We performed a comparison between Fivetran and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Fivetran is that it only synchronizes what needs to be synchronized."
"The product is very easy to use and very easy to configure."
"Fivetran is remarkably easy to use; I haven't encountered any other data integration tool that is as user-friendly."
"The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."
"The ease of usability is the most valuable feature. It's very easy and quick to set up. It also has a central hub as opposed to GoldenGate which is one direct interface. For GoldenGate I would have needed three interfaces whereas with HVR I have a central interface that manages everything."
"Its arrays are powerful enough to handle migrations even when the replication is happening in the background, without causing any trouble with the ongoing traffic."
"The most important feature of the solution is its ability to build data pipelines in less time."
"The simplicity of the solution is its valuable feature."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"The solution scales well."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"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."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"We can scan anything."
"I would like Fivetran to implement additional resource monitoring and restriction policies."
"It should have a few more monitoring functionalities."
"The solution is very expensive. I would like to have a better integration of the solution with Azure."
"More connectors are needed for exotic, popular, and rising star portals."
"I would like for them to incorporate additional transformations. A valuable aspect of the product is that it does inflight transformations and that could be expanded."
"Fivetran would be improved by adding the ability to integrate the data from third-party APIs."
"We use a separate tool for "reverse ETL", which is the opposite of what Fivetran does; it pushes data from your data warehouse back out to business applications. If Fivetran pulls data from those same applications, they should also enable users to push it back. I would love to do both ETL and reverse ETL in the same tool."
"The documentation can be laid out better to make it easier to find things, and I really wish there was built-in support for changing passwords. Some features don't work as advertised for the platform/repository database, and HVR is not always the fastest at getting results."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"Interoperability is one area where EDC has room for improvement. It was challenging when the faculty took over the data world and had specific vendors they wanted to use, and some were not particularly open platforms."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"They have to improve their relationship discovery tool. They say that they have AI inside, but this AI did not automatically find relationships or suggested relationships between entities."
"The model is somewhat flexible. There are certain aspects of the model that are not as flexible as we would like. It doesn't do certain things to a great level of depth. So, in situations where we want to drill in to do something specific, we have to essentially copy that data into our own structures in order to add that additional layer of flexibility."
"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."
"The scalability is tough."
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Fivetran is ranked 7th in Cloud Data Integration with 19 reviews while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 12 reviews. Fivetran is rated 8.0, while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Fivetran writes "Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "Great metadata management with more visibility and great technical support". Fivetran is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Denodo. See our Fivetran vs. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog report.
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