Oracle has officially stopped supporting the OBIA version with Informatica. Informatica is not owned by Oracle but was owned by the Siebel systems (before the Oracle take over) and OBIA known as Siebel Analytics. OBIA was rebranded as Oracle Business Intelligence Application (OBIA) after the Oracle take over with pre-build ETL provided for Oracle EBS and PeopleSoft in addition to Siebel CRM.
In the current situation, all existing customers have the single option of migrating to an ODI version of OBIA or the more challenging option of just moving to another BI product. The challenges with ODI based OBIA solution is that Oracle has not given any migration tool, which makes it more of a re-implementation than just a migration/upgrade.
Samkit has built processes and tools that help reduce the pain of reimplementation by 35%. Our tools and processes give customers an error-free partially automated path of reimplementation utilising current Informatica investment and customisations.
Informatica vs ODI
- The ODI has 3,300 customers and 4,000 OWB customers while INFA has 3,800 Power Centre customers.
- Oracle is enhancing its ETL business quicker than Informatica. The ODI has 35% YoY ETL growth while INFA has 7% YoY ETL growth.
- ODI has 800 new ETL customers while Informatica has 400 new ETL customers.
- Oracle has 40 products inserted in ODI while Oracle inserted only 2 products in INFA.
Why choose ODI?
If you have already invested in Informatica but are still facing some issues, you can adopt ODI. Issues that ODI can help resolve include:
- The higher cost of ownership
- Low internal rate of return
- Inefficient upgrade management resulting in low productivity
- Due to non-value-added activities, resources of company are misallocated
- Delay in the project because of human errors and wrong alignment
ODI and its business analytics solutions become a one-stop shop for all customer requirements. It caters for Oracle applications, custom applications, MDM applications, Business Intelligence, Activity Supervision and SOA platforms. Oracle has become the Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice for Data Integration tools, winning directly on customer feedback.
ODI caters world-class solutions for building, managing, and deploying real-time data. It merges all the components of data integration — from live data transmission, transformation, adjustment, quality of data, management of data, to data services. Customers using Oracle Data Integration have experienced robust cost-saving and efficiency, with ODI offering insightful data on time.