We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Oracle Analytics Cloud 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."It is UI friendly and has all the advantages of an ETL tool."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the new Data Lake feature, which provides the basic capabilities needed."
"Among all the solutions I have used, I found Informatica PowerCenter to be much more stable in terms of application."
"The most valuable aspects of Informatica PowerCenter are the many features, ease of use, and user-friendliness."
"It has helped us monetize."
"I found the map links, work links, and workflows valuable. They are important features."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"It's really an enterprise solution. It has a dashboard, like standard dashboarding functionality. It also has reporting capabilities for producing pixel-perfect reports, bursting large volumes of a document if you need to. It has interactive data discovery functionality, which you would use to explore your data, bring your own data, and merge it with maybe the data from an enterprise data warehouse to get new insights from the pre-existing data. It has machine learning embedded in the solution. If you're new to machine learning, it's a really good way to get into it, because it's all within this platform, and it's really easy to use."
"It's valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and doesn't require much time for understanding. The solution is stable. The initial setup was straightforward."
"The features that I find to be the most valuable are the BAS (Business Analytics), the Narrate feature, and the auto-visualization."
"It plays a crucial role in facilitating decision-making for various organizational stakeholders."
"This is a stable and scalable solution."
"It's great for consolidation and creating one source of truth."
"Data preparation is fantastic and fast. We were able to use multiple data sources and prepare the data quickly."
"The best feature may be data flow, which is used to prepare and clean data."
"PowerCenter could integrate better with cloud applications. We had to do a lot of configuration work using API integrations to connect with cloud applications. Informatica Cloud Data Integration has a generic connector that you can use directly, so it's much easier."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"Compared to solutions offering similar functionalities, Informatica PowerCenter is not very flexible regarding customized integrations."
"I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption."
"The UI is a little outdated."
"Support could be better."
"It should be more cloud-centric than on-prem-centric."
"The solution must improve the integration with new services."
"When you implement the product on a small scale, it doesn't generate any ROI."
"When we have, for example, a table with low performance, we have several issues with drawing some graphics in the Oracle cloud."
"Sharing dataflows is not possible at this time, and the custom chart functionality is not available."
"Oracle Analytics Cloud is lacking in charts. They should add more charts to it."
"It's not a failure of the product; it's just an architectural choice. It has to do with data modeling. I'm comparing this to another product, which is Oracle's developer client and probably called Oracle BI Developer Client Tool. The data modeler, which is cloud-based, and Oracle BI Developer Client Tool, which is local or on-premises-based, both can do the same thing in data modeling. However, the cloud tool does not have as many features as the Oracle BI Developer Client Tool, which is closest to the OBIEE Administration Tool with full feature data modeling, metadata development, and so forth. In a complex environment or implementation, that is the capability that you need."
"The scalability has room for improvement."
"As with most BI tools, the visualizations can be made much nicer. Currently, it has standard visualizations. They've been adding new visualizations, but we see animated visualizations from other vendors. It would be nice to have similar visualizations, such as the swarming visualizations, which are fairly new and very popular at the moment. I haven't seen that with Oracle. That would be nice."
"The solution could be more flexible."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 5th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews while Oracle Analytics Cloud is ranked 6th in Data Visualization with 23 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Oracle Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Analytics Cloud writes "Reliable, capable of handling massive amounts of data, and good value for money". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Oracle Analytics Cloud is most compared with Databricks, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI and Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Oracle Analytics Cloud report.
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