We performed a comparison between erwin Data Catalog by Quest and Informatica PowerCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Informatica, Alation, SAP and others in Metadata Management."When you combine it with data lineage, every time you need to make a change, it allows you to do impact analysis on any changes and then connect to the end-users or data stewards so that they can be aware that a change is coming. That's one of the main benefits we use it for."
"The data catalog feature is pretty good."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"What I like most about Informatica PowerCenter is that it's the best tool in the market for data integration. Currently, I work in L'Oréal, where a new system from SAP is used. Informatica PowerCenter integration with SAP is very, very fast and very, very simple, so you have the server flow from SAP, and through Informatica PowerCenter, you can ingest the data and make that data available for the business more quickly."
"The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"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."
"The technical support is excellent."
"The setup is very simple."
"The most valuable aspects of Informatica PowerCenter are the many features, ease of use, and user-friendliness."
"It has good standard features for ETL development."
"There are always ways to improve things. For example, we can use AI to be able to find out something. When we are typing something, if we don't know the exact term, Artificial Intelligence would be useful to find terms that are phonetically or syntactically similar. Instead of having to type in the exact name, they can provide those in the list. So, they can provide AI support for the search because when you have thousands and thousands of terms, it is hard to remember all the names."
"There is room for improvement with respect to the connector and how to connect to the structured and unstructured database."
"In the future, I would like to see Informatica PowerCenter integrate a more powerful dashboard."
"The performance of Informatica PowerCenter could improve."
"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required, considering the fact that the present licensing charges of the tool are expensive."
"This product is going to decommission in the next couple of years."
"The licensing is difficult."
"The multiple interfaces in Informatica PowerCenter are not great for the user experience. Because of this, I think it can cause confusion for any beginner developer."
"The only problem with this product is the level of complexity with the number of levels of transformation that you have to go through."
"The pricing could be improved."
erwin Data Catalog by Quest is ranked 12th in Metadata Management with 2 reviews while Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews. erwin Data Catalog by Quest is rated 7.6, while Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of erwin Data Catalog by Quest writes "Helps with metadata management, saves time, and allows us to do impact analysis on any changes". On the other hand, 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". erwin Data Catalog by Quest is most compared with Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog, Talend Open Studio, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Alation Data Catalog and WhereScape RED, whereas Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue.
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