Data and BI Architect Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Mar 25, 2024
Profisee could improve in providing clearer data lineage information. Currently, I find it easier to gather this from Purview rather than Profisee. However, I haven't fully explored all of Profisee's functionalities, so there might be options I'm unaware of.
Infrastructure Architect at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Dec 8, 2023
There are three components: Data Fabric, Data Hub, and Profisee. A more convenient approach would involve integrating all the pre-existing elements into Profisee itself.
Sr. Database Developer at Hill Physicians Medical Group
Real User
Mar 4, 2021
When we updated to version 7.1, there were some workflow issues. Initially, we were using an older version, but we were required to dynamically kick-off the workflows from the patients. That's when we had some issues. When we reached out to Profisee, they said, "We don't have that feature right now, you'll have to wait until version 7.1". We had to wait for at least a month to get that fixed. At that time, they only offered technical training for version 6.5, not the latest version. It should be updated. As soon as the new version was released, they should have updated the technician component of the training part.
Independent Software Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Consultant
Nov 22, 2020
Profisee needs to better highlight data profiling. At least when I was using this a year ago, the features for data profiling were buried. In other words, they don't pull it out as a key feature, and it really should be. Often, that whole life cycle phase is overlooked, the data profiling aspect. One of the strengths, like being able to utilize the SQL server toolkit and it's tight integration with SQL server, can be a disadvantage too, as there are some things that they pushed down to the database that makes it difficult when trying to figure out where and how you achieve that functionality. It's buried in the database functionality or in one of the database tools for SQL Server. They need to make it more clear and bring it out more effectively. If you were to compare it to Informatica, that's where Informatica does a really good job in their tool suite. They've got their whole platform and each one of the tools, they spell out exactly what they do. Even though there is some overlap in functionality, you know what the best practice is and where to do what. The way training is laid out in their Profisee University, makes it really, really hard to find what you need fast. They'll have these one-hour long video clips and you need to fast forward or rewind to find the actual useful details. There's an index that allows you to just jump to the correct information. That is very frustrating as a developer that needs the information. You can't find the information fast for support at all. They need to be able to articulate their training into something that is searchable. Online training that is text-based and not just buried in a super-long video. A product like SUMADI is a great example of training done right. When I left that client, I really wanted them to put more emphasis on profiling. I'd have to go back out there to their website and see if they actually have anything of that nature. It wasn't obvious to me, even their best practices with profiling. In Informatica, profiling isn't overlooked at all. In Profisee, it seems it might have been. I'd like more emphasis placed on the tool if possible.
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Profisee is making improvements for the year 2024, including integrating directly with other solutions.
Profisee could improve in providing clearer data lineage information. Currently, I find it easier to gather this from Purview rather than Profisee. However, I haven't fully explored all of Profisee's functionalities, so there might be options I'm unaware of.
There are three components: Data Fabric, Data Hub, and Profisee. A more convenient approach would involve integrating all the pre-existing elements into Profisee itself.
When we updated to version 7.1, there were some workflow issues. Initially, we were using an older version, but we were required to dynamically kick-off the workflows from the patients. That's when we had some issues. When we reached out to Profisee, they said, "We don't have that feature right now, you'll have to wait until version 7.1". We had to wait for at least a month to get that fixed. At that time, they only offered technical training for version 6.5, not the latest version. It should be updated. As soon as the new version was released, they should have updated the technician component of the training part.
Profisee needs to better highlight data profiling. At least when I was using this a year ago, the features for data profiling were buried. In other words, they don't pull it out as a key feature, and it really should be. Often, that whole life cycle phase is overlooked, the data profiling aspect. One of the strengths, like being able to utilize the SQL server toolkit and it's tight integration with SQL server, can be a disadvantage too, as there are some things that they pushed down to the database that makes it difficult when trying to figure out where and how you achieve that functionality. It's buried in the database functionality or in one of the database tools for SQL Server. They need to make it more clear and bring it out more effectively. If you were to compare it to Informatica, that's where Informatica does a really good job in their tool suite. They've got their whole platform and each one of the tools, they spell out exactly what they do. Even though there is some overlap in functionality, you know what the best practice is and where to do what. The way training is laid out in their Profisee University, makes it really, really hard to find what you need fast. They'll have these one-hour long video clips and you need to fast forward or rewind to find the actual useful details. There's an index that allows you to just jump to the correct information. That is very frustrating as a developer that needs the information. You can't find the information fast for support at all. They need to be able to articulate their training into something that is searchable. Online training that is text-based and not just buried in a super-long video. A product like SUMADI is a great example of training done right. When I left that client, I really wanted them to put more emphasis on profiling. I'd have to go back out there to their website and see if they actually have anything of that nature. It wasn't obvious to me, even their best practices with profiling. In Informatica, profiling isn't overlooked at all. In Profisee, it seems it might have been. I'd like more emphasis placed on the tool if possible.