We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Metadata Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Multifeatured and easily scalable data catalog, with good data domain discovery and data profiling features."
"The capability of the tool to scan and capture the metadata from a variety of sources is one of the capabilities that I find most useful. The central repository into which it is going to put that captured metadata is the best."
"I like EDC's self-service capabilities. You can put the catalog on the intranet inside the organization, so users can search for something. People in the research world have specialized systems, and you might find data from various places that sound similar."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application."
"The product seems stable enough."
"It can automatically connect or associate business terms with various options, providing flexibility beyond general capabilities."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is it provides clients with a full view of the enterprise data assets. For example, how many data assets they have and who owns them."
"All our systems can be widely integrated by ODI, such as transactional systems, our data warehouses, and B2B integration."
"The most valuable feature that we use is the Knowledge Modules."
"The most valuable feature is Data movement."
"Easy to understand, very developer-friendly, and has a big forum community and lots of documentation for support."
"The scalability is great. It's one of the reasons we chose the solution."
"It's completely user-friendly."
"The Knowledge Module approach provides an easy and reusable way to create our own integration strategies. It's easy to create these Knowledge Modules to connect to new technologies, for instance."
"The most valuable feature of ODI is the to use of the whole ETL to create a data lake."
"Interoperability is one area where EDC has room for improvement. It was challenging when the faculty took over the data world and had specific vendors they wanted to use, and some were not particularly open platforms."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"The model is somewhat flexible. There are certain aspects of the model that are not as flexible as we would like. It doesn't do certain things to a great level of depth. So, in situations where we want to drill in to do something specific, we have to essentially copy that data into our own structures in order to add that additional layer of flexibility."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"This solution is hard to set up and its interface is not user-friendly. It's also not as stable, and the technical support takes a lot of time to solve simple problems."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"I rate it a seven out of 10 because there is room for growth because ODI is still new, in comparison to Informatica, which is a mature product."
"It has been very good. Just recently, I've faced an issue, but I solved it somehow. While integrating with a file, I faced an issue where I wanted output files, and I had used the text field limited quotations, but at the end of the file, there was a line breakage for the last column. So, we just removed the text field because it was not working correctly for us."
"The tool should improve its pricing. It prevents the application of Oracle ODI on small and medium projects in countries like Croatia, Germany, or the US. While there are no technological obstacles to using it, the high price makes it unfeasible for projects with smaller budgets."
"It needs easier security."
"Reverse engineering is complicated and challenging to manage."
"An area for improvement would be the lack of SQL compatibility - ODI has no ability to interact with SQL unstructured types and data types."
"The initial setup is complex, especially if you also have to install a console."
"ODI could improve the ease of use. There is a steep learning curve to use the solution."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews while Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is ranked 4th in Data Integration with 67 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "They listen to their customers, so if something is missing or not working, they will put it on their roadmap". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) writes "Straightforward to implement, scalable, and has good stability and documentation, but technical support could still be improved". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and data.world, whereas Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is most compared with Oracle Integration Cloud Service, Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, Azure Data Factory and Oracle GoldenGate. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) report.
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