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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    D&B Connect

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AD&B Connect is an AI-driven Data Management Platform based on the D&B Cloud that provides businesses with customer data and market insights. With D&B connect, users can collaborate on data management tasks, visualize, monitor, and benchmark data, as well as assess overall data health. Integrations with Master Data Management Platforms, Customer Data Platforms, and CRMs enable automated data updates and anomaly detection through the identity resolution engine. MAP integrations allow for the…N/A

    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AInformatica PowerCenter was data integration technology designed to form the foundation for data integration initiatives, application migration, or analytics. It is a legacy product.N/A

    Maia by Matillion

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMaia by Matillion is an autonomous data engineering platform designed to automate the lifecycle of data pipelines through AI-driven orchestration. The solution functions as an enterprise "digital workforce" that translates natural language requirements into production-ready DataPipelines, leveraging a Pushdown Architecture to execute transformations natively within cloud data warehouses.N/A
    Pricing
    D&B ConnectInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)Maia by Matillion
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    D&B ConnectInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)Maia by Matillion
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing is offered on a customized basis. Buyers should contact D&B for specific quotes.—Billed directly via cloud marketplace on an hourly basis, with annual subscriptions available depending on the customer's cloud data warehouse provider.
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    Community Pulse
    D&B ConnectInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)Maia by Matillion
    Considered Multiple Products
    Dun Bradstreet
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    Matillion
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Matillion is affordable, easy to use with a graphical interface
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    In my opinion Matillion provides more flexibility then the other tools I mentioned.
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Removes most of the complexity around setting up and preparing things.
    If you could describe with words what needs to be done to move data from A to B, the implementation in Matillion would probably be the most similar in terms of simplicity of understanding what you are doing …
    Incentivized
    Chose Maia by Matillion
    Ease of use and its features,easy integration with AWS
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
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    86%
    Would buy again
    54 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    53 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    59 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    42 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
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    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    52 Answers
    Features
    D&B ConnectInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)Maia by Matillion
    Data Quality
    Comparison of Data Quality features of D&B Connect and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Maia by Matillion
    Feature
    D&B Connect
    7.7
    17 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
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    Maia by Matillion
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    Data source connectivity8.117 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data profiling7.817 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Master data management (MDM) integration7.514 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data element standardization7.915 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Match and merge7.315 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Address verification7.817 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of D&B Connect and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Maia by Matillion
    Feature
    D&B Connect
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    8.5
    18 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Maia by Matillion
    8.7
    143 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings9.018 Ratings9.0142 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings8.014 Ratings8.3100 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of D&B Connect and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Maia by Matillion
    Feature
    D&B Connect
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    7.5
    18 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Maia by Matillion
    8.8
    143 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings8.018 Ratings9.5143 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings7.018 Ratings8.2142 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of D&B Connect and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Maia by Matillion
    Feature
    D&B Connect
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    8.2
    18 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Maia by Matillion
    8.4
    135 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings9.015 Ratings9.133 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings8.016 Ratings9.140 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings9.018 Ratings8.4126 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings6.116 Ratings7.8127 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings9.017 Ratings7.9128 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of D&B Connect and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy) and Maia by Matillion
    Feature
    D&B Connect
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    9.0
    15 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Maia by Matillion
    8.2
    23 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings9.015 Ratings8.222 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings9.013 Ratings8.220 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    D&B ConnectInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)Maia by Matillion
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (31 ratings)
    8.0
    (21 ratings)
    8.7
    (145 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (15 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.5
    (144 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Implementation Rating
    -
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    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sources
