# PowerCenter Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is PowerCenter the right Integration solution for you? Explore 42 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/117/Pardot/reviews --- PowerCenter 4.5 (42) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/117/PowerCenter/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of PowerCenter Ease of use 4.2 Customer Service 4.1 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews SR Siddharth R Senior ETL Developer Financial Services, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Easy to integrate with any DB, flat file.“ February 28, 2022 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 42 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Martha Leah N. Staff Data Analyst Oil & Energy Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Power Centre Review" October 11, 2024 5.0 Pros The ETL by Informatica is beautiful. The Infortica ETL process makes the job of a DBA / DBM very easy. Cons Well, I cannot remember any cons. Power Center is very good. Informatica did an awesome job. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Technology Lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One of the best ETL ( Extract, Transform, Load) Tools" May 26, 2019 4.0 Pros 1\. Able to process a huge record size. In the latest project, we used Informatica to load approx 5 Million records daily. There were no performance issues due to the data size. 2. . PowerCenter has very easy to use drag and drop interface which can be used in integration with other applications. 3. Good tool to manage legacy data and to make compatible with modern applications. 4. PowerCenter also has other additional features like the ability to profile data, visualize graphical data flow etc. Data validation can also be done very easily using the validation feature. Cons There is a huge licensing fee which is worth it as the product is one of the best ETL tools, but projects which smaller budget find it challenging to justify the cost. Review Source Joan F. Head of Data Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "POWERCENTER: The old legacy to be avoided" April 17, 2023 2.0 Pros If you are a PowerCenter expert you can do almost any data transformation. Cons It is very complex and difficult to use. Super expensive and with minimal suport. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Associate Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Informatica - Performance with ease " December 28, 2018 5.0 I have been working on the tool since last 8+ years and the tool has never failed me. I could design almost everything i could think of in terms of data flow and transformations. Pros The ease of development, debugging, migrating and maintaining the code. Heavy duty performer and can scale to perform multi-threading. Cons It does not have strong ELT features or market - so cannot leverage the high computing capability. Still based out of legacy ETL process which needs to be migrated. Review Source Daniel T. Architect IT Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A complete integration platform with a high focus on ETL/ELT processes" November 21, 2016 4.0 If you need to do a fast ETL/ELT process and you do not want complications, this is your application. Informatics (on-premises) is quick to deploy and you can start to develop your process really quickly. The Informatica Knowled Base is very complete and you can find in it some templates to use. In all the development process, you can see and following the data per each transformation. You can launch a part of the process, simulating the data output. The quality of the solution is fantastic and his support is great, they usually respond to a problem in hours. Pros Great support and knowledge base. Easy to learn Cons Currently the managing of EII processes (like Restful or SOAP) are not well supported by the on-premise solution. Review Source Aniket Z. Systems Integration Sr. Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Informatica PowerCenter ETL Tool" October 23, 2018 4.0 I have used Informatica PowerCenter data masking module for masking Production data in the TEST and DEVELOPMENT environments. It has worked out pretty well. Pros Informatica PowerCenter is a user friendly tool. Cons The price of Informatica PowerCenter tool is a bit high Review Source Abhisha B. Volunteer Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Good ETL tool" October 11, 2018 5.0 I was using Informatica PowerCenter as an ETL to to feed data into Teradata datawarehouse that houses customer information for an insurance company. Pros Informatica PowerCenter is a good ETL tool for users who wish to develop a datawarehouse but do not have much programming experience. It has a nice interface where the user can simply drag and drop to create a data flow. It is very intuitive and user friendly. Cons PowerCenter is a heavy software and installation is not a trivial task. It uses a lot of memory and it could crash the system if it does not have enough resources. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Analyst Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Informatica Power center" November 18, 2018 5.0 Overall as a data analyst. Informatica is the one of the best etl tool to be used nowadays. Pros The best thing about informatica power center is that we can use it with multiple source types. Cons I guess the GUI can be improved as it is less user friendly or you can say boring. