We performed a comparison between Informatica Cloud Data Integration and Talend Open Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Informatica Cloud Data Integration is Pushback. You are able to push the data to the solution itself, and it can handle the queries. It helps us a lot. With other tools, the burden is kept on the server."
"Their new licensing is very flexible. With Informatica Cloud, you have plenty of items under the same umbrella, such as services, offerings, data quality, and data masking. You have also got master data management and API management. What I really like about them is that you don't need to go to Informatica and say that you need a data integration module. You would say that you need iPaaS or Informatica Cloud. They'll then try to understand your needs and give you IPUs, which are the processing units. If I purchased a hundred IPUs from Informatica as a customer, I can use 70 IPUs for data integration. I would also need data quality, so I can use 10 IPUs for data quality. I can use the remaining 20 IPUs for API management. Down the line, if I see that my initial data integration needs for the development phase are met, then out of the 70 IPUs assigned for data integration, I can use 30 IPUs for data masking. I can shuffle these numbers in any way within the Informatica Cloud umbrella for the tenure for which I have subscribed to these IPUs. I can use all services the way I want. This flexibility is what I really love about Informatica. It also has got good connectors."
"It has a more UI-based tool, and the scripting is good."
"Replication allows us to fully replicate all objects from Shop Floor Data Collection (SFDC) to in-house/on-premises database in one job."
"It has all the advantages of the Cloud in that you can use it without worrying about infrastructure, upkeep, or upgrades."
"Data synchronization tasks."
"The most valuable features of the solution are pushdown, optimization, and partitioning, which can be used for frequent data loading, especially when we have a huge data volume in our company."
"The Mapping Configuration and PowerCenter wizards are valuable. We use them to run our business logic."
"The initial setup of the product was very easy."
"Talend Open Studio is easy to create jobs. We use the basic functionality and it is very good."
"We're sold on the customization part of the solution."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"It is easy to use and covers most of the functions needed. We can use the code without any extra effort. The open source is very good. They have the same commercials with additional connectors. The graphical design environment is also very easy."
"I can connect with different databases such as Oracle Database or SQL Server. It allows you to extract the data from one database to another. I can structure the data by filtering and mapping the fields. It is very user-friendly. You need to know the basics of SQL development or SQL queries, and you can use this tool."
"It is user-friendly and the interface is good."
"The solution's technical support is responsive and helpful."
"I would like to see more functionality added so that it is a bit closer to how much you can do with Informatica PowerCenter."
"Cost-wise, it could be better."
"The vendor should have more training resources: online classes, free tutorial videos, etc."
"A general improvement in icons and the virtual interface would be good."
"The integration process is not easy."
"The error information provided is not informative, as compared to Power Center."
"I would also like to have profiling functionalities and quality transformations in the cloud."
"It would be helpful if there was a GenAI feature integrated into the system, especially regarding the data quality."
"It is complicated to understand the configuration process for email components."
"The physical appearance of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There used to be many Youtube channels that offered Talend training, but now there don't seem to be any. The solution should offer more online training resources."
"It gets the job done but it's a bit slow."
"The technical support and documentation need a lot of work to come up to standard."
"The price for Talend Data Integration should be less expensive."
"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."
"I think my biggest problem with the tool is that the errors are very hard to debug."
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Informatica Cloud Data Integration is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Integration with 40 reviews while Talend Open Studio is ranked 5th in Data Integration with 48 reviews. Informatica Cloud Data Integration is rated 7.8, while Talend Open Studio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Informatica Cloud Data Integration writes "A stable, scalable, and user-friendly solution". 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 Cloud Data Integration is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Fivetran and IBM InfoSphere DataStage, whereas Talend Open Studio is most compared with SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Talend Data Fabric, Talend Data Management Platform and Matillion ETL. See our Informatica Cloud Data Integration vs. Talend Open Studio report.
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