We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Oracle OBIEE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable aspects of Informatica PowerCenter are the many features, ease of use, and user-friendliness."
"The most valuable features are the dynamic reading of the file metadata profile, and the ability to define business rules that are used to verify and validate the uploaded files."
"It has very good monitoring and process monitoring."
"Ease and speed of building integrations, especially integrations between different applications, such as our Hospital Information System."
"What I like the most is that we have to deal with less while writing the queries."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the lexical parameters and distribution."
"Provides good data visualization features, and provides a lot of visualization reports from various data sources."
"It is easy to create a report quickly. It does not take much time to create an ad hoc report."
"I have found the most valuable features are business intelligence and reporting."
"The primary reason for using OBIEE is connectivity with Oracle E-Business Suite. It makes it easy to connect with our Oracle E-Business Suite. There are the standard dashboards available, which we sometimes use, and now we are looking for customized dashboards."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the various scenarios the product offers and its stability."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
"Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections."
"The reputation of Informatica is that it is expensive."
"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 an improvement in the digital adoption."
"Areas for improvement in Informatica PowerCenter include scalability and high availability or the clustering configuration because that's still very basic. The elasticity or scaling of the platform needs a lot of improvement. For example, when it comes to DR handling or building an active-active or active-passive cluster, Informatica PowerCenter is still not that powerful. Automation also needs improvement in the solution. Improving automation leads to some improvement in the stability of Informatica PowerCenter and other aspects related to it. What I'd like to see in the next release of Informatica PowerCenter is real-time capability because the solution is mainly for patches, and to have real-time integration, you need to count on some additional components from Informatica. I would expect more integration and a complete platform in terms of real-time capability or patching with minimal interventions or minimal components to be aligned together."
"If you want to transfer a ZIP file, it is a pain. You need to use Command-Line. Sometimes we just want to transfer a file. It should be easy to move them from A to B."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"The platform's interface needs improvement."
"Essbase integration needs to be worked on."
"The pricing model could be improved. Right now, it's quite confusing. Many customers have this feeling that it's a super-expensive option."
"Customer service/technical support gets five out of 10. Sometimes good, sometimes bad."
"While it is a user-friendly, data-driven tool, the data modeling should be easier to use."
"In the on-premises version, the feature for connecting and selecting the data between the databases looks a bit cumbersome, but I am not sure. The person who is using it takes a lot of time to design a data warehouse. When I ask him why is it taking this long, I get a response that this is something that he has to design, and there are different tools that are available. He has to write the ETL and design the warehouse according to the customer's requirement, which takes a lot of time. Its visualization should be enhanced, and there should be a feature where you can easily create your custom data warehouse."
"The solution needs to be easier to scale."
"Oracle OBIEE can improve the ease of use. It is a lot to learn and it could be made easier."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 1st in Legacy BI Tools with 153 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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