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 most valuable aspects of Informatica PowerCenter are the many features, ease of use, and user-friendliness."
"Once you figure it out, it is a powerful and simple ETL tool. Its stability has been very satisfactory."
"It's a complete package, which is why we use this solution."
"Informatica PowerCenter is a very good ETL tool."
"Informatica PowerCenter has been implementing mapping design, data flow, and workflow execution for years."
"The greatest feature is that it is very easy to have someone come in and jump right in. It is one of the nicest tools in terms of getting a person acquainted quickly."
"PowerCenter performs well during data transformation and optimization."
"The technical support is excellent."
"We can develop our own code if we do not see the functionality we need."
"The most valuable features of the Talend Data Management Platform are the components."
"I like everything about this product, but the biggest thing is the ease of use."
"The basic tools are easy to pick up and understand."
"The availability of connectors is great."
"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to understand."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"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 real-time database connectivity when getting the real-time data using the VPN is an area that needs improvement."
"PowerCenter could integrate better with cloud applications. We had to do a lot of configuration work using API integrations to connect with cloud applications. Informatica Cloud Data Integration has a generic connector that you can use directly, so it's much easier."
"There is a need to buy a separate license if one wishes to connect with some kind of SAP system, such as SalesForce."
"Unstructured data handling is an important area with a shortcoming that needs improvement in the solution."
"An issue which should be addressed is that the solution only allows us to do structured, as opposed to unstructured, data processing."
"Some of the conversions are done inside the product. We use work tables that are created by the engine itself, but the names of the work tables are very long, and they don't have any meaning, which makes it a bit difficult to understand and follow exactly what is happening inside."
"What needs improvement in Informatica PowerCenter is the cloud experience because, nowadays, other companies, such as AWS, Azure, and Google, have more experience in the cloud. The pricing for Informatica PowerCenter on the cloud is also very expensive for customers, so some customers prefer open-source tools or lower-priced tools, such as Azure. From my point of view, Informatica must work on the pricing policy and review the policy on the cloud for Informatica PowerCenter or propose more tools with lower pricing. Clients want the automatic integration of Informatica PowerCenter with other tools. Currently, the integration process is manual, and you have to add other tools to facilitate the integration, especially with the DevOps methodology. You need scripts and tools for the integration, and you'll need to use other integration tools if you want automatic deployment for Informatica PowerCenter, so this is another area for improvement in the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for the integration with APIs to be simpler, because currently, the API integration feature of Informatica PowerCenter is very difficult. It's not intuitive. You have to facilitate API integration and the real-time streaming of messages in Kafka, for example, so that should be improved."
"If we could have the option of performance improvement within Informatica, and if it could have more features, that would be ideal."
"The documentation from version to version could be more accurate."
"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."
"The product must enhance the data quality."
"The sales and market department could improve the Talend Data Management Platform."
"The stability is good, but the performance is slower when I work on a huge amount of data."
"I think they should drive toward AI and machine learning. They could include a machine-learning algorithm for the deduplication."
"Performance and speed could be improved."
"Once you get past the basic tools, it gets pretty complicated."
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Informatica PowerCenter is ranked 3rd in Data Integration with 78 reviews while Talend Data Management Platform is ranked 21st 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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