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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Informatica MDM & 360 Applications

    Score8.3 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

    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AInformatica PowerCenter was data integration technology designed to form the foundation for data integration initiatives, application migration, or analytics. It is a legacy product.N/A
    Pricing
    Informatica MDM & 360 ApplicationsInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
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    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
    Informatica MDM & 360 ApplicationsInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
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    Informatica
    Chose Informatica MDM & 360 Applications
    Informatica Cloud MDM was not available at the time of implementation. It has a direct connection with Salesforce, but as far as I can determine it is a solution that only addresses Salesforce and does not enable the sourcing of data from multiple external systems. Flat file …
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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
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    79%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
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    Features
    Informatica MDM & 360 ApplicationsInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Informatica MDM & 360 Applications and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Feature
    Informatica MDM & 360 Applications
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    8.5
    18 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Informatica MDM & 360 Applications and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
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    Informatica MDM & 360 Applications
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    7.5
    18 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings7.018 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Informatica MDM & 360 Applications and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Feature
    Informatica MDM & 360 Applications
    -
    Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    8.2
    18 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings9.015 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings8.016 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings6.116 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Informatica MDM & 360 Applications and Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
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    Ratings
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    9.0
    15 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings9.015 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Informatica MDM & 360 ApplicationsInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (21 ratings)
    8.0
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Informatica MDM & 360 ApplicationsInformatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    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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    1.- Scenaries with poor sources of data is not recomended (Very bad ROI). The solution is for medium-big enterprises with a lot of sources of data and users. 2.- Bank and finance enviroment to integrate differente data form trading, Regulatory reports, decisions makers, fraud and financial crimes because in this kind of scenary the quality of data is the base of the business. 3.- Departments of development and test of applications in enterprises because you can design enviroments, out of the production systems, to development and test the new API's or updateds made.
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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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    • Informatica Powercenter is an innovative software that works with ETL-type data integration. Connectivity to almost all the database systems.
    • Great documentation and customer support.
    • It has a various solution to address data quality issues. data masking, data virtualization. It has various supporting tools or MDM, IDQ, Analyst, BigData which can be used to analyze data and correct it.
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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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    • There are too many ways to perform the same or similar functions which in turn makes it challenging to trace what a workflow is doing and at which point (ex. sessions can be designed as static or re-usable and the override can occur at the session or workflow, or both which can be counter productive and confusing when troubleshooting).
    • The power in structured design is a double edged sword. Simple tasks for a POC can become cumbersome. Ex. if you want to move some data to test a process, you first have to create your sources by importing them which means an ODBC connection or similar will need to be configured, you in turn have to develop your targets and all of the essential building blocks before being able to begin actual development. While I am on sources and targets, I think of a table definition as just that and find it counter intuitive to have to design a table as both a source and target and manage them as different objects. It would be more intuitive to have a table definition and its source/target properties defined by where you drag and drop it in the mapping.
    • There are no checkpoints or data viewer type functions without designing an entire mapping and workflow. If you would like to simply run a job up to a point and check the throughput, an entire mapping needs to be completed and you would workaround this by creating a flat file target.
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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
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    Our team enjoys using Informatica and feels that it is one of the best ETL tools on the market.
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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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    Positives; - Multi User Development Environment - Speed of transformation - Seamless integration between other Informatica products. Negatives; - There should be less windows to maintain developers' focus while using. You probably need 2 big monitors when you start development with Informatica Power Center. - Oracle Analytical functions should be natively used. - E-LT support as well as ETL support.
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    Performance
    Informatica
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    PowerCenter is robust and fast, and it does a great job meeting all the needs, not just the most commercially vocal needs. In the hands of an expert power user, you can accomplish almost anything with your data. It is not for new users or intermittent users-- for that the Cloud version is a better fit. Be prepared for costly connectors (priced differently for each source or destination you are working with), and just be planful of your projects so you are not paying for connectors you no longer need or want
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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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    Informatica power center is a leader of the pack of ETL tools and has some great abilities that make it stand out from other ETL tools. It has been a great partner to its clients over a long time so it's definitely dependable. With all the great things about Informatica, it has a bit of tech burden that should be addressed to make it more nimble, reduce the learning curve for new developers, provide better connectivity with visualization tools.
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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
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    Discontinued Products
    While Talend offers a much more comfortable interface to work with, Informatica's forte is performance. And on that front, Informatica Enterprise Data Integration certainly leaves Talend in the dust. For a more back-end-centric use case, Informatica is certainly the ETL tool of choice. On the other hand, if business users would be using the tool, then Talend would be the preferred tool.
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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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    • The data pipeline automation capability of Informatica means that few resources are needed to pre-process the data that ultimately resides in a Data Warehouse. Once a workflow is implemented, manual intervention is not needed.
    • PowerCenter did require more resources and time for installation and configuration than was expected/planned for.
    • The lack of or minimal support of unstructured data means that newer sources of dynamic/changing data cannot be easily processed/transformed through PowerCenter workflows.
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