We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere MDM and SAP Master Data Governance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Master Data Management (MDM) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There are not really many areas of the product that need improvement because the product stays up-to-date with data management needs."
"When users update their information on one product, the data is sent to a database. My approach was to maintain a master data record, ensuring that each platform loads the latest updated record. Instead of having three separate records, the system keeps one master data record, storing the historical records for reference."
"The advantage is that the matching engine is very good, so that's why customers generally prefer it. From the inbuilt data model perspective, IBM MDM is good."
"The features that are most valuable are the governance, the end-profiling and the ETL which allows you to see the metadata repositories."
"We've found the solution to be quite flexible."
"User-friendly and provides customized reports and personalized data."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup of SAP Master Data Governance is very easy."
"SAP Master Data Governance integrates well."
"A good solution for large enterprises."
"Validates all aspects from security to authorization and authentication."
"I am satisfied with the solution's customer service."
"The solution is great at standardizing all of our records."
"The product is really only created for large organizations."
"We also want better cloud integration, so we could do things in the cloud if we needed to. This would be a good feature to add in a future release."
"The tool is difficult to understand from a customer perspective and for developers."
"IBM InfoSphere MDM's UI is complicated. It also needs to improve its on-prem configuration."
"The solution lacks some flexibility."
"They should improve the solution's performance as sometimes the process consumes much time."
"The multidomain MDM feature is based on EIP systems, which may not be a good model for all master data."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"In general, I want artificial intelligence added to SAP Master Data Governance since I feel it is one of the areas where the solution has certain shortcomings."
"The user interface is not user-friendly."
"The implementation could be easier."
IBM InfoSphere MDM is ranked 4th in Master Data Management (MDM) Software with 9 reviews while SAP Master Data Governance is ranked 1st in Master Data Management (MDM) Software with 21 reviews. IBM InfoSphere MDM is rated 7.4, while SAP Master Data Governance is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere MDM writes "Provides inbuilt data model and good matching engine". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Master Data Governance writes "Provides efficient technical support services, but it could be more affordable ". IBM InfoSphere MDM is most compared with Informatica MDM, IBM Master Data Management on Cloud, TIBCO EBX, Microsoft MDS and Reltio Cloud, whereas SAP Master Data Governance is most compared with Informatica MDM, TIBCO EBX, Microsoft MDS, Reltio Cloud and Semarchy xDM. See our IBM InfoSphere MDM vs. SAP Master Data Governance report.
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I cannot offer insight into the licensing policy of each vendor as they are very varied and indeed can change deal to deal. Oracle for instance might give you limited database license if you use it specifically for MDM - but will audit you and bill you for full use even if you add one custom table! What it also means is that if are going with the big ones - you can negotiate!!
I can, however, help you with key MDM requirements as defined by Gartner.
-Workflow/BPM,
-Loading/synchronization/business services/integration (which is basically ETL) - but it gives you the ability to implement in different styles - centralized, registry, co-existence, consolidation
-Information quality, semantic consistency : this is for DQ capability and survivorship
-data modeling - strength based on metadata management, policy enforcement, dating and versioning
-Stewardship support (such as 360 degree view, where used, decay analysis, ownership)
-Governance (a combination of a lot of the above really)
-multiple use cases (Operational and analytical) - here you can use ERP/PLM/CRM as operational examples and APS and DWH as analytical use cases.
- multi domain (product, customer, supplier, account, HR, location, person) - Tricky, as many vendors including Oracle claim to be multi domain - but they do not use a single framework to manage multiple domains - that is really not multi domain because the CDO's office still needs to manage multiple frameworks and the cost of ownership is very high.
- data quality dashboards
- Task management (Advanced)
- multi device support
If you are interested, you can also check us out at :
www.triniti.com for cheaper alternatives if you are an Oracle eBusiness Suite user. You can also peruse our following whitepapaers:
www.triniti.com (gives you an insight on why we have eliminated ETL and modeling from MDM)
www.triniti.com (Talks about an emerging part of MDM called ADM - application data management. We argue why MDM is worthless, if it is not built to make applications that consume master data such as ERP, CRM etc cannot use it instantaneously)
If you buy InfoSphere MDM Domain Hub Standard Edition you can use following products:
IBM Process Server Standard v8.5.6
IBM Process Server Standard for Non-production Environment v8.5.6
IBM Process Center Standard v8.5.6
IBM Process Designer v8.5.6
IBM Content Integrator v8.6
IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition v10.5
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.2.0
IBM InfoSphere Information Server Enterprise v11.5
IBM Integration Bus Healthcare Pack v3.0.0.0
IBM Integration Bus Express Edition v9.0.0.3
IBM Watson Explorer v10.0
IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software v9.5
IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment v8.5.5
IBM WebSphere Application Server Base v8.5.5
IBM WebSphere MQ v8.0
IBM WebSphere Portal Server v8.5
IBM Installation Manager & IBM Packaging Utility for Rational Software Development Platform v1.8
IBM Security Directory Server v6.4.0.0
For IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Enterprise Edition you can use also:
IBM InfoSphere Big Match for Hadoop v11.5
InfoSphere Information Server contains both DataStage (ETL engine) and QualityStage (DQ components which are fully integrated with ETL).
You could always check which products are provided in license on Software License Portal (www-03.ibm.com)