We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Tableau 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."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."
"In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution."
"It is very comprehensive in terms of connector and transformation capabilities from both a source and target perspective."
"I would recommend that others considering the solution go ahead and use it for any batch and high volume loads with complex transactions."
"Among all the solutions I have used, I found Informatica PowerCenter to be much more stable in terms of application."
"It is UI friendly and has all the advantages of an ETL tool."
"Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"The technical support is excellent."
"Tableau's most valuable features are user-friendliness and have a connection between multiple source systems. You can publish a report by using Tableau Public and there you can make your data online, not only batches of data, you can use it as an online analytical tool."
"Good data flow and management."
"It has made the reporting stage simple and enabled us to focus mainly on the ETL part"
"Tableau Prep tool for data preparation is a most valuable tool."
"This solution has improved insights into quantitative data."
"Tableau is easy to use and it has great predictive features."
"Tableau is an advanced specialized tool. One of the best features I've seen is the lack of an intermediate semantic layer. I think that's an advantage compared to any other tool like BusinessObjects or Power BI, which are Tableau's biggest competitors."
"The feature that is currently most valuable is the import feature where I can link to an Excel data source. I'm not using it with any other data source, such as SQL Server. I directly link it to an Excel sheet, and if I change anything in that Excel sheet, the changed data immediately gets reflected in the virtualization. This is something that is very convenient for me as of now."
"The UI is a little outdated."
"Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections."
"The solution's commercial cost is very high. Other open-source tools can do the tool's functions for free. The world is moving to the cloud, but the solution hasn't updated its drivers. I presume that its downfall will start soon. The tool is trying to cross-sell or upsell without helping customers derive benefits from the existing products. They have multiple tools and licenses. It is better to bring the smaller tools in one umbrella."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"There is a need to buy a separate license if one wishes to connect with some kind of SAP system, such as SalesForce."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
"Integrating new tools can be tricky and challenging."
"In the future, I would like to see Informatica PowerCenter integrate a more powerful dashboard."
"With Tableau, there is a gap in its ability to handle very large-scale data."
"The product's features for cloud integration need improvement."
"The solution does have scalability issues."
"The use of this service in the desktop version is annoying due to the constant updates which lead to reinstalling the application. If they could give support with updates on the same downloaded version, it would be great."
"The pricing is a bit higher than the competition. They'll need to lower it to stay competitive."
"Tableau's automatic insight could be improved. It has some predefined capabilities to understand the data, but I think they need more. Customers need more insight automatically from data—they don't want to discover them, they want to get the forecast automatically. The data preparation should also be improved because it's not easy. Tableau tries to focus on the business side, but the backend side has not improved much. They also have an ETS solution, but it's limited."
"We did have issues with Tableau 10.1 server with the brokers failing on heavy load but since moving to 10.2, then to 10.3, this issue seems to have been resolved and the environment is now quite stable."
"Overall, the only major frustration that I have had so far is with Tableau Public. I first used Tableau Public when I was building capacity, and when there was a later release to download and you wanted to upgrade, all your work would have to be manually re-entered."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 5th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews while Tableau is ranked 1st in Data Visualization with 293 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Tableau is rated 8.4. 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 Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and StreamSets, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Tableau report.
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