We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect 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."It has an efficient design flow."
"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendliness of the application."
"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."
"When using IBM stacks, IBM App Connect is suitable and integrates well with other IBM products like WebSphere."
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"Technical support is good."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"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."
"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."
"We can scan anything."
"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."
"It is not easy to deploy. It requires someone with a high level of knowledge in the solution to deploy it, not just anyone can do it."
"IBM App Connect should improve security features."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."
"One more important point is that if IBM improves its CI/CD capabilities, it will make a big difference. Right now, I have to create my own CI/CD setup from scratch for every client, which is inefficient."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"More connectors could be available for the product as some of the third-party software doesn't have default connectors."
"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"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."
"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."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"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."
"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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IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 21 reviews while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Very flexible and user-friendly; embeds with other technologies; no dependency on queue manager". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "Great metadata management with more visibility and great technical support". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and TIBCO BusinessWorks, whereas Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Denodo. See our IBM App Connect vs. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog report.
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