Organisations using Informatica PowerCenter are increasingly exploring alternatives to their existing ETL and data integration processes. Solutions that can continue to be run on-premises, keep sensitive data within their own data centre, and provide additional functionality for data masking, test data and data governance are in particularly high demand.
IRI Voracity offers such an alternative to Informatica PowerCenter. The platform combines powerful data integration with data protection, data quality, data migration and test data management. This allows several previously separate tools to be consolidated into a single, centralised environment.
Why are organisations looking for an alternative to Informatica PowerCenter?
Many organisations run tried-and-tested data processes in their own data centres or controlled IT environments. However, a complete move to the cloud does not fit every IT strategy. Reasons for this include regulatory requirements, sensitive personal data, existing mainframe and legacy systems, or the desire for digital sovereignty.
A suitable alternative to Informatica PowerCenter should therefore do more than simply replace ETL processes. It must integrate existing data sources, process large volumes of data efficiently, and simultaneously meet data protection and governance requirements.
ETL and data masking in a single process!
IRI Voracity processes data using a high-performance single-pass approach. Within a single workflow, data can be, amongst other things:
- extracted and transformed,
- sorted, filtered and merged,
- cleansed and standardised,
- migrated and reformatted,
- classified and masked, and
- prepared for testing, analysis and AI applications.
Personal data and other sensitive information can, for example, be pseudonymised, encrypted, tokenised or masked using realistic substitute values during processing. This means that ETL and data masking are not treated as separate tasks.
Test data for development, quality assurance and DevOps: In addition to masking existing production data, Voracity also supports the creation of synthetic test data. Structure, data formats and referential relationships can be preserved or specifically replicated.
Development and test teams receive realistic data sets without unnecessarily exposing production personal data. The generated or masked test data can also be integrated into automated DevOps and CI/CD processes.
What features does IRI Voracity offer?
The platform covers key areas of data lifecycle management:
- Data discovery and classification of sensitive data
- ETL, data integration, CDC and data migration
- Static, dynamic and incremental data masking
- Synthetic and referentially correct test data
- Data quality, cleansing and standardisation
- Support for governance and compliance processes
- Preparation of data for BI, analytics and AI
The Eclipse-based IRI Workbench provides a unified graphical development environment for this purpose. It supports Windows, Linux and various UNIX platforms, as well as traditional mainframe environments.
Greater data sovereignty and less tool complexity: Organisations using different products for ETL, data masking, test data and data quality must manage numerous interfaces, licensing models and operational processes. An integrated platform can reduce this complexity and simplify the implementation of end-to-end data processes.
IRI Voracity enables organisations to continue with their existing on-premises strategy whilst simultaneously meeting modern requirements for data protection, test data management and data governance. The platform is therefore not only a potential replacement for Informatica PowerCenter, but a more comprehensive solution for the controlled processing and protection of large volumes of data.
Efficiency meets experience: For more than four decades, our software solutions have been supporting companies in data management and data protection – technologically leading, reliable in productive use and applicable across all industries.
In use since 1978: Numerous well-known companies, service providers, financial institutions and state and federal authorities are among our long-standing customers.
Maximum compatibility: Our software supports both classic mainframe platforms (Fujitsu BS2000/OSD, IBM z/OS, z/VSE, z/Linux) and modern open system environments such as Linux, UNIX derivatives and Windows.
