What I like most about Informatica is its ability to handle complex enterprise data integration at scale. In the e-commerce and Salesforce OMS ecosystems I’ve worked with, data was distributed across Salesforce, ERP, inventory, fulfillment, payment, and other downstream systems.

For example, in an OMS architecture, we had to bring together order, customer, product, inventory, and fulfillment data from multiple systems and make sure the right information reached Salesforce at the right time. Informatica’s ability to handle transformation, orchestration, data quality, and large-volume data movement is particularly valuable in that kind of environment.

From an architecture perspective, I also like that it allows me to keep heavy data processing and transformation outside Salesforce. Salesforce can focus on customer and business processes, while Informatica provides the dedicated data integration layer.

That separation becomes especially important as the ecosystem grows—it gives me better scalability, governance, and maintainability than trying to solve every integration requirement directly within Salesforce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

From my perspective, I’d like a simpler developer experience, stronger real-time observability, and easier impact analysis across complex integration pipelines. Informatica is powerful, but that power can sometimes come with a steep learning curve and significant governance overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.