It has a nice interface where the user can simply drag and drop to create a data flow. It is very intuitive and user friendly.

Good but require to inbuilt multiple function.

There is no actual CONS that I have seen with tool.

It helps with our ETL process, and allows us to successfully build and schedule complicated workflows.

Great Product for All Medium to Large Companies.

Excellent for ETL (extract, transform, load) use cases.

Stable ETL tool with excellent Monitoring and Workflow Logging Capabilities. Excellent support and Forums to clarify any queries.

Informatica PowerCenter is a good ETL tool for users who wish to develop a datawarehouse but do not have much programming experience.

We use informatica for ETL process and the results so far have been great. Its easy to integrate across platforms and work on.

Informatica PowerCenter is a user friendly tool.

You can launch a part of the process, simulating the data output. The quality of the solution is fantastic and his support is great, they usually respond to a problem in hours.

PowerCenter is a heavy software and installation is not a trivial task. It uses a lot of memory and it could crash the system if it does not have enough resources.

The integration has been seamless its been better than expected.

Informatica works so well with our ETL requirement with Salesforce. The customer support is pretty.

I like ease of working with this software but would prefer Informatica to focus more on Data Science.

PowerCenter is an great tool for ETL if it involves multiple kind of data sources / targets.

One of the Important pro is that GUI interface is very easy to use and understand. I have used other ETL tool like SSIS but Informatica PowerCenter helps developing ETL is easiest way.

There is very good customer support provided with the product but the code Informatica is built on is old and a lot of features that the community desires cannot be added.

Fantastic user interface. The data visualization functionality is very powerful and really helps tell the stories behind the data.

Its greatest strength is its flexibility to accept almost any kind of data and form them into displays with each other.

I helped integrate our project with tableau (embedded in our page html files). Overall a good experience with nice results and happy users.

I use this on a daily basis to check the stats of my surveys for my job. I love how convenient it is to see how great of a job I am doing for customers.

I love this software because its easy to pull in data from excel and create meaningful visualizations like stories and dashboards.

Have a good community support and documentations. It dose provide a 30days free trial on the tableau application, after which we need a product key.

Amazing and interesting its support and community support available online makes it more better then thought of.

Main business problems for using Tableau are analyzing metrics for daily operations, specifically failure rates and tracking completion.

There are some limitations (eg. email alert layout is extremely limited, you can only drag the date range filter as opposed to selecting dates). Some of our dashboards load very slowly.

There are great visuals right out of the box, and very clever interactions that allow you to drill down.

Great at helping us understand our clients better and using data more effectively.

Overall a high value application, with planty of options and gave me an excellent solution for a costum dashboard.

I for one use it to visualize our budget spend and how we're doing. It helps when creating presentations, no likes looking at numbers.

Tableau does lack functionality and is hard to use. There are scaling issues.

Tableau is one of the best business intelligence tools available in the market. The visual interface is really good and easy to use.

I loved the graphics and the ability to integrate large amounts of data. It gives tutorials right in the application so you can get assistance.

The support we pay for is almost worthless. We frequently solve the problem ourselves and it is time consuming to submit everything via their helpdesk with nothing to show for it.

Very powerful engine with capability to connect to varied data sources. It can be used to make some exceptionally amazing visualizations.

Overall experience is quite awesome This tool provides great insights from the data as we can use variety of charts to visualize our data.

If one is really skilled with the tool, complex visualizations can be created. I was thrilled to see a new feature that connects tables and was released in 2020, called noodles.

If a cheaper license is provided for small businesses, it will help lift improve its ROI. Tableau training was super helpful to me in grasping its user interface.

It is difficult to navigate and get started on the platform. Requires some training before you can be let loose on the platform and create your own reports.

In addition, there are large amounts of libraries of visualizations that you can use as inspiration (a great online community).

Working with Tableau has been a great experience. The time the implementation team took to help me out was great.

All in all, this is a great software with a lot of abilities to make an impressive presentation.

Some limited features/functionalities prevent you from doing basic things (such as formatting) or require complicated workarounds.

Reasonably priced, attractive graphics and ease of use is nearly unparalleled.

I dislike how it can be difficult to give end users access to the live updating dashboards that we do make through the software.

I love the interface of the dashboards and the ease of use once they are assembled. The dashboards are really cool.

Easy integration with existing data sources and nice charts analyzing all the data. Any one can understand without any prior training on the analyzed charts.

Tableau has great visuals, fairly intuitive UX, a big plus is the huge online community.

