BizTalk Server vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) comparison

BizTalk Server vs. Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)

September 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

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ROI

Sentiment score

5.8

BizTalk Server offers great ROI for large industries, but smaller businesses might prefer cloud solutions for more flexible options.

Sentiment score

7.1

Informatica IDMC enhances data quality, efficiency, and analytics, offering secure integration and reduced cloud migration costs for businesses.

BizTalk Server's ROI is comparatively higher than Boomi and Workato.

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Service Owner at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

Now the direction is to move away from BizTalk Server to IBM WebMethods, which has more features compared to BizTalk Server.

Taqi-Hasan

Senior Application Specialist at Taqa Distribution

We see return on investment from this solution in terms of time; time reduction or cost benefits is what we are getting very good results from.

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Principle Cloud Engineer at Sector 125

Customer Service

Sentiment score

4.8

User experiences vary, with praised documentation, competent engineers, and mix of Microsoft's support and external consulting for assistance.

Sentiment score

6.9

Informatica's customer service is praised for quick, knowledgeable support, though response times can vary with customization and membership levels.

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If they are unsure how to resolve an issue, they keep customers informed, providing updates about progress and ensuring communication with the product team to deliver accurate responses.

Siddhu K

Informatica Administrator EDC, Axox, PC, MDM at itcinfotech

The response time is pretty good because we have someone in-house, who is an expert from Informatica, in our team who can help us with any sort of queries usually.

BI Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would rate it as nine out of ten for Informatica PowerCenter kind of products or the Informatica integration products.

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Principle Cloud Engineer at Sector 125

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

6.0

BizTalk Server's scalability receives mixed reviews; some find it expandable, others face issues with increasing message volumes.

Sentiment score

7.3

Informatica IDMC delivers scalable, flexible data management across cloud and on-premise environments, accommodating diverse enterprise needs efficiently.

It is time for low-code, no-code, and a quick go-to-market should be faster.

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Service Owner at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

I find Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) to be a sustainable and scalable solution.

Principle Cloud Engineer at Sector 125

As a SaaS platform, IDMC is quite scalable and provides complete flexibility.

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Consulting Principal & Founder at Digital Data Consultancy

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

6.8

BizTalk Server is stable but struggles with large data, losing relevance as users increasingly transition to cloud solutions.

Sentiment score

7.7

Informatica Cloud is highly rated for stability, despite occasional issues; support effectively resolves any reported bugs.

BizTalk Server is good for small companies but not for big companies.

Taqi-Hasan

Senior Application Specialist at Taqa Distribution

BizTalk Server's stability rates about eight or nine out of ten.

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Consultant at EC live! Hans Pointner

Stability is crucial because IDMC holds business-critical data, and it needs to be available all the time for business users.

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Consulting Principal & Founder at Digital Data Consultancy

Room For Improvement

BizTalk Server needs better debugging, deployment, scalability, cloud integration, JSON support, API management, and task management to stay competitive.

Informatica IDMC requires improvements in integration, user interface, performance, support consistency, connectivity, automation, data tagging, and pricing.

We initially planned to move to Azure Integration Services, but there are challenges with AIS, so now we are evaluating WebMethods IO.

Service Owner at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

BizTalk Server needs improvements, especially because we use it for EDI messaging, and it would be very useful to have enhanced tracking capabilities for message tracking and archiving of messages.

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Consultant at EC live! Hans Pointner

The observability concept in Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) needs improvement as the capabilities are not up to the mark compared to the industry.

PraveenChatla

Head of Information at Ericsson

Principle Cloud Engineer at Sector 125

I also want to see integration with other Informatica products, such as IICS, to leverage the metadata from EDC.

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BI Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Setup Cost

BizTalk Server offers flexible deployment but can be costly compared to Azure, with users favoring cloud solutions for efficiency.

Informatica IDMC, a costly solution for large enterprises, offers extensive features and flexibility, justifying its premium pricing.

The only thing I heard is that it's not inexpensive.

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Consultant at EC live! Hans Pointner

It ranges from a quarter million to a couple of million a year.

Consulting Principal & Founder at Digital Data Consultancy

The licenses are too expensive compared to before, which is why customers are now preferring other data metadata management tools like OneTrust, Collibra, and Azure Purview.

Siddhu K

Informatica Administrator EDC, Axox, PC, MDM at itcinfotech

I think the costs are reasonable for the kinds of features that Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) has.

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BI Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features

BizTalk Server excels in seamless integrations, data processing, and reliability with its workflows, adapters, and low-code configurations.

Informatica IDMC excels in data management with strong integration, AI-driven analytics, and a flexible user interface.

Boomi has advantages over BizTalk Server because it is more flexible, low-code, no-code, easy to implement, and has a fast go-to-market.

Service Owner at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

BizTalk Server offers workflow functionality that I find very effective for process automation.

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Consultant at EC live! Hans Pointner

In on-premise, we call it EDC for metadata management, while in cloud-based technologies, it is known as the Metadata Command Center, which serves the same purpose as EDC concerning CDGC.

Siddhu K

Informatica Administrator EDC, Axox, PC, MDM at itcinfotech

Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) can connect to pretty much any application, including Oracle Analytics and Power BI, and it works quite seamlessly.

BI Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The platform's ability to pull in data from other platforms without the need for an additional integration tool enhances its appeal.

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Consulting Principal & Founder at Digital Data Consultancy

Categories and Ranking

BizTalk Server

Ranking in Business-to-Business Middleware

8th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (14th)

Informatica Intelligent Dat...

