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 most valuable features are the dynamic reading of the file metadata profile, and the ability to define business rules that are used to verify and validate the uploaded files."
"The most valuable aspects of Informatica PowerCenter are the many features, ease of use, and user-friendliness."
"The solution is stable."
"It provides monitoring and we can therefore be aware of what is happening when we are handling jobs."
"Deployment was simple and straightforward."
"Informatica PowerCenter has been implementing mapping design, data flow, and workflow execution for years."
"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."
"I would recommend that others considering the solution go ahead and use it for any batch and high volume loads with complex transactions."
"Gradual scalability from simple to complex situations"
"The product’s performance is better than other tools."
"The most valuable features are data discovery and fine visualizations."
"I have found many of the self-service features valuable."
"It most valuable feature is its ease of developing visualizations, not just charts and graphs."
"Tableau will automatically show charts for the related data that I choose making it very easy to use."
"This solution has improved insights into quantitative data."
"The ability of filtering and segmentation of the data makes it very flexible compared to other tools."
"The solution does not scale."
"Support could be better."
"The only problem with this product is the level of complexity with the number of levels of transformation that you have to go through."
"If you want to transfer a ZIP file, it is a pain. You need to use Command-Line. Sometimes we just want to transfer a file. It should be easy to move them from A to B."
"The initial setup is not straightforward. You need expertise to do it."
"Lacks ability to calculate cost of the product."
"We had stability issues, mostly with JVM size."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve the data threshold for large sets of data. Additionally, they should add real-time integration."
"The price could be better."
"We need big servers to perform the operations that we are doing. They should probably relook at its architecture."
"Whenever it comes to specialized visualization, Tableau is an absolute failure."
"The performance could be better."
"Most of the problems in Tableau Online that I have noticed have to do with performance or weird, inexplicable bugs that I can't pin down. For example, you might try unloading some data, and you'll be waiting for a long time without anything happening."
"Tableau is an end-to-end analytics platform, and it is doing a pretty good job in terms of connecting to the data and analyzing it. It can, however, do better in terms of data management and the ETL features, which are not on the advanced analytics or machine learning side. Tableau Prep is where users would want to see more advancements. They can improve Tableau Prep, which is an analytic platform tool for data cleansing. People who work with data spend most of their time curating the data. Cleaning up the data and getting it ready for analysis is what takes the most time. If Tableau can invest more time in improving the Tableau Prep platform, it would be great. Previously, Tableau didn't have the functionality for writing to a database. So, you couldn't really alter the database tables and write to your database, but they fixed that in one of the very recent releases. However, it isn't really advanced and should be improved."
"The data preparation could integrate better with Tableau."
"Areas for improvement would be visualization and augmented analytics. In the next release, I would like to see automated insights from the data added to the dashboard."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 7th 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 Alteryx Designer, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Tableau report.
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