Likelihood to Recommend Helps to increase productivity, optimize costs, and democratize data across multiple cloud environments with cloud ETL and ELT. Capacity to integrate data sources at scale and with ease. Has cloud data integration capabilities that cover diverse sets of patterns, use cases, and users ensuring we have well-architected and seamless automated data pipelines.
Read full review 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.
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review 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. Read full review Cons 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. Read full review 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. Read full review Likelihood to Renew 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.
Read full review Supporting well in managing our huge customer base and managing the customer hierarchies well aligned with transactional processes
Read full review Usability Easy to use not only for developers but also business users
Read full review Strong Customer MDM capabilities for de-duplication, merging, golden record, exposing customer master data. Strong Integration capabilities
Read full review Reliability and Availability The application works well except an occasional error out while using the system. It usually gets fixed when restarting the Infa server
Read full review Performance Performance works just fine. It was able to load 200+ business terms, 150+ DQ automation, etc. very well.
Read full review Support Rating 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.
Read full review Implementation Rating The integrator did a fair job and even though Business Change Management was complex, it was well concluded on time
Read full review Alternatives Considered Informatica Data Quality has a wide range of cleansing features, that are detailed, professional, and accurate in scaling down the required database. Further, Informatica Data Quality ensures there is proper collaboration, and this fosters businesses to have the freedom of working closely with several programs. Finally, Informatica Data Quality design is authentic and allows personalization.
Read full review 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
Read full review Scalability Scalability works as expected and it is truly an enterprise system.
Read full review Return on Investment 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 Read full review 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. Read full review ScreenShots