We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tableau, Qlik, Splunk and others in Data Visualization."The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"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."
"To me, what's most valuable in Informatica PowerCenter is the flexibility in building the integration pipeline. Usually, you need to have a platform to be able to integrate with different technologies, including legacy data such as the mainframe. The platform should also be rich enough to transform the data per your business requirement, with no restrictions. Rich integration and rich transformation capabilities are the two key capabilities in Informatica PowerCenter. The solution also offers ease of use. Another valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is the drag-and-drop integration because it's GUI-based, similar to IBM and Oracle."
"Informatica PowerCenter is very good for integrating a huge amount of data in a very short duration, such as a minute. It is also very easy to use. After you provide the source and the target, mappings are automatically done, which makes it easy to use for the development team."
"Good product if you are trying implement data quality, data integration, and data management projects."
"I like the completeness of the way I can build ETL workflows."
"The partitioning and optimization to help enhance our development is a very valuable aspect of Informatica PowerCenter."
"Once you figure it out, it is a powerful and simple ETL tool. Its stability has been very satisfactory."
"It includes valuable features like a dashboard, reporting, visualization, etc."
"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."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"Informatica PowerCenter is outdated and would benefit from modernization. They should have a very good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to AACF. Informatica PowerCenter there is no point in using it, you have to use a cloud version."
"I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"There is a need to buy a separate license if one wishes to connect with some kind of SAP system, such as SalesForce."
"The solution could have better documentation on basic steps or blocks that specify what to do."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
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Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 5th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio is ranked 22nd in Data Visualization with 1 review. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 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 SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio writes "Comprehensive product with valuable dashboard and reporting features ". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio is most compared with SAP Lumira.
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