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    dbt

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/Adbt is an SQL development environment, developed by Fishtown Analytics, now known as dbt Labs. The vendor states that with dbt, analysts take ownership of the entire analytics engineering workflow, from writing data transformation code to deployment and documentation. dbt Core is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, and paid Teams and Enterprise editions are available.

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    Informatica Cloud Data Quality

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/AThe vendor states that Informatica Data Quality empowers companies to take a holistic approach to managing data quality across the entire organization, and that with Informatica Data Quality, users are able to ensure the success of data-driven digital transformation initiatives and projects across users, types, and scale, while also automating mission-critical tasks.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Considered Both Products
    dbt Labs
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    Informatica
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    dbtInformatica Cloud Data Quality
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of dbt and Informatica Cloud Data Quality
    Feature
    dbt
    9.8
    8 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Informatica Cloud Data Quality
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    Simple transformations10.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations9.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of dbt and Informatica Cloud Data Quality
    Feature
    dbt
    9.1
    8 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Informatica Cloud Data Quality
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    Data model creation9.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Quality
    Comparison of Data Quality features of dbt and Informatica Cloud Data Quality
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    Informatica Cloud Data Quality
    8.2
    4 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Data source connectivity00 Ratings8.94 Ratings
    Data profiling00 Ratings8.74 Ratings
    Master data management (MDM) integration00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Data element standardization00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
    Match and merge00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Address verification00 Ratings8.44 Ratings
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    dbtInformatica Cloud Data Quality
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
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    9.0
    (19 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    6.6
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    9.8
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    8.0
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    Availability
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    9.0
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    Performance
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    9.0
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    Online Training
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    Product Scalability
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    User Testimonials
    dbtInformatica Cloud Data Quality
    Likelihood to Recommend
    dbt Labs
    The prerequisite is that you have a supported database/data warehouse and have already found a way to ingest your raw data. Then dbt is very well suited to manage your transformation logic if the people using it are familiar with SQL. If you want to benefit from bringing engineering practices to data, dbt is a great fit. It can bring CI/CD practices, version control, automated testing, documentation generation, etc. It is not so well suited if the people managing the transformation logic do not like to code (in SQL) but prefer graphical user interfaces.
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    Informatica
    For effective data collaboration, systematic verification of customer information, and address, among others, Informatica Data Quality is a fruitful application to consider. Besides, Informatica Data Quality controls quality through a cleansing process, giving the company a professional outline of candid data profiling and reputable analytics. Finally, Informatica Data Quality allows the simplistic navigation of content, with a dashboard that supports predictability.
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    Pros
    dbt Labs
    • dbt supports version control through GIT, this allows teams to collaborate and track the data transformation logic.
    • dbt allows us to build data models which helps to break complex transformation logic into simple and smaller logic.
    • dbt is completely based on SQL which allows data analyst and data engineers to build the transformation logic.
    • dbt can be easily integrated with snowflake.
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    Informatica
    • The matching algorithms in IDQ are very powerful if you understand the different types that they offer (e.g., Hamming Distance, Jaro, Bigram, etc..). We had to play around with it to see which best suit our own needs of identifying and eliminating duplicate customers. Setting up the whole process (e.g., creating the KeyGenerator Transformation, setting up the matching threshold, etc..) can be somewhat time consuming and a challenge if you don't first standardize your data.
    • The integration with PowerCenter is great if you have both. You can either import your mappings directly to PowerCenter or to an XML file. The only downside is that some of the transformations are unique to IDQ, so you are not really able to edit them once in PowerCenter.
    • The standardizer transformation was key in helping us standardize our customer data (e.g., names, addresses, etc..). It was helpful due to having create a reference table containing the standardized value and the associated unstandardized values. What was great was that if you used Informatica Analyst, a business analyst could login and correct any of the values.
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    Cons
    dbt Labs
    • Field-level lineage (currently at table level)
    • Documentation inheritance - if a field is documented the downstream field of the same name could inherit the doc info
    • Adding python model support (in beta now)
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    Informatica
    • Several partnerships diminishing the value of technologies
    • Unable to get list of objects from Repository (like sources & targets) that don't have any dependency
    • Scheduling: The built-in scheduling tool has many constraints such as handling Unix/VB scripts etc. Most enterprises use third party tools for this.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    dbt Labs
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    Informatica
    As pointed out earlier, due all the robust features IDQ has, our use f the product is successful and stable. IDQ is being used in multiple sources (from CRM application and in batch mode). As this is an iterative process, we are looking to improve our system efficiency using IDQ.
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    Usability
    dbt Labs
    dbt is very easy to use. Basically if you can write SQL, you will be able to use dbt to get what you need done. Of course more advanced users with more technical skills can do more things.
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    Informatica
    Easy to use not only for developers but also business users
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    Reliability and Availability
    dbt Labs
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    Informatica
    The application works well except an occasional error out while using the system. It usually gets fixed when restarting the Infa server
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    Performance
    dbt Labs
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    Informatica
    Performance works just fine. It was able to load 200+ business terms, 150+ DQ automation, etc. very well.
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    Alternatives Considered
    dbt Labs
    I actually don't know what the alternative to dbt is. I'm sure one must exist other than more 'roll your own' options like Apache Airflow, say, bu tin terms of super easy managed/cloud data transforms, dbt really does seem to be THE tool to use. It's $50/month per dev, BUT there's a FREE version for 1 dev seat with no read-only access for anyone else, so you can always start with that and then buy yourself a seat later.
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    Informatica
    IDQ is used by a department at my organisation to ensure and enhance the data quality.
    The usage was started with address standardization and now it had been brought to altogether a next level of quality check where it fixes duplicates, junk characters, standardize the names, streets, product descriptions.
    In the past we had issues mainly with duplicate customers and products and this were affecting the sales projection and estimates.
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    Scalability
    dbt Labs
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    Informatica
    Scalability works as expected and it is truly an enterprise system.
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    Return on Investment
    dbt Labs
    • Simplified our BI layer for faster load times
    • Increased the quality of data reaching our end users
    • Makes complex transformations manageable
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    Informatica
    • Integration with tools like PowerCenter helped faster delivery of product, and at the same time conversion
    • Reduce overall project cost due to bad data , bad quality, exceptions identified nearing go-live and post production
    • Employee efficiency is increased exponentially due to more automated, customized tool
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