Informatica MDM & 360 Applications vs. Microsoft BizTalk Server

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Informatica MDM & 360 Applications
Score 3.0 out of 10
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Informatica MDM is an enterprise master data management solution that competes directly with IBM's InfoSphere and Oracle's Siebel UCM product.Informatica MDM and the company's 360 applications present a multidomain solution with flexibility to support any master data domain and relationship—whether on-premises, in the cloud, or both.N/A
Microsoft BizTalk
Score 6.2 out of 10
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Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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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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Chose Informatica MDM & 360 Applications
No other products were evaluated, except BizTalk, which lead to even more problems than Informatica MDM. Eventually, no other product was used. Instead, a completely different architecture is being implemented, where every application domain is connected to an MDM Oracle …
Microsoft BizTalk

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User Ratings
Informatica MDM & 360 ApplicationsMicrosoft BizTalk Server
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(20 ratings)
8.0
(7 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
5.0
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Informatica MDM & 360 ApplicationsMicrosoft BizTalk Server
Likelihood to Recommend
Informatica
It is a robust software with great management and data model. It can be difficult to learn how to use and deploy the first time but the mapping and features work very well and have optimized our productivity and cost savings. We can customize reports, create rules and integrate with other applications. Overall I recommend it.
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Microsoft
BizTalk is well suited as middleware. Where you wish to translate an input file into an output file and send it to some endpoint. In our case, we used it to convert and send files to SAP. In many ways, it very flexible, and you can do almost anything you want with it. In many ways, it's a better solution than your SAP XI or PI as middleware, since it's much less expensive, and allows you do interface with non-SAP systems.
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Pros
Informatica
  • 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.
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Microsoft
  • It is very user friendly. Users can change rules during run time and change workflow.
  • Huge capacity for queueing messages. It supports all types of adapters like Oracle, Salesforce, SMTP, FTP, etc. Also users can built custom adaptors.
  • If users want to dynamically deploy their solution without any downtime, this is a perfect solution. BizTalk will be a good fit, especially for public-facing websites.
  • Well-proven in the market. I used it when developing a website for Virgin Trains, catering more than 800K user requests per day.
  • Helps in load balancing.
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Cons
Informatica
  • 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.
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Microsoft
  • Microsoft BizTalk is over engineered for some situtations
  • Microsoft BizTalk can be frustrating to use as it forces you to use the GUI as opposed to code
  • Microsoft BizTalk is very resource intensive to create integrations
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Likelihood to Renew
Informatica
Supporting well in managing our huge customer base and managing the customer hierarchies well aligned with transactional processes
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Microsoft
BizTalk will always be required at this hospital.
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Usability
Informatica
Strong Customer MDM capabilities for de-duplication, merging, golden record, exposing customer master data. Strong Integration capabilities
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Microsoft
I gave a 7 because this product BizTalk does need time and training to get familiar with the usability and features, it is not that easy to use.
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Support Rating
Informatica
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.
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Microsoft
BizTalk Server has been supported for more than 15 years. It is well proven in the market. Microsoft has provided excellent support with technical issues.
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Implementation Rating
Informatica
The integrator did a fair job and even though Business Change Management was complex, it was well concluded on time
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Microsoft
Make sure you have everybody and all depts. On board during testing on test server.
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Alternatives Considered
Informatica
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
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Microsoft
BizTalk was selected here mainly because it is easy to integrate to a .NET application (most of them are Web Service, WCF SOAP, WCF REST and Web API) and many backend databases are Microsoft SQL Server. Another benefit is that the monitoring job is easy to set up and centralize with other .NET application monitoring jobs.
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Return on Investment
Informatica
  • 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.
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Microsoft
  • A positive impact has been the quicker turnaround time of a part request and that part showing up in SAP using Biztalk as middleware.
  • A somewhat negative impact has been the somewhat insufficient error logging/message capture settings that Biztalk provide. This has caused occasional delays when attempted to create parts for the business.
  • A somewhat negative impact has been the need to have a specialized developer who understands Biztalk to troubleshoot issues with the Biztalk and SAP interaction when creating parts, and when adding new fields to the parts.
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