Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) vs Informatica Test Data Management (TDM) comparison

Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and Informatica Test Data Management (TDM) are both solutions in the Test Data Management category. Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0, while Informatica Test Data Management (TDM) is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.5. Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) holds a 5.8% mindshare in TDM, compared to Informatica Test Data Management (TDM)’s 12.7% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Informatica Test Data Management (TDM) users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 11, 2025

Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud and Informatica Test Data Management both compete in the data management category, with IDMC having the upper hand due to its comprehensive integration capabilities and customer service excellence.

Features: IDMC offers seamless integration of master data management, data quality, and data integration, ensuring flexibility and good performance. It includes features like address validation, data cleansing, and integration versatility with various sources. TDM excels in data masking, test data generation, and ensuring referential integrity for enhanced testing and compliance.

Room for Improvement: IDMC could improve its integration with SAP business applications, expand preconfigured business rules, and enhance its GUI. TDM faces challenges with complexity and performance in large data volumes, and could benefit from easier connectivity to the broader Informatica suite and an improved user interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IDMC offers flexible deployment options across different cloud environments with proactive and highly responsive customer service. TDM also supports on-premises deployment but relies more heavily on technical support due to its complexity in setup and maintenance, making IDMC more agile in customer service delivery.

Pricing and ROI: IDMC is priced at a premium with flexible licensing models, delivering strong ROI due to its broad capabilities. In contrast, TDM's pricing is more rigid with licensing tied to core usage and longer-term commitments, though it offers significant ROI in data security and compliance.

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Categories and Ranking

Informatica Intelligent Dat...

Ranking in Test Data Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

214

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (2nd), Data Quality (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (7th), Business-to-Business Middleware (3rd), API Management (6th), Cloud Data Integration (3rd), Data Governance (3rd), Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) (1st), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (2nd), Data Masking (1st), Metadata Management (1st), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (3rd), Test Data Management Services (3rd), Product Information Management (PIM) (1st), Data Observability (1st), AI Data Analysis (1st)

Informatica Test Data Manag...

Ranking in Test Data Management

4th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Test Data Management category, the mindshare of Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is 5.8%, up from 5.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Informatica Test Data Management (TDM) is 12.7%, down from 15.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Test Data Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	5.8%
Informatica Test Data Management (TDM)	12.7%
Other	81.5%

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Divya-Raj

Sr. Consultant cum Assistant Manager & Offshore Lead at Deloitte

Handles large data volumes effectively and offers competitive pricing

There is a lot of improvement required, as we still face some cache issues most of the time, which is a challenge that we expect to see resolved in the future. Additionally, there is some limitation when we are working with a tool, especially regarding In and Out parameters, and I feel that this aspect should be improved going ahead. We face issues with the API side, as Cloud Application Integration cannot handle large volumes; according to the API page, there is a limitation of 500 records or 500 MB. The AI integrated into the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services solution is called Application Integration, where we still face challenges when dealing with huge volumes, as previously explained.

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Raj Sethupathi

Data Integration Consultant GCP/AWS at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Seamlessly connects with the ETL engine and has its own policy pack, reducing the need for custom coding

I've only worked with versions 9.7 and 10.5.1, and I'm not familiar with the newest features in the current version, 10.5.1. However, I'm sure they have incorporated AI capabilities, as that is the current industry trend. It is this new buzzword. Informatica itself introduced CLAIRE AI. I am four versions behind. So, it would be good if I upgraded. Plus, Informatica has rebranded this TDM. It's not even originally from Informatica. They purchased the company that makes the application around 2010. Informatica has purchased so many companies for different purposes, like business-to-business, test data management, and more. They change the trade name so frequently. It used to be ILM, Informatica Lifecycle Management, then they changed it to something else, then Test Data Management, and then Security Governance and Policy Management or something like that. It's all different names for the same product. Frequent rebranding and name changes can create confusion for customers.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"It has a more UI-based tool, and the scripting is good."

"The most valuable feature is the building of mockups and tasks."

"Axon has a marketplace that allows you to showcase all the assets the data owner has, so they can request access. That's one feature we use extensively. Axon also offers great visibility and intuitive searchability, allowing you to easily search data assets. You can check the lineage and see the work EDC does. EDC handles all the classification, cataloging, and lineage. It's integrated with Axon, and anyone can see that."

"Server maintenance, server hosting, backup, restoration, and DB capabilities are not needed in the cloud."

"The profiling features are much better than the on-premise version."

"The valuable feature is metadata management. If you want to trace sensitive data, you can auto-classify them. You can search for sensitive information through EDC. Using Discovery, you can identify if there is any type of data set."

"The advanced features like task flow and conditional integration are particularly useful."

"Their new licensing is very flexible. With Informatica Cloud, you have plenty of items under the same umbrella, such as services, offerings, data quality, and data masking. You have also got master data management and API management. What I really like about them is that you don't need to go to Informatica and say that you need a data integration module. You would say that you need iPaaS or Informatica Cloud. They'll then try to understand your needs and give you IPUs, which are the processing units. If I purchased a hundred IPUs from Informatica as a customer, I can use 70 IPUs for data integration. I would also need data quality, so I can use 10 IPUs for data quality. I can use the remaining 20 IPUs for API management. Down the line, if I see that my initial data integration needs for the development phase are met, then out of the 70 IPUs assigned for data integration, I can use 30 IPUs for data masking. I can shuffle these numbers in any way within the Informatica Cloud umbrella for the tenure for which I have subscribed to these IPUs. I can use all services the way I want. This flexibility is what I really love about Informatica. It also has got good connectors."

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"Informatica Test Data Management is a complete solution. I'm not very deep in the technical aspect of the solution, but most of the workflows are now completely automated. There are some minor elements where we have to still add manual parts to the implementation."

