We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Palantir Foundry 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."Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"It's a very powerful tool you can use to load data, get data, do the drawing between the tables, and put into the packet in a very fast way."
"It has good standard features for ETL development."
"It provides everything I need. Nothing is missing. PowerCenter is a good tool for on-premise databases."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"Once you figure it out, it is a powerful and simple ETL tool. Its stability has been very satisfactory."
"It's a complete package, which is why we use this solution."
"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."
"The security is also excellent. It's highly granular, so the admins have a high degree of control, and there are many levels of security. That worked well. You won't have an EDC unless you put everything onto the platform because it is its own isolated thing."
"It's scalable."
"Live video sessions enhance the available documentation and allow you to ask questions directly."
"It is easy to map out a workflow and run trigger-based scripts without having to deploy to another server."
"The AI engine that comes with Palantir Foundry is quite interesting."
"The interface is really user-friendly."
"The solution offers very good end-to-end capabilities."
"Great features available in one tool."
"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 performance of Informatica PowerCenter could improve."
"This product is going to decommission in the next couple of years."
"Compared to solutions offering similar functionalities, Informatica PowerCenter is not very flexible regarding customized integrations."
"Now they are migrating to a new version, and they have something that is called Informatica Developer. Previously, they just had PowerCenter. Now, when they move everything to Informatica Developer it's not as good or stable like it was when it was PowerCenter, though it has some nice features. This Developer tool could be better."
"Some of the conversions are done inside the product. We use work tables that are created by the engine itself, but the names of the work tables are very long, and they don't have any meaning, which makes it a bit difficult to understand and follow exactly what is happening inside."
"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."
"PowerCenter could integrate better with cloud applications. We had to do a lot of configuration work using API integrations to connect with cloud applications. Informatica Cloud Data Integration has a generic connector that you can use directly, so it's much easier."
"Some error messages can be very cryptic."
"It requires a lot of manual work and is very time-consuming to get to a functional point."
"The solution could use more online documentation for new users."
"The frontend capabilities of Palantir Foundry could be improved."
"It would be helpful to build applications based on Azure functions or web apps in Palantir Foundry."
"Difficult to receive data from external sources."
"The workflow could be improved."
"The data lineage was challenging. It's hard to track data from the sources as it moves through stages. Informatica EDC can easily capture and report it because it talks to the metadata. This is generated across those various staging points."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Palantir Foundry is ranked 11th in Data Integration with 14 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Palantir Foundry is rated 7.6. 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 Palantir Foundry writes "The data visualization is fantastic and the security is excellent". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Palantir Foundry is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Palantir Gotham, SAP Data Services, AWS Glue and Deloitte AI and Analytics. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Palantir Foundry report.
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