We performed a comparison between Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio 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 all the advantages of the Cloud in that you can use it without worrying about infrastructure, upkeep, or upgrades."
"The product is scalable and excellent for enterprise-level organizations."
"It has a more UI-based tool, and the scripting is good."
"Informatica Cloud Data Integration is stable."
"We have a lot of integrations, and it's very easy to create integrations. They have a lot of connectors."
"The mass ingestion functionality and the elasticity of the solution are great."
"Their new licensing is very flexible. With Informatica Cloud, you have plenty of items under the same umbrella, such as services, offerings, data quality, and data masking. You have also got master data management and API management. What I really like about them is that you don't need to go to Informatica and say that you need a data integration module. You would say that you need iPaaS or Informatica Cloud. They'll then try to understand your needs and give you IPUs, which are the processing units. If I purchased a hundred IPUs from Informatica as a customer, I can use 70 IPUs for data integration. I would also need data quality, so I can use 10 IPUs for data quality. I can use the remaining 20 IPUs for API management. Down the line, if I see that my initial data integration needs for the development phase are met, then out of the 70 IPUs assigned for data integration, I can use 30 IPUs for data masking. I can shuffle these numbers in any way within the Informatica Cloud umbrella for the tenure for which I have subscribed to these IPUs. I can use all services the way I want. This flexibility is what I really love about Informatica. It also has got good connectors."
"The solution's initial setup is quite straightforward."
"Talend is safe to use because it is very restrictive. It is easy to use when one learns how to manipulate data with SQL."
"The most valuable features of Talend Open Studio are customization and integration."
"The best thing I have found with Talend Open Studio is their major support for the lookups."
"The most valuable features are definitely data integration, data preparation, and data stewardship."
"Talend can connect to multiple data sources, including relational data sources, ERP, CRM, and others."
"Talend lets you do everything — mapping, workflow, and orchestration — in a single place."
"The solution has a good balance between automated items and the ability for a developer to integrate and extend what he needs. Other competing tools do not offer the same grade of flexibility when you need to go beyond what is provided by the tool. Talend, on the other hand, allows you to expand very easily."
"I can connect with different databases such as Oracle Database or SQL Server. It allows you to extract the data from one database to another. I can structure the data by filtering and mapping the fields. It is very user-friendly. You need to know the basics of SQL development or SQL queries, and you can use this tool."
"I have received feedback from certain teams and there is a steep learning curve to use this solution."
"The cloud version of the Informatica, it's a very substandard product. They might say it's enterprise-ready but it's not at all ready. They need to add more features, such as improved data replication features. If you look at other tools, such as Matillion they are now cloud-native and flexible. Additionally, Informatica Cloud Data Integration should have a good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to Informatica Cloud Data Integration."
"Its pricing model can be improved. The response time from technical support can also be improved."
"There may be some types of limitations with the performance."
"Informatica Cloud Data Integration could improve the price by making it less expensive."
"The current features are a bit complicated, and we need to write big scripts and test."
"The regions in which the data resides are still limited. This could be an issue in terms of the data residency laws of some of the countries. They should get more regions."
"The price modeling could be more flexible."
"The server-side should be completely revamped."
"Multiple products are there within the product suite. That can be actually trimmed down."
"We need more components to be more efficient. We use a lot of components, such as Salesforce, and it's not easy to use. There's are minor bugs and it's not easy to use some of the features."
"Talend should improve the log and error handling to better track the errors you find during development. Sometimes it's challenging to see what's causing an issue, and tracking that on Talend is complicated."
"The pricing could be lower. They should work to make it more affordable."
"Talent consumes a lot of resources on my PC."
"Talend Open Studio has a lot of capabilities, but there is some restriction. For example, if we want to connect to an SAP system, Open Studio cannot do it. We need to go with an enterprise version. Additionally, the monitoring features could improve."
"In the next release, Open Studio should include cloud storage as an input."
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Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Integration with 10 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration Tools with 15 reviews. Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 8.0, while Talend Open Studio is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "A UI-based tool with great scripting ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Talend Open Studio writes "Popular open-source ETL tool in Singapore/ South East Asia; Connects to Big Data; Easy to spot errors with generated Java code". Informatica Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Mule Anypoint Platform and SAP Data Services, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, Talend Data Fabric and Confluent. See our Informatica Cloud Data Integration vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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