We performed a comparison between Azure Data Factory and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."I am one hundred percent happy with the stability."
"The data factory agent is quite good and programming or defining the value of jobs, processes, and activities is easy."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Data Factory is the core features that help you through the whole Azure pipeline or value chain."
"The most valuable feature is the copy activity."
"Data Factory's most valuable feature is Copy Activity."
"The best part of this product is the extraction, transformation, and load."
"The tool's most valuable features are its connectors. It has many out-of-the-box connectors. We use ADF for ETL processes. Our main use case involves integrating data from various databases, processing it, and loading it into the target database. ADF plays a crucial role in orchestrating these ETL workflows."
"ADF is another ETL tool similar to Informatica that can transform data or copy it from on-prem to the cloud or vice versa. Once we have the data, we can apply various transformations to it and schedule our pipeline according to our business needs. ADF integrates with Databricks. We can call our Databricks notebooks and schedule them via ADF."
"The capability of the tool to scan and capture the metadata from a variety of sources is one of the capabilities that I find most useful. The central repository into which it is going to put that captured metadata is the best."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"I like EDC's self-service capabilities. You can put the catalog on the intranet inside the organization, so users can search for something. People in the research world have specialized systems, and you might find data from various places that sound similar."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is it provides clients with a full view of the enterprise data assets. For example, how many data assets they have and who owns them."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The product seems stable enough."
"The product could provide more ways to import and export data."
"One area for improvement is documentation. At present, there isn't enough documentation on how to use Azure Data Factory in certain conditions. It would be good to have documentation on the various use cases."
"On the UI side, they could make it a little more intuitive in terms of how to add the radius components. Somebody who has been working with tools like Informatica or DataStage gets very used to how the UI looks and feels."
"Data Factory's monitorability could be better."
"There are limitations when processing more than one GD file."
"Some of the optimization techniques are not scalable."
"The solution needs to be more connectable to its own services."
"We have experienced some issues with the integration. This is an area that needs improvement."
"The scalability is tough."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"This solution is hard to set up and its interface is not user-friendly. It's also not as stable, and the technical support takes a lot of time to solve simple problems."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
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Azure Data Factory is ranked 1st in Data Integration with 81 reviews while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 12 reviews. Azure Data Factory is rated 8.0, while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Azure Data Factory writes "The data factory agent is quite good but pricing needs to be more transparent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "Great metadata management with more visibility and great technical support". Azure Data Factory is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Alteryx Designer, Snowflake and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and ASG Enterprise Data Intelligence.
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