Informatica Data Engineering Streaming vs SSIS vs Talend Data Management Platform comparison

The compared Informatica and Microsoft solutions aren't in the same category. Informatica is ranked #19 in SA , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 1.9% mindshare in the category. Microsoft is ranked #2 in DI , with an average rating of 7.6, and holds a 5.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Informatica users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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80% willing to recommend

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86% willing to recommend

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Mindshare comparison

Streaming Analytics Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Informatica Data Engineering Streaming	1.9%
Apache Flink	14.6%
Databricks	13.1%
Other	70.4%

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Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SSIS	5.9%
Informatica PowerCenter	6.3%
Azure Data Factory	5.6%
Other	82.2%

Data Integration

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Talend Data Management Platform	1.0%
Informatica PowerCenter	6.3%
SSIS	5.9%
Other	86.8%

Data Integration

Featured Reviews

Reviewer43443

BI Practice Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Helps with real-time data processing and improves decision-making overall

It improves decision-making overall for the company. Informatica is usually the tool for setting up the data, streaming the data into your data warehouse from your source, transforming the data, and preparing and modeling it into some desired format. It improves the performance. You need to know how to use it and how to implement it, but it improves performance.

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Chris Farris

Manager, Data Operations at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

User-friendly interface facilitates efficient data migration and reduces operational overhead

Its usability and ease of use are standout features. It is really easy to use - almost too easy at times. Users don't have to be experts to use their tool set and utilize the clicking mechanisms, drop down boxes, and other features to build a package and run it. The configuration is very easy and the system is very stable. I would rate it at a 10 as it is highly reliable; we have never had any problems with it. Very little maintenance is required on my side. While you need to keep the product up to date, the maintenance requirements are minimal. SSIS integrates with all Microsoft tools seamlessly. We have used it against Oracle, DB2 and SQL. It integrates and can move data around from any data platforms, making it very diverse in that standpoint. It is a very robust tool that can work with many data sources, and its main strength is that it is extremely easy to use.

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Jason Hale

Enterprise Architect at Waikato Regional Council

Comprehensive documentation and smooth collaboration have transformed our development process

There are always areas for improvement. They have actually in the last 12 months done a lot of work on the UI. If you had contacted me at Christmas last year, the UI was really dated. Now, they have not finished cleaning it up or bringing it into a new flash version. But because it has such a simple design, it is actually so easy to use. They have taken a lot of the complexity out of it, so you just click on a button and it does it all for you. I think one weakness, which I might have worked around today, is spatial data. But that might change by Monday. That is again because there is so much functionality, actually the real weakness is they have got too much functionality, if that is a weakness. Because there are 10 ways to do everything, and each way has its own pros and cons, and you really have to make your decision about which way to implement it. When you have five developers or three developers doing something, it is very easy for three people to do the same thing three different ways. On the flip side, that is one of its amazing strengths, as you are not locked into a very rigid way of doing something. It means that a lot of our custom environments are fantastic because we can just plug it in a slightly different way. But because it does so much, it is a lot to get your head around the whole thing. We tend to focus on the small stuff that we are adding value to right now.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It improves the performance."

"The initial setup was easy."

"It has the ability to be deployed into the cloud through Data Factory, and run completely as a software as a service in the cloud."

"Despite the complexity when dealing with advanced transformations, it is straightforward for simple data movements, and the performance is excellent."

"We can connect with multiple data sources easily using an external connector in SSIS."

"SSIS provides you with lookup and transformation functions, and you have the flexibility to write your own custom code."

"I have used most of the standard SQL features, but the ones that stand out are the Data Flows and Bulk Import."

"The return on investment has been very high; the tool has made us tremendously more efficient and saved us a significant amount of money, though I cannot put an exact figure on it."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is performance."

More SSIS pros

"The solution is connected to various phones. It retrieves the configuration from the system."

"The tool was mainly used for ETL processes to apply governance rules on data."

"We can develop our own code if we do not see the functionality we need."

"The solution can run on any machine and that is a big advantage."

"The most valuable feature is the data loading and scripting language"

"The availability of connectors is great."

"The features that I like the most are the simplicity of the interface, and the ability to quickly develop with a predefined component."

"Talend Studio has the ability to connect to almost anything to integrate data from files, databases, web services, etc."

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Cons

"Skill requirement is required. There is a learning curve."

"Integration and the user interface are areas with certain shortcomings that require some improvements."

"Generic processes should be used instead of custom code for each table."

"Involving a data lake or data engineering aspects would be useful. While it is there, we need more features included."

"The interface could use improvement, as well as the administrative tools. Jobs fail from time to time for different reasons. It's not a problem with Microsoft, or SSIS itself. The problems are external, but to find the problems and analyze them it takes too much time."