Ranking in Business-to-Business Middleware

5th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

185

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (3rd), Data Quality (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (10th), API Management (7th), Cloud Data Integration (3rd), Data Governance (2nd), Test Data Management (3rd), Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions (1st), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (2nd), Data Masking (1st), Metadata Management (1st), Test Data Management Services (3rd), Product Information Management (PIM) (1st), Data Observability (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Business-to-Business Middleware category, the mindshare of BizTalk Server is 4.6%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is 4.2%, down from 5.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business-to-Business Middleware Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	4.2%
BizTalk Server	4.6%
Other	91.2%

Business-to-Business Middleware

Featured Reviews

Vignesh Kumar Sekar

Senior Analyst at Sword Group

Enables message routing and provides a secure way to communicate between two systems

The AS2 communication protocol is one of the most advanced processes. It enables a handshake with the source and target systems using certificates. It is the most secure way of communicating between two systems. It is an advantage. We can do a lot of message routing. If we want to handle large data, we can put the data into different patterns to process it. We can do it through sequential convoy or parallel convoy orchestration. BizTalk comes with SQL Server. We can load temporary data in the database and use the batch process from BizTalk. It is an added advantage. Creating agreements is a manual job, but it's quite easy in BizTalk. Even a fresh college graduate can configure AS2 certificates and partner profiles and communicate with other systems. It is easy.

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Modular structure and AI features stream new reporting processes

Principle Cloud Engineer at Sector 125

One of my clients has a requirement; they want to integrate metadata into the process, which means, for example, if I just want to implement a new field into my database, that field needs to be reflected throughout, let's say, 200 mappings. This highlights the need for a data-driven approach. My experience with technical support from Informatica is quite interesting; I would rate it as nine out of ten for Informatica PowerCenter kind of products or the Informatica integration products, because my team can do some hands-on using their free licenses or one-month kind of products. However, for products Master Data Management or related to MDM or Data Governance, there is no way by which we can directly practice, and my team struggles at that point.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	42
Midsize Enterprise	24
Large Enterprise	134

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BizTalk Server?

The tool's most valuable feature is its integration with the banks. Its messaging and routing capabilities are good.

What needs improvement with BizTalk Server?

Biztalk server doesn't have API management so that our exposed can be protected against the SQL injection, DOS attacks. However, this is available in IBM WebMethods. The positive impact of BizTalk ...

What advice do you have for others considering BizTalk Server?

For BizTalk Server's monitoring and alerting tools, we are using a BizTalk 360 monitoring tool. BizTalk 360 is a product that helps us in getting the insight of API response and number of API calls...

How does Azure Data Factory compare with Informatica Cloud Data Integration?

Azure Data Factory is a solid product offering many transformation functions; It has pre-load and post-load transformations, allowing users to apply transformations either in code by using Power Q...

Which Informatica product would you choose - PowerCenter or Cloud Data Integration?

Complex transformations can easily be achieved using PowerCenter, which has all the features and tools to establish a real data governance strategy. Additionally, PowerCenter is able to manage huge...

What are the biggest benefits of using Informatica Cloud Data Integration?

When it comes to cloud data integration, this solution can provide you with multiple benefits, including: Overhead reduction by integrating data on any cloud in various ways Effective integration ...

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Also Known As

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ActiveVOS, Active Endpoints, BPM, Address Verification, Persistent Data Masking, Cloud Test Data Management, PIM, , Enterprise Data Catalog, Data Integration Hub, Cloud Data Integration, Data Quality, Cloud API and App Integration

Overview

Connects systems both inside and across organizations, exchange data and orchestrate business processes across multiple systems.

Microsoft

Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) integrates data quality, governance, and integration with flexible architecture. It supports multiple domains and a data models repository, delivering AI-enhanced data management across cloud-native platforms.

IDMC provides seamless integration and governance capabilities that support diverse data environments. Its comprehensive suite includes customizable workflows, data profiling, and metadata management. AI features, a data marketplace, and performance scalability enhance data management. While its interface poses challenges, its robust matching and cloud-native integration facilities are essential for complex data ecosystems. Users employ IDMC for connecting systems, ensuring data quality, and supporting data compliance but seek better pre-built rules, services, and improved connectivity, especially with platforms like Salesforce. Licensing, cost, and added AI functionalities are areas for potential refinement.

What are the key features of IDMC?

Data Quality and Integration: Seamless integration ensures data accuracy across platforms.
Metadata Management: Comprehensive metadata management supports data governance.
AI Capabilities: AI features enhance automation and decision-making processes.
Data Marketplace: Facilitates easy access to data across the organization.
Performance Scalability: Scales performance efficiently to meet growing data demands.

What benefits should be expected from IDMC?

Enhanced Data Management: Offers robust tools for data governance and quality.
Improved Integration: Connects disparate systems seamlessly, reducing data silos.
Cost Efficiency: Streamlines data processes, potentially reducing operational costs.
Data Compliance: Supports compliance with data privacy regulations.
Agility and Scalability: Adapts quickly to changing data environments.

IDMC is implemented across industries for data integration, metadata management, and governance. Organizations use it to connect systems, migrate data to cloud environments, and maintain data quality. They manage master data and automate business processes, facilitating data lineage and ensuring compliance with privacy regulations.

Informatica

Sample Customers

Centrebet, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, QualCare, Wªrth Handelsges.m.b.H, DTEK, Allscripts, United BioSource, Hogg Robinson

The Travel Company, Carbonite