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Informatica Data Engineering Streaming [EOL] vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Informatica Data Engineerin...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Informatica Intelligent Dat...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
215
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (1st), Data Quality (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (5th), Business-to-Business Middleware (1st), API Management (9th), Cloud Data Integration (3rd), Data Governance (3rd), Test Data Management (2nd), Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) (1st), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (2nd), Data Masking (2nd), Metadata Management (2nd), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (5th), Test Data Management Services (3rd), Product Information Management (PIM) (1st), Data Observability (2nd), AI Data Analysis (1st)
 

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DK
BI Practice Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Helps with real-time data processing and improves decision-making overall
It improves decision-making overall for the company. Informatica is usually the tool for setting up the data, streaming the data into your data warehouse from your source, transforming the data, and preparing and modeling it into some desired format. It improves the performance. You need to know how to use it and how to implement it, but it improves performance.
RC
Contractor at Sanlam
Cloud data catalog has streamlined lineage and quality while leaving more automation to improve
I have not explored IDMC's automation capabilities driven by AI and metadata too much at the moment, but it is on the cards. We are basically creating the foundation, as the whole migration has taken place recently and it is still early days. I think Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is evolving, and as the vendors move forward, they pick up new concepts from each other. I have seen that products leapfrog each other, and from my experience over the years, the big players tend to copy features or add enhancements based on industry trends. I feel whatever the tool does not have now, there is a feedback loop allowing us to request new features, and we continually ask for different ways to do things as we have a pipeline into the product management team. It is difficult to say what additional features I would prefer to see in the next release of IDMC. I would appreciate more automation on the lineage front, with more AI to seamlessly join independent sources and create seamless lineage between different technologies, such as from file into database A into a different database and landing up in a reporting system such as Cognos, Qlik, Qlik Sense, QlikView, or Power BI.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It improves the performance."
"The out-of-the-box features and standard profiling options provide quick visibility of the data within minutes, which facilitates discussions with the business."
"The feature I found most valuable in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services is the mapping; you just drag and it maps the data, so mapping is very easy and it's no code."
"With Informatica technical support has never been a problem; they are fantastic, and if you reach out to them and raise a case, they get onto it very quickly."
"Informatica is user-friendly, stable, and scalable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are, first of all, that it comes as part of this whole bundle of Informatica tools. So if you've been implementing Informatica MDM across a business, you'd often find it comes with it. It's been thrown in as a sweetener. The adoption of it is often the challenge because as part of your MDM project, governance is seen as something beyond the MDM and is often restrictive. So this tool actually, for the first time, when you talk to data governance teams, gives a holistic view of what a data governance team can do with this tool."
"I would definitely recommend Informatica Data Quality to others."
"Its data cleansing capabilities are very valuable. The match and merge and the audit trail functionalities are very good."
"We use parts and standardization for most of our testing. We purchase the US Postal Service address database, which is updated periodically. Many useful tools, such as Google Maps, can detect and mark new businesses or changes in business locations. Informatica captures and updates this information. Some periodic maintenance is involved, but setting it up is not overly complicated."
 

Cons

"Skill requirement is required. There is a learning curve."
"I would like to see more API integration to have the capability to build a report using other third party reporting tools allowing things to be streamlined."
"In terms of what could be improved, they need to create a rules repository."
"The product isn't mature enough to provide suitable connectors to various data engines."
"The product's pricing is definitely an area where a bit of improvement is needed."
"I feel the out-of-the-box APIs or the API management could be improved slightly from their current state. It could be more user-friendly."
"The customer servive and support could be faster. There is a slow turnaround."
"They could provide more robust performance for data integration processes. It would help in improving the data quality more efficiently."
"Inserting the GenAI into the master data management will reduce the overall effort of operational activities."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Informatica Cloud Data Integration is famously known for its high price. The vendor targets large enterprises, and not medium or small companies. These large companies, and organizations, handle large amounts of data. If you go into any large bank, such as American or Canadian banks, these banks use this solution because it is more reliable, secure, and has more functionality."
"The licensing costs attached to the solution are pretty high, but then, with the cloud model, the prices depend on what it provides for the value of money, which I feel was very high."
"The price is very high and has become a big concern for our customers who require the solution in order for their business to function smoothly."
"It is cost effective and an easily accessible tool."
"Licensing is difficult to understand, but the team is always available to explain anything. They are very helpful."
"We pay for a yearly subscription."
"The platform has a premium cost. I rate the pricing as seven out of ten."
"Informatica MDM's pricetag should come down. They have to cut some costs."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
32%
Construction Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Media Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
 

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business51
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise155
 

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Also Known As

Big Data Streaming, Informatica Intelligent Streaming, Intelligent Streaming
ActiveVOS, Active Endpoints, Address Verification, Persistent Data Masking
 

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