We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Oracle OBIEE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."I would recommend that others considering the solution go ahead and use it for any batch and high volume loads with complex transactions."
"What I like most about Informatica PowerCenter is that it's the best tool in the market for data integration. Currently, I work in L'Oréal, where a new system from SAP is used. Informatica PowerCenter integration with SAP is very, very fast and very, very simple, so you have the server flow from SAP, and through Informatica PowerCenter, you can ingest the data and make that data available for the business more quickly."
"Can manage a huge quantity of data and provide reliability."
"The interface is very clean and clear."
"The solution is stable."
"It is easy to use, and it is quick for developing things. It is fairly powerful, and it can integrate with a lot of different platforms without much hassle."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"It is UI friendly and has all the advantages of an ETL tool."
"I think having the conformed structures makes it a lot easier for end users and pulling reports together."
"They were reasonable in terms of price."
"User-friendly look and feel."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is the security of the solution."
"I have not personally used any such products related to this service, however based on the popular opinion, Microsoft Power BI is more popular. We have never switched from this software due to infrastructure and license related costs. However, my team acknowledges that the Power BI is much more enhanced and includes features that are easier to use, including its drag and drop features. I am not sure, if OBIEE has these features, due to lack of updated versions."
"It's easy to use for business analysts."
"The scalability of the product is good."
"Dashboards provide us with various views and perspectives on our data, allowing us to analyze metrics such as revenue, occupancy rates, etc."
"Informatica PowerCenter is outdated and would benefit from modernization. They should have a very good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to AACF. Informatica PowerCenter there is no point in using it, you have to use a cloud version."
"It should be more cloud-centric than on-prem-centric."
"This product is going to decommission in the next couple of years."
"There can be scalability issues. Huge amounts of data ingestion will impact performance."
"PowerCenter has three clients. I wish they would consolidate everything into one GUI, not three. Also, we had a persistent issue with the Informatica Developer tool but it was solved when we migrated to the newest one."
"While on-premises is a better product, we really need to move to the cloud and need the cloud to be as robust as this product."
"Informatica are very rigid when it comes to cloud migrations which discourages customers in moving their solution to the cloud."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"Retail, Finance, Wholesale"
"n the beginning it had it's stability issues, but it became stable."
"The performance could improve and in a future release, they could provide more virtualization options."
"Its overall organization as an analytical tool, the layout of OBIEE, is not very good."
"This solution is weak in the data science perspective. I have past data science experience. And, I find that there is a lot of room for improvement in terms of incorporating more advanced statistical modeling into the product."
"The pricing of the solution should be bettered."
"Warehouse and business intelligence are two different things, but OBIEE also has some warehouse features in it. I would like to see some of those capabilities improved."
"They should make the dashboard more intuitive."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 154 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Oracle OBIEE is rated 7.8. 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 Oracle OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos, Tableau and Oracle Analytics Cloud.
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