We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Lake and WhereScape RED based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Informatica, Oracle and others in Data Integration."The process of using the tool's scalability option is well documented."
"RED generates comprehensive documentation and regenerates it as quickly as things changes, but it also provides impact documentation."
"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."
"Data transformations and rollups are easy to accomplish."
"I found the initial setup very easy."
"It has a built-in automatic scheduling environment."
"The tool supports multiple target update methods."
"Their support staff are very knowledgeable, courteous, and professional. I feel their support staff go above and beyond to assure their customers are satisfied."
"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."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Lake's setup process was complex since it doesn't support a lot of real-time systems."
"Customization could be better."
"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."
"Technical support isn't the best."
"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."
"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."
"The ability to execute SSIS projects within WhereScape would be nice because we have a lot of packages that are too cumbersome to recreate."
"The scheduled jobs which are run by the WhereScape scheduler seem to be a strangely separate animal. Unlike all other WhereScape objects, jobs cannot be added to WhereScape projects. Also, unlike all other objects, jobs also cannot be deleted using a WhereScape deployment application."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Lake is ranked 41st in Data Integration with 1 review while WhereScape RED is ranked 48th in Data Integration. Informatica Enterprise Data Lake is rated 7.0, while WhereScape RED is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Lake writes "A scalable tool that needs a lot of maintenance due to its unstable nature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhereScape RED writes "Quick to set up, flexible, and stable". Informatica Enterprise Data Lake is most compared with Palantir Foundry, whereas WhereScape RED is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter, Matillion ETL and Denodo.
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