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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AInformatica PowerCenter was data integration technology designed to form the foundation for data integration initiatives, application migration, or analytics. It is a legacy product.N/A

    Oracle Analytics

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AOracle Analytics is a solution used to visually explore data to create and share compelling stories. Oracle Analytics Cloud is a cloud native service, and Oracle Analytics Server is the on-premise option.N/A
    Pricing
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Oracle Analytics
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    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Oracle Analytics
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Oracle Analytics
    Considered Both Products
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    Chose Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    PowerCenter can be run from different types of OSs and can integrate with multiple types of databases and applications compared to SSIS. PowerCenter performs better with any type of database due to its ability to use native drivers to read as well as load data. Due to its seam …
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    Oracle
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    94%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Oracle Analytics
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    8.5
    18 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Oracle Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Connect to traditional data sources9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL8.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    7.5
    18 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Oracle Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Simple transformations8.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations7.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    8.2
    18 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Oracle Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Data model creation9.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management8.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration6.116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging9.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    9.0
    15 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Oracle Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Integration with data quality tools9.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools9.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Analytics
    8.1
    62 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.055 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.161 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.361 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Analytics
    8.0
    66 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.464 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.265 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.145 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.162 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Analytics
    7.8
    63 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings7.755 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.762 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.753 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings7.958 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.938 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Analytics
    7.8
    61 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.559 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.552 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.747 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Analytics
    8.4
    61 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.160 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.160 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.560 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.641 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Analytics
    8.0
    48 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.046 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings8.033 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.044 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Analytics
    7.9
    36 Ratings
    2% above category average
    REST API00 Ratings8.231 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings7.930 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.223 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings7.931 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.531 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.924 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Oracle Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (21 ratings)
    8.1
    (76 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (57 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
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    8.1
    (57 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)Oracle Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    1.- Scenaries with poor sources of data is not recomended (Very bad ROI). The solution is for medium-big enterprises with a lot of sources of data and users. 2.- Bank and finance enviroment to integrate differente data form trading, Regulatory reports, decisions makers, fraud and financial crimes because in this kind of scenary the quality of data is the base of the business. 3.- Departments of development and test of applications in enterprises because you can design enviroments, out of the production systems, to development and test the new API's or updateds made.
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    Oracle
    Oracle Data Visualization is very effective if used in an enterprise context with huge volumes of data coming from different systems. It supports dashboard and reporting capabilities and is easy to scale. It also allows you to leverage machine learning capabilities to extract hidden data trends. Visualization capabilities are powerful but not so various if compared to other solutions on the market. If you want to present a dashboard to an executive audience and you want to make your dashboards beautiful you must adapt them through PowerPoint.
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    Pros
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    • Informatica Powercenter is an innovative software that works with ETL-type data integration. Connectivity to almost all the database systems.
    • Great documentation and customer support.
    • It has a various solution to address data quality issues. data masking, data virtualization. It has various supporting tools or MDM, IDQ, Analyst, BigData which can be used to analyze data and correct it.
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    Oracle
    • Available without of the box connectors for Salesforce and oracle Saas Cloud. This is a huge plus for our business since we don't need another middleware solution just for this sake.
    • We are able to connect to our on-prem SQL Server database where we have our RMA database and other applications seamlessly without writing custom APIs.
    • OAC writes directly into ADW which is another advantage for loading Excel files into ADW after dataflow transformations.
    • OAC allows replication of the database from fusion ERP and lets us create subject areas using the data modeler.
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    Cons
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    • There are too many ways to perform the same or similar functions which in turn makes it challenging to trace what a workflow is doing and at which point (ex. sessions can be designed as static or re-usable and the override can occur at the session or workflow, or both which can be counter productive and confusing when troubleshooting).
    • The power in structured design is a double edged sword. Simple tasks for a POC can become cumbersome. Ex. if you want to move some data to test a process, you first have to create your sources by importing them which means an ODBC connection or similar will need to be configured, you in turn have to develop your targets and all of the essential building blocks before being able to begin actual development. While I am on sources and targets, I think of a table definition as just that and find it counter intuitive to have to design a table as both a source and target and manage them as different objects. It would be more intuitive to have a table definition and its source/target properties defined by where you drag and drop it in the mapping.