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    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    8.2
    (131 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    D&B ConnectInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)Maia by Matillion
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Dun Bradstreet
    Overall, the program can assist any size company with all credit
    reference needs. We have not run into any issues other than the overall
    cost of the program and the fact that you have to use additional funds
    to seek information on international customers.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    1.- Scenaries with poor sources of data is not recomended (Very bad ROI). The solution is for medium-big enterprises with a lot of sources of data and users. 2.- Bank and finance enviroment to integrate differente data form trading, Regulatory reports, decisions makers, fraud and financial crimes because in this kind of scenary the quality of data is the base of the business. 3.- Departments of development and test of applications in enterprises because you can design enviroments, out of the production systems, to development and test the new API's or updateds made.
    Incentivized
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    Matillion
    Great: Need to query simpler APIs, or utilize well known services such as GSheets etc.? Matillion has got some of the best and easiest to use connectors out there. Not so great: Do you need have a competent CI/CD flow that you will be able to update / compare from Matillion as well as other sources at the same time? Good luck, you will need to be extra careful, as you might have to have a deeper dive into your servers Terminal each time you have a git conflict.
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    Pros
    Dun Bradstreet
    • Searching people who have the intent to buy your services or products.
    • It has as very good filter that helps pinpoint your targeted audience.
    • It has a large pool of contacts within the company, so helps to reach out to the right person via several connections.
    • The data available is fresh and current.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Informatica Powercenter is an innovative software that works with ETL-type data integration. Connectivity to almost all the database systems.
    • Great documentation and customer support.
    • It has a various solution to address data quality issues. data masking, data virtualization. It has various supporting tools or MDM, IDQ, Analyst, BigData which can be used to analyze data and correct it.
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    Matillion
    • The user interface of your data pipelines makes it easier for people who aren’t as techy as data engineers to observe what's going on.
    • Customer support is quick, not always as efficient as you would want it to be, but still.
    • Nice documentation available.
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    Cons
    Dun Bradstreet
    • in my opinion having to split usage between United States and International does not make sense on why this needs to be done....recommend eliminating this
    • need for improvement on error resolution....when an error is found the D&B resolution team is EXTREMELY difficult to work with...very clunky and automated when there is a need for personnal interaction
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    Discontinued Products
    • There are too many ways to perform the same or similar functions which in turn makes it challenging to trace what a workflow is doing and at which point (ex. sessions can be designed as static or re-usable and the override can occur at the session or workflow, or both which can be counter productive and confusing when troubleshooting).
    • The power in structured design is a double edged sword. Simple tasks for a POC can become cumbersome. Ex. if you want to move some data to test a process, you first have to create your sources by importing them which means an ODBC connection or similar will need to be configured, you in turn have to develop your targets and all of the essential building blocks before being able to begin actual development. While I am on sources and targets, I think of a table definition as just that and find it counter intuitive to have to design a table as both a source and target and manage them as different objects. It would be more intuitive to have a table definition and its source/target properties defined by where you drag and drop it in the mapping.
    • There are no checkpoints or data viewer type functions without designing an entire mapping and workflow. If you would like to simply run a job up to a point and check the throughput, an entire mapping needs to be completed and you would workaround this by creating a flat file target.
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    Matillion
    • Matillion is brilliant at importing data -- it would be amazing to have more ways to export data, from emailed exports to API pushes.
    • Any Python that takes more than a few lines of code requires an external server to run it. It would be great to have more integration (perhaps in a connected virtual environment) to easily integrate customized code.
    • Troubleshooting server logs requires quite a bit of technical expertise. More human readable detailed error handling would be greatly appreciated.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Dun Bradstreet
    Great tool
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Our team enjoys using Informatica and feels that it is one of the best ETL tools on the market.
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    Matillion
    With the current experience of Matillion, we are likely to renew with the current feature option but will also look for improvement in various areas including scalability and dependability. 1. Connectors: It offers various connectors option but isn't full proof which we will be looking forward as we grow. 2. Scalability: As usage increase, we want Matillion system to be more stable.
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    Usability
    Dun Bradstreet
    For more advanced uses, it's hard to get it functioning properly right out of the box. It definitely takes some fiddling to get the systems up and running, especially if you have multiple streams of data that need to be managed across systems.
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    Discontinued Products
    Positives; - Multi User Development Environment - Speed of transformation - Seamless integration between other Informatica products. Negatives; - There should be less windows to maintain developers' focus while using. You probably need 2 big monitors when you start development with Informatica Power Center. - Oracle Analytical functions should be natively used. - E-LT support as well as ETL support.
