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 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."
"Offers data lineage feature"
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"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."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"The solution scales well."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"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."
"This solution has good tools for big data, where you can manage large and complex databases."
"It allows us to have proper documentation in terms of the databases."
"I mostly work on the conceptual and logical side of things, and I enjoy how easy it is to use."
"It's a stable system. It never crashes."
"I like the connectivity or the lineage between the models and usability."
"Provides the flexibility to create logical and conceptual data models."
"The solution is a very pragmatic tool. It's quite easy to use."
"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."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"The UI is extremely complex"
"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 solution is quite expensive."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"I've tried to use Power Designer to bring in images, which didn't work very well at all."
"There are some minor things that could be easier. We're writing up procedures to bring all the modeling back into one group as this reduces delays in production."
"UI could be improved by enabling simpler navigation."
"Technical support could be better and more human."
"There are many areas of this solution that needs to be changed."
"The solution is very, very expensive. It would be ideal if it was a more affordable product."
"This product does not have a good BPMN Modeler."
"The focus is more on mainstream development environments, and I see a lack of focus on the open source world. I think SAP PowerDesigner probably interfaces better with SQL Server and Db2 but not with open source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL."
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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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