nformatica

etl

tool

is

market

leader

in

data

integration

and

data

quality

services. Informatica is successful ETL and EAI tool with significant industry coverage.

ETL refers to extract, transform, load. Data integration tools are different from other
software platforms and languages. They have no inbuilt feature to build user interface
where end user can see the transformed data. Informatica etl tool power center has
capability to manage, integrate and migrate enterprise data.

Around 19 vendors operating in competitive and niche etl space. ab initio, datastage
from ibm, talend ( open source ) from telend, sql server integration services (commonly
known as siss) from microsoft, oracle warehouse builder from oracle corp, cognos from
ibm are few widely used tools.

Why Informatica Etl tool Doing well?

One of major reason for Informatica etl tool success is its capability of
enabling Lean Integration, Lean manufacturing is common concept in
manufacturing industry to avoid waste. Informatica also leverage the same
integration model.

High GO Live success rate .Informatica claims the highest ration of successful
deployment which it says is near 100%. Product rate of renewal and customer
loyalty (94% and 92% ) is significant from industry average.

Easy training and tool availability has made easy resource availability for
software industry, where else other etl tools are way behind in this aspect. This

definitely helps organization in reducing training costs. Moreover forming a new

team for this tool is not as challenging as others.

Informatica etl is moderate expansive tool, where else tools like ab initio is very
expensive which has many added advantages in technical aspect , Same time
others etl tools are having there own challenges like ease of use, re-usability ,
debugging, connectivity which makes informatica as an ideal etl tool.

Informatica comes with internal scheduler unlike many other etl tools where one
need to use third party scheduler. an added advantage for those who are not
using enterpriser scheduler. For many organizations taking a proprietary scheduler
is not strategic.Specially if module is in POC phase for business .