"The most valuable feature of TDM is its ability to mask data while maintaining referential integrity."

"We do not need to write complex SQL statements as the solution provides a GUI to perform activities."

"The most valuable feature of TDM is its ability to mask data while maintaining referential integrity."

"Informatica TDM is also developer-friendly, making it easy for ETL developers to pick up and use without extensive training."

"Organizations working on different projects can benefit from this tool."

"The customer service and support are very responsive."

"The tool enabled us to leverage Teradata Parallel Transporter to write the masked data efficiently to our Teradata warehouse."

Cons

"The UI is extremely complex"

"While my company operates on the cloud, we have seen that Informatica Cloud Data Integration has some performance issues causing it to lag."

"The tool could be improved in terms of ease of use, particularly for those without technical expertise. Understanding and extracting data from the table-based structure requires some SQL knowledge and technical skills. Additionally, while Informatica MDM has moved towards a cloud-based MDM with a UI similar to Reltio, I haven't used it, so I can't comment on its effectiveness."

"Cost-wise, it could be better."

"The cloud version of Axon is far behind the on-prem, and many of my clients want to go fully to the cloud. However, Axon has to be an on-prem installation. I would like to see their cloud products catch up with their on-prem capabilities."

"Informatica Axon's response times and certain aspects of the admin panel could be enhanced for better usability."

"Informatica Cloud Data Integration could improve the price by making it less expensive."

"The error information provided is not informative, as compared to Power Center."

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"There is a lag while opening the console, which is a concern from my end."

"Frequent rebranding and name changes can create confusion for customers."

"There are numerous issues, and we have reported these to the Informatica vendor."

"Informatica has a data governance suite, and at the moment, there is no connection between the data governance elements, such as the data catalog, and the Informatica Test Data Management software. For example, the data discovery which is part of both solutions is two separate things. If you have a data discovery in the data catalog, then we cannot use it for Informatica Test Data Management purposes and vice versa. The same software vendor, has two different products, with the same functionality. There's was no need to separate things. This is something which was a problem in a use case of the customer where this was the reason why they didn't choose the Informatica solution."

"A lot of improvement is needed, mainly due to the fact that the tool is very slow."

"The UI experience is a little bit old. When applying more than 80 columns, it means doing it in phases, as it won't allow it in one go."

"When it came time to upgrade from 9.7 to 10.1, we could upgrade all the other products, but there was an issue with TDM. It seemed like they weren't ready for the upgrade."

"Probably the ideal time testing site, utilizing self-service for real-time testing, could be an area for improvement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I have heard from customers that the product comes with a huge license cost."

"Informatica MDM's pricing is not cheap but comparable to other vendors."

"The licenses attached to the solution are highly priced."

"I rate Informatica MDM's price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."

"The solution is very expensive."

"You can purchase licenses for this solution at different intervals. For example, annually or every three years. They recently changed their terms for licensing and now it is more flexible."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing nine and a half out of ten."

"Informatica Cloud Data Integration is famously known for its high price. The vendor targets large enterprises, and not medium or small companies. These large companies, and organizations, handle large amounts of data. If you go into any large bank, such as American or Canadian banks, these banks use this solution because it is more reliable, secure, and has more functionality."

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"The cost is not an issue for enterprises, but for smaller businesses, it could be."

"It's expensive because the license needs to be bought for some time period. It's not pay as you go."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

17%

Insurance Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	51
Midsize Enterprise	27
Large Enterprise	153

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	10

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What do you like most about Informatica Test Data Management (TDM)?

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Also Known As

ActiveVOS, Active Endpoints, Address Verification, Persistent Data Masking

Informatica TDM

Overview

Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) offers seamless integration of master data management, data quality, and data integration with a cloud-native architecture supporting multiple data management styles, optimizing data governance through metadata management.

IDMC enhances data synchronization and mapping tasks, utilizing a broad range of connectors to interact efficiently with data sources. Its precise address validation via AddressDoctor and intuitive navigation bolster user empowerment, delivering agility, scalability, and security in data governance. Despite its strengths, areas like ease of use, SAP integration, and reporting could benefit from enhancements. Connectivity issues and workflow complexities are noted, needing improvements in performance, support, and licensing cost. Users demand expanded ETL capabilities, real-time processing, and broader data source support to address growing data needs.

What are the key features of IDMC?

Integration Capabilities: Ensures seamless connectivity between on-premise and cloud environments.
Master Data Management: Centralizes and streamlines data processes for enhanced quality.
Data Quality: Employs tools for cleansing and standardizing data accuracy.
Address Validation: Features AddressDoctor for precise address verification.
Real-Time Processing: Supports real-time data handling for critical operations.
Connectivity Options: Offers a wide array of connectors for easy data source interaction.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Scalability: Cloud-native design boosts system agility, adapting to data volume changes.
Security: Enhances data protection with robust encryption and compliance measures.
Efficiency: Automates processes to reduce manual effort and errors.
Flexibility: Supports diverse data management styles, offering adaptability to business changes.
Governance: Empowers effective data governance through comprehensive metadata management.

In industries such as banking, healthcare, and telecom, IDMC is implemented for data integration, cloud migration, and enhancing data quality. Its capabilities are crucial for metadata management, lineage tracking, and real-time processing, ensuring high data quality and streamlined operations.

Informatica

Informatica TDM empowers testing teams to generate test data sets for both simple and complex test case scenarios; spot and address data privacy risks with a complete library of prepackaged data masking algorithms; and define and reuse test data subset and masking policies across multiple applications and locations without the need to recode.

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Sample Customers

The Travel Company, Carbonite

Vale, Hot Telecommunication

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