We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter, Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics, and WhereScape RED based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."Informatica PowerCenter has been implementing mapping design, data flow, and workflow execution for years."
"What I like the most is that we have to deal with less while writing the queries."
"Good interface, reasonable documentation."
"The features I find most valuable is that the solution is very user-friendly and the graphical design is very easy to understand."
"I like the automated scheduling feature."
"The most valuable feature is the new Data Lake feature, which provides the basic capabilities needed."
"Once you have learned Informatica, it is very easy to use."
"Ease and speed of building integrations, especially integrations between different applications, such as our Hospital Information System."
"Pentaho Data Integration is quite simple to learn, and there is a lot of information available online."
"The graphical nature of the development interface is most useful because we've got people with quite mixed skills in the team. We've got some very junior, apprentice-level people, and we've got support analysts who don't have an IT background. It allows us to have quite complicated data flows and embed logic in them. Rather than having to troll through lines and lines of code and try and work out what it's doing, you get a visual representation, which makes it quite easy for people with mixed skills to support and maintain the product. That's one side of it."
"It has a really friendly user interface, which is its main feature. The process of automating or combining SQL code with some databases and doing the automation is great and really convenient."
"The way it has improved our product is by giving our users the ability to do ad hoc reports, which is very important to our users. We can do predictive analysis on trends coming in for contracts, which is what our product does. The product helps users decide which way to go based on the predictive analysis done by Pentaho. Pentaho is not doing predictions, but reporting on the predictions that our product is doing. This is a big part of our product."
"It's my understanding that the product can scale."
"The fact that it's a low-code solution is valuable. It's good for more junior people who may not be as experienced with programming."
"It makes it pretty simple to do some fairly complicated things. Both I and some of our other BI developers have made stabs at using, for example, SQL Server Integration Services, and we found them a little bit frustrating compared to Data Integration. So, its ease of use is right up there."
"We can schedule job execution in the BA Server, which is the front-end product we're using right now. That scheduling interface is nice."
"Data transformations and rollups are easy to accomplish."
"Their support staff are very knowledgeable, courteous, and professional. I feel their support staff go above and beyond to assure their customers are satisfied."
"I found the initial setup very easy."
"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."
"I like the data vault implementations."
"Quickly develops a data warehouse for our organization with documentation and can track back/forward features."
"The most valuable feature is the metadata generated code."
"Naturally produces a way to easily debug your DW data solutions."
"It would be good to recreate the entire interface to make it easier for users to build workflows."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"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."
"Requires an established data center because there is no option for software as a service."
"The documentation could be improved."
"I found it is kind of weird that not all of the mapping changes are treated as true changes."
"There is a need to buy a separate license if one wishes to connect with some kind of SAP system, such as SalesForce."
"We need another tool for monitoring. It would be easier if all the features were consolidated into one tool."
"Some of the scheduling features about Lumada drive me buggy. The one issue that always drives me up the wall is when Daylight Savings Time changes. It doesn't take that into account elegantly. Every time it changes, I have to do something. It's not a big deal, but it's annoying."
"Lumada could have more native connectors with other vendors, such as Google BigQuery, Microsoft OneDrive, Jira systems, and Facebook or Instagram. We would like to gather data from modern platforms using Lumada, which is a better approach. As a comparison, if you open Power BI to retrieve data, then you can get data from many vendors with cloud-native connectors, such as Azure, AWS, Google BigQuery, and Athena Redshift. Lumada should have more native connectors to help us and facilitate our job in gathering information from these new modern infrastructures and tools."
"Since Hitachi took over, I don't feel that the documentation is as good within the solution. It used to have very good help built right in."
"I would like to see improvement when it comes to integrating structured data with text data or anything that is unstructured. Sometimes we get all kinds of different files that we need to integrate into the warehouse."
"I work with different databases. I would like to work with more connectors to new databases, e.g., DynamoDB and MariaDB, and new cloud solutions, e.g., AWS, Azure, and GCP. If they had these connectors, that would be great. They could improve by building new connectors. If you have native connections to different databases, then you can make instructions more efficient and in a more natural way. You don't have to write any scripts to use that connector."
"The performance could be improved. If they could have analytics perform well on large volumes, that would be a big deal for our products."
"If you're working with a larger data set, I'm not so sure it would be the best solution. The larger things got the slower it was."
"It could be better integrated with programming languages, like Python and R. Right now, if I want to run a Python code on one of my ETLs, it is a bit difficult to do. It would be great if we have some modules where we could code directly in a Python language. We don't really have a way to run Python code natively."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"The scheduled jobs which are run by the WhereScape scheduler seem to be a strangely separate animal. Unlike all other WhereScape objects, jobs cannot be added to WhereScape projects. Also, unlike all other objects, jobs also cannot be deleted using a WhereScape deployment application."
"No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded ."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
"The ability to execute SSIS projects within WhereScape would be nice because we have a lot of packages that are too cumbersome to recreate."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."
"Technical support isn't the best."
"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."
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