We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Qlik Analytics Platform 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."The most complex task, in this case, was to read and transform BLOB data, and Java transformation in Informatica Power Center was a great solution."
"The most valuable features are the metadata repository and the data warehouse application console."
"I like the completeness of the way I can build ETL workflows."
"Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"What I like the most is that we have to deal with less while writing the queries."
"Ease and speed of building integrations, especially integrations between different applications, such as our Hospital Information System."
"We have found the PowerCenter and B2B data transformation most valuable."
"The setup is very simple."
"Qlik offers you all the features needed to extract the raw data from the source systems including an ETL layer to transform the data and to connect the multiple data sources into one data model, easy data sharing, security and scaling features, dashboards, and report functionality to share your data with your end-users."
"It is a great platform for third party extensions, has an open API, and there are no black boxes."
"Reporting is a valuable feature of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Qlik Analytics Platform is its Change Data Capture capability."
"Requires an established data center because there is no option for software as a service."
"PowerCenter has three clients. I wish they would consolidate everything into one GUI, not three. Also, we had a persistent issue with the Informatica Developer tool but it was solved when we migrated to the newest one."
"If you want to transfer a ZIP file, it is a pain. You need to use Command-Line. Sometimes we just want to transfer a file. It should be easy to move them from A to B."
"The developer tool documentation can be enhanced with a more clear explanation of each utility, accompanied by relevant examples, so that developers are able to create programs with ease."
"It would be good to recreate the entire interface to make it easier for users to build workflows."
"The UI is a little outdated."
"Its interface can be modernized. It is an old product. I have been working with it for 14 years, and it still looks the same. It hasn't been modernized much. It also needs to handle more modern formats, such as JSON files. It works with the old text files and databases, but it does not always work with the newer, modern stuff. You need to make your own programs to support that kind of stuff. Support is also a kind of difficult with Informatica. They don't do direct support and rely on using their distributors around the globe for support, which means that you kind of have to go through this layer of different companies before you get help."
"They should release new versions for the solution's on-premises setup."
"More freedom for custom visuals and dashboard creation would be an improvement."
"It would be great if decentralized teams would have more features to manage the metadata on the dashboards, setup the specific user access rights and rules to govern incoming and outgoing data sets from/to other teams, and more features to separate the different data process layers (e.g. extraction, transformation [data quality, business rules])."
"The user experience needs to be improved."
"One area where Qlik Analytics Platform could be improved is in providing better support for batch processing and traditional ETL workflows."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 5th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews while Qlik Analytics Platform is ranked 25th in Data Visualization with 4 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Qlik Analytics Platform is rated 8.4. 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 Qlik Analytics Platform writes "An easy-to-deploy solution with a variety of use cases and excellent reporting features". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Qlik Analytics Platform is most compared with Apache Superset and Qlik Sense. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Qlik Analytics Platform report.
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