We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and Informatica PowerCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Metadata Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The capability of the tool to scan and capture the metadata from a variety of sources is one of the capabilities that I find most useful. The central repository into which it is going to put that captured metadata is the best."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"The solution scales well."
"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 can automatically connect or associate business terms with various options, providing flexibility beyond general capabilities."
"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."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The partitioning and optimization to help enhance our development is a very valuable aspect of Informatica PowerCenter."
"Once you have learned Informatica, it is very easy to use."
"Technical support is great. It's one of the reasons we really like them. When you compare support from IBM and support from Informatica, Informatica is much better."
"It works with any multi-databases, so it works with Sybase, SQL Server. Also, the performance is really good and it is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"UI-based ability to create data mapping."
"What I like most about Informatica PowerCenter is that it's the best tool in the market for data integration. Currently, I work in L'Oréal, where a new system from SAP is used. Informatica PowerCenter integration with SAP is very, very fast and very, very simple, so you have the server flow from SAP, and through Informatica PowerCenter, you can ingest the data and make that data available for the business more quickly."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"The scalability is tough."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"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."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"While on-premises is a better product, we really need to move to the cloud and need the cloud to be as robust as this product."
"The solution must improve the integration with new services."
"It would be nice to have all tools in one place. CDC needs more effort, as it's only easy to develop if you are familiar with Linux."
"Informatica are very rigid when it comes to cloud migrations which discourages customers in moving their solution to the cloud."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"If we could have the option of performance improvement within Informatica, and if it could have more features, that would be ideal."
"We need another tool for monitoring. It would be easier if all the features were consolidated into one tool."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "Great metadata management with more visibility and great technical support". 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". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Denodo and Palantir Foundry, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. Informatica PowerCenter report.
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