We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and WhereScape RED 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."The product seems stable enough."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"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 way that the solution scans is very useful."
"The solution scales well."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"We can scan anything."
"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."
"RED has provided us the ability to integrate, stage, and transform data from diverse sources into an enterprise-grade data warehouse which meets the needs of my organization, but it also enables us to easily and quickly make ETL or DW changes."
"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."
"The tool supports multiple target update methods."
"WhereScape RED has improved our business's ability to generate needed reporting without requiring a large team of developers to manually code all of the necessary plumbing."
"I found the initial setup very easy."
"WhereScape's deployment package is a fantastic feature. The application allows for selecting specific objects that you would like to deploy from one environment to another rather than deploying the entire database."
"Support is absolutely excellent, efficient, and timely."
"This is a fantastically robust DW tool that will make you at least 10 times faster in producing a DW."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"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."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"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."
"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."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"Technical support isn't the best."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"No support for change data capture or delta detection - that must be custom coded ."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."
"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."
"Customization could be better."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
"Improve the object renaming ability (it works, but it could be more automated)."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 12 reviews while WhereScape RED is ranked 48th in Data Integration. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.4, while WhereScape RED 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 WhereScape RED writes "Quick to set up, flexible, and stable". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Denodo, whereas WhereScape RED is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter, Matillion ETL and erwin Data Catalog by Quest. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. WhereScape RED report.
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