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Manager, Business Analyst/Portfolio Lead ( Account - Security and Infrastructure Practice) Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Market leader in ETL" December 25, 2018 5.0 Pros Drag and drop function is easy for the developers and users to complete development faster. Powerful out of box functions are added advantage. Cons Initially the licensing was a bit expensive however with competition from market helped make competitively priced. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Associate Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best tool in Market " May 12, 2019 4.0 Pros It's level details about the issue and various tool for each activities Cons We require a better system configuration to support the software there is no lighter version of it Review Source SM Srinivas M. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "PowerCenter" September 26, 2019 5.0 Pros Excellent for ETL (extract, transform, load) use cases. Cons User Interface tool is a large process. There are atleast few tools which have to opened to finish an ETL job Review Source nN na N. Used the software for: ### "informatica" October 6, 2016 5.0 informatica cloud has Data Replication and Data Quality service and on top of it has also Full load and CDC incremental ;load which helps to reploicate al customers data. Review Source RD Roderick D. Used the software for: ### "Informatica cloud" October 5, 2016 4.0 informatica works so well with our ETL requirement with Salesforce. The customer support is pretty. The people are responsive and very helpful. Review Source AG Ashish G. Used the software for: ### "Awsome tool to migrate and sync data" October 5, 2016 5.0 We have used informatica cloud to migrate and do co- exist betwen 2 applications. It was easy and intuituve. Review Source SRB Sri Ramani B. QA MANAGER LEAD Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Ease to use " March 5, 2018 5.0 Ease to work Pros It Works vwell with large structured data files PowerCenter processes input files, performs specified transformations, and maps the input data format to the output data format very quickly. The PowerCenter backend implementation seems to be optimized to process and map structured input records to structured output records and load the records into a database. One of the strengths of PowerCenter is performance of processing petabytes of structured input data files. PowerCenter does not require a software development experience or education. After providing initial hands-on training, the data consultants (who are statisticians, subject matter experts) in our organization were able to implement data ingest and data transformation tasks fairly easily. PowerCenter supports multiple DBMS technologies (for example, Oracle, Netezza). This flexibility allows it to be used by multiple departments within AT&T organization. Cons PowerCenter processes input files, performs specified transformations, and maps the input data format to the output data format very quickly. The PowerCenter backend implementation seems to be optimized to process and map structured input records to structured output records and load the records into a database. One of the strengths of PowerCenter is performance of processing petabytes of structured input data files. PowerCenter does not require a software development experience or education. After providing initial hands-on training, the data consultants (who are statisticians, subject matter experts) in our organization were able to implement data ingest and data transformation tasks fairly easily. PowerCenter supports multiple DBMS technologies (for example, Oracle, Netezza). This flexibility allows it to be used by multiple departments within our organization. Review Source NH Nikki H. Data Analyst Government Administration Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "PowerCenter in Data Integration & BI" December 21, 2023 4.0 I like it. we use it for daily batch load monitoring, issue debug and etc. However, it's super hard to upgrade from Informatica PowerCenter to IICS. Pros multiple tools available for development, support and troubleshoot - workflow monitor, workflow manager, workflow designer, repository manager, etc. Cons it's not an easy job to track back from target to source Review Source nS natasha S. IT Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Informatica for every ETL demand" June 13, 2019 5.0 Informatica has simplified PowerCenter integration with power exchange, data quality, metadata management and data discovery tools. I highly recommend this tool for all your ETL processes. Pros PowerCenter is being used across the organization for all our ETL needs weather to load data from different sources, collect data from different flat file or integrate multiple systems for reporting requirement. This is the best and easiest tool for pulling data from source systems, modifying it and load to target system. It also provide the best performance when processing huge data in batch PowerCenter supports various DBMS technologies for e.g: Oracle, Netezza. This flexible nature of it allows it to be used by multiple departments. And last but not ;least it is very easy to learn and use Cons There is no or less password encapsulation in this software rest everything is great. Review Source SK Sriram K. