We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and SAP PowerDesigner based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Metadata Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can scan anything."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"Offers data lineage feature"
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"The capability of the tool to scan and capture the metadata from a variety of sources is one of the capabilities that I find most useful. The central repository into which it is going to put that captured metadata is the best."
"I like EDC's self-service capabilities. You can put the catalog on the intranet inside the organization, so users can search for something. People in the research world have specialized systems, and you might find data from various places that sound similar."
"The solution scales well."
"It can automatically connect or associate business terms with various options, providing flexibility beyond general capabilities."
"I mostly work on the conceptual and logical side of things, and I enjoy how easy it is to use."
"In terms of operational efficiency and cause savings or return on investment, I can say that with SAP PowerDesigner, our company saves a lot of time."
"The most useful feature has been the detailed possibility to model almost anything regarding physical databases."
"Very good repository features."
"This solution has good tools for big data, where you can manage large and complex databases."
"It can automate many routine tasks and save human resources to focus on real problems."
"It has helped me to develop the as-is state, design its to-be state, and track the capital investment according to gap analysis."
"The solution is a very pragmatic tool. It's quite easy to use."
"Interoperability is one area where EDC has room for improvement. It was challenging when the faculty took over the data world and had specific vendors they wanted to use, and some were not particularly open platforms."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"They have to improve their relationship discovery tool. They say that they have AI inside, but this AI did not automatically find relationships or suggested relationships between entities."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"There are many areas of this solution that needs to be changed."
"The data governance should be improved, like ER/Studio."
"Checking-in models to the repository, especially when working remotely, is a slow process than can sometimes have problems with models being corrupted."
"Not very intuitive or user-friendly."
"The tool lags in the area of customer service."
"In the future, I would like to see data manipulation capability where you can actually write SQL queries and manipulate data from directly within the tool."
"SAP PowerDesigner can improve the ease of use. It is not the best tool on the market because it is tough to navigate and use. A beginner would not be able to use it well, it requires some experience. If the solution was more user-friendly it would be able to be used by more audiences. I do not think many people are aware of this solution and they should use it."
"The portal of SAP PowerDesigner could be better. The tool also needs more features and integration with other products, such as Collibra. It would be interesting for SAP PowerDesigner to have more integration."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 14 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 4th in Metadata Management with 34 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "They listen to their customers, so if something is missing or not working, they will put it on their roadmap". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "Effective in terms of validating everything, but sometimes they don't allow us some flexibility and GUI could improve". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and data.world, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and Sparx Pro Cloud Server. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. SAP PowerDesigner report.
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