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TIBCO MDM is capable but requires complex configuration
November 14, 2017

TIBCO MDM is capable but requires complex configuration

John Rensberger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO MDM

TIBCO MDM is being used as a customer domain across a handful of systems to keep customer information accurate and consistent. Our current implementation uses very little of the functionality provided by MDM but still proves to be useful, especially with the use of Patterns.
  • Auditing/versioning/event logs are helpful and effective.
  • Data model is very capable and flexible and provides advanced functionality out of the box.
  • Highly customizable, almost intimidating the number of options.
  • The bundled components (Patterns and ActiveSpaces) are necessary and are what really give the tool so many capabilities.
  • The out-of-the-box UI and APIs are somewhat kludgy outside of for integration purposes.
  • Configuration can be somewhat difficult, even with the configurator we sometimes face difficulty getting elements to be configured properly.
  • There are many dependencies for the product to run and it sometimes is dependent on specific versions (WebLogic) of tools to operate correctly.
  • It is doing fairly well at keeping data consistent and is starting to allow us to find more issues with data.
There's no doubt that MDM is a very capable tool, however due to the complex configuration it can sometimes be difficult to get everything to function correctly. The out-of-the-box configurations gives you a lot of options, but we're finding this isn't usually friendly enough to be usable without additional customization.