Samrat M.") SM Samrat M. Data Integration / Datawarehousing Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/19/2015 "Informatica Powercentre : A Leader in the Data Migration tools stack like no other." 5/5 What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter? Informatica, unlike other vendors like Oracle do not believe in 'reinventing the wheel' when it comes to enhancements: old features are backward compatible and new ones are intuitive to use to the familiar user. one of the best features of Informatica and a dream come true for most Informatica Developers and Designers is its ability to visually model the business process whose data it is trying to transform. This means process models developed in industry standard BPMN can be modelled to exact specification mappings in Informatica and with its robust debugger engine, it serves as the best visual tool to visualise each and every data transformation when you need to get those data sign-offs in complex data integrations. Hence code development is more agile and prototyping is faster and more robust. Code Migration and Version Control in Informatica are pretty robust too and the process works out of the box with its excellent code labelling and version history system with minimal configuration! Add to this the excellent error handling capabilities of its workflow monitor and you have a data migration platform that works best for you and the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter? In the Product per se, the Informatica Powercentre suite needs a stronger ETL(Extract Transform Load) orchestration tool that is as intuitive as the Oracle Datawarehouse application console(DAC). Informatica allows orchestration of workflows to a certain extent but needs to come up with more level of control on table related tasks that speed up the ETL like dropping and recreating indexes. Informatica can do these activities by calling procedures in pre and post sql actions but the tasks are not very visibly monitored on its work flow monitor.Nevertheless, the session logs on the monitor do keep a record of these tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter: Before falling into the sales pitch of ETL tools set by Oracle or IBM(Data Stage), consider this: Informatica has been the market leader for Enterprise Data Migration for the last couple of years(more than 5 years as a Leader in this sector on the Gartner Magic Quadrant). If this statistic does not impress you, consider its ability to make robust prototypes, efficient ETL Engine, strong debugging and error handling capabilities plus a version control and code migration system that simply works out of the box and you got a winner in the Data Migration tools space that will make your investment worthwhile over the years! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Informatica PowerCenter solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using Informatica to make complex data transformations from multiple source systems using complex business process flows that reflect the convergence of CRM(Customer Relationship Management) systems and Financial systems right from when the Customer represents an opportunity for business to the point when he holds assets from our business as a result of the Customer journey. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/14/2015 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about Informatica PowerCenter? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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