We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a very powerful tool you can use to load data, get data, do the drawing between the tables, and put into the packet in a very fast way."
"It works with any multi-databases, so it works with Sybase, SQL Server. Also, the performance is really good and it is easy to use."
"It provides everything I need. Nothing is missing. PowerCenter is a good tool for on-premise databases."
"The most valuable features are the dynamic reading of the file metadata profile, and the ability to define business rules that are used to verify and validate the uploaded files."
"The most valuable feature is the new Data Lake feature, which provides the basic capabilities needed."
"In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution."
"It reduces a lot of legacy coding."
"The support is valuable. There are also open-source ETL products, which work very well, but there is no support. When we face a production problem, being able to get support is valuable, and it brings efficiency. With an open-source solution, we can't engage anyone to resolve the problem as quickly as possible."
"It's intuitive and highly mature"
"The ability to deploy is the added ability to centralise the Tableau repository for all Tableau Developers."
"When compared with Power BI, Tableau is much easier."
"The most valuable feature is the geographic data analysis."
"The geospatial maps representation and the visualizations are nice."
"The most valuable part of the solution is the general dashboard features."
"The product’s performance is better than other tools."
"It is so easy to do a lot of things. There is a lot of flexibility and creativity in this product. In other products, you don't have this flexibility."
"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required, considering the fact that the present licensing charges of the tool are expensive."
"There is a need to buy a separate license if one wishes to connect with some kind of SAP system, such as SalesForce."
"The solution can improve by providing more connectivity by having native ODBC or JDBC connections available. It will be easier and more people could start using it."
"The solution could have better documentation on basic steps or blocks that specify what to do."
"I found it is kind of weird that not all of the mapping changes are treated as true changes."
"The initial setup is not straightforward. You need expertise to do it."
"Integration with Artificial Intelligence would benefit this solution."
"The documentation could be improved."
"The development part should be better. We are putting a lot of effort in during development, so if we face any struggles, we have to find workaround solutions on the internet."
"If they could add global filters in the stories, more chart types, and default colours, it would help."
"Bursting email is needed to deliver the reports to many people in their inboxes and this functionality is not provided by Tableau."
"We need big servers to perform the operations that we are doing. They should probably relook at its architecture."
"Maybe the price could be a bit cheaper, especially if you're a personal developer that uses Tableau just to explore smaller data sets and you're not a company or something like that."
"I would like to have the product be more flexible in terms of creating online shared dashboards."
"In the next release, I would like to be able to have the option to see more raw data that I'm converting on the dashboard."
"Licensing and pricing options could be made better so that more users would be able to use it."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 5th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews while Tableau is ranked 1st in Data Visualization with 293 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Stable, provides good support, and integrating it with other systems is very fast, but its pricing is expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and StreamSets, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Tableau report.
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