Informatica Data Archive vs. Smarsh Communications Intelligence Platform (with Actiance)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Informatica Data Archive
Score 7.7 out of 10
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Informatica Data Archive allows users to control data growth in production databases and retire legacy applications, while managing retention, ensuring compliance, and retaining access to business data.N/A
Smarsh Communications Intelligence Platform
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Actiance was a social media compliance and archiving platform acquired by Smarsh in November 2017. It is now part of the technology underlying the Smarsh Communications Intelligence Platform. Actiance products Vantage and Socialite are now Connected Capture. Actiance Alcatraz is now Connected Archive.N/A
Pricing
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Informatica Data ArchiveSmarsh Communications Intelligence Platform
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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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User Ratings
Informatica Data ArchiveSmarsh Communications Intelligence Platform (with Actiance)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(4 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Informatica Data ArchiveSmarsh Communications Intelligence Platform (with Actiance)
Likelihood to Recommend
Informatica
To manage users, go to the admin dashboard, here is a section for users. In this users section here you can see which users are configured and you have the ability to suspend a user. If you want to edit or add users, you need to go to the Organization section, then click on another user section there, which then gives you the ability to edit or add users.
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Smarsh
This appliance is well suited for organizations that have a need to monitor, moderate, or log social networking site use or the use of any website. It is a very solid tool for any information security department to have at their disposal.
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Pros
Informatica
  • Works well with curated data
  • Allows you to monitor data movements within an organisation
  • Advisable to use ILM if already using Informatica PowerCenter
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Smarsh
  • Discovery: It allows for easy discoveries by the compliance and cyber security departments.
  • Ethical walls: This keeps certain departments from talking to each other.
  • Very granular control. This is a big product meaning you can get very detailed with it.
  • Once it's configured and running, we hardly ever have any issues.
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Cons
Informatica
  • As we are still piloting the product at our company at this time the feedback is highly limited.
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Smarsh
  • Its configuration options were very large and required a good deal of time to learn all of the various settings.
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Likelihood to Renew
Informatica
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Smarsh
It's the only product at this time that meets all of our requirements.
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Alternatives Considered
Informatica
[The] customer support is quite good. Cost also has another point to add, along with process integration and ease of using new tool.
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Smarsh
This was the only appliance of its kind that I have used. Other devices have different capabilities for web filtering such as the checkpoint firewalls, but none of them offered the overall solution that was deployed with this product at that time.
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Return on Investment
Informatica
  • it is also fully integrated with all other AWS services
  • manages the entire life cycle of the Certificates by itself, so it will reduce your work by a really big amount
  • it can also be easily integrated with ELB and front-end cloud services.
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Smarsh
  • Faster investigative work has led to increased employee efficiency when working on security investigations.
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