We performed a comparison between Informatica MDM and Oracle Data Relationship Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Informatica, TIBCO, Reltio and others in Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions."The solution is easier to use compared to the other solutions."
"In the latest version, I like the outlay of the business roles creation. I like seeing that visualization as you're building it, as opposed to going through metatables or XML mappings. We liked that piece, and it makes it more intuitive for the business."
"The data quality component is very good."
"It is easy to create REST-based interfaces of the master data objects."
"Informatica MDM has data quality, mastering the data's capability."
"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."
"The fuzzy matching capability is a great feature."
"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 corresponding data management activities."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to use JavaScript in formulas."
"Informatica MDM has a complex user interface, which could be improved."
"Data integration should be improved."
"The configurations could be better. It is a bit confusing because we must develop two tools when building a data model in Informatica MDM. Even though Informatica MDM is a single tool, we have our hub console plus the provisioning tool within that. Whatever data model we are building in the hub console, we have to develop it in the provisioning tool again. It is double the work to create a data model. We are also using external calls or the Java custom plans functions. This can be both positive and negative. Since MDM as a client does not support any complex validation, we have to depend on the external call or a Java call. Every time we deployed, the entire solution was impacted if something went wrong."
"Informatica MDM's UI is not intuitive enough."
"The cost of Informatica MDM is expensive and has room for improvement."
"Informatica MDM could improve the interdependency with integration. The solution sometimes becomes a bit difficult to change considering a lot of interdependency with the integration. There can be some improvement in the workflows and they can introduce more artificial intelligence."
"Pre-sales technical support is much better than post-sales technical support."
"If I compare it with other MDM solutions in the market, one thing that can definitely be improved is automation to help with the configuration. Currently, when we are creating any staging of base object tables, all the columns have to be configured manually in the Informatica Hub Console. A lot of tables and different kinds of business columns have to be configured manually. There should be an automated process for this, especially in the Dev environment. When people are creating tables and columns from scratch, if there is a backend automated process for that, it would be really helpful. In Stibo, a similar feature is there wherein you can tag attributes to certain objects. It would be helpful if Informatica also provides a similar option. It would reduce the manual effort. It could be that such a feature is already there, but I am not aware of it."
"When we moved to the cloud, it was extremely complicated."
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Informatica MDM is ranked 1st in Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions with 45 reviews while Oracle Data Relationship Management is ranked 10th in Master Data Management (MDM) Software. Informatica MDM is rated 8.0, while Oracle Data Relationship Management is rated 9.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Data Relationship Management writes "Extremely flexible tool that can be customized to meet business needs". Informatica MDM is most compared with Reltio Cloud, SAP Master Data Governance, Profisee, TIBCO EBX and IBM InfoSphere MDM, whereas Oracle Data Relationship Management is most compared with Microsoft MDS and SAP Master Data Governance.
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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)