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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Informatica MDM & 360 Applications

    Score5.5 out of 10
    N/AInformatica 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

    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/APower BI for Office 365 allowed users to model and analyze data, and query large datasets with complex natural language queries. It has been discontinued in favor of other editions of Power BI going forward.N/A
    Pricing
    Informatica MDM & 360 ApplicationsPower BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Informatica MDM & 360 ApplicationsPower BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Informatica
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    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    79%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Informatica MDM & 360 ApplicationsPower BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Informatica MDM & 360 Applications and Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    Feature
    Informatica MDM & 360 Applications
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    Ratings
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    9.0
    11 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Informatica MDM & 360 Applications and Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    Feature
    Informatica MDM & 360 Applications
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    Ratings
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    9.5
    11 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Informatica MDM & 360 Applications and Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    Feature
    Informatica MDM & 360 Applications
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    Ratings
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    9.5
    11 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.64 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Informatica MDM & 360 Applications and Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    10.0
    11 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Informatica MDM & 360 Applications and Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    Feature
    Informatica MDM & 360 Applications
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    Ratings
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    9.8
    10 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Informatica MDM & 360 Applications and Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    9.5
    10 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Informatica MDM & 360 Applications and Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Power BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    7.8
    3 Ratings
    1% above category average
    REST API00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
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    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP Master Data Governance
    Score8 out of 10
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    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Informatica MDM & 360 ApplicationsPower BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (20 ratings)
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Informatica MDM & 360 ApplicationsPower BI For Office 365 (discontinued)
    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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    If you're already using Office 365, Power BI for O365 is an easy choice. Start playing around with the free version and then easily add individual Pro licenses with little risk. However, if you anticipate using this with many users, it can get expensive quickly.
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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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    • Easy to make visual dashboards from SQL queries. Previously we had to use a third party application that had to run on a web server that was so complex to setup and run. PowerBI removes all that.
    • Ability to control who/which group has access to each dashboard or report. Ties in well with the rest of the Office 365 ecosystem.
    • Has many connectors to allow pulling data from various systems, both onsite (via gateway) or external (via APIs), and join the data to create a report/dashboard.
    • Ability to show data but also export the data, if permitted.
    • Easy to show PowerBI dashboards on SharePoint or on other websites via embedded code.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Licensing: Currently, Microsoft has a fixed pricing model for Office 365 users, regardless of role/function of the user. Most organizations have a small number of "power users" that create usable content and many more "consumers" that simply view/run reports created by power users. Microsoft does not differentiate between these users, and thus the pricing limits organizations from large deployments of the software.
    • Version incompatibility: Excel 2010 and 2013 workbooks are compatible with each other. However, workbooks created in 2010 that include PowerPivot databases must be upgraded to 2013 format to run in 2013. Subsequently, you cannot open these upgraded PowerPivot workbooks in 2010. This requires ALL users to be on the same version.
    • Visualization: Excel charting with PowerPivot workbooks is adequate for many users. Power View also contains a number of GREAT visualizations, including animated bubble charts and a very flexible dashboard/report design canvas. However, compared to some of the other self-service BI solutions, it is still limited in its visualization capabilities.
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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
    Incentivized
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    I will continue to recommend this suite to folks looking for a reporting and analytics solution, as I find in MOST cases, it's great at meeting almost every requirement I've been given by a multitude of clients across a range of industries. I've built Capacity Planning solutions that allowed end user input which was then submitted to SharePoint, Executive Dashboards, custom applications, simple analytical tools for teams to easily slice and dice data, and super simple reports as well as some very complicated ones. If you haven't seen the demos online, do a search, and see for yourself - this is a great BI suite! (I do not work for Microsoft, although I do consult out there from time to time. I do occasionally make a recommendation for a different BI reporting tool, but in general, find Excel can accomplish quite a bit for less money and in less time.)
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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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    We are satisfied with the functionality and capabilities of Power BI. Product is cost effective and full-fill the reporting requirements of the organization. You can perform most of the report level complex analysis with the help of DAX which makes Power BI very powerful analytic tool. Power BI for Office 365 has gone away and Power BI is the next evolution of it. Power BI comes with your Office 365 E5 subscription or you can purchase licensing for it separately.
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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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    as of now there is strong community for Power BI, you can get solution for most of your problems from there. Also you can send your error to Microsoft as well. After every 15 days they release updates to overcome all the issues of defects.
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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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    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
    Incentivized
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    Oracle was nice, super expensive to implement if it's not in use already. JobDiva is choppy and heavy on the system while does not give great reports. Salesforce is good; remote access is good however their support is terrible
    Incentivized
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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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    • As a Microsoft Partner implementing Business Intelligence solutions, Power BI has removed the barrier for our clients to begin the "BI journey". So often, projects get hung up in that early phase of procuring and installing/configuring expensive hardware and software. Just simply getting started and designing a beginning solution has allowed our clients to see results in 1-2 weeks using their data that might have taken months to achieve otherwise.
    • One significant ROI example is process improvement. In many cases, individuals or teams are spending days each month gathering data from multiple sources for reporting to their constituents. We are reducing these times to minutes by automating many of the data collection and integration processes that were previously manual.
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