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Apache Avro vs. Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apache Avro
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Apache Avro is a serialization format for record data, for streaming data pipelines. It offers excellent schema evolution, and has implementations for the JVM (Java, Kotlin, Scala, …), Python, C/C++/C#, PHP, Ruby, Rust, JavaScript, and even Perl.N/A
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
Score 7.0 out of 10
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The Informatica® Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ (IDMC) is designed to help businesses efficiently handle the complex challenges of dispersed and fragmented data to innovate with their data on virtually any platform, any cloud, multi-cloud and multi-hybrid.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
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Anonymous
Chose Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
Below are my comment based on 2+ year of experience in Informatica Cloud
PROS:
1. Scalable Data Pipeline
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Anonymous
Chose Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
Informatica has a user interface that is very compelling but has support for other systems that more modern tools do not.
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Vaibhav Khanna ☁⚡
Salesforce Consultant
Chose Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
First, the wizard is easy to use making the learning curve for simple ETL tasks nice. Second, since Informatica is mature there are a good variety of connectors available. Finally, we have driven some fairly complex ETL solutions using only the cloud.
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Anonymous
Chose Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
We were originally given Informatica Cloud as a bundled piece of software with the Salesforce implementation company we signed up for so we didn't do a lot of detailed searching for competitors. Since then we have seen it go against Mulesoft Anypoint and Zapier. Both were good, …
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Anonymous
Chose Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
Informatica is a proven name in this space, and while Cloud does not have all the exotic features that Powercenter has, it is fast and light, working well for a very agile team that cannot always wait for the dedicated Informatica developer to fully build out an integration. …
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Anonymous
Chose Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
Having used SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in the past, Informatica Cloud was a huge-step up in functionality, usability and performance. Hands-down, Informatica Cloud is a much more robust product overall. While SSIS is well-suited for specific instances (i.e. SQL …
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Anonymous
Chose Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
We had years of experience with Informatica PowerCenter, but opted to leverage Informatica Cloud primarily due to the package's integrations with SaaS providers.
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Anonymous
Chose Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
Informatica Cloud (IC) and Dataloader are similar products, and we actually use both. IC is a much better tool for automating and standardizing data imports, but Dataloader is much better suited for ad-hoc data imports.
Chose Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
The major reason in selecting Informatica Cloud Data Integration over the others was because of 1) Non-Complex Integrations 2) Cost factors for Licensing
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Informatica Cloud is an excellent tool for freeing up trapped data in your internal systems and exporting it into a cloud data warehouse or SQL container. Especially if you have any internal SQL query generators that allow you to copy and paste into the Source setup. For example, we use Business Objects internally, and you can build out the query you need inside the firewall with that, then paste it into the query within Informatica Cloud while establishing the Source connection. This way you are not writing all your source parameters by hand, cutting new jobs setup time by 50%. Where Cloud will not suit you well is if you need significant visibility to the health of the system from a tracking, monitoring or error handling standpoint. Cloud will tell you it failed, maybe give you an example error, but has no further troubleshooting or diagnostic assistance to offer.
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Pros
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  • Informatica Cloud is a great tool for automating data imports. Raw data files can be scheduled to run at designated times, and using pre-built mappings ensures that the data goes into the system accurately each time.
  • It is also a great tool for converting raw data into specific formatting. For example, configuring the mapping so that the first letter of a first, middle or last name is always capitalized.
  • Additionally, Informatica Cloud has a built-in field-matching tool so that records that already exist are updated rather than having duplicates created.
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Cons
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  • The User Interface can be a bit difficult to get in initial stages.
  • Error messages are hard to understand which sometimes takes a lot of time for the resolution
  • Cannot Implement complex SQL queries which should be fixed in future release.
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Support Rating
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I've never had trouble getting into contact with Informatica's support for technical help. I give it a nine because it does pretty well for mid to enterprise-scale workflows.
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Alternatives Considered
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Having used SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in the past, Informatica Cloud was a huge-step up in functionality, usability and performance. Hands-down, Informatica Cloud is a much more robust product overall. While SSIS is well-suited for specific instances (i.e. SQL Server-specific implementations), Informatica Cloud is a much better product as an overall integration/transformation tool.
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Return on Investment
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  • A positive impact is bringing more projects.
  • Getting data out of various systems such as Salesforce.com or FTP and consolidating it into tables in one central database.
  • Having the ability to run data transformation tasks (the equivalent of batch jobs in SF or stored procedures in SQL) on a schedule without consuming those resources on the target or source systems.
Vaibhav Khanna ☁⚡ | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vaibhav Khanna ☁⚡
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