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Informatica PowerCenter Reviews & Product Details

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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Informatica

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Product Description

Informatica PowerCenter is an ETL tool that is used to enterprise extract, transform, and load the data from the sources. We can build enterprise data warehouses with the help of the Informatica PowerCenter. The Informatica PowerCenter produces the Informatica Crop.

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Peggy O'Neill (Vice President, Industry Analyst Relations at Informatica)

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/7/2016

"Strong DI product"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

Great features. Tight Metadata integration. Ease of use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

Pipeline architecture. No control flow (for example loops) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CI

Verified User in Insurance

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/12/2016

"Informatica PowerCenter Review"

4/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

User - friendly and easy to use and better features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

They should not come up with many products rather they should concentrate on existing products to improve the quality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/17/2015

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"SF Trip experience"

4/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

I like most product Performance and also it's flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

we need to train the consultants with a long time before starting the projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Seth M.

BI Team Lead

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/20/2014

"Informatica PowerCenter"

4/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

Ease of use through visualization. It's as easy as gathering your requirements and then mapping it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

Without a 3rd party tool, scheduling a series of workflows to run on a set schedule can be difficult to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter:

Take advantage of demos that are offered through vendors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

By upgrading and implementing Informatica PowerCenter, we are able to retire old ETL tools/systems. Informatica handles the big data more efficiently than the old tools, which benefits the business by saving time and resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Nikhil P.

Performance and Security Architect Lead

Consumer Goods

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/3/2014

"Informatica Power Center Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Informatica PowerCenter?

- GUI based Power Data Integrator

- Best in class with tight integration with industry leading databases like Oracle & Teradata

- Always leading with cutting edge features like JSON webservice support, CDC, Cloud, Data Virtualization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Informatica PowerCenter?

- No unified approach to sharing best practices via Informatica portals. Each client & system integrator has own set of best practices/standards

- Custom built tools to enhance Informatica functionality by Informatica Professional Services are not readily/easily available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Informatica PowerCenter:

- Conduct a Proof Of Concept

- Budget for Informatica Professional Services resources in your project planning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

- Multiple Large scale data integration and data warehousing projects executed using Informatica PWC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.