We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and SAP PowerDesigner 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."We can scan anything."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"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."
"The way that the solution scans is very useful."
"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 product seems stable enough."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"It's a great tool for documentation."
"It has helped me to develop the as-is state, design its to-be state, and track the capital investment according to gap analysis."
"The physical database model is definitely the most valuable feature because it describes normalization exactly the way you understand the data, and it deploys it perfectly with open source systems."
"I mostly work on the conceptual and logical side of things, and I enjoy how easy it is to use."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"It's a stable system. It never crashes."
"The most valuable features of the solution are it's built very well, easy to use, and simple to describe freely what is needed in logical and physical data models."
"This solution has good tools for big data, where you can manage large and complex databases."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"There should be a better usage of current hardware including multicore CPUs, higher resolutions, and multiple displays."
"The solution is very, very expensive. It would be ideal if it was a more affordable product."
"In terms of improvement, the pricing is a bit high."
"Pricing for small consultancies needs improvement. They sustain prices to competing tools. The competing tools tend to do special offers. PowerDesigner SAP doesn't pay much attention to the pricing of it and there are no special offers."
"Not very intuitive or user-friendly."
"Checking-in models to the repository, especially when working remotely, is a slow process than can sometimes have problems with models being corrupted."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"There are many areas of this solution that needs to be changed."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 3rd in Metadata Management with 32 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 8.0. 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 SAP PowerDesigner writes "Difficult to operate, long process to publish, but scalable". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Pentaho Data Catalog, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and ARIS BPA. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. SAP PowerDesigner report.
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