We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and SAP PowerDesigner 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."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."
"We can scan anything."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"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 product seems stable enough."
"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."
"The solution scales well."
"It has helped me to develop the as-is state, design its to-be state, and track the capital investment according to gap analysis."
"I like the property sheet capability and the user-defined attributes that you can set up."
"Very good repository features."
"I mostly work on the conceptual and logical side of things, and I enjoy how easy it is to use."
"It's a stable system. It never crashes."
"This solution has good tools for big data, where you can manage large and complex databases."
"The most valuable feature of SAP PowerDesigner is the testing of the models, it has the best function. Reverse engineering is very helpful too."
"The feature I found valuable in SAP PowerDesigner is extraction. I also like that my company hasn't faced any issues because of the clear documentation about SAP PowerDesigner."
"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."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"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."
"The scalability is tough."
"There are many areas of this solution that needs to be changed."
"This product lacks artificial intelligence that should be very good in terms of automatically identifying the classification of elements."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"You have the possibility to complete a connection for abbreviations if you are creating columns or names of the tables. In the Citrix environment, this has been lagging to the point where the PowerDesigner was not usable."
"The focus is more on mainstream development environments, and I see a lack of focus on the open source world. I think SAP PowerDesigner probably interfaces better with SQL Server and Db2 but not with open source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL."
"There should be a better usage of current hardware including multicore CPUs, higher resolutions, and multiple displays."
"UI could be improved by enabling simpler navigation."
"I've tried to use Power Designer to bring in images, which didn't work very well at all."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 4th in Metadata Management with 33 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 8.0. 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 SAP PowerDesigner writes "Effective in terms of validating everything, but sometimes they don't allow us some flexibility and GUI could improve". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Pentaho Data Catalog, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and Collibra Catalog. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. SAP PowerDesigner report.
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