We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) 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."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 most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"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 solution scales well."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"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."
"It can automatically connect or associate business terms with various options, providing flexibility beyond general capabilities."
"It allows us to use many languages to develop and to integrate practically all the technologies of the Oracle suite as well as those from non-Oracle vendors."
"The most valuable feature that we use is the Knowledge Modules."
"Most of the functions are very straightforward, like the data model, mapping, package, and load plan. Thus, a new user could get started very fast."
"The scalability is great. It's one of the reasons we chose the solution."
"The initial setup is easy."
"ODI significantly improves data integration and management by allowing customization of data types from various sources like SQL Server databases."
"The most valuable features of ODI are the ease of development, you can have a template, and you can onboard transfer very quickly. There's a lot of knowledge modules available that we can use. If you want to connect, for example, a Sibyl, SQL, Oracle, or different products, we don't have to develop them from scratch. They are available, but if it's not, we can go into the marketplace and see if there's a connector there. Having the connector available reduces the amount of hard work needed. We only have to put the inputs and outputs. In some of the products, we use there is already integration available for ODI, which is helpful."
"The most valuable feature of ODI is the to use of the whole ETL to create a data lake."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"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."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"The scalability is tough."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is already good as a solution. Still, it needs some editing of its preview package, or if the package is upgraded, that will make Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) even better."
"It would be really good if Oracle considered enabling the tool to integrate with some other platforms that are deprecated simply for commercial reasons"
"I rate it a seven out of 10 because there is room for growth because ODI is still new, in comparison to Informatica, which is a mature product."
"It lacks a suite of tools suitable for fully processing data and moving it into decision support warehouses."
"It needs easier security."
"ODI could improve the ease of use. There is a steep learning curve to use the solution."
"At present, when multiple steps are executed in parallel in the load plan and errors occur, the error handling mechanism does not function correctly."
"If you have something like Cisco on top of it, you will have endless problems."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews while Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is ranked 4th in Data Integration with 67 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "Great metadata management with more visibility and great technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) writes "Straightforward to implement, scalable, and has good stability and documentation, but technical support could still be improved". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and data.world, whereas Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is most compared with Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory and Oracle GoldenGate. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) report.
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