We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Talend Data Fabric based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"I would recommend that others considering the solution go ahead and use it for any batch and high volume loads with complex transactions."
"It has very good monitoring and process monitoring."
"It has helped us monetize."
"The performance and design of Informatica have been very valuable. I find the performance faster than, say, Oracle Data Integrator or DataStage."
"Informatica PowerCenter is very good for integrating a huge amount of data in a very short duration, such as a minute. It is also very easy to use. After you provide the source and the target, mappings are automatically done, which makes it easy to use for the development team."
"UI-based ability to create data mapping."
"The setup is very simple."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It is a smart tool for us to design data pipelines. It lets us populate our three data lake instances. We like this solution for its connection capabilities, since it is very important to be able to use many different types of software. We tested a lot of SAP sources successfully, including cloud sources with SAP. It is also very easy to anonymize data with TIBCO, as well as populating HDFS files, packet files, and raw files. It is very easy to do that with Talend Data Fabric."
"We've had no issues with the stability so far."
"The Talend data integration has been one of the most valuable features."
"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."
"Informatica, in my opinion, is very rigid and not very flexible, whereas platforms like Alteryx or Matillion are very flexible and agile."
"In terms of performance improvement and tuning, there should be a bit more guidance and documentation."
"The multiple interfaces in Informatica PowerCenter are not great for the user experience. Because of this, I think it can cause confusion for any beginner developer."
"I found it is kind of weird that not all of the mapping changes are treated as true changes."
"We had to take on a large volume of data from the legacy Sybase system. This was taking a very long time, i.e., more than a day. We were trying to improve it with partitions to gpload, but we were told that we can't go more than four partitions."
"Its licensing can be improved. It should be features-wise and not bundle-wise. A bundle will definitely be costly. In addition, we might use one or two features. That's why the pricing model should be based on the features. The model should be flexible enough based on the features. Their support should also be more responsive to premium customers."
"The real-time database connectivity when getting the real-time data using the VPN is an area that needs improvement."
"We are currently using version 7.3.1, but preferred the version before. The problem that we currently have is that Talend are releasing patches for Talend Studio every quarter. Our technical team has to be on top of these patches and constantly ensure everything is updated."
"Deployment can be difficult, but I didn't test the latest version yet. With Talend products, every release brings a lot of new features and functionalities. This is never a small adaptation, because the tool is maturing, but we need to test the latest version and to check its deployment capabilities."
"We encounter issues getting email notifications. They should provide enough information about the configuration process for email components."
"I would like to see better integration with other tools."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Talend Data Fabric is ranked 26th in Data Integration with 4 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Talend Data Fabric 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 Talend Data Fabric writes "Smart tool to design data pipelines that has good connection capabilities ". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Talend Data Fabric is most compared with Talend Open Studio, Talend Data Management Platform, Azure Data Factory, Palantir Foundry and Alteryx Designer. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Talend Data Fabric report.
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