We performed a comparison between Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and SAP PowerDesigner based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Metadata Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Offers data lineage feature"
"The solution scales well."
"The capability of the tool to scan and capture the metadata from a variety of sources is one of the capabilities that I find most useful. The central repository into which it is going to put that captured metadata is the best."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"I like EDC's self-service capabilities. You can put the catalog on the intranet inside the organization, so users can search for something. People in the research world have specialized systems, and you might find data from various places that sound similar."
"We can scan anything."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"It can automatically connect or associate business terms with various options, providing flexibility beyond general capabilities."
"In terms of operational efficiency and cause savings or return on investment, I can say that with SAP PowerDesigner, our company saves a lot of time."
"I've used the reverse engineering feature a lot. I can take a look at the structure of the database and what relationships it has."
"It's a stable system. It never crashes."
"I do a data-centric design, so for me, the data analysis and design tools are the most valuable features."
"Provides the flexibility to create logical and conceptual data models."
"The most useful feature has been the detailed possibility to model almost anything regarding physical databases."
"The solution is a very pragmatic tool. It's quite easy to use."
"It's a great tool for documentation."
"The model is somewhat flexible. There are certain aspects of the model that are not as flexible as we would like. It doesn't do certain things to a great level of depth. So, in situations where we want to drill in to do something specific, we have to essentially copy that data into our own structures in order to add that additional layer of flexibility."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"The scalability is tough."
"The UI is extremely complex"
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"This solution is hard to set up and its interface is not user-friendly. It's also not as stable, and the technical support takes a lot of time to solve simple problems."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"I have found the solution not easy to use. When publishing you have to download the HTML, make adjustments against the updated HTML, convert it to HTML, then finally paste the HTML. There is not an on-the-fly function available to bypass the step-by-step converting process that other solutions have."
"The portal of SAP PowerDesigner could be better. The tool also needs more features and integration with other products, such as Collibra. It would be interesting for SAP PowerDesigner to have more integration."
"Regarding improvements, I suggest enhancing the connection between objects in process and data models. It's crucial to define the structure of objects, especially when dealing with standard frameworks like VMM. There should be better visualization of arrows between BPM and data modeling objects, specifying their structure and impact. For future versions, a feature similar to Bizagi, allowing users to see forms or SQL representations of objects, would be valuable for demonstrating and presenting project details to stakeholders."
"You have the possibility to complete a connection for abbreviations if you are creating columns or names of the tables. In the Citrix environment, this has been lagging to the point where the PowerDesigner was not usable."
"This product does not have a good BPMN Modeler."
"There should be a better usage of current hardware including multicore CPUs, higher resolutions, and multiple displays."
"The focus is more on mainstream development environments, and I see a lack of focus on the open source world. I think SAP PowerDesigner probably interfaces better with SQL Server and Db2 but not with open source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL."
"Checking-in models to the repository, especially when working remotely, is a slow process than can sometimes have problems with models being corrupted."
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Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 14 reviews while SAP PowerDesigner is ranked 4th in Metadata Management with 34 reviews. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6, while SAP PowerDesigner is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "They listen to their customers, so if something is missing or not working, they will put it on their roadmap". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP PowerDesigner writes "Effective in terms of validating everything, but sometimes they don't allow us some flexibility and GUI could improve". Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and data.world, whereas SAP PowerDesigner is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Visio, IDERA ER/Studio and Sparx Pro Cloud Server. See our Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog vs. SAP PowerDesigner report.
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