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Informatica Cloud Data Quality vs. Toad Data Point

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Toad Data Point

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AToad Data Point is a cross-platform, self-service, data-integration tool that simplifies data access, preparation and provisioning. It provides data connectivity and desktop data integration, and with the Workbook interface for business users, it provides simple-to-use visual query building and workflow automation.

    $365

    Pricing
    Informatica Cloud Data QualityToad Data Point
    Editions & Modules
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    Base Edition
    $365
    Pro Edition
    $528
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Informatica Cloud Data QualityToad Data Point
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Informatica Cloud Data QualityToad Data Point
    Data Quality
    Comparison of Data Quality features of Informatica Cloud Data Quality and Toad Data Point
    Feature
    Informatica Cloud Data Quality
    8.2
    4 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Toad Data Point
    -
    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 QualityToad Data Point
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (19 ratings)
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.6
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (9 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (9 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Informatica Cloud Data QualityToad Data Point
    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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    Appropriate for general querying and some DBA work. It's the universal least-offensive solution for most environments - not best of breed, but not subject to unusual/extensive requirements. It just works. On the other hand, some functionality (e.g. data import/export, snippets) are perfunctory and minimal and seem to be either difficult or impossible to automate. If you need to streamline those operations, you'll be forced to rely on third-party solutions that mostly work on top of (instead of with) TOAD.
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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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    Quest Software
    • Export data into excel.
    • Export data into excel using a pivot table functionality.
    • Navigation between windows is intuitive and easy to understand.
    • Good for SQL novices and experts alike.
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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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    Quest Software
    • The workflow is a relatively new feature. Quest is adding additional functionality and the workflows are useful now.
    • Would be nice if the 'Automate' feature was a bit easier to use.
    • Would be nice if some of the SQL Editor features in the traditional interface worked better in the new workflow interface (although, these are being fixed with each release).
    • Would be nice if there were fewer releases.
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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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    Quest Software
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    Usability
    Informatica
    Easy to use not only for developers but also business users
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    Quest Software
    I find Toad Data Point easy to use for both the novice and the experienced business analyst. If all you desire is to access data and create spreadsheets...this is a snap. Toad Data Point actually has cool data analysis features built into it. The newer workflow interface makes automating steps a snap
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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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    Quest Software
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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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    Quest Software
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Quest Software
    Although Toad and UltraEdit are both great products, from an SQL standpoint Toad is a much better editor and troubleshooter.
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    Scalability
    Informatica
    Scalability works as expected and it is truly an enterprise system.
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    Quest Software
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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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    Quest Software
    • It is the least common denominator - not particularly optimized for our environment or workflows.
    • Hangs or slowdowns add anywhere from 5% - 7% for projects utilizing large/complicated data setts. (This could be due to other IT-imposed constraints and not entirely due to TOAD.)
    • Trying to perform some operations requires reading documentation and experimenting in order to figure out the TOAD-specific approaches and commands.
    • It just works (when we understand it). Updates don't break things and things don't suddenly start behaving differently. Best of all, we don't mysteriously lose functionality.
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