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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

    VGS platform

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Very Good Security (VGS) lets companies use and exchange any kind of sensitive data without ever needing to see or hold the data itself. Built on the premise that “you can’t hack what isn’t there”, VGS is on a mission to protect the world’s information by transforming security and privacy from a business obstacle into an opportunity. VGS provides what they describe as a developer-friendly platform to act as a custodian for sensitive data, improving security while also accelerating business…N/A
    Pricing
    Informatica Cloud Data QualityVGS platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Informatica Cloud Data QualityVGS platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$4 per operation
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    Features
    Informatica Cloud Data QualityVGS platform
    Data Quality
    Comparison of Data Quality features of Informatica Cloud Data Quality and VGS platform
    Feature
    Informatica Cloud Data Quality
    8.2
    4 Ratings
    4% below category average
    VGS platform
    -
    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 QualityVGS platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (19 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.6
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (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 QualityVGS platform
    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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    Very Good Security
    If you are working with payments and you don`t want to store that kind of data to avoid a lot of strict requirements and headaches with tight processes, strict security, encryption and everything else you can leverage VGS platform to greatly reduce the work needed to enable payments in your system. They also provide tokenization for some other kinds of data but we currently do not use them. VGS platform also provides a product for compliance and controls (VGS Control) which helps you get ready and maintain compliance in your organization.
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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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    Very Good Security
    • Tokenization of credit card data
    • Tokenization of some PII data
    • Accelerates compliances certifications
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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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    Very Good Security
    • Infrastructure as Code
    • Alerting
    • Debugging
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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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    Very Good Security
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    Usability
    Informatica
    Easy to use not only for developers but also business users
    Incentivized
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    Very Good Security
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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
    Incentivized
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    Very Good Security
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    Performance
    Informatica
    Performance works just fine. It was able to load 200+ business terms, 150+ DQ automation, etc. very well.
    Incentivized
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    Very Good Security
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    Support Rating
    Informatica
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    Very Good Security
    The support is pretty decent, sometimes take a little bit o time to solve things (not critical things) but that is part of the ticketing/email async communication so its fine. All the times I had to contact support a got my issue solved and a lot of attention from the support team to help solving the issue.
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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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    Very Good Security
    We evaluated Drata as an alternative for VGS Control, but VGS platform control integrates a lot of controls around VGS itself and also with Cloud Infra that we use, which makes the process faster. Also keeping everything with the same vendor makes things easier to manage.
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    Scalability
    Informatica
    Scalability works as expected and it is truly an enterprise system.
    Incentivized
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    Very Good Security
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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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    Very Good Security
    • Increased sales and revenue (enabled digital payments)
    • Enabled PCI compliance
    • Increased security
    Incentivized
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