Informatica Data Engineering Streaming vs Talend Data Management Platform comparison

The compared Informatica and Talend 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. Talend is ranked #15 in DI , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Informatica users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Talend users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Informatica Data Engineering Streaming and Talend Data Management Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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

Categories and Ranking

Informatica Data Engineerin...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Streaming Analytics (19th)

Talend Data Management Plat...

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (15th)

Mindshare comparison

Informatica Data Engineering Streaming and Talend Data Management Platform aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Informatica Data Engineering Streaming is designed for Streaming Analytics and holds a mindshare of 1.9%, up 1.1% compared to last year.
Talend Data Management Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Data Integration, holds 1.0% mindshare, down 1.4% since last year.

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 (%)
Talend Data Management Platform	1.0%
Informatica PowerCenter	6.3%
SSIS	5.9%
Other	86.8%

Data Integration

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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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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 most valuable feature is integration."

"I like everything about this product, but the biggest thing is the ease of use."

"I think Talend is one of the easiest tools for faster implementation compared to other tools."

"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."

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

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Cons

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

"The product must enhance the data quality."

"I've had some issues with bugs causing crashes, especially when making changes to the system or with the monthly upgrades to Studio they've introduced."

"I'd be interested in seeing the running of Python programs and transformations from within the studio itself."

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

"Data management could also encompass APIs and real-time streaming data integration."

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

"I think they should drive toward AI and machine learning. They could include a machine-learning algorithm for the deduplication."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

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

"License renewal is on a yearly basis."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

13%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

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	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 warehouses, and then creating reports.

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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 pricing, and it also requires some skill sets. It requires investment into a proper da...

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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 worth of support and maintenance from Qlik. For us in New Zealand, it is quite expe...

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What needs improvement with Talend Data Management Platform?

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Also Known As

Big Data Streaming, Informatica Intelligent Streaming, Intelligent Streaming

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

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

Sample Customers

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