We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Metadata Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"IBM InfoSphere Information Server is stable."
"The integration with different technologies is the most valuable feature."
"This solution is extremely flexible and scalable."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"The solution scales well."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"We can scan anything."
"I like EDC's self-service capabilities. You can put the catalog on the intranet inside the organization, so users can search for something. People in the research world have specialized systems, and you might find data from various places that sound similar."
"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 product seems stable enough."
"This solution would benefit from the engine being made more lightweight."
"Their technical support needs improvement."
"There are certain shortcomings in the cloud side of the solution, where improvements are required."
"IBM InfoSphere Information Server should be more scalable. It should have the option to change the configuration to run on a single, non-multiple node, or multi-threading processing."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Interoperability is one area where EDC has room for improvement. It was challenging when the faculty took over the data world and had specific vendors they wanted to use, and some were not particularly open platforms."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"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."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"The model is somewhat flexible. There are certain aspects of the model that are not as flexible as we would like. It doesn't do certain things to a great level of depth. So, in situations where we want to drill in to do something specific, we have to essentially copy that data into our own structures in order to add that additional layer of flexibility."
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IBM InfoSphere Information Server is ranked 10th in Metadata Management with 7 reviews while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews. IBM InfoSphere Information Server is rated 8.4, while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere Information Server writes "Prompt support, reliable, but lacking scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "Great metadata management with more visibility and great technical support". IBM InfoSphere Information Server is most compared with IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Qlik Replicate, IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog, IBM Cloud Pak for Data 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 IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog report.
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