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Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) vs Talend Open Studio for MDM [EOL] comparison

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Categories and Ranking

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) (9th), Business-to-Business Middleware (4th), API Management (18th), Cloud Data Integration (4th), Data Governance (3rd), Test Data Management (4th), 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 (5th), Product Information Management (PIM) (1st), Data Observability (2nd), AI Data Analysis (3rd)
Talend Open Studio for MDM ...
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Mubahir Rashid - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analytics Consultant at Aletha Corp
Good data fabric and a straightforward setup with the ability to extend
I really like the data fabric. In my data fabric, we have a component related to cloud computing that is quite useful. The data fabric has improved over the previous version. The user interface is fine. There are good integrations possible with the product. The initial setup is very straightforward. It is a scalable product.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It has a more UI-based tool, and the scripting is good."
"It has good processes and governance."
"The Mapping Designer allows for declarative ETL development (visual scripting) that leverages a wide array of different transformations."
"The solution is stable."
"It is quite useful and flexible compared to other vendors in terms of cost of implementation and use case."
"We are gaining our customers' confidence, and they rely on us for data classification."
"Server maintenance, server hosting, backup, restoration, and DB capabilities are not needed in the cloud."
"There are a couple of valuable features. One is that it is very quick on the profiling. So, you get a very fast snapshot of the type of data that you're looking at from the profiling perspective. It can highlight anomalies in the data."
"The most valuable features are the stewardship and the data prep."
"I really like the data fabric."
"The biggest advantage of Talend is that they have an active community, and if we face any issue, we can get input in a short duration of time."
 

Cons

"Most of the new features added by Informatica are through Elastic Mapping. It would be helpful to have features like multithreading or partitioning for Salesforce to enhance performance."
"I can't say the user interface is useless, but people don't use it because they find it cumbersome."
"The tool could be improved in terms of ease of use, particularly for those without technical expertise. Understanding and extracting data from the table-based structure requires some SQL knowledge and technical skills. Additionally, while Informatica MDM has moved towards a cloud-based MDM with a UI similar to Reltio, I haven't used it, so I can't comment on its effectiveness."
"Metadata querying is right now not there in Informatica Cloud Data Integration."
"It could be a bit more intuitive, rather than technically complex."
"Logical views are a little bit behind in comparison to the on-premise version."
"The on-prem version's functionalities may not be available on the cloud version."
"We'd like to see the microservices, which don't run yet because the solution is not yet fully cloud-based."
"It can definitely be improved on the UI side. They can provide a better UI as compared to what is currently available. I'm trying to set up the UI to capture some information, and when I try to use the native feature of Talend, I'm finding it difficult. It could be improved a bit. Only when it comes to MDM, it is not user-friendly, but when it comes to data integration of Big Data, it's extremely user-friendly."
"Creating a model and deploying it is a little bit tricky in Talend, compared to other tools."
"From the UI side, it'll trouble a lot."
"I do not have notes for improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate Informatica MDM's price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
"I rate the product's pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive."
"it's expensive, but if you're looking for a stable solution, Informatica MDM is a good one to choose."
"The platform has a premium cost. I rate the pricing as seven out of ten."
"It is cost effective and an easily accessible tool."
"Our customers sometimes are able to negotiate a much better price for Informatica Cloud Data Integration based on their relationship with the vendor."
"It's an expensive solution."
"I have no idea what the price actually is. It is probably not going to be the cheapest, but it is a pretty stable and robust platform from the backend standpoint."
"The licensing fees vary depending on the products that you purchase."
"It has one single license, and everything is included in it."
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Financial Services Firm
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Manufacturing Company
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Outsourcing Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
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