We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Oracle Analytics Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The number of docs has been reduced drastically, which is very good."
"It has a Data Catalog that uses the Model repository."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The reliability of the product and the way of orchestration of different services is valuable to us."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"It has good standard features for ETL development."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring tools and the reporting manager."
"If the systems get migrated or upgraded, the amount of resources required are very minimal. We can change the connections and establish a new connection. It's very helpful."
"The product is easily customized."
"It plays a crucial role in facilitating decision-making for various organizational stakeholders."
"The best feature may be data flow, which is used to prepare and clean data."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The features that I find to be the most valuable are the BAS (Business Analytics), the Narrate feature, and the auto-visualization."
"It's valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and doesn't require much time for understanding. The solution is stable. The initial setup was straightforward."
"The AI/ML enablement is useful, as many reporting tools do not offer machine learning models as of now, without writing customized code."
"The specific capability I find important in Oracle Analytics Cloud is that it allows the basic user to easily drag and drop data. I also like that the solution allows the user to decide what to measure and what to see in the reports."
"Informatica, in my opinion, is very rigid and not very flexible, whereas platforms like Alteryx or Matillion are very flexible and agile."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"PowerCenter could be improved by having more big data components. Normally, we prefer Informatica as a relational database, but nowadays, companies are trying to understand and use big data components. I think it would be useful if we had more chances to create a hub ecosystem because customers try to use some data integration tasks by SQL, Spark and Spark codes, and Scala, but at the end of the day, the company will understand that we need to trace all the steps. An ETL tool is a must for that company, if we're talking about the regulated industries like finance, telcos, etc. If Informatica's biggest ecosystems feature were okay, I would prefer to use it."
"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."
"I would like to see an improvement in the digital adoption."
"If we could have the option of performance improvement within Informatica, and if it could have more features, that would be ideal."
"As with most BI tools, the visualizations can be made much nicer. Currently, it has standard visualizations. They've been adding new visualizations, but we see animated visualizations from other vendors. It would be nice to have similar visualizations, such as the swarming visualizations, which are fairly new and very popular at the moment. I haven't seen that with Oracle. That would be nice."
"It is less scalable than Snowflake."
"Sharing dataflows is not possible at this time, and the custom chart functionality is not available."
"At this time, dataflows cannot be shared, but I think that this should be enhanced."
"Its machine learning and visualization capabilities can be improved. There should be more visualization options."
"Analytics Cloud allows you to merge various data types and structure data from multiple sources."
"The product should improve its user interface. It should be welcoming and modern. Developers should also find it easier to build data models. Oracle Analytics Cloud needs to have better visualizations and more options in the marketplace."
"This solution could be more adaptable in its application."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 5th in Data Visualization with 78 reviews while Oracle Analytics Cloud is ranked 6th in Data Visualization with 24 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Oracle Analytics Cloud 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 Oracle Analytics Cloud writes "Reliable, capable of handling massive amounts of data, and good value for money". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Oracle Analytics Cloud is most compared with Databricks, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI and Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Oracle Analytics Cloud report.
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