We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."
"I like the adapters. The adapters help us achieve scalability. If you want to connect to SAP, there's an adapter. Salesforce? There's an adapter. You want to connect to another system? There's likely an adapter for that."
"It has an efficient design flow."
"Provides good security features."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendliness of the application."
"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."
"It can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process."
"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"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 can automatically connect or associate business terms with various options, providing flexibility beyond general capabilities."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"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."
"We can scan anything."
"The solution scales well."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"It is not easy to deploy. It requires someone with a high level of knowledge in the solution to deploy it, not just anyone can do it."
"IBM App Connect should improve security features."
"One more important point is that if IBM improves its CI/CD capabilities, it will make a big difference. Right now, I have to create my own CI/CD setup from scratch for every client, which is inefficient."
"The installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."
"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"The interface could be better."
"More connectors could be available for the product as some of the third-party software doesn't have default connectors."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"The UI is extremely complex"
"The model is somewhat flexible. There are certain aspects of the model that are not as flexible as we would like. It doesn't do certain things to a great level of depth. So, in situations where we want to drill in to do something specific, we have to essentially copy that data into our own structures in order to add that additional layer of flexibility."
"The scalability is tough."
"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."
"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."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"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."
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IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 21 reviews while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 14 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Offers flexible adapters, good scalability but logging can be difficult at times". On the other hand, 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". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, TIBCO BusinessWorks and IBM InfoSphere DataStage, whereas Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Denodo. See our IBM App Connect vs. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog report.
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