We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Zoho Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable aspects of Informatica PowerCenter are the many features, ease of use, and user-friendliness."
"It's a complete package, which is why we use this solution."
"It provides everything I need. Nothing is missing. PowerCenter is a good tool for on-premise databases."
"Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"The most valuable feature is the new Data Lake feature, which provides the basic capabilities needed."
"It has very good monitoring and process monitoring."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"We really like that it's user friendly and has a lot of combinations and charts. They're good compared to other tools. We used a free Elastic product, comparatively, this solution is good because of their support, UI, and connecting to databases is very easy."
"We moved the data from Zoho Creator to Zoho Analytics and created reports."
"It's a very strong analytics tool."
"We can create advanced-level reports with the tool. We can get data from different Zoho applications and also from other third-party applications. We can create schedules for syncing data from third parties to Zoho Analytics. We can also use table queries for getting data from more than one table."
"Zoho Analytics is the best software for giving reports to customers and we can create any report that is required."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The integration interface is very easy to use and allows you to directly connect to a variety of APIs."
"The front end of this solution including the graph generation using SQL has been most useful."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve by having a single interface because half of the system is still in the legacy interface and many other elements are moved to the developer client. It would be good if there was a single interface for the end user and developers."
"What I didn't like about it is that the platform itself is not great at distributed processing. When you need high parallel processing, it has some inherent issues. We had to use Java transformation, and it did not go very well. I have heard that it is going to the cloud, but we haven't tried that."
"This product is going to decommission in the next couple of years."
"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."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"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 are very rigid when it comes to cloud migrations which discourages customers in moving their solution to the cloud."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve on the documentation for the implementation. The documents provided are not very good for a new user."
"I have a lower rating when it comes to Zoho Analytics. The tool has poor performance. It needs to improve the dimensions and measures."
"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."
"The navigation on the interface is not intuitive."
"The solution does not provide call center facilities for customer support."
"The customer service and support for this solution could be improved by faster response times."
"This solution does not support manufacturing facilities."
"In terms of improvement, they have a limited number of graphs available in their store. They should come up with more graph style forms. They should have more charts and at the same time, you can't create panels like with Microsoft BA."
"I like the solution's Query Table feature which helps me write SQL queries. We can get data from different tables and then use it to create reports."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 5th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews while Zoho Analytics is ranked 9th in Data Visualization with 24 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Zoho Analytics 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 Zoho Analytics writes "An easy-to-set up solution that helps in the scheduling of reports and dashboards". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Zoho Analytics is most compared with Apache Superset, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker and Qlik Sense. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Zoho Analytics report.
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