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."It provides everything I need. Nothing is missing. PowerCenter is a good tool for on-premise databases."
"It has helped us monetize."
"Deployment was simple and straightforward."
"We use Informatica PowerCenter to transfer the transitional database to and from the data warehouse. This is very efficient as it enables us to quickly find our data reports and the data, so we can build AI models."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"Can manage a huge quantity of data and provide reliability."
"The technical support is excellent."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The ability to connect to many different data sources is one of the key features. The other would then be the different ways in which that data can be visualized."
"TIBCO Spotfire is easy to use. We initiated Spotfire as POC, with support from a tech team based in South Africa. While they assisted with the setup, we conducted the POC ourselves."
"This solution allows us to integrate data from across all client departments, for effective reporting via a single dashboard."
"The ability to create a real-time data mark, using just one piece of software, is the best feature of this product."
"We used it pretty heavily in gathering data, which goes to our VPs. They are able to base their next revenue planning based on this metric. So, it has been invaluable."
"The solution is an affordable one."
"Live Query data on demand, R and Python integration, and the ability to write HTML and JavaScript text areas are all valuable features."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"Integrated Reporting service should be more smoothly transitioned from view to function to be in sync with the main design."
"Support could be better."
"The UI is outdated and old-fashioned, at least in our current version. Also, we have experienced some stability issues with the Workflow Monitor application."
"As a connector to big data, it is not well developed. We've had problems connecting Informatica with Hadoop. The functionality to connect Informatica with Hadoop, for me it's not good."
"Informatica PowerCenter is outdated and would benefit from modernization. They should have a very good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to AACF. Informatica PowerCenter there is no point in using it, you have to use a cloud version."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"We had to take on a large volume of data from the legacy Sybase system. This was taking a very long time, i.e., more than a day. We were trying to improve it with partitions to gpload, but we were told that we can't go more than four partitions."
"The solution can improve by providing more connectivity by having native ODBC or JDBC connections available. It will be easier and more people could start using it."
"The initial setup is complicated and needs experience and knowledge."
"The data compression has room for improvement."
"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."
"One aspect where Spotfire could improve is its global recognition, especially in terms of support."
"The number of charts available out of the box in Spotfire can be enhanced."
"The handling and consumption of realtime data could be improved."
"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."
"The design of the UI could be improved."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 67 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.4. 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 "Empowers us to extract insights and provide valuable business analytics to support decision-making within our organization". 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 TIBCO Jaspersoft. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. TIBCO Spotfire report.
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