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.
"It's a complete package, which is why we use this solution."
"The performance and design of Informatica have been very valuable. I find the performance faster than, say, Oracle Data Integrator or DataStage."
"The most valuable features of Informatica PowerCenter are the ease of use, and development, and is simple to find resources."
"Once you have learned Informatica, it is very easy to use."
"Enterprise-scale ETL solution that's very stable and is easy to scale. It integrates and connects with multiple new systems, both structured and semi-structured."
"Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable aspects of Informatica PowerCenter are the many features, ease of use, and user-friendliness."
"The rapidity of integration with data may be one of the valuable features."
"The standout feature for me is the user-friendly nature of the components."
"This is a user-friendly solution that is easy to use."
"The main differentiator that I have seen between Talend and other data integration tools is the ability to view the data pipeline in the form of a program."
"The drag-and-drop feature in the interface is very good."
"Talend Open Studio is easy to create jobs. We use the basic functionality and it is very good."
"The solution has a good balance between automated items and the ability for a developer to integrate and extend what he needs. Other competing tools do not offer the same grade of flexibility when you need to go beyond what is provided by the tool. Talend, on the other hand, allows you to expand very easily."
"The most valuable features are the ETL tools."
"Integrating new tools can be tricky and challenging."
"The developer tool documentation can be enhanced with a more clear explanation of each utility, accompanied by relevant examples, so that developers are able to create programs with ease."
"Informatica PowerCenter could improve the data threshold for large sets of data. Additionally, they should add real-time integration."
"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."
"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."
"PowerCenter has three clients. I wish they would consolidate everything into one GUI, not three. Also, we had a persistent issue with the Informatica Developer tool but it was solved when we migrated to the newest one."
"The solution does not scale."
"It would be good to recreate the entire interface to make it easier for users to build workflows."
"Multiple products are there within the product suite. That can be actually trimmed down."
"The physical appearance of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It gets the job done but it's a bit slow."
"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."
"Having additional training materials, such as a video tutorial, would be an improvement."
"As for improvement or additional features, I would like to know how to use Java in Talend and also how to use Talend in the cloud or in big data. I would prefer to have storage directly on Talend."
"I would say that writing to JSON is kind of a pain. It reads from a JSON file pretty well, but writing to a JSON file is not so great because its components are not good."
"It needs better installation configuration for other databases. Although the installation allows you to select another database, this doesn't mean that all connection points in the application point to the database selected. You actually need to do a search through the entire install to locate the configuration settings and change them."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 30 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 16 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 "Popular open-source ETL tool in Singapore/ South East Asia; Connects to Big Data; Easy to spot errors with generated Java code". 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, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory and Talend Data integration. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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