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We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere MDM and Informatica MDM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Question: Reltio: Question about Master Data Management Capabilities
Answer: Riversand technology is leader in the MDM space and makes a product called MDMcenter. Gartner and Forrester put these guys in a leader and visionary quadrant topping Informatica, oracle, and sap. They have a product used by many fortune 1000s and multinational companies. I have rolled out MDM solutions for a bunch of customers using different platforms and Riversand's is the best. They have cloud based and on premise solutions. It can scale from small projects to biggest implementations of the planet, different geographies/locations, langauges and near infinite entities. Their licensing can vary based on required modules; but they offer Matching, Deduplication, Searching, Workflow, Modeling, Analytics, Integration, Domain / cross-domain, Governance tools to change / commit / rollback. The applications modeling and framework is flexible so it can handle any domain, product, retail, manufacturing, customer, vendor, finance, investment vehicles, jewelry, oil and gas, person, auto, high tech, oil gas, fast food, grocery, etc. Hands down this is best product in its class. It's top shelf. Given the choice and having used other products, I'd choice Riversand over the other competing products. If you didn't check them out yet, you definitely should.
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Pros
"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.""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."

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"Address Doctor gives an accurate combination of information provided with a level of returned threshold value.""It gives you accountability to centralize your data and have it available to different applications.""The valuable feature is that we can automate the integration part...It is a stable solution.""New tools are coming out that will enable you to achieve 90 percent of use cases with the out-of-the-box configuration, but I would like to keep Informatica tight here. Otherwise, you need a Java user edit course and other things to do multiple things that you cannot configure out of the box. They have to go through those use cases to do something if those can also be configured rather than coded.""I like that Informatica MDM has robust matching technology. Informatica MDM is also porting the external Java applications for validations. I can consider that a must-have. It is also exposed to Rest API calls, and we can engage in real-time integrations with any third-party systems.""​The tool manually checks on applying business rules and helps to implement them.""The ability to clean out data and improve the data quality is the best feature.""It comes with lot of features and is a one-stop-shop solution for integration, data modeling, and data governance. Everything can be built under one particular umbrella. If any issues come up, then there won't be any blame game saying that it could be an integration issue or an MDM hub issue because it's wholly owned by Informatica. That's the biggest advantage of Informatica MDM over that of any other tools that are available on the market."

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Cons
"The tool is difficult to understand from a customer perspective and for developers.""IBM InfoSphere MDM's UI is complicated. It also needs to improve its on-prem configuration.""The product is really only created for large organizations.""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."

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"The solution doesn't directly connect to any of the analytical tools.""I think they should work really hard on UI.""They have too many diversified products. If you don't know Informatica, it's very confusing and feels very idiotic.""Informatica MDM can improve the data catalog and data marketplace.""Informatica MDM has limitations with connectivity.""Data integration should be improved.""The biggest pain point for us is the documentation. Typically, you have to go through knowledge forums and knowledge groups to find out about the syntax issues for interfacing with new products. Typically, you've got to deal with someone who has been through the pain before. Their documents are not really up to date with current innovations happening in the industry. As big as they are, you can't really expect it, but that's our pain point.""The tool should provide a unified user interface to manage the data objects."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It may be costly for small organizations but adds value for large organizations with demanding workflows."
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  • "it's expensive, but if you're looking for a stable solution, Informatica MDM is a good one to choose."
  • "It's pretty high for us. It's more on the higher side, like low to middle high."
  • "It is expensive. That's probably the biggest drawback. The business has heartache paying the license, but that's mainly because they don't realize what value it brings. The key thing about the MDM solution is that it is in the backend, and no one sees what it is actually doing. You don't know it is a problem until it is not there."
  • "Informatica MDM's pricetag should come down. They have to cut some costs."
  • "There is no doubt that it is very expensive, but the brand value comes at a cost. Other MDM solutions in the market that haven't proven themselves like Informatica are also pretty expensive. We need to understand that MDM itself is very expensive to implement. So, Informatica is also pretty expensive. I would rate it a two out of five for being pretty expensive."
  • "It's offers value for money. They're more competitive with respect to pricing and offerings."
  • "Informatica MDM recently changed its pricing model. It's usage-based but I don't have much insight into the current pricing."
  • "Informatica MDM's price could be lower."
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    Answers from the Community
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    it_user529854 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user529854 (CEO at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees)
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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 :
    http://www.triniti.com/oracle-master-data-management-software for cheaper alternatives if you are an Oracle eBusiness Suite user. You can also peruse our following whitepapaers:
    http://www.triniti.com/lean-mdm (gives you an insight on why we have eliminated ETL and modeling from MDM)
    http://www.triniti.com/content/mdmadmalanguage (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)

    it_user348246 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user348246 (Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees)
    Consultant

    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 (http://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/search)

    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:IBM InfoSphere MDM's UI is complicated. It also needs to improve its on-prem configuration.
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:This is where I think MDM shines - with its strong fuzzy matching algorithm. This is the essence of Informatica MDM. Based on these results, I can write our match conditions and then perform the… more »
    Top Answer:Pricing can vary because Informatica doesn't have a standard price across the board. It depends more on the sales representatives in different regions. They essentially call the shots and decide the… more »
    Top Answer:I feel the out-of-the-box APIs or the API management could be improved slightly from their current state. It could be more user-friendly. In future releases, I would love to have more reports and… more »
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    Also Known As
    InfoSphere MDM, InfoSphere Master Data Management
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    Overview

    InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) is the most complete, proven and powerful MDM solution with collaborative and operational capabilities. InfoSphere MDM manages master data for single or multiple domains - customers, patients, citizens, suppliers, locations, products, services offerings, accounts and more - for improving application & business process effectiveness

    Informatica MDM solution delivers the market-leading foundation on which to build that trusted 360-degree view. Companies around the globe rely on Informatica MDM to give business users easy access to the data that drives their strategic decisions about cutting costs, increasing revenues, improving operations, reducing risk, and capitalizing on opportunities. As the industry’s only true end-to-end MDM solution, it incorporates data integration, data quality, data governance, business process management, and master data management on a single vendor-agnostic platform to ensure faster time-to-value.

    Sample Customers
    L'Oreal S.A., Kingland Systems, Oncor, Farmaceuticos Maypo, Volkswagen Financial Services
    UPMC, Citrix
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm26%
    Computer Software Company8%
    Insurance Company7%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Retailer8%
    Healthcare Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Energy/Utilities Company6%
    Company Size
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    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise73%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise78%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise72%
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    IBM InfoSphere MDM is ranked 4th in Master Data Management (MDM) Software with 2 reviews while Informatica MDM is ranked 1st in Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions with 23 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 " Consolidates customer data from disparate sources like accounting, ER systems, and more and establishes clear guidelines for data quality and consistency within the organization". 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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