We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Talend Open Studio based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Talend Open Studio comes out on top for paid support and Informatica PowerCenter comes out on top for its features. If you are looking for a solution that consumes fewer resources, then you should go with Informatica PowerCenter. However, if you are looking to start with a free data integration tool, Talend Open Studio would be the tool for you.
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"Has a good visual tool for data mapping."
"It is an excellent ETL tool."
"The partitioning and optimization to help enhance our development is a very valuable aspect of Informatica PowerCenter."
"The reliability of the product and the way of orchestration of different services is valuable to us."
"Good interface, reasonable documentation."
"The support is valuable. There are also open-source ETL products, which work very well, but there is no support. When we face a production problem, being able to get support is valuable, and it brings efficiency. With an open-source solution, we can't engage anyone to resolve the problem as quickly as possible."
"I like the completeness of the way I can build ETL workflows."
"This solution has improved our overall time to value for data ingestion."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"We're able to handle large amounts of data with ease."
"The API integration and big data approach are very good because of how you extract data from JSP files or big data web repositories like MongoDB."
"Talend lets you do everything — mapping, workflow, and orchestration — in a single place."
"It has got so many connectors. It is intuitive and easy to use."
"Talend Open Studio is easy to create jobs. We use the basic functionality and it is very good."
"Open Studio's best features are that it's user-friendly, even for beginners, and very easy to implement."
"The documentation could be improved."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
"The initial setup is not straightforward. You need expertise to do it."
"If we could have the option of performance improvement within Informatica, and if it could have more features, that would be ideal."
"Integrating new tools can be tricky and challenging."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve by having a single interface because half of the system is still in the legacy interface and many other elements are moved to the developer client. It would be good if there was a single interface for the end user and developers."
"I rate Talend Open Studio's stability an eight out of ten. Talend has some problems sometimes."
"When faced with a challenge, such as the necessity to link up with an unconventional data source like the legacy Cyprus Vision database that wasn't inherently supported by Talend, I had to resort to writing Python code to establish the connection."
"Talend Open Studio has a lot of capabilities, but there is some restriction. For example, if we want to connect to an SAP system, Open Studio cannot do it. We need to go with an enterprise version. Additionally, the monitoring features could improve."
"As for improvement or additional features, I would like to know how to use Java in Talend and also how to use Talend in the cloud or in big data. I would prefer to have storage directly on Talend."
"In terms of features, it has all the features that I need. However, it consumes a lot of resources. It is using a lot of RAM, and they need to fix the issue related to resource consumption. It currently requires more than 24 gigabytes of RAM, which is a big amount of RAM."
"The physical appearance of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It gets the job done but it's a bit slow."
"The stability of the solution could improve when running jobs. There can be errors when running projects but in the end, it works well and the errors do not impact the result."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 47 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Talend Open 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 Talend Open Studio writes "An open-source ETL tool, when deployed on-premises, requiring an easy installation phase". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and Alteryx Designer, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Talend Data Fabric, AWS Glue and Talend Data integration. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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