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Awesome Tool" June 8, 2017 5.0 Pros When joining Informatica I have to say, the whole process was a very nice and comforting transition. I was very impressed by level of care, focus and how they approached the recruitment process. The Human resources and Management team are a really great bunch of people and I believe we made the right choice together. They gave me confidence in how the company is run, they were clear and concise on how the company structure works and what the expectations are. The company progression is great, already I'm gaining more responsibility and growing and learning more about the industry, so on this I would certainly recommend Informatica as a prospect to anyone looking for an Innovative, Positive, growing and fun company to work for Cons Scheduler tools can manage dependencies accross many systems and environments. For instance you can configure it so that your informatica job only runs after the successful completion of some other system's windows job and/or another system's batch job. Review Source JB Jean B. freelelance Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "bon outil complet " April 15, 2021 5.0 J'utilise Informatica PowerCenter comme ETL pour fournir des données à l'entrepôt de données Teradata qui héberge les informations client de la compagnie d'assurance. Pros Pour les utilisateurs qui souhaitent développer un entrepôt de données mais qui n'ont pas beaucoup d'expérience en programmation, Informatica PowerCenter est un bon outil ETL. Il a une belle interface où les utilisateurs peuvent glisser-déposer pour créer des flux de données. C'est très intuitif et convivial. Cons PowerCenter est un logiciel lourd et l'installation n'est pas facile. Il utilise beaucoup de mémoire, et s'il n'y a pas assez de ressources, il peut planter le système. Review Source SR Siddharth R. Senior ETL Developer Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best ETL tool" February 28, 2022 5.0 Pros Easy to integrate with any DB, flat file. Core concepts are very similar to sql. Very easy to understand the flow of data from source to target. Cons No auto refresh functionality. Lack of a Script to automatically generate the parameter file. Review Source SA Saurabh A. Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Informatica" October 15, 2019 4.0 I like ease of working with this software but would prefer Informatica to focus more on Data Science Pros Easy to Learn Multiple connectors for data transfer Handles multiple data sources IDQ and Informatica MDM were real game changer compared to other ETL tools Cons Not so compatible with upcoming technologies for Big Data and Data Science. Informatica cloud needs to be marketed more and made compatible like Powecenter Review Source kP krystal P. na Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great Product for All Medium to Large Companies" October 2, 2019 5.0 I have been using it 15 plus years to development, installation administration - all aspects Pros It allows you to integrate multiple datasets from different sources. Cons What I like the least about this software is the costs of the licensing. Reason for choosing PowerCenter Ability to integrate data from multiple data sources easy, gui based transformations makes coding easy, has been a stable product on the market for years Review Source Darpan P. Tech Lead - Development Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "User friendly tool for ETL developer" December 19, 2018 4.0 PowerCenter is an great tool for ETL if it involves multiple kind of data sources / targets. Pros One of the Important pro is that GUI interface is very easy to use and understand. I have used other ETL tool like SSIS but Informatica PowerCenter helps developing ETL is easiest way. Transformation works great and efficiently. Cons When compared with SSIS, informatica PowerCenter doesn't perform well when source and/or target database is SQL Server. However that is understood because SSIS and SQL Server both are native to Microsoft. Sometimes the buffer space gets filled quickly even if lookup query doesn't seem to be heavy. Just as a suggestion - It would have been great if there was a inbuilt performance tuning tool that could suggest way to improve mapping performance. Review Source SK Sagar K. BI Lead Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Strong ETL Tool for your data warehousing need" July 3, 2018 5.0 Pros Powercenter by Informatica is a strong ETL tool which has all the features and functionality making it the best choice for your data warehouse needs. The GUI interface makes designing a mapping super-easy. The tool contains various transformation that can be used to translate your business needs Cons There is no actual CONS that I have seen with tool. Have been using it for so many years and I am completely happy with it. Review Source RP Raviteja P. Data Warehouse Architect Leisure, Travel & Tourism Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Used to be the best ETL tool, has to catchup alot with new Cloud services" June 20, 2019 5.0 So far the best ETL tool I have used. Pros This tool has so many functionalities and options to use for data flow and transformations Cons Didn't meet my expectations when tried to use it along with other Cloud AWS services Review Source Similar Products Featured