We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Qlik Sense 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."Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
"In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution."
"We can scale the product."
"It has helped us monetize."
"The technical support for Informatica PowerCenter is good."
"It is UI friendly and has all the advantages of an ETL tool."
"The features I find most valuable is that the solution is very user-friendly and the graphical design is very easy to understand."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are the integration and panel for reports. The integration is very fast even though we process a lot of information."
"You can build a very nice dashboard and/or report very quickly."
"Qlik Sense is essentially a web-based tool even though it's on-prem – you're working off an HTML page – so it's pretty quick. Your processing speed does not matter because you're using a lot of stuff through the web. That's great because it brings down the cost in regards to hardware."
"What I found most valuable in Qlik Sense is its flexibility. It's a very flexible tool, and it has a lot of capabilities compared to Tableau and Power BI. In Qlik Sense, you can take data from any of the systems, and you can do data transformation, prepare the data, then present your KPIs. Data transformation isn't present in Tableau, Power BI, and other tools. In Qlik Sense, you're able to get the data and directly present that data. The presentation layer is also very good in Qlik Sense. My company is very happy with this tool."
"The time it takes to deliver a dashboard is real quick."
"The product responds fast for data analysis."
"Set analysis is great for its power user capabilities such as performing an IF on an aggregated column. The ability to create custom coloring expressions based on values is also a good idea although not as easy as I wished it was."
"The extensibility of the Platform with either internally created extensions or the use of third-party provided items really opens the platform up."
"I found it is kind of weird that not all of the mapping changes are treated as true changes."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve on the documentation for the implementation. The documents provided are not very good for a new user."
"Informatica PowerCenter is outdated and would benefit from modernization. They should have a very good migration strategy from Informatica PowerCenter to AACF. Informatica PowerCenter there is no point in using it, you have to use a cloud version."
"PowerCenter could be improved by having more big data components. Normally, we prefer Informatica as a relational database, but nowadays, companies are trying to understand and use big data components. I think it would be useful if we had more chances to create a hub ecosystem because customers try to use some data integration tasks by SQL, Spark and Spark codes, and Scala, but at the end of the day, the company will understand that we need to trace all the steps. An ETL tool is a must for that company, if we're talking about the regulated industries like finance, telcos, etc. If Informatica's biggest ecosystems feature were okay, I would prefer to use it."
"It would be good to recreate the entire interface to make it easier for users to build workflows."
"I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"More focus needs to be on data streaming/real-time data reporting."
"Qlik Sense is working very well on going to low code and development. They are trying to make their environment more user-friendly. However, the training is not free. When you want to learn more about the tool, sometimes you need to pay for the training. This does not make sense to me because training should be free because the more you learn about the tool the more you use it and the more you are loyal to the company and want to continue usage."
"They need to make security rules to access applications and data security easier and customizable."
"I would like to see Qlik add more DevOps functionality to their product. Currently, we have to turn to 3rd party products to handle things like Source Control, Code Deployment through environments, etc."
"A valuable improvement for this solution would be the enabling of us to host dashboards for our customers."
"More pivot table options, like the ability to have the totals row at the bottom of the table, would be helpful."
"The navigation is quite clunky and outdated."
"Even though a huge set of learning material is available, anyone starting his/her journey on learning the software doesn't even know where to start it. The so-called Continous Classroom service is not cheap, but there are many free tutorials, they are not sorted or enlisted adequately though."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 4th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 112 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. 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 Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset and Alteryx. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Qlik Sense report.
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