We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and SAP PowerDesigner based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Metadata Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"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."
"The product seems stable enough."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is it provides clients with a full view of the enterprise data assets. For example, how many data assets they have and who owns them."
"We can scan anything."
"I've used the reverse engineering feature a lot. I can take a look at the structure of the database and what relationships it has."
"I mostly work on the conceptual and logical side of things, and I enjoy how easy it is to use."
"SAP PowerDesigner is an excellent tool that does what I need it to do. What I like most about it is that it's stable, fast, and easy to understand."
"Has a specific template that's very helpful for importing metadata."
"This solution has good tools for big data, where you can manage large and complex databases."
"I do a data-centric design, so for me, the data analysis and design tools are the most valuable features."
"The feature I found valuable in SAP PowerDesigner is extraction. I also like that my company hasn't faced any issues because of the clear documentation about SAP PowerDesigner."
"I like the property sheet capability and the user-defined attributes that you can set up."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"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."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"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."
"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."
"Regarding improvements, I suggest enhancing the connection between objects in process and data models. It's crucial to define the structure of objects, especially when dealing with standard frameworks like VMM. There should be better visualization of arrows between BPM and data modeling objects, specifying their structure and impact. For future versions, a feature similar to Bizagi, allowing users to see forms or SQL representations of objects, would be valuable for demonstrating and presenting project details to stakeholders."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"This product does not have a good BPMN Modeler."
"SAP PowerDesigner could improve by making the repository easier to understand. It is difficult to understand how the repository works because when I used logical models as part of the team, we wanted to use them together and update the older versions of the data model version but it was confusing. The repository needs to be explained."
"I've tried to use Power Designer to bring in images, which didn't work very well at all."
"In terms of improvement, the pricing is a bit high."
"The solution itself does not need to be improved. However, they could add support for different languages."
"The focus is more on mainstream development environments, and I see a lack of focus on the open source world. I think SAP PowerDesigner probably interfaces better with SQL Server and Db2 but not with open source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 4th in Metadata Management with 34 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 7.8. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "Effective in terms of validating everything, but sometimes they don't allow us some flexibility and GUI could improve". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Pentaho Data Catalog, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and Collibra Catalog. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. SAP PowerDesigner report.
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