Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog Initial Setup

MN
Practice Director - Digital & Analytics Practice at HCL Technologies

The initial setup was not very straightforward. This is an area of improvement.

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MW
Manager, Data Governance at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Setting up Informatica EDC is usually pretty straightforward. The challenge is working with vendors like Oracle and Microsoft, which have APIs for integrating things. You can query what they have. They want it to play well with other vendors because they know customers don't only have one brand of product. In some cases, you get vendors in there that are, "No, we're not going to do that because we're so special." It was a challenge. The platform of choice for data initiatives at the cancer research institution is Palantir. 

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Liu, Scott Wen - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery Manager at Deloitte

The initial setup of the Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog can be difficult. It can take approximately one week to install all the components, such as metadata.

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Carlos Souza - PeerSpot reviewer
Global IT Security Program Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The set up for this solution was not easy.

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JD
Principal Applications System Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees

I'm more from the end-user perspective. From a system standpoint, there is a different team that sets things up on the server and establishes various types of configurations. I do work with them, but I'm not actually doing that work. 

They have three people that are actively managing the system, and they are system administrators. There are also various people who might be testing things at any one point in time, and then there are various analysts who might be creating data to feed into the system, such as definitions of business terms. The same people may review the results once it gets into the engine. When it starts to process that data and makes the associations between the terms and the actual metadata where it is linking the two up, somebody has to go in and validate that, especially the exceptions or the ones that don't have a high enough matching score. So, there are probably three or four system admin folks, and those are more technical folks, and then you have maybe 20 people who might be putting in data, validating the data, and so on. Those are still primarily an IT function. They have subject matter expertise, but they're still reporting up through the IT group, and then, we'll eventually get to the point where we have a more robust set of business users who are reviewing and vetting that information.

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Emre Yiğit - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Manager at Komtaş

I rate the product's initial setup a nine and a half to ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy.

Most of the companies to whom my company provides the solution deploy it on an on-premises model. My company also sells the cloud version of the solution while also offering our customers the option to move from on-premises to the cloud version of the solution.

My wife runs a pharmacy, and she uses an ERP solution for sales-related activities, the data of which I can move to the cloud in ten minutes if she chooses Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog.

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HH
Technology lead developer at Maximus

I rate the initial setup a seven out of ten, because it is pretty straightforward. The solution took two to three days for the initial setup.

When deploying IEDC, one should have a server ready and a lot of open ports, but otherwise it is straightforward.

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ArturKowalczyk - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Innovation Leader at Netrix S.A.

The initial setup is not straightforward. We found it to be quite difficult. It took us about two weeks to deploy it.

We have ten people that can handle deployment and maintenance tasks, including a team leader and project manager. 

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SL
Head of Big Data and BI Development at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup was very, very complex. It took us a few months to complete the entire set up. There were a lot of bugs during installation. Also, when we wanted to upgrade from, I believe it was a 10.2.1 to 10.2.2, our production environment was down for a few weeks just because of the update. It was not a straightforward experience.

We had a very complicated environment, so when we worked on this, we also implemented the SDK or the API mechanism that came with the suite. Therefore, there were four people working on the setup for this environment. We also had support from the local integrator and we had a lot of support from some specialists from India.

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VJ
Lead Data Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup is easy. If we compare version 10.4 and version 10.5, they had a major architectural change in terms of infrastructure. The setup for version 10.5 became easier.

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Mark Bielz - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Delivery Lead at Arq group

The product requires maintenance.

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it_user778125 - PeerSpot reviewer
Interior Designer at a construction company

It was kind of complex. It required many prerequisites and required a team of professionals well-versed in Linux and big data technologies.

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