We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and Pentaho Data Catalog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Informatica, Alation, Collibra and others in Metadata Management."I like EDC's self-service capabilities. You can put the catalog on the intranet inside the organization, so users can search for something. People in the research world have specialized systems, and you might find data from various places that sound similar."
"The product seems stable enough."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"The capability of the tool to scan and capture the metadata from a variety of sources is one of the capabilities that I find most useful. The central repository into which it is going to put that captured metadata is the best."
"We can scan anything."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"The ability to easily and quickly ingest new data sources is the most valuable feature... I'm not an especially technical IT person, but my data governance lead and I are able to ingest the data, quickly profile it, and do data identification and tagging."
"The model is somewhat flexible. There are certain aspects of the model that are not as flexible as we would like. It doesn't do certain things to a great level of depth. So, in situations where we want to drill in to do something specific, we have to essentially copy that data into our own structures in order to add that additional layer of flexibility."
"The scalability is tough."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"They have to improve their relationship discovery tool. They say that they have AI inside, but this AI did not automatically find relationships or suggested relationships between entities."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"We've tagged a lot of fields that are related to specific processes... What would be helpful is a place, inside Lumada Data Catalog, where you can describe the tags that you're using. Otherwise, anybody coming into the system, or seeing the tag from the outside in one of the reports, is going to say, "What is that tag really referring to?" and has to know where my spreadsheet is."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews while Pentaho Data Catalog is ranked 7th in Metadata Management with 1 review. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while Pentaho Data Catalog is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "They listen to their customers, so if something is missing or not working, they will put it on their roadmap". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pentaho Data Catalog writes "Helps make metadata available from our transactional databases, data warehouse, document management system, and GIS". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), whereas Pentaho Data Catalog is most compared with IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog.
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