We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Talend Data Management Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable aspects of Informatica PowerCenter are the many features, ease of use, and user-friendliness."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is data transformation and user-friendliness."
"If the systems get migrated or upgraded, the amount of resources required are very minimal. We can change the connections and establish a new connection. It's very helpful."
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"It is an excellent ETL tool."
"Informatica PowerCenter has been implementing mapping design, data flow, and workflow execution for years."
"Once you figure it out, it is a powerful and simple ETL tool. Its stability has been very satisfactory."
"The most valuable feature is the data loading and scripting language"
"We can develop our own code if we do not see the functionality we need."
"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to understand."
"I like the way that you can use the context variables, and how you can work those context variables to give you values and settings for every development environment, such as PROD, TEST, and DEV."
"I like everything about this product, but the biggest thing is the ease of use."
"I think Talend is one of the easiest tools for faster implementation compared to other tools."
"The solution can run on any machine and that is a big advantage."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"The performance of Informatica PowerCenter could improve."
"What I didn't like about it is that the platform itself is not great at distributed processing. When you need high parallel processing, it has some inherent issues. We had to use Java transformation, and it did not go very well. I have heard that it is going to the cloud, but we haven't tried that."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"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."
"As a connector to big data, it is not well developed. We've had problems connecting Informatica with Hadoop. The functionality to connect Informatica with Hadoop, for me it's not good."
"It would be better if I could do all the work within a single window. If I'm working on any mapping and if I have to switch to sessions, I have to open a new window altogether. If I have to get into workflows, I have to open a new window. It was also very expensive. In the next release, I would like it to be more user-friendly."
"I would like to see improvements made to the custom transformations. It should be more open for users that want to write their own code and use cases."
"Performance and speed could be improved."
"The documentation from version to version could be more accurate."
"The solution's memory sometimes bottlenecks and that can be challenging."
"Including either XML or JSON in the next release would definitely be a good transformation. I'm not sure if Talend has that feature, but it's one of those requirements that we are working around and have to do some parsing of XML so this could make it easier."
"Once you get past the basic tools, it gets pretty complicated."
"I'd be interested in seeing the running of Python programs and transformations from within the studio itself."
"I think they should drive toward AI and machine learning. They could include a machine-learning algorithm for the deduplication."
"The stability is good, but the performance is slower when I work on a huge amount of data."
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Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Talend Data Management Platform is ranked 22nd in Data Integration with 17 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Talend Data Management 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 Talend Data Management Platform writes "Built for everything and packed with features but there are some monitoring limitations". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Talend Data Management Platform is most compared with Talend Open Studio, Talend Data Fabric, SAP Data Services, Collibra Catalog and SSIS. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Talend Data Management Platform report.
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