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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

    Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security) is a multimode cloud access security broker.N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    Informatica Cloud Data QualityMicrosoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    Data Quality
    Comparison of Data Quality features of Informatica Cloud Data Quality and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    Feature
    Informatica Cloud Data Quality
    8.2
    4 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
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    Ratings
    Data source connectivity8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data profiling8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Master data management (MDM) integration8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data element standardization7.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Match and merge7.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Address verification8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Informatica Cloud Data QualityMicrosoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (19 ratings)
    8.1
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.6
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
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    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Informatica Cloud Data QualityMicrosoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is well suited when working with other Microsoft Applications. For example, if you are working with Microsoft Office 365 it works very well when implementing CASB features. It works when implementing monitoring or blocks on Sanctioned applications however customizing the message to users is not that great.
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    Pros
    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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    Microsoft
    • The integration to Microsoft Entra ID is seamless, which allows Conditional Access to redirect the session to Microsoft Defender for Cloud App for it to take actions (Block or Monitor).
    • Tracker users' activity is very good when troubleshooting or running an investigate.
    • Detecting risky users through tight integration with Microsoft Entra ID is a very good feature.
    • Detecting mass downloads and blocking the download of files from non-manage company devices is a very good feature as well.
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    Cons
    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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    Microsoft
    • It takes some time to scan and apply the policies when there is some sensitive information.
    • After it applies the policies, it works, but there is a delay.
    • It doesn't provide any way to scan Microsoft Teams when an external exchange of images is happening. You can always do the filtering on the documents during the chat, but if there is an image, then some kind of OCR capability is required to detect it. At present, there is no way [Microsoft Cloud App Security] can go and detect those kinds of images and alert us
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Microsoft
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    Usability
    Informatica
    Easy to use not only for developers but also business users
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    Microsoft
    The interface is pretty simple and easy to use; however, you will need to do a lot of investigative research on your own to get comfortable with it. Originally, many of the Microsoft security tools had their own seperate consoles. Overtime, they have blended into one interface which is the ideal state. In some cases it is clear Microsoft had to pick which console a certain feature or setting was going to reside in and this leads to some confusion. For example, DLP is managed through Defender for Cloud Apps but you will also need to jump into Purview. For things like reverse proxy on your M365 tenant, you will need to go into Azure and setup conditional access rules. Not a big problem and I can understand why the settings are located where they are but for someone just starting out with Defender for Cloud Apps, it will take some time to figure out.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    Microsoft
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    Performance
    Informatica
    Performance works just fine. It was able to load 200+ business terms, 150+ DQ automation, etc. very well.
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    Microsoft
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    Support Rating
    Informatica
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    Microsoft
    I have not utilized actual support but the Sales and Product teams have been super helpful in moving our implementation forward and showing us the best practices.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Microsoft
    More flexible and more features with easy integration with cloud services like Microsoft Azure and other cloud services. Overall both gives similar features but we prefer Microsoft cloud app security due to its high threat detection rate. mostly we have been able to stop the threat in very very less time.
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    Scalability
    Informatica
    Scalability works as expected and it is truly an enterprise system.
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    Microsoft
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Microsoft
    • Cloud App Security saves us thousands of dollars finding and rectifying apps security issues
    • Identity Security Posture helps the organization identity stay in shape, saving thousands of dollars on security consultations
    • The cost of suffering a breach cannot be quantified, CAS helps minimize the chances of the attackers succeeding, with excellent historical logging for most operations
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