We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and Talend Open Studio 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 rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"We can scan anything."
"It can automatically connect or associate business terms with various options, providing flexibility beyond general capabilities."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"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."
"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."
"Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"The most valuable features are the ETL tools."
"Talend can connect to multiple data sources, including relational data sources, ERP, CRM, and others."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"I can connect with different databases such as Oracle Database or SQL Server. It allows you to extract the data from one database to another. I can structure the data by filtering and mapping the fields. It is very user-friendly. You need to know the basics of SQL development or SQL queries, and you can use this tool."
"The most valuable features are definitely data integration, data preparation, and data stewardship."
"It is user-friendly and the interface is good."
"I didn't have many problems installing it. It seemed very straightforward to me."
"The main differentiator that I have seen between Talend and other data integration tools is the ability to view the data pipeline in the form of a program."
"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."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"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 scalability is tough."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"I rate Talend Open Studio's stability an eight out of ten. Talend has some problems sometimes."
"Talend Open Studio is in Java language, and right now, you can only use the debug functionality in Java. I see that people who know programming languages other than Java currently face difficulties."
"Talent consumes a lot of resources on my PC."
"The pricing could be lower. They should work to make it more affordable."
"The user interface could be made simpler."
"Multiple products are there within the product suite. That can be actually trimmed down."
"The stability of the solution could improve when running jobs. There can be errors when running projects but in the end, it works well and the errors do not impact the result."
"If I compare Open Studion to other solutions, their interface is robust but not so fancy looking. This is an area that could use improvement. I would like to see an updated interface."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 47 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while Talend Open Studio 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 Talend Open Studio writes "An open-source ETL tool, when deployed on-premises, requiring an easy installation phase". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Denodo, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Talend Data Fabric, AWS Glue and Talend Data Management Platform. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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