We performed a comparison between Informatica PowerCenter and Talend Data Management Platform 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."The features I find most valuable is that the solution is very user-friendly and the graphical design is very easy to understand."
"Informatica PowerCenter has good user feedback. The developers can easily make mappings in the solution."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The partitioning and optimization to help enhance our development is a very valuable aspect of Informatica PowerCenter."
"Once you have learned Informatica, it is very easy to use."
"The reliability of the product and the way of orchestration of different services is valuable to us."
"I like the automated scheduling feature."
"To me, what's most valuable in Informatica PowerCenter is the flexibility in building the integration pipeline. Usually, you need to have a platform to be able to integrate with different technologies, including legacy data such as the mainframe. The platform should also be rich enough to transform the data per your business requirement, with no restrictions. Rich integration and rich transformation capabilities are the two key capabilities in Informatica PowerCenter. The solution also offers ease of use. Another valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is the drag-and-drop integration because it's GUI-based, similar to IBM and Oracle."
"The most valuable feature is the data loading and scripting language"
"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to understand."
"I like everything about this product, but the biggest thing is the ease of use."
"They're very competitive in terms of performance, which is a good selling point. It has very rich features. It provides a very rich feature set in the application."
"The solution can run on any machine and that is a big advantage."
"The solution is connected to various phones. It retrieves the configuration from the system."
"I think Talend is one of the easiest tools for faster implementation compared to other tools."
"The most valuable features of the Talend Data Management Platform are the components."
"The developer tool documentation can be enhanced with a more clear explanation of each utility, accompanied by relevant examples, so that developers are able to create programs with ease."
"Its scalability can be improved. It is not scalable."
"The licensing is difficult."
"We had stability issues, mostly with JVM size."
"The initial setup is not straightforward. You need expertise to do it."
"I would like to see improvements made to the custom transformations. It should be more open for users that want to write their own code and use cases."
"The solution's commercial cost is very high. Other open-source tools can do the tool's functions for free. The world is moving to the cloud, but the solution hasn't updated its drivers. I presume that its downfall will start soon. The tool is trying to cross-sell or upsell without helping customers derive benefits from the existing products. They have multiple tools and licenses. It is better to bring the smaller tools in one umbrella."
"It would be nice to have all tools in one place. CDC needs more effort, as it's only easy to develop if you are familiar with Linux."
"I would like to sync a project and do an upload from that current version, and then from GitLab, be able to download the latest one."
"Including either XML or JSON in the next release would definitely be a good transformation. I'm not sure if Talend has that feature, but it's one of those requirements that we are working around and have to do some parsing of XML so this could make it easier."
"The sales and market department could improve the Talend Data Management Platform."
"The solution's memory sometimes bottlenecks and that can be challenging."
"The documentation from version to version could be more accurate."
"Once you get past the basic tools, it gets pretty complicated."
"Performance and speed could be improved."
"I've had some issues with bugs causing crashes, especially when making changes to the system or with the monthly upgrades to Studio they've introduced."
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Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Talend Data Management Platform is ranked 22nd in Data Integration with 18 reviews. Informatica PowerCenter is rated 8.0, while Talend Data Management Platform is rated 8.2. 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 Talend Data Management Platform writes "Built for everything and packed with features but there are some monitoring limitations". Informatica PowerCenter is most compared with Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Databricks and AWS Glue, whereas Talend Data Management Platform is most compared with Talend Open Studio, Talend Data Fabric, SAP Data Services, Collibra Catalog and SSIS. See our Informatica PowerCenter vs. Talend Data Management Platform report.
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