We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Talend Open Studio based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Talend Open Studio comes out on top for paid support and Informatica PowerCenter comes out on top for its features. If you are looking for a solution that consumes fewer resources, then you should go with Informatica PowerCenter. However, if you are looking to start with a free data integration tool, Talend Open Studio would be the tool for you.
"The performance and design of Informatica have been very valuable. I find the performance faster than, say, Oracle Data Integrator or DataStage."
"It is UI friendly and has all the advantages of an ETL tool."
"It reduces a lot of legacy coding."
"I would recommend that others considering the solution go ahead and use it for any batch and high volume loads with complex transactions."
"We have found the PowerCenter and B2B data transformation most valuable."
"Informatica PowerCenter has been implementing mapping design, data flow, and workflow execution for years."
"Has a good visual tool for data mapping."
"Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"The most valuable features are definitely data integration, data preparation, and data stewardship."
"The most valuable features of Talend Open Studio are customization and integration."
"We're able to handle large amounts of data with ease."
"The Talend Studio connected to the Talend MDM (Master Data Management) is the most valuable feature. Talend Studio is used to create a job stream that connects to multiple data sources, matches, compares or creates a golden record for overall identification. It also has a good catalogue of objects that can be dragged and dropped for building models."
"We have contacted their technical support. They are great. They offer very professional help. If I need some technical answer, they are very professional. They are quick, professional, and very accurate."
"Talend Studio has the ability to use it to ensure data quality."
"The API integration and big data approach are very good because of how you extract data from JSP files or big data web repositories like MongoDB."
"The rapidity of integration with data may be one of the 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."
"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."
"This product is going to decommission in the next couple of years."
"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 performance of Informatica PowerCenter could improve."
"Support could be better."
"I found it is kind of weird that not all of the mapping changes are treated as true changes."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"The pricing could be lower. They should work to make it more affordable."
"he overall marketing and documentation of this product need to improve a lot."
"Talend Open Studio is in Java language, and right now, you can only use the debug functionality in Java. I see that people who know programming languages other than Java currently face difficulties."
"We need more components to be more efficient. We use a lot of components, such as Salesforce, and it's not easy to use. There's are minor bugs and it's not easy to use some of the features."
"The user interface could be made simpler."
"In the next release, Open Studio should include cloud storage as an input."
"The technical support and documentation need a lot of work to come up to standard."
"Talend Open Studio has a lot of capabilities, but there is some restriction. For example, if we want to connect to an SAP system, Open Studio cannot do it. We need to go with an enterprise version. Additionally, the monitoring features could improve."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 47 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Talend Open Studio 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 Talend Open Studio writes "An open-source ETL tool, when deployed on-premises, requiring an easy installation phase". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and Alteryx Designer, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Talend Data Fabric, AWS Glue and Talend Data integration. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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