We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos Dashboard and Informatica PowerCenter 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."The tool's valuable features are that it is easy to use and stable."
"The main feature that is useful is the on-demand report generation through the dashboard."
"It is a pretty stable solution."
"The product helps us update the KPI automatically."
"Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution."
"It has a Data Catalog that uses the Model repository."
"The greatest feature is that it is very easy to have someone come in and jump right in. It is one of the nicest tools in terms of getting a person acquainted quickly."
"It is an excellent ETL tool."
"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 solution is stable."
"It has good standard features for ETL development."
"They should include proper documentation to learn more about the product."
"The scalability of the product's on-premises version is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Visualization is an area where the product lacks."
"The price point is one of the major areas to be improved."
"I would like to see improvements made to the custom transformations. It should be more open for users that want to write their own code and use cases."
"The only problem with this product is the level of complexity with the number of levels of transformation that you have to go through."
"The solution must improve the integration with new services."
"Support could be better."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"If we could have the option of performance improvement within Informatica, and if it could have more features, that would be ideal."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
IBM Cognos Dashboard is ranked 16th in Data Visualization with 4 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 5th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews. IBM Cognos Dashboard is rated 8.6, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Cognos Dashboard writes "An easy-to-use and stable tool useful for its functionalities like analytics and AI". On the other hand, 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". IBM Cognos Dashboard is most compared with Apache Superset, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue. See our IBM Cognos Dashboard vs. Informatica PowerCenter report.
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