We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Talend Data Management Platform 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."Enterprise-scale ETL solution that's very stable and is easy to scale. It integrates and connects with multiple new systems, both structured and semi-structured."
"The partitioning and optimization to help enhance our development is a very valuable aspect of Informatica PowerCenter."
"Among all the solutions I have used, I found Informatica PowerCenter to be much more stable in terms of application."
"The most valuable aspects of Informatica PowerCenter are the many features, ease of use, and user-friendliness."
"If the systems get migrated or upgraded, the amount of resources required are very minimal. We can change the connections and establish a new connection. It's very helpful."
"It has very good monitoring and process monitoring."
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"They're very competitive in terms of performance, which is a good selling point. It has very rich features. It provides a very rich feature set in the application."
"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to understand."
"The most valuable feature is the data loading and scripting language"
"The most valuable features of the Talend Data Management Platform are the components."
"Talend Studio has the ability to connect to almost anything to integrate data from files, databases, web services, etc."
"I think Talend is one of the easiest tools for faster implementation compared to other tools."
"The solution can run on any machine and that is a big advantage."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"The reputation of Informatica is that it is expensive."
"I found it is kind of weird that not all of the mapping changes are treated as true changes."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"It would be nice to have all tools in one place. CDC needs more effort, as it's only easy to develop if you are familiar with Linux."
"We had stability issues, mostly with JVM size."
"Informatica, in my opinion, is very rigid and not very flexible, whereas platforms like Alteryx or Matillion are very flexible and agile."
"I would like to see improvements made to the custom transformations. It should be more open for users that want to write their own code and use cases."
"I think they should drive toward AI and machine learning. They could include a machine-learning algorithm for the deduplication."
"I'd be interested in seeing the running of Python programs and transformations from within the studio itself."
"The product must enhance the data quality."
"The documentation from version to version could be more accurate."
"The sales and market department could improve the Talend Data Management Platform."
"I would like to sync a project and do an upload from that current version, and then from GitLab, be able to download the latest one."
"I've had some issues with bugs causing crashes, especially when making changes to the system or with the monthly upgrades to Studio they've introduced."
"We'd like to see more connectors it the future."
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Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Talend Data Management Platform is ranked 21st in Data Integration with 18 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Talend Data Management Platform is rated 8.2. 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 Talend Data Management Platform writes "Built for everything and packed with features but there are some monitoring limitations". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Talend Data Management Platform is most compared with Talend Open Studio, Talend Data Fabric, SAP Data Services, Collibra Catalog and SSIS. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Talend Data Management Platform report.
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