    • There are no checkpoints or data viewer type functions without designing an entire mapping and workflow. If you would like to simply run a job up to a point and check the throughput, an entire mapping needs to be completed and you would workaround this by creating a flat file target.
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    Oracle
    • More AI but with human back up.
    • Less mumbo jumbo so even IT guys/gals can more easily work.
    • More statistics (math) and orientation for those not familiar with it.
    • More live as well as virtual (live) show casing of real situations in business.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    Our team enjoys using Informatica and feels that it is one of the best ETL tools on the market.
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    Oracle
    Scalability and rich integration capabilities. In the future, if we go with Hyperion for the Financial Consolidation and planning purposes -BI integration with Hyperion is going to be much simpler as it has native interface connectivity and even integration capabilities with well known CRM products (Siebel) and ERP Products (Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft, SAP) is going to be easy and straight forward.
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    Usability
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    Positives; - Multi User Development Environment - Speed of transformation - Seamless integration between other Informatica products. Negatives; - There should be less windows to maintain developers' focus while using. You probably need 2 big monitors when you start development with Informatica Power Center. - Oracle Analytical functions should be natively used. - E-LT support as well as ETL support.
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    Oracle
    Great, if you are limited to using it along with other Oracle products; sadly, not if you are integrating with other products, which can be a challenge. It is a great product with tons of functionality and great integration with other in-house platforms. Great visuals and customization for data and analytics to provide decision-making data and analysis.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    No problems, it's that simple.
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    PowerCenter is robust and fast, and it does a great job meeting all the needs, not just the most commercially vocal needs. In the hands of an expert power user, you can accomplish almost anything with your data. It is not for new users or intermittent users-- for that the Cloud version is a better fit. Be prepared for costly connectors (priced differently for each source or destination you are working with), and just be planful of your projects so you are not paying for connectors you no longer need or want
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    Oracle
    Other than anomalies or expected quirks, there were never any earth-shattering delays.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Informatica power center is a leader of the pack of ETL tools and has some great abilities that make it stand out from other ETL tools. It has been a great partner to its clients over a long time so it's definitely dependable. With all the great things about Informatica, it has a bit of tech burden that should be addressed to make it more nimble, reduce the learning curve for new developers, provide better connectivity with visualization tools.
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    Oracle
    Oracle Analytics Support team is very proactive and I have never had a situation where I had to wait for more than a day or two to get my issues resolved. This is a very big help for us and we appreciate Oracle and its team for guaranteeing that experience.
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    In-Person Training
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    Oracle
    Oracle University offers very in-depth training.
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    Online Training
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    Oracle
    It was a private training site.
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
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    Oracle
    A properly implemented Endeca solution performs extremely well on the largest of datasets and it positions your organization to immediately achieve your ROI.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    While Talend offers a much more comfortable interface to work with, Informatica's forte is performance. And on that front, Informatica Enterprise Data Integration certainly leaves Talend in the dust. For a more back-end-centric use case, Informatica is certainly the ETL tool of choice. On the other hand, if business users would be using the tool, then Talend would be the preferred tool.
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    Oracle
    Oracle Analytics Cloud, is one of the most agile and secure data analysis platforms that according to the budget and the amount of use, you can use the resources you need under the cloud. The Oracle brand is also very well known in this field and can meet all the needs of an organization or industry in any sector.
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
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    Oracle
    We have seen the results of this in our initial research and are not surprised that Oracle does this like it does soo many other things in this area, so well.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • The data pipeline automation capability of Informatica means that few resources are needed to pre-process the data that ultimately resides in a Data Warehouse. Once a workflow is implemented, manual intervention is not needed.
    • PowerCenter did require more resources and time for installation and configuration than was expected/planned for.
    • The lack of or minimal support of unstructured data means that newer sources of dynamic/changing data cannot be easily processed/transformed through PowerCenter workflows.
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    Oracle
    • We've used OBIEE (or it's previous named product) for over 13 years and it's still the most used tool for BI by the business.
    • We moved our largest business system off of Business Object into OBI so we could gain improved performance, reliability, and easier management of metadata.
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