Love the ease of sorting through data and organizing into an attractive presentation.

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PowerCenter is a cloud-based enterprise data integration platform that helps businesses with data integration life cycle. The platform enables users to manage data integration agility, enterprise scalability, operational confidence and data integration projects. 


PowerCenter’s key features include business collaboration, IT collaboration, re-usability, automation, operations, governance oversight, real-time data, prototype, profiling, validation, automated data validation testing, data transformation and connectivity to cloud applications. Additionally, the platform allows users to monitor reinforce coding and production providing support for adaptive load balancing, grid computing, pushdown optimization, partitioning and more.


PowerCenter add-on packages include data integration hub, B2B data exchange, PowerExchange for cloud applications and PowerCenter productivity. Pricing of the product is available on request and support is extended via phone, online help desk and documentation.



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Real-Time Monitoring

Collaboration Tools

Real Time Data

Activity Dashboard

Reporting & Statistics

Data Visualization

Multiple Data Sources

Dashboard

Metadata Management

Alerts/Escalation

Data Transformation

Reporting/Analytics

Web Services

Web browser (OS agnostic)

Contact Informatica for pricing details. A 30-day free trial is available.

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Tableau is an integrated business intelligence (BI) and analytics solution that helps to analyze key business data and generate meaningful insights. The solution helps businesses to collect data from multiple source points such as SQL databases, spreadsheets, cloud apps like Google Analytics and Salesforce to create a collective dataset.


Tableau's live visual analytics and interactive dashboard allow slicing & dicing datasets for generating relevant insights and exploring new opportunities. Users can create interactive maps and analyze data across regions, territories, demographics and more. Tableau helps to create a narrative story of the data analysis with interactive visualizations that can be shared with their audience.


Tableau can be customized to serve a number of industry verticals including banking, communication, education, healthcare, real estate, manufacturing and technology. The solution can be either installed on-premises or hosted on the cloud as a SaaS application. Users can also view and analyze data on their Android and iOS smartphones with Tableau Mobile app.

Real-Time Analytics

A/B Testing

User Research Analysis

Website Analytics

Forecasting

Integration into Third Party Applications

Multivariate Analysis

User Management

Embeddable Maps

Text Analysis

High Volume Processing

Master Data Management

Customizable Reports

Database Support

Access Controls/Permissions

Data Storage Management

Territorial Mapping

Templates

Visual Discovery

OLAP

Publishing/Sharing

Ad hoc Reporting

Mixed Methods Research

Sentiment Analysis

Natural Language Search

Query Builder

Campaign Tracking

Strategic Planning

Behavioral Analytics

Relational Display

For Education

Categorization/Grouping

Public Dashboards

For Science

Customer Database

Sensitive Data Identification

Scheduled/Automated Reports

Customizable Fields

Data Capture and Transfer

Association Discovery

Functions/Calculations

Geographic Maps

Demand Forecasting

ROI Tracking

Data Import/Export

Offline Access

Quantitative Analysis

Event Logs

For Healthcare

Self Service Portal

Self Service Data Preparation

Private Dashboards

Information Governance

Server Monitoring

File Storage

Statistical Analysis

Data Quality Control

Profitability Analysis

Data Dictionary Management

Sales Reports

Dashboard Creation

Marketing Reports

Performance Metrics

Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Statistical Simulation

Data Security

Scorecards

Data Cleansing

Survival Analysis

Annotations

Data Connectors

Data Discovery

Trend/Problem Indicators

Data Integration

Benchmarking

Role-Based Permissions

KPI Monitoring

Ad hoc Query

AI/Machine Learning

Statistical Process Control

Key Performance Indicators

Dynamic Content

Visual Analytics

Contextual Search

Alerts/Notifications

Predictive Analytics

Regression Analysis

Modeling & Simulation

Authentication

Data Blending

Data Warehousing

Multi-Channel Attribution

For Sales Teams/Organizations

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Windows Vista

Windows XP

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Linux

Windows 8

Windows 10

For Individuals

Tableau Creator: $70 USD/user/month, billed annually

For Teams & Organizations 

(On-premises or public cloud)
Tableau Creator: $70 USD/user/month, billed annually
Tableau Explorer: $35 USD/user/month, billed annually
Tableau Viewer: $12 USD/user/month, billed annually | min. 100 Viewers required

Fully hosted by Tableau

Tableau Creator: $70 USD/user/month, billed annually
Tableau Explorer: $42 USD/user/month, billed annually
Tableau Viewer: $15 USD/user/month, billed annually | min. 100 Viewers required

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