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    Matillion
    We are able to bring on new resources and teach them how to use Matillion without having to invest a significant amount of time. We prefer looking for resources with any type of ETL skill-set and feel that they can learn Matillion without problem. In addition, the prebuilt objects cover more than 95% of our use cases and we do not have to build much from scratch.
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    Performance
    Dun Bradstreet
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    Discontinued Products
    PowerCenter is robust and fast, and it does a great job meeting all the needs, not just the most commercially vocal needs. In the hands of an expert power user, you can accomplish almost anything with your data. It is not for new users or intermittent users-- for that the Cloud version is a better fit. Be prepared for costly connectors (priced differently for each source or destination you are working with), and just be planful of your projects so you are not paying for connectors you no longer need or want
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    Matillion
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Dun Bradstreet
    Great Support
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    Discontinued Products
    Informatica power center is a leader of the pack of ETL tools and has some great abilities that make it stand out from other ETL tools. It has been a great partner to its clients over a long time so it's definitely dependable. With all the great things about Informatica, it has a bit of tech burden that should be addressed to make it more nimble, reduce the learning curve for new developers, provide better connectivity with visualization tools.
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    Matillion
    Overall, I've found Matillion to be responsive and considerate. I feel like they value us as a customer even when I know they have customers who spend more on the product than we do. That speaks to a motive higher than money. They want to make a good product and a good experience for their customers. If I have any complaint, it's that support sometimes feels community-oriented. It isn't always immediately clear to me that my support requests are going to a support engineer and not to the community at large. Usually, though, after a bit of conversation, it's clear that Matillion is watching and responding. And responses are generally quick in coming.
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    Implementation Rating
    Dun Bradstreet
    Very Satisfied
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    Discontinued Products
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    Matillion
    We were able to control on access and built various enviroment for implementation
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    Alternatives Considered
    Dun Bradstreet
    Not at the top, but pretty good compared to others. The price and overall usability of the solution would put it in the top 5 options from what I have used. If D&B can make more updates and improvements, then there is potential to be better in the near future.
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    Discontinued Products
    While Talend offers a much more comfortable interface to work with, Informatica's forte is performance. And on that front, Informatica Enterprise Data Integration certainly leaves Talend in the dust. For a more back-end-centric use case, Informatica is certainly the ETL tool of choice. On the other hand, if business users would be using the tool, then Talend would be the preferred tool.
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    Matillion
    Fivetran offers a managed service and pre-configured schemas/models for data loading, which means much less administrative work for initial setup and ongoing maintenance. But it comes at a much higher price tag. So, knowing where your sweet spot is in the build vs. buy spectrum is essential to deciding which tool fits better. For the transformation part, dbt is purely (SQL-) code-based. So, it is mainly whether your developers prefer a GUI or code-based approach.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Dun Bradstreet
    slightly on the higher side but worth it.
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Matillion
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Dun Bradstreet
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Matillion
    We're using Matillion on EC2 instances, and we have about 20 projects for our clients in the same instance. Sometimes, we're struggling to manage schedules for all projects because thread management is not visible, and we can't see the process at the instance level.
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    Return on Investment
    Dun Bradstreet
    • ROI can be achieved anywhere between 6 to 12 months depending upon your business.
    • The product is expensive but the data provided is good to an extent and a big sale can help achieve your ROI.
    • The data accuracy sometimes can be bad leading to bad domain reputation.
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    Discontinued Products
    • The data pipeline automation capability of Informatica means that few resources are needed to pre-process the data that ultimately resides in a Data Warehouse. Once a workflow is implemented, manual intervention is not needed.
    • PowerCenter did require more resources and time for installation and configuration than was expected/planned for.
    • The lack of or minimal support of unstructured data means that newer sources of dynamic/changing data cannot be easily processed/transformed through PowerCenter workflows.
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    Matillion
    • Matillion has been the backbone of my company's analytical functionalities for 10+ years, so it has a good ROI.
    • The price is ok for what our company built with it, but it starts to be less competitive if the tool is not used at its fullest.
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    ScreenShots

    Maia by Matillion Screenshots

    Screenshot of Matillion's GUI, used to orchestrate jobs with control data flow functionality, automating the ETL process.Screenshot of where structured and semi-structured data can be prepared to create clean data sets that can be used with any BI/reporting/visualization tool of choice. Matillion reads and combines data across a target warehouse external storage, such as S3 or Blob.Screenshot of Matillion's self-validating components, sample and row counts. If a job does fail, the warehouse queue services available with Matillion can be used get an alert to a connected email or Slack account.Screenshot of the SQL component used to run custom scripts from within Matillion. With hundreds of pre-built connectors out of the box, Matillion can handle complex transformation needs.