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."Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
"The reliability of the product and the way of orchestration of different services is valuable to us."
"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."
"Among all the solutions I have used, I found Informatica PowerCenter to be much more stable in terms of application."
"Once you figure it out, it is a powerful and simple ETL tool. Its stability has been very satisfactory."
"The most valuable feature is the new Data Lake feature, which provides the basic capabilities needed."
"Good product if you are trying implement data quality, data integration, and data management projects."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"It doesn't have many frills and is definitely older technology, but it is undeniably a workhorse."
"The solution is easy to use and very flexible."
"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."
"I think having the conformed structures makes it a lot easier for end users and pulling reports together."
"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."
"Some of the dashboard capabilities are good. The dashboard capabilities that tell you what kind of reports are available and provide you a summary of the reports are valuable. It is easy to navigate and easy to download reports into Excel to utilize them."
"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."
"The solution has great reporting and forecasting capabilities."
"There is a need to buy a separate license if one wishes to connect with some kind of SAP system, such as SalesForce."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"It would be better if I could do all the work within a single window. If I'm working on any mapping and if I have to switch to sessions, I have to open a new window altogether. If I have to get into workflows, I have to open a new window. It was also very expensive. In the next release, I would like it to be more user-friendly."
"They should release new versions for the solution's on-premises setup."
"PowerCenter could integrate better with cloud applications. We had to do a lot of configuration work using API integrations to connect with cloud applications. Informatica Cloud Data Integration has a generic connector that you can use directly, so it's much easier."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve the data threshold for large sets of data. Additionally, they should add real-time integration."
"The performance of Informatica PowerCenter could improve."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"They should make the dashboard more intuitive."
"There should be more integration in the solution. For example, there should be one solution with multiple functionalities so that other solutions are not needed. Having one solution with all the needed functionality would be helpful."
"Implementation is cumbersome and requires expertise."
"It takes a lot of maintenance to support the architecture, which is something that should be improved."
"OBIEE doesn't have audit logs."
"In terms of tech support, we have our own technicians. But, we did register for their help. When we register a call, it takes time for them to respond to us."
"Managing the OB applications requires a high level of experience, and makes the solution quite heavy."
"Its functionality is lacking."
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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