Compare Informatica PowerCenter vs. Talend Data Fabric
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 2nd in Data Integration Tools with 12 reviews while Talend Data Fabric is ranked 19th in Data Integration Tools with 2 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 7.8, while Talend Data Fabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Informatica PowerCenter writes "Assists us with integration as we migrate from on-premise to cloud, but it needs a performance analyzer". 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 SSIS, Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), whereas Talend Data Fabric is most compared with Azure Data Factory.
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The partitioning and optimization to help enhance our development is a very valuable aspect of Informatica PowerCenter. The most valuable feature is the new Data Lake feature, which provides the basic capabilities needed. The most complex task, in this case, was to read and transform BLOB data, and Java transformation in Informatica Power Center was a great solution. Technical support, and their approach is good. They have a support portal and support tickets. If you open a ticket it has multiple levels of severity from level one to very high or critical. The features I find most valuable is that the solution is very user-friendly and the graphical design is very easy to understand. In the end, you have structured, proper data for use in an integrated BI solution. The performance and design of Informatica have been very valuable. I find the performance faster than, say, Oracle Data Integrator or DataStage. Technical support is great. It's one of the reasons we really like them. When you compare support from IBM and support from Informatica, Informatica is much better. | We've had no issues with the stability so far. 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. |
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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. Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections. The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica. I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption. Integration with Artificial Intelligence would benefit this solution. As a connector to big data, it is not well developed. We've had problems connecting Informatica with Hadoop. The functionality to connect Informatica with Hadoop, for me it's not good. Now they are migrating to a new version, and they have something that is called Informatica Developer. Previously, they just had PowerCenter. Now, when they move everything to Informatica Developer it's not as good or stable like it was when it was PowerCenter, though it has some nice features. This Developer tool could be better. | I would like to see better integration with other tools. 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. |
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Price-wise, it's more expensive than SSIS, but it's a better tool, so it has more features. Licensing is on a yearly basis. Licensing is a one time cost. But maintenance costs depend on what you want, how long you need it. Maintenance is a kind of insurance. With health insurance, you don't know whether you will get sick or need to go to hospital or not but you have to have insurance. It's the same thing with support. If you have that expertise in resolving issues, if you have enough experience in your IT department, I would say you don't need the support. But in practice, they recommend you go with the support. If you want support you have to pay for it. | There are no additional licensing fees when you scale |
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Overview | |
Enterprise data integration platform to help organizations access, transform, and integrate data from a variety of systems. | Talend, a leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, enables companies to transform by delivering trusted data at the speed of business.
Over 3,000 global enterprise customers have chosen Talend to help them turn all their raw data into trusted data to make business decisions with confidence — including GE, HP Inc., and Domino’s. |
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| University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, LexisNexis, Rabobank | Information Not Available |
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Energy/Utilities Company13% Comms Service Provider13% Healthcare Company13% Financial Services Firm13% Software R&D Company39% Comms Service Provider13% Financial Services Firm7% Insurance Company7% | No Data Available |
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