We performed a comparison between Fivetran and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Making the decision to implement Fivetran was supported by the fact that they have better connectors than other competitors."
"The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."
"The product is very easy to use and very easy to configure."
"The solution is stable. We've never faced any stability issues."
"There's the general feature of the platform where it just makes it very easy to integrate different things, but I would say a specific difference is their integration of DBT,."
"For us, Fivetran has been able to scale both in terms of the data we bring into our warehouse and the amount of data that we use as well."
"The simplicity of the solution is its valuable feature."
"It is not like a traditional ETL, but it gives quite a lot of flexibility."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The product seems stable enough."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is it provides clients with a full view of the enterprise data assets. For example, how many data assets they have and who owns them."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"The capability of the tool to scan and capture the metadata from a variety of sources is one of the capabilities that I find most useful. The central repository into which it is going to put that captured metadata is the best."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"The environment must be more development-friendly."
"The connections with SAP must be improved."
"I would like Fivetran to implement additional resource monitoring and restriction policies."
"The documentation is decent, but it's hard to find information online about Fivetran. For example, if you try to search for an error code, you won't find much information about it in forums."
"I would like for them to incorporate additional transformations. A valuable aspect of the product is that it does inflight transformations and that could be expanded."
"The documentation can be laid out better to make it easier to find things, and I really wish there was built-in support for changing passwords. Some features don't work as advertised for the platform/repository database, and HVR is not always the fastest at getting results."
"Fivetran is very expensive for data sources with a lot of rows, such as email data. I would like to see cheaper pricing for data sources like that."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"They have to improve their relationship discovery tool. They say that they have AI inside, but this AI did not automatically find relationships or suggested relationships between entities."
"This solution is hard to set up and its interface is not user-friendly. It's also not as stable, and the technical support takes a lot of time to solve simple problems."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"The scalability is tough."
"The solution is quite expensive."
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Fivetran is ranked 7th in Cloud Data Integration with 19 reviews while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 12 reviews. Fivetran is rated 8.0, while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Fivetran writes "Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "Great metadata management with more visibility and great technical support". Fivetran is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory and Oracle GoldenGate, whereas Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Denodo. See our Fivetran vs. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog report.
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