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."The setup is very simple."
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"I like the automated scheduling feature."
"We can scale the product."
"I found the map links, work links, and workflows valuable. They are important features."
"Good product if you are trying implement data quality, data integration, and data management projects."
"The reliability of the product and the way of orchestration of different services is valuable to us."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is data transformation and user-friendliness."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is user-friendly and intuitive."
"From my perspective, it enables clients to better understand our data and make better decisions based on that information."
"Tableau has many good features. It is user-friendly, has a simple-to-use interface, and has a customizable dashboard."
"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 action feature which Tableau has is very useful for us. If we click on one visualization, it will pass the value to another visualization. That interactivity within different visualizations is the most valuable feature of Tableau."
"This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases)."
"The most valuable features are data discovery and fine visualizations."
"Tableau has comprehensive, insightful charts, which allow you to build stunning dashboards and enrich your support decision-making."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"The licensing is difficult."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve on the documentation for the implementation. The documents provided are not very good for a new user."
"Compared to solutions offering similar functionalities, Informatica PowerCenter is not very flexible regarding customized integrations."
"The solution must improve the integration with new services."
"Its interface can be modernized. It is an old product. I have been working with it for 14 years, and it still looks the same. It hasn't been modernized much. It also needs to handle more modern formats, such as JSON files. It works with the old text files and databases, but it does not always work with the newer, modern stuff. You need to make your own programs to support that kind of stuff. Support is also a kind of difficult with Informatica. They don't do direct support and rely on using their distributors around the globe for support, which means that you kind of have to go through this layer of different companies before you get help."
"Informatica are very rigid when it comes to cloud migrations which discourages customers in moving their solution to the cloud."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
"Tableau is difficult to scale because of the cost, which makes it difficult to scale."
"There are more than a powerful tool in the market, such as Microsoft BI."
"The cost of owning the solutions from Tableau is much higher compared to any other analytical solutions."
"With performance tuning, it generates a pretty complex query when it is not required."
"There could be improvements on the mobile application, it is lacking features."
"Users would like to be able to export an Excel file when they see a table or something like that. That's not an out-of-the-box feature for Tableau."
"The product's features for cloud integration need improvement."
"The extraction, transformation and loading of data in Tableau takes a lot of time and we do not have confidence that Tableau is showing all the data we need."
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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