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."The solution scales well."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"The product seems stable enough."
"It can automatically connect or associate business terms with various options, providing flexibility beyond general capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is it provides clients with a full view of the enterprise data assets. For example, how many data assets they have and who owns them."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"We can scan anything."
"It's a great tool for documentation."
"It allows us to have proper documentation in terms of the databases."
"It has helped me to develop the as-is state, design its to-be state, and track the capital investment according to gap analysis."
"It offers a lot of features in one solution. You would have to get multiple other products to bundle together all of the capabilities that you get in just this product."
"I like the connectivity or the lineage between the models and usability."
"I mostly work on the conceptual and logical side of things, and I enjoy how easy it is to use."
"The most valuable feature of SAP PowerDesigner is the testing of the models, it has the best function. Reverse engineering is very helpful too."
"Very good repository features."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"This solution is hard to set up and its interface is not user-friendly. It's also not as stable, and the technical support takes a lot of time to solve simple problems."
"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 model is somewhat flexible. There are certain aspects of the model that are not as flexible as we would like. It doesn't do certain things to a great level of depth. So, in situations where we want to drill in to do something specific, we have to essentially copy that data into our own structures in order to add that additional layer of flexibility."
"The UI is extremely complex"
"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."
"The scalability is tough."
"There should be a better usage of current hardware including multicore CPUs, higher resolutions, and multiple displays."
"The solution is very, very expensive. It would be ideal if it was a more affordable product."
"Not very intuitive or user-friendly."
"The solution itself does not need to be improved. However, they could add support for different languages."
"Connectivity can be improved because it's not very good."
"Technical support could be better and more human."
"The tool lags in the area of customer service."
"Checking-in models to the repository, especially when working remotely, is a slow process than can sometimes have problems with models being corrupted."
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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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