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Actian Pervasive Data Integrator [EOL] vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Actian Pervasive Data Integ...
Average Rating
5.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Informatica Intelligent Dat...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
215
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (1st), Data Quality (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (9th), Business-to-Business Middleware (4th), API Management (18th), Cloud Data Integration (4th), Data Governance (3rd), Test Data Management (4th), Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) (1st), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (2nd), Data Masking (2nd), Metadata Management (2nd), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (5th), Test Data Management Services (5th), Product Information Management (PIM) (1st), Data Observability (2nd), AI Data Analysis (3rd)
 

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BB
Associate Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It is stable and we did not have any issues with initial setup. I am not sure if there are various connectors available in the recent version to support the wide range of sources available.
I am not sure if there are various connectors available in the recent version of Pervasive DI to support the wide range of sources available (e.g., big data, cloud, EME) I have been using it for 6-7 months. There were no concerns with the stability. This product is very good from a stability…
RC
Contractor at Sanlam
Cloud data catalog has streamlined lineage and quality while leaving more automation to improve
I have not explored IDMC's automation capabilities driven by AI and metadata too much at the moment, but it is on the cards. We are basically creating the foundation, as the whole migration has taken place recently and it is still early days. I think Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is evolving, and as the vendors move forward, they pick up new concepts from each other. I have seen that products leapfrog each other, and from my experience over the years, the big players tend to copy features or add enhancements based on industry trends. I feel whatever the tool does not have now, there is a feedback loop allowing us to request new features, and we continually ask for different ways to do things as we have a pipeline into the product management team. It is difficult to say what additional features I would prefer to see in the next release of IDMC. I would appreciate more automation on the lineage front, with more AI to seamlessly join independent sources and create seamless lineage between different technologies, such as from file into database A into a different database and landing up in a reporting system such as Cognos, Qlik, Qlik Sense, QlikView, or Power BI.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"There were no concerns with the stability. This product is very good from a stability perspective."
"This product is extremely useful and better than building an in-house solution."
"For data transfers and ETLs on Windows, this is a great product."
"Web based interface."
"We have been using it for ETL, it is very robust and easy to use."
"The data mapping capability is a valuable feature."
"Some of Axon's valuable features include creating your business glossaries, importing DQ rules, and creating change management."
"The ability to clean out data and improve the data quality is the best feature."
"I recommend Informatica because anyone with a bit of knowledge, even a beginner or intern, can explore, learn, and accomplish development tasks without much difficulty."
"It comes with lot of features and is a one-stop-shop solution for integration, data modeling, and data governance."
"Its key capability is in data maintenance, as we can maintain all the organizational data in a single software and see all our information on a single screen."
"The feature I found most valuable in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services is the mapping. You just drag, and it maps the data. Mapping is very easy, and it's no code. When you migrate data or when the data interaction happens at the source and destination, the challenge is that you'll get different formats. The validation has to be done in the middleware, and the transformation should happen. In Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, it's very easy to do data validation and transformation compared to any other tool."
"The staging and hierarchical features are the most valuable."
 

Cons

"At the moment, we can't even use it for 1, since it keeps failing in our QA testing."
"The areas which I think need to be improved are the transform and load steps."
"I am not sure if there are various connectors available in the recent version of Pervasive DI to support the wide range of sources available (e.g., big data, cloud, EME)."
"Technical support is an area which can definitely improve."
"The initial setup of Informatica MDM is more complex than it should be."
"With limited data it's fine, but with a large volume the scalability is questionable, the threshold of data transaction is different."
"In certain domains, I am looking for material-level match features that are not customizable. The current solution requires code-writing and tweaking, while other solutions offer material-level matches."
"Although we are very satisfied with the design of the UI, executing tasks with it can be difficult."
"The customer servive and support could be faster. There is a slow turnaround."
"The one thing that I think could be improved is connectivity with the Salesforce because if you're loading a huge amount of data, whatever optimization is carried out, takes some time and it could be a little faster."
"Interoperability is one area where EDC has room for improvement. It was challenging when the faculty took over the data world and had specific vendors they wanted to use, and some were not particularly open platforms."
"It needs to be a little more intuitive but it’s really not bad."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Our customers sometimes are able to negotiate a much better price for Informatica Cloud Data Integration based on their relationship with the vendor."
"We pay for a yearly subscription."
"The solution's pricing model is easy, but it is very expensive."
"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."
"We got a 50% discount."
"The solution is expensive."
"The product is very expensive"
"The platform has a premium cost. I rate the pricing as seven out of ten."
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Financial Services Firm
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Manufacturing Company
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Outsourcing Company
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Construction Company
9%
 

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Small Business3
Large Enterprise4
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Small Business51
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise155
 

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Also Known As

Pervasive Data Integrator, PDI
ActiveVOS, Active Endpoints, Address Verification, Persistent Data Masking
 

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