We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Oracle Data Integrator ODI based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions received similar ratings. However, users of Informatica PowerCenter report a better experience with technical support.
"It has good standard features for ETL development."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"Informatica PowerCenter has been implementing mapping design, data flow, and workflow execution for years."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"I like the completeness of the way I can build ETL workflows."
"The technical support is excellent."
"Ease and speed of building integrations, especially integrations between different applications, such as our Hospital Information System."
"Deployment was simple and straightforward."
"Integration with all systems is easy with Oracle Data Integrator, and it is easy to use. I have not used any other product, but with Oracle Data Integrator, we can easily connect to an ERP system, an SAP system, or a cloud application."
"The Knowledge Module approach provides an easy and reusable way to create our own integration strategies. It's easy to create these Knowledge Modules to connect to new technologies, for instance."
"It's scalable."
"It's completely user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of ODI is the to use of the whole ETL to create a data lake."
"I like that Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) has a straightforward setup and offers good technical support."
"The product has an ELT approach."
"In our DW/BI solution, ODI is the main tool to integrate the data in a daily batch way."
"The UI is a little outdated."
"The UI is outdated and old-fashioned, at least in our current version. Also, we have experienced some stability issues with the Workflow Monitor application."
"This product is going to decommission in the next couple of years."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"Some of the conversions are done inside the product. We use work tables that are created by the engine itself, but the names of the work tables are very long, and they don't have any meaning, which makes it a bit difficult to understand and follow exactly what is happening inside."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
"Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections."
"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."
"Technical Support could be better."
"The interface of ODI could be improved. For example, navigating and finding functions can be difficult. For example, you have to know which step you need to go to look at where your job status is. The logical step is a bit complex compared to other tools. It's much easier to get a graphical view, but with ODI, it's graphical, plus you have to know all the other pieces that fit around it. You have to think about the logical and physical aspects."
"It has been very good. Just recently, I've faced an issue, but I solved it somehow. While integrating with a file, I faced an issue where I wanted output files, and I had used the text field limited quotations, but at the end of the file, there was a line breakage for the last column. So, we just removed the text field because it was not working correctly for us."
"I rate it a seven out of 10 because there is room for growth because ODI is still new, in comparison to Informatica, which is a mature product."
"We used a third party to do the implementation of ODI."
"The performance of the user interface is in need of improvement."
"If there was an add-on tool to hide the performance issues and solve them for me, then I might be interested in that as it would provide me value."
"In our company, we haven't tried consuming services from IoT in our company yet, and I would like to know if the solution will support IoT services in the next release."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is ranked 4th in Data Integration with 67 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is rated 8.2. 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 Data Integrator (ODI) writes "Straightforward to implement, scalable, and has good stability and documentation, but technical support could still be improved". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and IBM InfoSphere DataStage, whereas Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is most compared with Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Oracle GoldenGate and Talend Open Studio. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) report.
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