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HiT Software DBMoto vs Informatica PowerCenter comparison

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

HiT Software DBMoto
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Data Replication (16th)
Informatica PowerCenter
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
85
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (4th), Data Visualization (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

HiT Software DBMoto and Informatica PowerCenter aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. HiT Software DBMoto is designed for Data Replication and holds a mindshare of 2.9%, up 2.3% compared to last year.
Informatica PowerCenter, on the other hand, focuses on Data Integration, holds 3.7% mindshare, down 5.1% since last year.
Data Replication Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HiT Software DBMoto2.9%
NetApp SnapMirror7.8%
Vision Solutions Double-Take6.8%
Other82.5%
Data Replication
Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Informatica PowerCenter3.7%
SSIS4.0%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)3.8%
Other88.5%
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1489908 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
User-friendly, easy to manage, with good support
We use HiT Software DBMoto for migration and reporting The most valuable features are that is easy to install and it is user-friendly. Pricing is an area that needs improvement. We started to use this product a year ago. It's a stable solution. We have not experienced any issues. It's a…
Hemanthreddy Vakiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Streamlined daily sales workflows have reduced team size and enabled earlier, accurate reporting
One of the best features I appreciate about Informatica PowerCenter is that anyone with minimal knowledge of ETL can easily use it. It has four different interfaces: Monitor, Repository, Designer, and Workflow Manager. With our use case, we can easily go to that particular interface and use it. Another valuable feature is the use of Mapplets; if we have one mapping created that we want to use again and again for other workflows, we can create a Mapplet and save it so that we can reuse the mapping, reducing our workload. Informatica PowerCenter has positively impacted my organization because, as I mentioned previously, the development team has been reduced to half since we moved to it due to its easy interface and the reusability of Mapplets. It has also saved us a lot of time; for example, it has saved nearly one hour per day on monitoring and workflow tasks. Saving one hour a day is key because it has led us to report the data to business users one hour earlier than the usual time. If there are any anomalies or defects in the data, we can easily rectify them within that hour, which reduces the chance of errors in the data. Regarding cost, the number of people working on the project has been reduced to half, thus significantly decreasing costs for our organization since we moved to Informatica PowerCenter.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"DBMoto was very simple to set up and move our tables to the Oracle DB."
"The most valuable features are that is easy to install and it is user-friendly."
"It's a good product that is user-friendly and easy to manage, and I would recommend it to others."
"Can manage a huge quantity of data and provide reliability."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"What I like the most is that we have to deal with less while writing the queries."
"The most valuable feature is the new Data Lake feature, which provides the basic capabilities needed."
"Ease and speed of building integrations, especially integrations between different applications, such as our Hospital Information System."
"Once you have learned Informatica, it is very easy to use."
"What I like most about Informatica PowerCenter is that it's the best tool in the market for data integration."
"In summary, this is a good product, and other than integrating with other tools, I don't face any challenges."
 

Cons

"This product would be improved with additional built-in functions for simpler date conversion, as well as for data type transformations."
"Pricing is an area that needs improvement."
"It would be good to recreate the entire interface to make it easier for users to build workflows."
"Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections."
"The real-time database connectivity when getting the real-time data using the VPN is an area that needs improvement."
"The performance of Informatica PowerCenter could improve."
"Lacks ability to calculate cost of the product."
"This product is going to decommission in the next couple of years."
"Improvement is needed in terms of some new transformation because API integration and all those things are very critical nowadays."
"I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption. It would be nice if they could be cheaper, because the training is very expensive as they do everything online."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Customers pay a license fee yearly."
"I found the price to be quite reasonable."
"Pricing for Informatica PowerCenter isn't cheap, but if I compare it with IBM, it's as expensive as IBM, however, Informatica PowerCenter is more innovative, especially when compared to a giant company such as IBM that has thousands of products. Informatica PowerCenter is limited only to data management, but it has new features that come out every quarter. Points for ease of use and flexibility go to Informatica PowerCenter, but price-wise, IBM and Informatica are equal because they're both expensive."
"I rate the product's price a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
"The price of Informatica PowerCenter is expensive, but it does give value."
"The license model is CPU based."
"I rate the solution's pricing a four out of ten. The price is very high, and it doesn't understand the market now."
"Cost could be improved."
"Our customers pay a licensing fee yearly."
"Informatica PowerCenter is reasonably priced. It is less expensive than Pentaho. There is a standard version fee in Taiwan. It is a one-time yearly subscription price that is approximately $3,010 US dollars for three users."
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Comparison Review

it_user90069 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 20, 2014
Informatica PowerCenter vs. Microsoft SSIS - each technology has its advantages but also have similarities
Technology has made it easier for businesses to organize and manipulate data to get a clearer picture of what’s going on with their business. Notably, ETL tools have made managing huge amounts of data significantly easier and faster, boosting many organizations’ business intelligence operations…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
20%
Construction Company
14%
Healthcare Company
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise76
 

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DBMoto
PowerCenter
 

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