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."It reduces a lot of legacy coding."
"We can scale the product."
"It is an excellent ETL tool."
"The setup is straightforward."
"We have found the PowerCenter and B2B data transformation most valuable."
"It is very comprehensive in terms of connector and transformation capabilities from both a source and target perspective."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring tools and the reporting manager."
"The reliability of the product and the way of orchestration of different services is valuable to us."
"Inter Process Communication."
"It is easy to use...I rate the scalability of the solution a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is it's designed for Oracle. It works well in the Oracle environment and can sit on top of any application."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE, for me, would be the Web Catalog. From a development perspective, I do not need any client or any software to be installed on my laptop or desktop. Everything is browser-based, so I just open the browser and start development."
"It has a lot workaround in order to do the report. data blending, and getting information from big data sources."
"I think the most valuable features are the ability to drill down, the graphs, and the scheduling for the reports to be received in Excel on a daily basis. Users like Excel, so it's good for them that they receive the reports by email, that they don't have to specify the schedule."
"The most valuable feature is the openness of the solution. It helps us integrate some of our clients."
"We have scheduled reports delivered automatically to our business users using enterprise features."
"The solution does not scale."
"It would be nice to have all tools in one place. CDC needs more effort, as it's only easy to develop if you are familiar with Linux."
"The UI is outdated and old-fashioned, at least in our current version. Also, we have experienced some stability issues with the Workflow Monitor application."
"I found it is kind of weird that not all of the mapping changes are treated as true changes."
"We had stability issues, mostly with JVM size."
"Lacks ability to calculate cost of the product."
"The real-time database connectivity when getting the real-time data using the VPN is an area that needs improvement."
"Integrated Reporting service should be more smoothly transitioned from view to function to be in sync with the main design."
"Supply chain and finance."
"The pricing of the solution should be bettered."
"OBIEE doesn't have audit logs."
"There's a lot of redundancy, especially in relation to creating the code."
"It should have more self-service capabilities."
"Oracle products have a lot of complications...Oracle has a history of not really providing great support."
"The platform's data visualization features need improvement."
"While it is a user-friendly, data-driven tool, the data modeling should be easier to use."
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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