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."The support is valuable. There are also open-source ETL products, which work very well, but there is no support. When we face a production problem, being able to get support is valuable, and it brings efficiency. With an open-source solution, we can't engage anyone to resolve the problem as quickly as possible."
"Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"I like the completeness of the way I can build ETL workflows."
"Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
"What I like the most is that we have to deal with less while writing the queries."
"It is UI friendly and has all the advantages of an ETL tool."
"Deployment was simple and straightforward."
"Complex transformations can be easily achieved by using PowerCenter. The processing layer does transformations and other things. About 80% of my transformations can be achieved by using the middle layer. For the remaining 15% to 20% transformations, I can go in and create stored procedures in the respective databases. Mapplets is the feature through which we can reuse transformations across pipelines. Transformations and caching are the key features that we have been using frequently. Informatica PowerCenter is one of the best solutions or products in the data integration space. We have extensively used PowerCenter for integration purposes. We usually look at the best bridge solution in our architecture so that it can sustain for maybe a couple of years. Usually, we go with the solution that fits best and has proven and time-tested technology."
"Palantir Foundry is a robust platform that has really strong plugin connectors and provides features for real-time integration."
"The solution offers very good end-to-end capabilities."
"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."
"The ease of use is my favorite feature. We're able to build different models and projects or combine different projects to build one use case."
"Live video sessions enhance the available documentation and allow you to ask questions directly."
"The solution provides an end-to-end integrated tech stack that takes care of all utility/infrastructure topics for you."
"Encapsulates all the components without the requirement to integrate or check compatibility."
"The virtualization tool is useful."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"While on-premises is a better product, we really need to move to the cloud and need the cloud to be as robust as this product."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"They should release new versions for the solution's on-premises setup."
"The solution must improve the integration with new services."
"Areas for improvement in Informatica PowerCenter include scalability and high availability or the clustering configuration because that's still very basic. The elasticity or scaling of the platform needs a lot of improvement. For example, when it comes to DR handling or building an active-active or active-passive cluster, Informatica PowerCenter is still not that powerful. Automation also needs improvement in the solution. Improving automation leads to some improvement in the stability of Informatica PowerCenter and other aspects related to it. What I'd like to see in the next release of Informatica PowerCenter is real-time capability because the solution is mainly for patches, and to have real-time integration, you need to count on some additional components from Informatica. I would expect more integration and a complete platform in terms of real-time capability or patching with minimal interventions or minimal components to be aligned together."
"I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption."
"We need another tool for monitoring. It would be easier if all the features were consolidated into one tool."
"It requires a lot of manual work and is very time-consuming to get to a functional point."
"They do not have a data center in Europe, and we have lots of personally identifiable information in our dataset that needs to be hosted by a third-party data center like Amazon or Microsoft Azure."
"There is not a wide user base for the solution's online documentation so it is sometimes difficult to find answers."
"If you want to create new models on specific data sets, computing that is quite costly."
"The frontend capabilities of Palantir Foundry could be improved."
"Compared to other hyperscalers, Palantir Foundry is complex and not so user-intuitive."
"The solution's visualization and analysis could be improved."
"Difficult to receive data from external sources."
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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