We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Tableau 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."We can scale the product."
"Deployment was simple and straightforward."
"UI-based ability to create data mapping."
"Technical support, and their approach is good. They have a support portal and support tickets. If you open a ticket it has multiple levels of severity from level one to very high or critical."
"Once you have learned Informatica, it is very easy to use."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"The greatest feature is that it is very easy to have someone come in and jump right in. It is one of the nicest tools in terms of getting a person acquainted quickly."
"The technical support is excellent."
"Tableau Prep tool for data preparation is a most valuable tool."
"It is very easy to implement and to use."
"Tableau is easy to use compared to some other solutions, such as Excel."
"Tableau is highly scalable. Now that they've introduced Hyper, you can create an extract of more than 5 million rows in minutes and then do your analysis."
"It is very easy to create dashboards, charts, and graphs."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is user-friendly and intuitive."
"The product has the best features for analytical views and filters."
"Very user friendly."
"The solution does not scale."
"I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"It would be nice to have all tools in one place. CDC needs more effort, as it's only easy to develop if you are familiar with Linux."
"If we could have the option of performance improvement within Informatica, and if it could have more features, that would be ideal."
"Informatica are very rigid when it comes to cloud migrations which discourages customers in moving their solution to the cloud."
"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."
"Include forecasting on table calculation fields."
"The use of this service in the desktop version is annoying due to the constant updates which lead to reinstalling the application. If they could give support with updates on the same downloaded version, it would be great."
"There's no mature ETL tool in Tableau, which is quite a negative for them."
"What is happening, with so many tools coming up in the market, is that people have to continuously get educated in order to use some of the more advanced features."
"It needs more ETL capabilities, to be able to address the end-to-end BI need."
"With Tableau, when you're dealing with very large datasets, it can be slow so the performance is an area that can be improved."
"There should be more widgets that would help less trained individuals create charts with less difficulty."
"The data processing in Tableau is pathetic compared to Qlik."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 5th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews while Tableau is ranked 1st in Data Visualization with 293 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Tableau 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 Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and StreamSets, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Tableau report.
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