We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Sisense 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 setup is very simple."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring tools and the reporting manager."
"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 has good standard features for ETL development."
"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."
"Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
"Among all the solutions I have used, I found Informatica PowerCenter to be much more stable in terms of application."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"Whenever we have an issue or are unsure how to proceed, they manage to simplify the issue and help us execute it in a graceful and scalable way."
"No issues with stability. It is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable thing I have found is the ability for Sisense to connect data from totally different sources."
"Allows users to build their own solutions without as much reliance on technology staff."
"We like that this solution allows us to use data cubes to set up specific visualizations."
"The solution's technical support team is good."
"There are many built-in connectors, which allow us to easily add new sources of data, often in minutes."
"This solution is easy to learn how to use."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"The solution must improve the integration with new services."
"PowerCenter could be improved by having more big data components. Normally, we prefer Informatica as a relational database, but nowadays, companies are trying to understand and use big data components. I think it would be useful if we had more chances to create a hub ecosystem because customers try to use some data integration tasks by SQL, Spark and Spark codes, and Scala, but at the end of the day, the company will understand that we need to trace all the steps. An ETL tool is a must for that company, if we're talking about the regulated industries like finance, telcos, etc. If Informatica's biggest ecosystems feature were okay, I would prefer to use it."
"While on-premises is a better product, we really need to move to the cloud and need the cloud to be as robust as this product."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
"The multiple interfaces in Informatica PowerCenter are not great for the user experience. Because of this, I think it can cause confusion for any beginner developer."
"We had to take on a large volume of data from the legacy Sybase system. This was taking a very long time, i.e., more than a day. We were trying to improve it with partitions to gpload, but we were told that we can't go more than four partitions."
"The solution's commercial cost is very high. Other open-source tools can do the tool's functions for free. The world is moving to the cloud, but the solution hasn't updated its drivers. I presume that its downfall will start soon. The tool is trying to cross-sell or upsell without helping customers derive benefits from the existing products. They have multiple tools and licenses. It is better to bring the smaller tools in one umbrella."
"I would also like to be able to run a bursts of reports based on different field values with PDF output right in the tool, rather than filtering on each field value and generating each PDF manually."
"The solution's setup process could be easier."
"The administrative side of Sisense is a little cumbersome and confusing."
"I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums."
"I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes."
"At present there are additional costs involved if we wish to share our data queues within this solution, which we would like to see removed."
"The initial version we purchased only ran on Windows servers, which was less than ideal for our DevOps team. I believe that has been remedied in the latest release."
"Larger datasets will sometimes give a "Accumulated logs" error when trying to make minor changes. T"
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 5th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews while Sisense is ranked 14th in Data Visualization with 39 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Sisense is rated 8.8. 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 Sisense writes "Business intelligence solution that has improved automation and provided meaningful insights". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Sisense is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Apache Superset, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Sisense report.
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