We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Oracle Analytics Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the monitoring tools and the reporting manager."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"Has a good visual tool for data mapping."
"I found the map links, work links, and workflows valuable. They are important features."
"It provides monitoring and we can therefore be aware of what is happening when we are handling jobs."
"Can manage a huge quantity of data and provide reliability."
"It has a Data Catalog that uses the Model repository."
"UI-based ability to create data mapping."
"The AI/ML enablement is useful, as many reporting tools do not offer machine learning models as of now, without writing customized code."
"The solution can scale."
"Oracle Analytics Cloud's most valuable feature is its visualization."
"The technical support services are good."
"The technical support is excellent, and they respond quickly."
"Mobility is the most valuable feature for us. All employees can access it from anywhere. It is a big advantage for us."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"This is a stable and scalable solution."
"The real-time database connectivity when getting the real-time data using the VPN is an area that needs improvement."
"Compared to solutions offering similar functionalities, Informatica PowerCenter is not very flexible regarding customized integrations."
"The solution can improve by providing more connectivity by having native ODBC or JDBC connections available. It will be easier and more people could start using it."
"What needs improvement in Informatica PowerCenter is the cloud experience because, nowadays, other companies, such as AWS, Azure, and Google, have more experience in the cloud. The pricing for Informatica PowerCenter on the cloud is also very expensive for customers, so some customers prefer open-source tools or lower-priced tools, such as Azure. From my point of view, Informatica must work on the pricing policy and review the policy on the cloud for Informatica PowerCenter or propose more tools with lower pricing. Clients want the automatic integration of Informatica PowerCenter with other tools. Currently, the integration process is manual, and you have to add other tools to facilitate the integration, especially with the DevOps methodology. You need scripts and tools for the integration, and you'll need to use other integration tools if you want automatic deployment for Informatica PowerCenter, so this is another area for improvement in the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for the integration with APIs to be simpler, because currently, the API integration feature of Informatica PowerCenter is very difficult. It's not intuitive. You have to facilitate API integration and the real-time streaming of messages in Kafka, for example, so that should be improved."
"The solution's commercial cost is very high. Other open-source tools can do the tool's functions for free. The world is moving to the cloud, but the solution hasn't updated its drivers. I presume that its downfall will start soon. The tool is trying to cross-sell or upsell without helping customers derive benefits from the existing products. They have multiple tools and licenses. It is better to bring the smaller tools in one umbrella."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required, considering the fact that the present licensing charges of the tool are expensive."
"Its interface can be modernized. It is an old product. I have been working with it for 14 years, and it still looks the same. It hasn't been modernized much. It also needs to handle more modern formats, such as JSON files. It works with the old text files and databases, but it does not always work with the newer, modern stuff. You need to make your own programs to support that kind of stuff. Support is also a kind of difficult with Informatica. They don't do direct support and rely on using their distributors around the globe for support, which means that you kind of have to go through this layer of different companies before you get help."
"The product could benefit from increased flexibility compared to other vendors."
"The product should improve its user interface. It should be welcoming and modern. Developers should also find it easier to build data models. Oracle Analytics Cloud needs to have better visualizations and more options in the marketplace."
"It is less scalable than Snowflake."
"They could improve the ease of developing the dashboard and interacting with it."
"The solution could be more flexible."
"When you implement the product on a small scale, it doesn't generate any ROI."
"At this time, dataflows cannot be shared, but I think that this should be enhanced."
"The product should be improved in terms of connectors; right now the top twenty connectors are available, but OneDrive and Teradata are missing."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 5th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews while Oracle Analytics Cloud is ranked 6th in Data Visualization with 24 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Oracle Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Stable, provides good support, and integrating it with other systems is very fast, but its pricing is expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Analytics Cloud writes "Reliable, capable of handling massive amounts of data, and good value for money". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Oracle Analytics Cloud is most compared with Databricks, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI and Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Oracle Analytics Cloud report.
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