We performed a comparison between Microsoft MDS and TIBCO EBX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Master Data Management (MDM) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has a very good feature called Excel plug-in. You just have to install the plug-in, and then it directly connects to the MDS instance where you can maintain and manage your data and publish it right through Excel. You don't need to go to the front end to make any changes. It has easy integration with SQL Server, and you can use SSIS to do the ETLs. It is a part of the Microsoft stack. It works with most of the Microsoft stuff."
"It is very easy to deploy and provision a machine."
"One of the main features I have found useful is the integration with Azure active directory."
"What I like about Microsoft, is that it has a huge database with many users."
"More generic related things can be included in the services."
"The best thing about it is that it comes with the Microsoft package."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft MDS is its management."
"The most valuable feature is the administration console."
"There are a lot of possible use cases for this Master Data Management tool."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The tool's UI is good and easy to understand."
"The initial setup is easy and straightforward."
"This solution allows the user to have complete control, and is 100% customizable."
"The API and the data model are very valuable features."
"The data modeling is very good."
"The product is extremely flexible."
"From my understanding, MS, as of 2021, will not maintain the product going forward."
"I do not like using Silverlight and Internet Explorer. The new 2019 version gets rid of that, which is one of the reasons why we are looking to switch."
"The Microsoft license cost could be lower."
"Microsoft MDS isn't getting strong support because Microsoft is focusing more on cloud solutions."
"The only drawback is that it does not have the matching, merging, and all true MDM components. For these, you have to use another competent called Data Quality Services (DQS). You need to plug it in and use it along with MDS for true MDM. Both of these are integrated together, but you have to do them separately, whereas, in Profisee, there are a couple of screens where you can configure the matching process, create matching rules, and other things, and everything is in one product, which is not the case with MDS. In order to implement a true MDM, you need MDS, DQS, and SSIS. You have to use MDS to store your golden records, DQS to configure and standardize all your rules and matching percentages, and SSIS to load the data to DQS and MDS. At the same time, you also need Melissa Data to clean up your addresses to validate and standardize the addresses. That's the main component of true MDM. It would be good if they can create a true matching component inside MDS and merge MDS and DQS."
"Most of the Microsoft partners, especially digitally, are separate. Personnel are business people, and they do not have technical expertise, so you end up as a company spending a lot of money training your staff and your engineers."
"Microsoft MDS' language should be simple so everyone can use it easily."
"In the next version, I would like to see integration with Azure."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"Currently, users can't use Plain SQL queries in TIBCO EBX."
"TIBCO EBX could improve by making the building of rules less complex and the repository is not robust."
"The documentation needs improvement."
"The product does not scale well horizontally. We find the scalability to be quite inferior to other options."
"The design should be easier and more visual."
"In terms of improvements that this solution needs, it should support big data."
"Everything is updated through forms, and working with UI web forms. It's more record-based processing. It is not mass-based processing. This is one of the things that are not good for TIBCO EBX. Another problem is we cannot join tables and prepare a view where the tables are joined. Someone can code it but it is not a feature of the solution without code. You have to take data from a table, combine it with data from another table and then present it. This could be done better."
Microsoft MDS is ranked 2nd in Master Data Management (MDM) Software with 19 reviews while TIBCO EBX is ranked 3rd in Master Data Management (MDM) Software with 14 reviews. Microsoft MDS is rated 7.6, while TIBCO EBX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft MDS writes "Useful Excel plug-in, good scalability, and good integration with SQL Server and other Microsoft products". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO EBX writes "Good workflow models and pull-down lists with very good data modeling". Microsoft MDS is most compared with Informatica MDM, SAP Master Data Governance, Profisee, Reltio Cloud and Oracle Data Relationship Management, whereas TIBCO EBX is most compared with Informatica MDM, SAP Master Data Governance, Reltio Cloud, Stibo STEP MDM and Informatica PIM. See our Microsoft MDS vs. TIBCO EBX report.
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