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Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Adobe Experience Manager (A...
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Customer Communications Management (CCM) (6th)
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) (6th), Business-to-Business Middleware (2nd), API Management (7th), Cloud Data Integration (3rd), Data Governance (3rd), Test Data Management (2nd), Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) (1st), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (2nd), Data Masking (2nd), Metadata Management (2nd), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (3rd), Test Data Management Services (3rd), Product Information Management (PIM) (1st), Data Observability (2nd), AI Data Analysis (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user692313 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Partner and AEM Architect at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Its flexibility and customization ability. Ease of initial setup and complete set of features to support digital marketing initiatives.
Start small and plan your first set of objectives clearly, leaving all the “nice-to-haves” for a later phase. Starting this way will help companies get a sample of the benefits, and get familiar with the tool in general. After the first phase, they may find things that they thought they wanted are not really required or can be achieved in a better, more efficient way in the AEM world. Another useful suggestion is to avoid trying to recreate your current solution using AEM; rather, try to look for new and different ways to achieve the same results that take advantage of AEM’s features.
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

"All these features help companies create powerful web applications that can then be customized and maintained by marketers with little involvement from IT."
"LiveCycle has a good user interface and has developed an easy way to create fillable .pdf forms."
"The solution's scalability is high."
"Customer service is absolutely brilliant and their on-demand support is really good speaking from a development team perspective."
"It is very useful for testing purposes and designing mappings for small projects."
"The application integration will give you more flexibility when dealing with APIs."
"Its data cleansing capabilities are very valuable. The match and merge and the audit trail functionalities are very good."
"It is unquestionably a good investment if used properly."
"The Informatica MDM tool provided a very robust and cost effective solution to implement a single view of physicians."
"Informatica Data Quality is a product that is worth the money."
 

Cons

"Help menu is a bit difficult to navigate."
"We have found occasional issues with stability but those were, in general, caused either by custom developed code or issues in the implemented architecture."
"I would rate it a seven out of ten due to lack of inbuilt BAM and BRE features."
"With the solution, we had some issues, and we have every day, and we used to open a ticket. Sometimes, there are data issues and transformation issues."
"Informatica MDM could be improved by adding drag and drop options, business data insights, and visualization reporting."
"In terms of cost effectiveness, Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is more than 20% costly compared to the industry."
"There were some features I thought were better on-premises, but it feels a catch-up game."
"Error reporting and debugging need improvement."
"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is hard to set up, so this is an area for improvement, e.g. it would be good if they make it easier to set up, because the project was made 80% of the time of the setup."
"Accessing data as a service is essential, especially for validations requiring external data services. This goes beyond basic syntactic checks, like ensuring an email address contains the @ symbol or .com domain. Instead, it's about advanced validation, such as verifying if an email address exists or if a phone number is valid."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price is high, but the competitors are even higher, like Collibra."
"The pricing structure is good, but having to pay for extra drivers to be used in an ICS environment makes me a little nervous."
"Informatica MDM recently changed its pricing model. It's usage-based but I don't have much insight into the current pricing."
"I rate the product's pricing a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is the lowest price and ten is the highest price."
"Informatica MDM's price could be lower."
"Informatica Axon is a costly solution. I rate Informatica Axon a four out of ten for its pricing."
"I'm not sure about the most recent pricing trends, but I don't believe it's significantly different from PowerCenter. I believe it is nearly the same."
"It is an expensive solution. I would say it is the most expensive solution in the market."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
25%
Government
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

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Small Business51
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise155
 

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Also Known As

Adobe LiveCycle
ActiveVOS, Active Endpoints, Address Verification, Persistent Data Masking
 

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