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Grow vs PowerCenter: Which is a better fit?

Updated on January 26th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 2,735 reviews from Business Intelligence users.
% Fit
High performer
Feature ratings
Reporting/Analytics
4.4
Multiple Data Sources
4.4
Dashboard Creation
4.5
Data Visualization
4.4
Dashboard
4.2
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Missing features
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Reporting/Analytics
3.0
Multiple Data Sources
5.0
Dashboard Creation
NA
Data Visualization
3.0
Dashboard
1.0
User satisfaction
4.5
User reviews384
Ease of use
4.2
Functionality
4.2
Value for money
4.3
Customer support
4.5
4.5
User reviews42
Ease of use
4.2
Functionality
4.4
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
4.1
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Companies looking for easy-to-use data analytics, automated reporting, and data visualization. We cover all of your data needs. Ask us about our Managed Services!

Cloud-based data integration platform which helps businesses analyze, prototype, iterate, and deploy projects with automated data validation, transformation and IT collaboration.

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Thomas (TC) R
Senior Director, Information Services
5.0

Thomas: Hi, my name is Thomas and I'm a senior director of information services. I would give Grow a five out of five rating. For more reviews like this, click the link below. Previously we were using more enterprise in Tableau, however it did not fit our business needs. While Tableau is a great tool in its own right, it did not provide the ability to really scale this tool to thousands of users across hundreds of clients to be able to distribute this effectively both internally and externally and everyone to interact in the same BI and data visualization environment in a way that Grow has enabled us to do. The reasons we chose Grow were really around three main components. One was accessibility; being able to not only have a very accessible tool to our team in terms of ease of use and the low-code environment, but accessible to internal stakeholders, lots of different visualizations and lots of different customization options, and also accessible to external stakeholders when it comes to the number of users. Accessibility was a big component, as well as the overall ability of Grow to make BI accessible to the masses. Grow has a very simple interface, both on the front end and the back end, that allows people with very, very little data knowledge to take advantage of the tool and be able to get a lot out of the tool. Those two components along with the general low price point are the three primary reasons that we decided to go with Grow. Overall, it was incredibly easy to get started with Grow. Not only is the internal tools in terms of the user management account management very simple and straightforward compared to some of the more enterprise platforms, but specifically data connections is where Grow makes it really easy. If you have experience using other visualization tools you know it can be a challenge to make sure that the API integrations are effective, but the plethora of native integrations Grow offers makes it incredibly easy. Most of the time it's just like you're logging into the platform or website. So getting started with Grow and being able to produce metrics and produce visualizations was easy to hit the ground running with. If you're considering Grow, I would honestly ask you to consider your use case and how you're going to functionally use this business intelligence and data visualization tool. If it is an internal only use case, and you have incredibly complex use cases around certain scenarios, graphs, data sources, whatever it may be, maybe Grow isn't the right solution for you. However, I would venture that most of the people out there, you actually have a more regular use case than you think. You're trying to get data connections from a number of different sources into a single location that your team can easily access and use. The entire purpose of Grow is bringing business intelligence to the masses, and that's what this is about. So if you are considering that use case and it fits you, I would absolutely encourage you to get ahold of the folks at Grow and give it a try.

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Sarvesh G
Manager
4.0

Sarvesh G.: Hi, I'm Sarvesh. I'm working as a technology architect with an IT company, and I would rate PowerCenter four out of five. We're trying to load the data from our Postgres databases. So we are using a different kind of workstations that generate different kinds of readings based on MIC values. It's a high MIC, low MIC value. So we have to load that data from Postgres to target is Oracle data warehouse. So we are using PowerCenter ETL tool to extracting those readings from Postgres and loading into Oracle datawarehouse. I really love PowerCenter. It is really very powerful and because it has got different kind of transformations and those transformation can be reused. I mean, there are maps available, so you can really use your logic whenever you need it. So it's really powerful. It has connectivity with all different kinds of data sources from where you want to load. It can connect to Oracle database, it can connect to Netezza, it can connect to Postgres. So it has got different kinds of connectors and it's very easy to connect and you can load to any data target where you want to load it to maybe data warehouse or any other or data warehouse or database you want to load into or you want to send it a different kind of files. So if you can, you want to connect to any different data source, which is just a flat file. You can connect that it has got connector for those and that it has got different kind of transformation available. It's very easy to use, very easy to drag and drop. You can use different kinds of transformation, not like other programming language, where you are writing all those complex logic, maybe you're using Oracle [inaudible 00:01:47]to write those logics. So it has got different kinds of transformation like expressions and so you can convert those, use those transformation and convert your data in whatever format you need. And you can load into different kind of data target. Overall PowerCenter is really great but yeah one other thing I think they should improve like, it's a GUI, when you work on those, it looks like you're watching old, 10 years old pictures. So I think they really need to improve those GUI and the web interface we are using. So that interface really needs some improvement.

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  • Data Mining
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Text Analysis
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Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
PowerCenter
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Grow
  • By Grow
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2014
PowerCenter
  • By Informatica
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 1993
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