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."Among all the solutions I have used, I found Informatica PowerCenter to be much more stable in terms of application."
"Can manage a huge quantity of data and provide reliability."
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"It's a very powerful tool you can use to load data, get data, do the drawing between the tables, and put into the packet in a very fast way."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"To me, what's most valuable in Informatica PowerCenter is the flexibility in building the integration pipeline. Usually, you need to have a platform to be able to integrate with different technologies, including legacy data such as the mainframe. The platform should also be rich enough to transform the data per your business requirement, with no restrictions. Rich integration and rich transformation capabilities are the two key capabilities in Informatica PowerCenter. The solution also offers ease of use. Another valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is the drag-and-drop integration because it's GUI-based, similar to IBM and Oracle."
"Once you figure it out, it is a powerful and simple ETL tool. Its stability has been very satisfactory."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"The solution is being delivered to our customer, who appreciates the insights generated from the reports. It is easy for them to drill into the details and use interactive charts."
"Tableau is very good in the front-end visualization compared to Power BI."
"Tableau is easy to use compared to some other solutions, such as Excel."
"The solution deployment was straightforward."
"Tableau Prep tool for data preparation is a most valuable tool."
"It allows us to basically understand and evaluate our numbers in an expedient manner."
"Its visualizations are good, and its features make the development process a little less time-consuming. It has an in-memory extract feature that allows us to extract data and keep it on the server, and then our users can use it quickly."
"Tableau is easy to use. That's the first and most important thing. I not only provide consulting but I also train people to use it, so with its ease-of-use it's not as difficult for me to train executives and management staff, because they don't have the IT background, unlike when I'm using Python."
"I found it is kind of weird that not all of the mapping changes are treated as true changes."
"PowerCenter has three clients. I wish they would consolidate everything into one GUI, not three. Also, we had a persistent issue with the Informatica Developer tool but it was solved when we migrated to the newest one."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
"If you want to transfer a ZIP file, it is a pain. You need to use Command-Line. Sometimes we just want to transfer a file. It should be easy to move them from A to B."
"In the future, I would like to see Informatica PowerCenter integrate a more powerful dashboard."
"Now they are migrating to a new version, and they have something that is called Informatica Developer. Previously, they just had PowerCenter. Now, when they move everything to Informatica Developer it's not as good or stable like it was when it was PowerCenter, though it has some nice features. This Developer tool could be better."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"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."
"The tool's OpenAI integration was announced last year. However, it is late. Tableau is a good solution for end customers. However, there are some concerns regarding the stability and performance of its server architecture, including SaaS services. The server side appears unstable, and performance issues are noticeable, often accompanied by unclear error messages."
"There's no mature ETL tool in Tableau, which is quite a negative for them."
"When we put more information on a single screen, it gets compressed and superimposed in many places while scrolling."
"Tableau's data modeling, mining, and AI library features need improvement."
"It is not so great when it comes to data exchange/integration, data mining, etc."
"They need a write-back; that is what is missing. If they get the write back to the database, they will be fully automated, but for the time being, they are not."
"The pricing is a bit higher than the competition. They'll need to lower it to stay competitive."
"In the next release, there should be more information describing each chart because users have a difficult time telling them apart. They should also include the animations/videos, similar to Power BI."
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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