Informatica Powercenter ETL/Data Integration tool is a most widely used tool and in the common term when we say Informatica, it refers to the Informatica PowerCenter tool for ETL. Informatica PowerCenter writes data, row by row, to a table in a database, or to a file. This database or file is referred to as the source and the structure of the source is contained in a source definition object and vise versa. The logic for this conversion is defined in transformation objects. This database or file is referred to as the target.

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a component of the Microsoft SQL Server database software that can be used to perform a broad range of data migration tasks. SSIS includes graphical tools and wizards for building and debugging packages; tasks for performing workflow functions such as FTP operations, executing SQL statements, and sending e-mail messages; data sources and destinations for extracting and loading data; transformations for cleaning, aggregating, merging, and copying data.

MicroStrategy is a Business Intelligence software, which offers a wide range of data analytics capabilities. As a suite of applications, it offers Data Discovery, Advanced Analytics, Data Visualizations, Embedded BI, and Banded Reports and Statements. It has native connectors, which establish connection with these data sources and also has a connect live feature, which fetches data as and when required.