IBM DataStage vs. Informatica MDM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM DataStage
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
IBM® DataStage® is a data integration tool that helps users to design, develop and run jobs that move and transform data. At its core, the DataStage tool supports extract, transform and load (ETL) and extract, load and transform (ELT) patterns. A basic version of the software is available for on-premises deployment, and the cloud-based DataStage for IBM Cloud Pak® for Data offers automated integration capabilities in a hybrid or multicloud environment.N/A
Informatica MDM
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Informatica MDM is an enterprise master data management solution that competes directly with IBM's InfoSphere and Oracle's Siebel UCM product.Informatica MDM and the company's 360 applications present a multidomain solution with flexibility to support any master data domain and relationship—whether on-premises, in the cloud, or both.N/A
Pricing
IBM DataStageInformatica MDM
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM DataStageInformatica MDM
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
IBM DataStageInformatica MDM
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
IBM DataStage
9.1
9 Ratings
10% above category average
Informatica MDM
-
Ratings
Connect to traditional data sources9.59 Ratings00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
IBM DataStage
9.5
9 Ratings
13% above category average
Informatica MDM
-
Ratings
Simple transformations9.89 Ratings00 Ratings
Complex transformations9.39 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
IBM DataStage
9.0
9 Ratings
10% above category average
Informatica MDM
-
Ratings
Data model creation9.46 Ratings00 Ratings
Metadata management8.78 Ratings00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow8.18 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Testing and debugging9.59 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
IBM DataStage
8.9
8 Ratings
8% above category average
Informatica MDM
-
Ratings
Integration with data quality tools8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
IBM DataStageInformatica MDM
Small Businesses
Skyvia
Skyvia
Score 9.6 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Score 8.1 out of 10
Informatica Customer 360 for Salesforce
Informatica Customer 360 for Salesforce
Score 7.9 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Score 8.1 out of 10
Winshuttle
Winshuttle
Score 7.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM DataStageInformatica MDM
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(9 ratings)
8.7
(22 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.6
(3 ratings)
8.3
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM DataStageInformatica MDM
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
Excellent Cloud data mapping tool and easy creating multiple project data analytics in real-time and the report distribution are excellent via this IBM product. Easy tool to provide data visualization and the integration is effective and helpful to migrating huge amounts of data across other platforms and different websites insights gathering.
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Informatica
Informatica MDM is a complete MDM solution, from ingestion to data exposition. This tool helps us in gathering customer data, and also it makes it possible for us to support our customers relationships and build customer-related strategies to improve their experience which helps to drive sales geometry and growth and customers satisfaction. On the other hand of price is relatively competitive.
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Pros
IBM
  • Data movement
  • Seamless integration of scripts and etl jobs
  • Descriptive logging
  • Ability to work with myriad of data assets
  • Direct integration for Governance catalog
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Informatica
  • This program raises us to a professional level where we have better versatility to control all the media of my work and have a correct response for each scenario.
  • It is essential to be right about the destination and development of my data, Informatica MDM is here to simplify all these processes for its users.
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Cons
IBM
  • Connector Stages to Snowflake on the cloud. We had some issues initially but since then had been corrected.
  • Accessing tool from a browser (zero foot-print). Currently we need to either install locally or connect to a server to do ETL work.
  • Diversify ways of authenticating users.
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Informatica
  • It is unfortunate how this program has a couple of limitations in terms of insertions; it does not have the ability to agglomerate and archive the data in real-time by groups.
  • To have automation functions, the program is very limited in performing one task at a time, compared to other systems that perform functions simultaneously.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
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Informatica
Supporting well in managing our huge customer base and managing the customer hierarchies well aligned with transactional processes
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Usability
IBM
Because it is robust, and it is being continuously improved. DS is one of the most used and recognized tools in the market. Large companies have implemented it in the first instance to develop their DW, but finding the advantages it has, they could use it for other types of projects such as migrations, application feeding, etc.
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Informatica
Strong Customer MDM capabilities for de-duplication, merging, golden record, exposing customer master data. Strong Integration capabilities
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Performance
IBM
It could load thousands of records in seconds. But in the Parallel version, you need to understand how to particionate the data. If you use the algorithms erroneously, or the functionalities that it gives for the parsing of data, the performance can fall drastically, even with few records. It is necessary to have people with experience to be able to determine which algorithm to use and understand why.
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Informatica
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
IBM
I believe that IBM generally has one of the worst and most complex assistance systems (physical and online) that exists.
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Informatica
I'm not sure since I never used support. My colleagues never had any issues with it, therefore my rating would be an 8 with a certain range of uncertainty.
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Implementation Rating
IBM
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Informatica
The integrator did a fair job and even though Business Change Management was complex, it was well concluded on time
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
It's obvious since they both are from the same vendors and it makes it easier and can get better rates for licensing. Also, sales rapes are very helpful in case of escalations and critical issues.
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Informatica
Informatica MDM has proven it's worth in the organization by driving the revenue growth. It saves our lot of time by filtering out duplicate values and helps in solving critical business problems. It is very helpful when we deal with a lot of data. Apart from this we can populate data on various third party integration which is most useful case
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Reduce development time by 65% compared with hand coding.
  • Reduces ETL process maintenance times.
  • Better data governance for technical and non-technical people.
  • Improve time to market for initiatives that require data integration.
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Informatica
  • I cannot speak to this for 2 reasons. 1. I am not privy to the financials associated with this implementation or the previous one. 2. We have not hit our 'go-live' for this implementation yet to compare it's performance to our previous solution.
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