We performed a comparison between Informatica MDM and SAP Master Data Governance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its data cleansing capabilities are very valuable. The match and merge and the audit trail functionalities are very good."
"Address Doctor gives an accurate combination of information provided with a level of returned threshold value."
"Informatica MDM has a defined data model we can customize with user and developer options."
"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."
"The scalability of the solution is excellent."
"We can see all our information on a single screen."
"MDM doesn't require a separate IDQ."
"It has been leading the market with hierarchy management and all the different match concepts and algorithms. They're very robust."
"Validates all aspects from security to authorization and authentication."
"SAP Master Data Governance integrates well."
"The data capturing and data governance features are valuable."
"Useful for building master data."
"The product is easy to use and is beneficial from a data governance perspective."
"The ability to identify and manage duplicate data is valuable. The solution automatically checks for duplication possibilities based on criteria like name matching."
"The solution is great at standardizing all of our records."
"We've managed tens of thousands of updates within 30 to 60 minutes, and we can also replicate these changes to all connected systems."
"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."
"Needs to implement the new workflow with simple steps and a quick visualization with a 360 view of the data."
"The UI is terrible and not user-friendly."
"The product could be improved in the area of architecture and technology. All the parts are old."
"Pre-sales technical support is much better than post-sales technical support."
"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 solution doesn't directly connect to any of the analytical tools."
"The user experience can be improved."
"The documentation provided for the MDG extensions by Utopia could be improved."
"The user interface is not user-friendly."
"There were challenges with handling multiple values within a single input field at the screen level."
"It does not ensure data matches after system upgrades."
"The price can be improved."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"The product is not user-friendly."
Informatica MDM is ranked 1st in Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions with 43 reviews while SAP Master Data Governance is ranked 1st in Master Data Management (MDM) Software with 22 reviews. Informatica MDM is rated 8.0, while SAP Master Data Governance is rated 7.8. 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 SAP Master Data Governance writes "Provides efficient technical support services, but it could be more affordable ". Informatica MDM is most compared with Reltio Cloud, Profisee, IBM InfoSphere MDM, TIBCO EBX and Microsoft MDS, whereas SAP Master Data Governance is most compared with TIBCO EBX, Microsoft MDS, Reltio Cloud, IBM InfoSphere MDM and Semarchy xDM. See our Informatica MDM vs. SAP Master Data Governance report.
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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)