We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), and TIBCO Scribe based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is data transformation and user-friendliness."
"It provides monitoring and we can therefore be aware of what is happening when we are handling jobs."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"The greatest feature is that it is very easy to have someone come in and jump right in. It is one of the nicest tools in terms of getting a person acquainted quickly."
"Can manage a huge quantity of data and provide reliability."
"Technical support, and their approach is good. They have a support portal and support tickets. If you open a ticket it has multiple levels of severity from level one to very high or critical."
"It is UI friendly and has all the advantages of an ETL tool."
"The most valuable features are the dynamic reading of the file metadata profile, and the ability to define business rules that are used to verify and validate the uploaded files."
"ODI's most valuable features are it utilizes the database engine and is very lightweight."
"The most valuable feature of ODI is the to use of the whole ETL to create a data lake."
"ODI significantly improves data integration and management by allowing customization of data types from various sources like SQL Server databases."
"It allows us to use many languages to develop and to integrate practically all the technologies of the Oracle suite as well as those from non-Oracle vendors."
"Easy to understand, very developer-friendly, and has a big forum community and lots of documentation for support."
"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."
"I like that Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) has a straightforward setup and offers good technical support."
"The product has an ELT approach."
"The most valuable feature of TIBCO Scribe is the connectors available to various products."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
"The only problem with this product is the level of complexity with the number of levels of transformation that you have to go through."
"The documentation could be improved."
"While Informatica is great for data-integration, it does not have any analytics features. Thus, organizations have to always look for another product for their BI needs."
"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."
"In the future, I would like to see Informatica PowerCenter integrate a more powerful dashboard."
"Integrating new tools can be tricky and challenging."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"Reverse engineering is complicated and challenging to manage."
"Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is already good as a solution. Still, it needs some editing of its preview package, or if the package is upgraded, that will make Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) even better."
"It would be really good if Oracle considered enabling the tool to integrate with some other platforms that are deprecated simply for commercial reasons"
"It needs easier security."
"An area for improvement in Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is real-time integration. Currently, my company has a workaround to implement real-time integration, an area on which Oracle must focus more. Real-time integration should be easier in Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). Another area for improvement in Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is integration with more publishers and subscribers rather than just database integrations."
"Stability could be improved because some operators have issues."
"The price needs to be lowered. It's too expensive."
"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."
"The solution should provide better documentation and scenario-based samples."