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."The most complex task, in this case, was to read and transform BLOB data, and Java transformation in Informatica Power Center was a great solution."
"It provides everything I need. Nothing is missing. PowerCenter is a good tool for on-premise databases."
"The setup is straightforward."
"I like the automated scheduling feature."
"The most valuable aspects of Informatica PowerCenter are the many features, ease of use, and user-friendliness."
"The performance and design of Informatica have been very valuable. I find the performance faster than, say, Oracle Data Integrator or DataStage."
"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."
"Technical support is great. It's one of the reasons we really like them. When you compare support from IBM and support from Informatica, Informatica is much better."
"I have found the most valuable features are business intelligence and reporting."
"The setup isn't too difficult."
"The most valuable features of Oracle OBIEE are the ease of logging in, the dashboard, and showing the problems in the data. Additionally, the reports are well integrated and it has good technology."
"We do you use Oracle support. We've been paying for an Oracle support subscription for four or five years, and not one ticket has ever been logged. When I came in, I've encouraged the team to ask Oracle questions. They do get back quite quickly. Their support is good. Working with our account managers, if I need to escalate anything, I can speak to them and they escalate the call. I've got that ecosystem working quite well. That does work for us."
"It is easy to use...I rate the scalability of the solution a nine out of ten."
"The main features of this solution are that it is easy to use, intuitive, and user-friendly. When I retrieve the data from the database it is in a very raw form, then when I use the Oracle Report Builder it has advanced intelligence features to allow me to view and make changes to the data easily."
"I like the cloud deployment feature. There are about 20 new features, and they are available on mobile and more. I haven't used any of them, but these features are highly attractive."
"Inter Process Communication."
"Integrated Reporting service should be more smoothly transitioned from view to function to be in sync with the main design."
"The developer tool documentation can be enhanced with a more clear explanation of each utility, accompanied by relevant examples, so that developers are able to create programs with ease."
"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."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"This product is going to decommission in the next couple of years."
"Support could be better."
"The solution could have better documentation on basic steps or blocks that specify what to do."
"The reputation of Informatica is that it is expensive."
"From an improvement perspective, the technical team should be able to provide more accurate answers by taking into consideration the context of the issues faced by users."
"The performance could improve and in a future release, they could provide more virtualization options."
"Retail, Finance, Wholesale"
"An area for improvement is that Oracle pushes more users to Oracle BI Publisher rather than emphasizing Oracle OBIEE for reporting. The pricing for Oracle OBIEE could be improved."
"Its functionality is lacking."
"Implementation is cumbersome and requires expertise."
"Oracle OBIEE only displays KPIs, but it does not include strategic objectives or display risk in a strategic map."
"The documentation in Oracle OBIEE can be more user-friendly."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 1st in Legacy BI 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, Tableau, IBM Cognos and Oracle Analytics Cloud.
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