We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere MDM and Informatica MDM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about SAP, Microsoft, TIBCO and others in Master Data Management (MDM) Software."When users update their information on one product, the data is sent to a database. My approach was to maintain a master data record, ensuring that each platform loads the latest updated record. Instead of having three separate records, the system keeps one master data record, storing the historical records for reference."
"The features that are most valuable are the governance, the end-profiling and the ETL which allows you to see the metadata repositories."
"The advantage is that the matching engine is very good, so that's why customers generally prefer it. From the inbuilt data model perspective, IBM MDM is good."
"There are not really many areas of the product that need improvement because the product stays up-to-date with data management needs."
"I think the integration feature is probably one of the key features in Informatica MDM...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The ability to aggregate and put together data from around fifty sources into one environment allows us to have a preview of everything in a single place, which is something we did not have previously in our company."
"It has been leading the market with hierarchy management and all the different match concepts and algorithms. They're very robust."
"The valuable feature is that we can automate the integration part...It is a stable solution."
"It is easy to create REST-based interfaces of the master data objects."
"It's good for tool management, maintaining the golden record of customer status."
"It provides all the typical MDM capabilities like deduplication and machine survivorship."
"Informatica MDM stands out as a tool that can give you the flexibility needed for doing channel-specific data quality or business validation."
"IBM InfoSphere MDM's UI is complicated. It also needs to improve its on-prem configuration."
"We also want better cloud integration, so we could do things in the cloud if we needed to. This would be a good feature to add in a future release."
"The tool is difficult to understand from a customer perspective and for developers."
"The product is really only created for large organizations."
"We cannot sell the product directly with an additional layer."
"Their support should be improved. We have had some trouble with their support from time to time. Its scalability should also be improved. I would also like to have a bit more modern and friendly UI for the end-users. There should definitely be a simplified way to configure and set it up."
"The on-prem solution is harder to learn than the cloud-based versions."
"We currently have issues with real-time integration."
"Data integration should be improved."
"It could be a bit more intuitive, rather than technically complex."
"The configuration process is pretty lengthy and challenging and could be made easier to understand."
"The solution doesn't directly connect to any of the analytical tools."
IBM InfoSphere MDM is ranked 4th in Master Data Management (MDM) Software with 9 reviews while Informatica MDM is ranked 1st in Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions with 43 reviews. IBM InfoSphere MDM is rated 7.4, while Informatica MDM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere MDM writes "Provides inbuilt data model and good matching engine". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica MDM writes "Optimize business processes while ensuring that users see a return on their investment from the use of the product". IBM InfoSphere MDM is most compared with IBM Master Data Management on Cloud, SAP Master Data Governance, TIBCO EBX, Microsoft MDS and Reltio Cloud, whereas Informatica MDM is most compared with Reltio Cloud, SAP Master Data Governance, Profisee, TIBCO EBX and Microsoft MDS.
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I cannot offer insight into the licensing policy of each vendor as they are very varied and indeed can change deal to deal. Oracle for instance might give you limited database license if you use it specifically for MDM - but will audit you and bill you for full use even if you add one custom table! What it also means is that if are going with the big ones - you can negotiate!!
I can, however, help you with key MDM requirements as defined by Gartner.
-Workflow/BPM,
-Loading/synchronization/business services/integration (which is basically ETL) - but it gives you the ability to implement in different styles - centralized, registry, co-existence, consolidation
-Information quality, semantic consistency : this is for DQ capability and survivorship
-data modeling - strength based on metadata management, policy enforcement, dating and versioning
-Stewardship support (such as 360 degree view, where used, decay analysis, ownership)
-Governance (a combination of a lot of the above really)
-multiple use cases (Operational and analytical) - here you can use ERP/PLM/CRM as operational examples and APS and DWH as analytical use cases.
- multi domain (product, customer, supplier, account, HR, location, person) - Tricky, as many vendors including Oracle claim to be multi domain - but they do not use a single framework to manage multiple domains - that is really not multi domain because the CDO's office still needs to manage multiple frameworks and the cost of ownership is very high.
- data quality dashboards
- Task management (Advanced)
- multi device support
If you are interested, you can also check us out at :
www.triniti.com for cheaper alternatives if you are an Oracle eBusiness Suite user. You can also peruse our following whitepapaers:
www.triniti.com (gives you an insight on why we have eliminated ETL and modeling from MDM)
www.triniti.com (Talks about an emerging part of MDM called ADM - application data management. We argue why MDM is worthless, if it is not built to make applications that consume master data such as ERP, CRM etc cannot use it instantaneously)
If you buy InfoSphere MDM Domain Hub Standard Edition you can use following products:
IBM Process Server Standard v8.5.6
IBM Process Server Standard for Non-production Environment v8.5.6
IBM Process Center Standard v8.5.6
IBM Process Designer v8.5.6
IBM Content Integrator v8.6
IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition v10.5
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.2.0
IBM InfoSphere Information Server Enterprise v11.5
IBM Integration Bus Healthcare Pack v3.0.0.0
IBM Integration Bus Express Edition v9.0.0.3
IBM Watson Explorer v10.0
IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software v9.5
IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment v8.5.5
IBM WebSphere Application Server Base v8.5.5
IBM WebSphere MQ v8.0
IBM WebSphere Portal Server v8.5
IBM Installation Manager & IBM Packaging Utility for Rational Software Development Platform v1.8
IBM Security Directory Server v6.4.0.0
For IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Enterprise Edition you can use also:
IBM InfoSphere Big Match for Hadoop v11.5
InfoSphere Information Server contains both DataStage (ETL engine) and QualityStage (DQ components which are fully integrated with ETL).
You could always check which products are provided in license on Software License Portal (www-03.ibm.com)