We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Qlik Sense 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."I found the map links, work links, and workflows valuable. They are important features."
"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."
"It is easy to use, and it is quick for developing things. It is fairly powerful, and it can integrate with a lot of different platforms without much hassle."
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"The technical support for Informatica PowerCenter is good."
"The most complex task, in this case, was to read and transform BLOB data, and Java transformation in Informatica Power Center was a great solution."
"It provides monitoring and we can therefore be aware of what is happening when we are handling jobs."
"Enterprise-scale ETL solution that's very stable and is easy to scale. It integrates and connects with multiple new systems, both structured and semi-structured."
"We have found the use of AI to be the most valuable feature."
"Self-service use of the desktop version with the ability to port applications into the server environment."
"It offers good control. Loading the logs is also a good thing."
"We can bring data from multiple sources and easily blend it in Qlik and create a data model (star schema)."
"It is simple to develop, which is good."
"Obviously and considering that Qlik Sense is a data visualization application, the most attractive feature is the fast handling of large amounts of data and the attractive visualization of the same."
"The time it takes to deliver a dashboard is real quick."
"The visualizations are good and keep improving."
"This solution needs the functionality to do batch processing of data. It also lacks connectivity to NoSQL, unstructured data sources."
"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."
"Integrating new tools can be tricky and challenging."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"We need another tool for monitoring. It would be easier if all the features were consolidated into one tool."
"In the future, I would like to see Informatica PowerCenter integrate a more powerful dashboard."
"The reputation of Informatica is that it is expensive."
"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."
"Performing data transformations required a lot of programming, which is something that should be made easier."
"Mostly when it comes to the loading of the data and reload times of the reports, it could be better."
"It's going to take 20 to 30 minutes to refresh sometimes."
"The solution needs to make improvements to the licensing model. They need to make it more affordable at scale, and to make it more affordable for those companies at the low end of the market as well."
"They should generally focus more on the evolution of current capabilities rather than doing everything but only at 50% effectiveness."
"This solution would be improved by adding some Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) components that are easier to interpret and design."
"Data modelling automation needs improvement."
"The only thing I would like to see is the ability to create a master app that opens when a user creates a new app that has all the master items, colors, logos, etc., that my organization uses. This would help with keeping master items the same across the apps and would make development a little quicker."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 7th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. 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 Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Apache Superset, Microsoft Power BI and Alteryx. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Qlik Sense report.
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