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"Informatica MDM has a defined data model we can customize with user and developer options."
"Its data cleansing capabilities are very valuable. The match and merge and the audit trail functionalities are very good."
"We've used the solution for quite some time, so in our organization, the product is pretty mature."
"The tool manually checks on applying business rules and helps to implement them."
"The scalability of the solution is excellent."
"The fuzzy matching capability is a great feature."
"The most valuable features of Informatica MDM are the IDQ and RDM data management."
"Informatica MDM's most valuable feature is the interconnection between multiple Master Data domains."
"The product is able to utilize the SQL server toolkit and it has tight integration with the SQL server."
"We really like the matching and merging features."
"The process of categorizing data, creating glossaries, and generating metadata is streamlined and less time-consuming."
"Informatica's issue is the licensing. Right now, there are a lot of new gen MDMs that are offering a lot in a single licensing model."
"The configuration process is pretty lengthy and challenging and could be made easier to understand."
"It could be a bit more intuitive, rather than technically complex."
"This is a costly solution. We have several customers who evaluate it but then look for other solutions because of the cost. At present, Informatica MDM comes as an on-premises or cloud-based solution. I would like to see them offer a SaaS-based MDM model. I think they are working on it."
"The on-prem solution is harder to learn than the cloud-based versions."
"We cannot sell the product directly with an additional layer."
"The cost of Informatica MDM is expensive and has room for improvement."
"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."
"The way training is laid out in their Profisee University, makes it really, really hard to find what you need fast."
"When we updated to version 7.1, there were some workflow issues."
"A more convenient approach would involve integrating all the pre-existing elements into Profisee itself."
Informatica MDM is ranked 1st in Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions with 43 reviews while Profisee is ranked 4th in Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions with 3 reviews. Informatica MDM is rated 8.0, while Profisee is rated 8.0. 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 Profisee writes "A reliable choice for organizations seeking efficient master data management providing cost-effective pricing, user-friendly interface, and seamless integration with Microsoft-based tools". Informatica MDM is most compared with Reltio Cloud, SAP Master Data Governance, IBM InfoSphere MDM, TIBCO EBX and Microsoft MDS, whereas Profisee is most compared with Microsoft MDS, Ataccama ONE Platform, Semarchy xDM, Reltio Cloud and SAP Master Data Governance.
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Hi @Richard Tibbetts,
There's no short answer to your question. Nearly all existing MDM solutions on the market offer a broad range of patterns to ingest master data from various sources and distribute cleanse and consolidated information, also to the Azure stack. Many vendors offer prebuilt connectors for the most common sources (databases, various file types, storages, business applications including MS Dynamics, Salesforce, etc.), but also support a generic way of ingesting/exposing data via Rest APIs, file drops, etc.
MS MDS is an extension of the MS SQL server 2016. I don't know Microsoft plans to extend it, but I know that Profisee and CluedIn are very active in promoting their solutions as-built having Azure in mind and being a part of the stack.
Informatica MDM has three types of offerings these days: on-prem, hosted MDM, and cloud-native option - they differ in the functionality and integration options.
Obviously, there are many more MDM tools on the market particularly good in various data domains (products, customers/suppliers - so yours, multi-domain, etc).
I think that you should start your MDM journey by answering which current challenges you try to solve or what new capabilities you need to enable to the organisation. Once these questions are answered and based on your organization's Enterprise Architecture principles, look for the best fitting tool. It may (or may not) be the one that fits the best into the Azure Reference Architecture.
I hope this helped.
It's probably worth to add the Microsoft promotes using CluedIn as MDM solution on Azure stack. Please have a look at the Microsoft documentation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
Last week Microsoft and CluedIn had a joined demo seesion. Perhaps you can ask for a link to a recording: https://www.linkedin.com/posts...
I agree with @InitZero...
I would add that there's no future roadmap for MDS and they don't have an Azure solution for it. Since it's a free product with an SQL license, don't expect Microsoft to invest in it.
Even though we are highly dependent upon it currently I'm starting to look towards the future where we need to find a replacement - hopefully, a PaaS solution. It would be great if Microsoft came out with something in Azure but I'm not hopeful at this point.