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IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer vs Informatica Data Quality comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Infosphere Information ...
Ranking in Data Quality
9th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
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Informatica Data Quality
Ranking in Data Quality
25th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

Tirthankar Roy Chowdhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Teamlead at Tata consultancy services
Accessible from anywhere and easy to learn even for non-technical users, but needs more connectors and faster issue resolution from technical support
What could be improved or added to IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is more connectors. This solution comes in a package with IBM InfoSphere DataStage and is missing a lot of connectors to various, new data sources, so IBM needs to work on that area. Compared with competitors such as Informatica and Alation which acquired other small companies to work on the connectors, IBM has not done any testing and has tried to develop the connectors in-house, but that's taking a lot of time. As a result, my company is unable to connect to a lot of data sources, particularly modern data sources.
Hemanthreddy Vakiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Data quality checks have reduced manual monitoring but still face cost and performance issues
Some of the best features Informatica Data Quality offers include AI automation using CLAIRE, which integrates AI with Informatica Data Quality, and its user-friendly drag-and-drop interface. All of this is simply usable to any person who has minimal knowledge of ETL. Rather than querying every table to check for any duplicate entries or null values, it is impossible to query for each site. Once we integrate it with Informatica Data Quality and use the drag-and-drop function to specify the conditions we need and connect to the databases, it directly checks if the values are within the threshold or if we can set conditions, such as not entering records with null values. It also features a match and merge condition, from which data profiling and data cleansing can be done.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"You can also schedule and run data quality on the critical data elements on the databases."
"What's most useful in IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is you can access it from anywhere. It's also pretty easy to learn, so even non-technical business people use it and found the solution easy to learn."
"Information Analyzer is still a good product."
"This tool would be very beneficial if used before a data migration or BI project as an initial phase to know the data exactly, and to figure out all data possible scenarios which we might face."
"For basic Business Rule Creation to cleanse Legacy data, it worked as intended."
"My advice to others who want to start using IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is that it's a very good product because it has a lot of handy features, and it's a product that's easier to learn and that even non-technical people can use it."
"Since we integrated Informatica Data Quality in our project, the amount of human interaction has reduced, so the team has decreased, resulting in cost savings for our project and improved time by automating checks for missing or null values."
"About Informatica Data Quality, I do not think that I have any questions because the product is very good."
 

Cons

"Stopped using it. Took a loss."
"Customer Service: AverageTechnical Support: Not good"
"What could be improved or added to IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer is more connectors. This solution comes in a package with IBM InfoSphere DataStage and is missing a lot of connectors to various, new data sources, so IBM needs to work on that area. Compared with competitors such as Informatica and Alation which acquired other small companies to work on the connectors, IBM has not done any testing and has tried to develop the connectors in-house, but that's taking a lot of time. As a result, my company is unable to connect to a lot of data sources, particularly modern data sources."
"IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer, particularly its latest version, has some stability issues. My company faced some serious issues with stability and had to repeatedly go to IBM to have the issues fixed."
"The solution is outdated and is not on cloud."
"As of v9.1, the troubleshooting process is still painful."
"The scalability is not up to mark in my view because even a small increase in data, like the number of rows, can cause the server to crash, requiring a reboot."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For the licensing cost of IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer, I have no information on the exact cost, but as it's bundled with other IBM products such as IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog and IBM InfoSphere DataStage, the bundle is expensive when compared to competitor pricing."
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Informatica Data Quality?
I have been informed by our management team that the pricing is high, but I am not sure about the specific figures regarding what the pricing is.
What needs improvement with Informatica Data Quality?
One thing is that, compared to the features provided by Informatica Data Quality, when compared to other tools offering similar features, it is somewhat costly. The scalability is not up to mark co...
What is your primary use case for Informatica Data Quality?
We are using Informatica PowerCenter for ETL, and simultaneously we are using Informatica Data Quality for data profiling, validation, to remove duplicate entries, and for data cleansing. Ours is a...
 

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Sample Customers

Integra LifeSciences, Longjiang Bank Corp., Webster University, Swedish Armed Forces, Edith Cowan University, Premier, PRISA Digital, TIAA CREF
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