Cribl Stream is a vendor-agnostic observability pipeline used to collect, reduce, enrich, normalize, and route data from any source to any destination within an existing data infrastructure. It is used to achieve full control of an organization's data stream.
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Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
Score 7.0 out of 10
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The Informatica® Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ (IDMC) is designed to help businesses efficiently handle the complex challenges of dispersed and fragmented data to innovate with their data on virtually any platform, any cloud, multi-cloud and multi-hybrid.
Advantages - if you'd like to re-shape/manipulate data, Cribl LogStream comes to help! - If you'd like to enrich data within data pipeline without any struggle, Cribl LogStream is the one! - If you'd like to reduce data size, cribl is the one! Disadvantages - there is ML/AI module for streaming data. - There is no sigma integration for security use cases.
Informatica Cloud is an excellent tool for freeing up trapped data in your internal systems and exporting it into a cloud data warehouse or SQL container. Especially if you have any internal SQL query generators that allow you to copy and paste into the Source setup. For example, we use Business Objects internally, and you can build out the query you need inside the firewall with that, then paste it into the query within Informatica Cloud while establishing the Source connection. This way you are not writing all your source parameters by hand, cutting new jobs setup time by 50%. Where Cloud will not suit you well is if you need significant visibility to the health of the system from a tracking, monitoring or error handling standpoint. Cloud will tell you it failed, maybe give you an example error, but has no further troubleshooting or diagnostic assistance to offer.
Informatica Cloud is a great tool for automating data imports. Raw data files can be scheduled to run at designated times, and using pre-built mappings ensures that the data goes into the system accurately each time.
It is also a great tool for converting raw data into specific formatting. For example, configuring the mapping so that the first letter of a first, middle or last name is always capitalized.
Additionally, Informatica Cloud has a built-in field-matching tool so that records that already exist are updated rather than having duplicates created.
I've never had trouble getting into contact with Informatica's support for technical help. I give it a nine because it does pretty well for mid to enterprise-scale workflows.
-Cribl LogStream has a huge growing community and plugin play packs that help you to onboard and reduce your size within 5 min. -Friendly user interface -The broker feature saves your life against regulations. - field extraction's never been so easy before. - multiple sources and destinations feature to give you an easy playground.
Having used SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in the past, Informatica Cloud was a huge-step up in functionality, usability and performance. Hands-down, Informatica Cloud is a much more robust product overall. While SSIS is well-suited for specific instances (i.e. SQL Server-specific implementations), Informatica Cloud is a much better product as an overall integration/transformation tool.
Getting data out of various systems such as Salesforce.com or FTP and consolidating it into tables in one central database.
Having the ability to run data transformation tasks (the equivalent of batch jobs in SF or stored procedures in SQL) on a schedule without consuming those resources on the target or source systems.
