We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Palantir Foundry based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Good product if you are trying implement data quality, data integration, and data management projects."
"The technical support is excellent."
"It is UI friendly and has all the advantages of an ETL tool."
"It is very comprehensive in terms of connector and transformation capabilities from both a source and target perspective."
"Reusable definition of data sources and the out-of-the-box availability of a large number maplets for common transformation functions."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"Has a good visual tool for data mapping."
"Deployment was simple and straightforward."
"The ease of use is my favorite feature. We're able to build different models and projects or combine different projects to build one use case."
"Encapsulates all the components without the requirement to integrate or check compatibility."
"It is easy to map out a workflow and run trigger-based scripts without having to deploy to another server."
"The interface is really user-friendly."
"It's scalable."
"Live video sessions enhance the available documentation and allow you to ask questions directly."
"The data lineage is great."
"The solution offers very good end-to-end capabilities."
"I would like to see it be able to import data from NoSQL."
"Integrating new tools can be tricky and challenging."
"The pricing could be improved."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"While Informatica is great for data-integration, it does not have any analytics features. Thus, organizations have to always look for another product for their BI needs."
"Informatica, in my opinion, is very rigid and not very flexible, whereas platforms like Alteryx or Matillion are very flexible and agile."
"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."
"In the future, I would like to see Informatica PowerCenter integrate a more powerful dashboard."
"There is not a wide user base for the solution's online documentation so it is sometimes difficult to find answers."
"The workflow could be improved."
"If you want to create new models on specific data sets, computing that is quite costly."
"They do not have a data center in Europe, and we have lots of personally identifiable information in our dataset that needs to be hosted by a third-party data center like Amazon or Microsoft Azure."
"It would be helpful to build applications based on Azure functions or web apps in Palantir Foundry."
"The solution could use more online documentation for new users."
"The frontend capabilities of Palantir Foundry could be improved."
"Some error messages can be very cryptic."
Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Palantir Foundry is ranked 11th in Data Integration with 13 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Palantir Foundry is rated 7.6. 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 Palantir Foundry writes "The data visualization is fantastic and the security is excellent". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Palantir Foundry is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Palantir Gotham, SAP Data Services, AWS Glue and Deloitte AI and Analytics. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Palantir Foundry report.
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