"We'd like them to develop data exploration more."

"The security could be improved, as it is more important in our context."

"In terms of its performance, it could be better. That could be something that would be easy and welcomed as an upgrade."

"We've had issues in terms of the amount of data that is transferred when we are scheduling."

More SSIS cons

"I would like to sync a project and do an upload from that current version, and then from GitLab, be able to download the latest one."

"Including either XML or JSON in the next release would definitely be a good transformation. I'm not sure if Talend has that feature, but it's one of those requirements that we are working around and have to do some parsing of XML so this could make it easier."

"The biggest challenge with Talend was its performance."

"The sales and market department could improve the Talend Data Management Platform."

"We'd like to see more connectors it the future."

"The stability is good, but the performance is slower when I work on a huge amount of data."

"The solution's memory sometimes bottlenecks and that can be challenging."

"They lack in memory capacity."

More Talend Data Management Platform cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We purchased the standard edition of SQL Server and SSIS came with it free of charge."

"SSIS' licensing is a little high, but it gives good value for money."

"We have an enterprise license for this solution."

"It would be beneficial if the solution had a less costly cloud offering."

"This solution is a free of charge addition to our SQL licence. However, the only way this tool can be utilized is as a feature of the SQL licence, which may make it unattractive to organizations who don't wish to purchase the wider-ranging licence."

"My advice is to look at what your configuration will be because most companies have their own deals with Microsoft."

"I'm not involved in licensing details, but SSIS provides value to our organization by simplifying data management tasks."

"All of my clients have this product included as part of their Microsoft license."

More SSIS pricing and cost advice

"The tool is cheap."

"The price of the Talend Data Management Platform is reasonable. The other competing solutions are priced high. Gartner Magic Quadrant identified other solutions, such as Informatica, that are far more expensive."

"The licensing cost is about 40,000 Euros a year."

"The price is on a per-user basis. It's a little more expensive than other tools. There aren't any additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."

"License renewal is on a yearly basis."

"The pricing is a little higher than what I had expected, but it's comparable with I-PASS competitors."

"The solution's pricing is very reasonable and half the cost of Informatica."

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Comparison Review

it_user90069

BI Expert at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 20, 2014

Informatica PowerCenter vs. Microsoft SSIS - each technology has its advantages but also have similarities

Technology has made it easier for businesses to organize and manipulate data to get a clearer picture of what’s going on with their business. Notably, ETL tools have made managing huge amounts of data significantly easier and faster, boosting many organizations’ business intelligence operations…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

13%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	19
Large Enterprise	57

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Informatica Data Engineering Streaming?

Skill requirement is required. There is a learning curve.

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What is your primary use case for Informatica Data Engineering Streaming?

We implement business intelligence solutions, including data warehousing tools, data integration to load data into wa...

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What advice do you have for others considering Informatica Data Engineering Streaming?

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. Usually, Informatica is for big clients because of its pricin...

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Which is better - SSIS or Informatica PowerCenter?

SSIS PowerPack is a group of drag and drop connectors for Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services, commonly called ...

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What do you like most about SSIS?

The product's deployment phase is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SSIS?

Utilizing SSIS involves no extra charges beyond the SQL Server license. It's an economical choice for my clients.

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What do you like most about Talend Data Management Platform?

We can develop our own code if we do not see the functionality we need.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Talend Data Management Platform?

We got a quote for one single API on one of our platforms. That is the equivalent cost of that API to three years wor...

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What needs improvement with Talend Data Management Platform?

There are always areas for improvement. They have actually in the last 12 months done a lot of work on the UI. If you...

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Compared 5% of the time

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Also Known As

Big Data Streaming, Informatica Intelligent Streaming, Intelligent Streaming

SQL Server Integration Services

Talend Integration Suite

Overview

Informatica Intelligent Streaming allows organizations to prepare and process streams of data and uncover insights while acting in time to suit business needs. It can scale out horizontally and vertically to handle petabytes of data while honoring business service level agreements (SLAs). Intelligent Streaming provides pre-built high-performance connectors such as Kafka, HDFS, NoSQL databases, and enterprise messaging systems and data transformations to enable a code-free method of defining your data integration logic.

Informatica

SSIS is a versatile tool for data integration tasks like ETL processes, data migration, and real-time data processing. Users appreciate its ease of use, data transformation tools, scheduling capabilities, and extensive connectivity options. It enhances productivity and efficiency within organizations by streamlining data-related processes and improving data quality and consistency.

Microsoft

Talend offers robust data integration in an open and scalable architecture to maximize its value to your business. Simple, graphical tools and wizards get you up and running quickly with native code generation that streamlines development.

Talend

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