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Informatica PowerCenter vs JumpMind SymmetricDS comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Informatica PowerCenter
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
85
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (4th), Data Visualization (13th)
JumpMind SymmetricDS
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.3
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Data Replication (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Informatica PowerCenter and JumpMind SymmetricDS aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Informatica PowerCenter is designed for Data Integration and holds a mindshare of 3.7%, down 5.1% compared to last year.
JumpMind SymmetricDS, on the other hand, focuses on Data Replication, holds 4.3% mindshare, up 3.2% since last year.
Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Informatica PowerCenter3.7%
SSIS4.0%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)3.8%
Other88.5%
Data Integration
Data Replication Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
JumpMind SymmetricDS4.3%
NetApp SnapMirror7.8%
Vision Solutions Double-Take6.8%
Other81.1%
Data Replication
 

Featured Reviews

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.
it_user1625691 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a non-profit with 1-10 employees
Fully-featured, good performance, and easy to use and install
We are using it to back up the software across the network to a remote server It is fully featured. It has allowed me to do everything I wanted to do. It is also very easy to use and install. It is pretty self-explanatory, and their support was also very good. Everything is fine. The user…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"What I like most about Informatica PowerCenter is that it's the best tool in the market for data integration. Currently, I work in L'Oréal, where a new system from SAP is used. Informatica PowerCenter integration with SAP is very, very fast and very, very simple, so you have the server flow from SAP, and through Informatica PowerCenter, you can ingest the data and make that data available for the business more quickly."
"It is very easy to use it to develop mappings and workflows."
"I would recommend that others considering the solution go ahead and use it for any batch and high volume loads with complex transactions."
"The technical design developed in Excel can be directly imported into Powercenter using Powercenter Repository Manager and the corresponding mapping is automatically created."
"The solution is stable."
"Informatica PowerCenter is worth the money to use for its benefits."
"It is easy to use, and it is quick for developing things. It is fairly powerful, and it can integrate with a lot of different platforms without much hassle."
"In terms of the capability of data loading features, Informatica products are better."
"It is fully featured. It has allowed me to do everything I wanted to do."
"It is fully featured, has allowed me to do everything I wanted to do, is very easy to use and install, is pretty self-explanatory, and their support was also very good."
"Customer Service: We have a support contract with Jumpmind. The support resources are readily available and provide expert support to any questions."
 

Cons

"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"The product hangs and you can lose control for several hours. It works, but it hangs."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve by having a single interface because half of the system is still in the legacy interface and many other elements are moved to the developer client. It would be good if there was a single interface for the end user and developers."
"Informatica PowerCenter is outdated and would benefit from modernization. They should have a very good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to AACF. Informatica PowerCenter there is no point in using it, you have to use a cloud version."
"Integration with Artificial Intelligence would benefit this solution."
"Compared to other tools, I think PowerCenter is a bit expensive."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"The user interface could improve. We are looking at some cloud-based databases, and I don't think they support that."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing costs are excessive and pose an obstacle to someone who lacks familiarity with the solution and wishes to have a proper understanding of it."
"The price of this solution is high."
"The solution is in the middle price range compared to other solutions."
"It's much more expensive, almost three times more expensive than most other solutions."
"Cost could be improved."
"According to what I've heard and read on various blogs, it's quite expensive when compared to similar competitive products."
"I rate the solution's pricing a four out of ten. The price is very high, and it doesn't understand the market now."
"The pricing for Informatica PowerCenter is expensive. Some clients have simple needs and only want to integrate and store data. Some clients have small needs, while some clients have bigger needs and focus more on performance and time. The licensing cost for Informatica PowerCenter isn't good. In my project, if I remember correctly, the company pays €20,000 per year for the Informatica PowerCenter license. I'm not aware of additional costs that you need to pay for some features of the solution. On a scale of one to five, I'm rating its price a three."
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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
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
6%
Construction Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Healthcare Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise76
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

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Does JumpMind SymmetricDS support a large array of databases?
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Is JumpMind SymmetricDS easy to use for beginners?
I didn't start with JumpMind SymmetricDS, I actually started using it at a job when I was a little more introduced to data replication. That made me able to see the good features this software has....
Does JumpMind SymmetricDS provide frequent file synchronization?
How often do you need for your data to be synchronized? I'm asking this because different companies use data replication for different purposes. Some use it as simply updating backup, others to giv...
 

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