We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and TIBCO Spotfire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The setup is very simple."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The performance and design of Informatica have been very valuable. I find the performance faster than, say, Oracle Data Integrator or DataStage."
"Informatica PowerCenter has been implementing mapping design, data flow, and workflow execution for years."
"It is an excellent ETL tool."
"Once you have learned Informatica, it is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is data transformation and user-friendliness."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"The most valuable features of TIBCO Spotfire are visualization. It's very nice, clear, and, flexible. You can analyze many data types and the user interface is very good."
"It's scalable."
"From a scalability standpoint, I would say it's pretty fantastic."
"Data discovery is very simple."
"The most valuable feature is the map visuals that help us connect to the geo-specialized data which is more advanced than other solutions."
"It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts."
"The ability to create a real-time data mark, using just one piece of software, is the best feature of this product."
"The two features that I have found most valuable are its ability to customize the dashboards when it comes to the evaluation. The second feature is its ability to handle a large amount of data, which is also something very unique about it."
"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."
"Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections."
"The performance of Informatica PowerCenter could improve."
"The UI is a little outdated."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"The initial setup is not straightforward. You need expertise to do it."
"Some of the conversions are done inside the product. We use work tables that are created by the engine itself, but the names of the work tables are very long, and they don't have any meaning, which makes it a bit difficult to understand and follow exactly what is happening inside."
"Support could be better."
"The data compression has room for improvement."
"The initial setup of TIBCO Spotfire is in the middle range of difficulty. The initial setup of Power BI is easier."
"One aspect where Spotfire could improve is its global recognition, especially in terms of support."
"The initial setup is complicated and needs experience and knowledge."
"We would like an easier way to get the product to the cloud. Right now, we have the on-premise version, and we would like to find a way to make it easier to migrate it over to the cloud."
"When it comes to data manipulation, there are features which are good, but one of the features which has really been missing in Spotfire is an offline ability for data manipulation."
"I would like to see the visualization library in this solution expanded, so that I can increase what I can offer to our clients."
"Print capability and trigger-based events."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 66 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.2. 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 TIBCO Spotfire writes "A robust BI tool, with good dashboard features and adverse event tracking". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. TIBCO Spotfire report.
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