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Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) vs Oracle Integration Cloud Service comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.1
Informatica Cloud users benefit from improved data quality and efficiency, emphasizing proper use for long-term ROI and digital transformation.
Sentiment score
8.3
Oracle Integration Cloud boosts ROI by shortening development cycles and reducing operational and administrative efforts through automation.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.9
IDMC customer service is praised for competence but faces occasional delays influenced by time zones and contract levels.
Sentiment score
6.0
Oracle Integration Cloud Service support is generally knowledgeable but experiences vary, with users noting improvement needs in response times.
Due to the tool's maturity limitations, solutions are not always simple and often require workarounds.
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.
I find the technical support from Oracle to be good.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Informatica IDMC excels in scalable data management, handling large volumes and global deployments, with adaptability in cloud environments.
Sentiment score
7.8
Oracle Integration Cloud scales well for medium implementations but faces constraints with large data, impacting performance and licensing cost.
As a SaaS platform, IDMC is quite scalable and provides complete flexibility.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Informatica IDMC is generally stable, with occasional issues in older versions or specific features, often resolved by support updates.
Sentiment score
8.1
Oracle Integration Cloud Service is stable, with infrequent issues, and users rate its stability highly from seven to ten.
Stability is crucial because IDMC holds business-critical data, and it needs to be available all the time for business users.
The solution is stable.
 

Room For Improvement

IDMC needs enhancements in user interface, data integration, security, automation, cloud support, documentation, and customer service.
Oracle Integration Cloud Service requires enhanced error analysis, documentation, B2B integration, adapters, and JSON support, while addressing file handling limits.
I also want to see integration with other Informatica products, such as IICS, to leverage the metadata from EDC.
The tool needs to mature in terms of category-specific attributes or dynamic attributes.
The mapping is a bit complex, so configuration is not very easy for a new user.
 

Setup Cost

Informatica IDMC's pricing is complex and expensive, with negotiable options, prompting consideration of alternatives despite its robust features.
Oracle Integration Cloud Service offers flexible, scalable pricing with competitive models and discounts, appealing for enterprise integration despite higher costs.
It ranges from a quarter million to a couple of million a year.
I think the costs are reasonable for the kinds of features that Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) has.
 

Valuable Features

Informatica IDMC offers seamless integration, flexible architecture, and robust data management with real-time processing and user-friendly interface.
Oracle Integration Cloud Service simplifies enterprise connectivity with intuitive tools, numerous adapters, and serverless setup for seamless integration.
The platform's ability to pull in data from other platforms without the need for an additional integration tool enhances its appeal.
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) can connect to pretty much any application, including Oracle Analytics and Power BI, and it works quite seamlessly.
Additionally, it provides a wide variety of built-in adapters for many cloud providers, such as Azure Blob and AWS S3.
 

Categories and Ranking

Informatica Intelligent Dat...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
183
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (3rd), Data Quality (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (13th), Business-to-Business Middleware (4th), API Management (8th), 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 (2nd), Metadata Management (1st), Test Data Management Services (3rd), Product Information Management (PIM) (1st), Data Observability (2nd)
Oracle Integration Cloud Se...
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Integration solutions, they serve different purposes. Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is designed for Data Management Platforms (DMP) and holds a mindshare of 16.3%, up 14.1% compared to last year.
Oracle Integration Cloud Service, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 7.9% mindshare, down 10.3% since last year.
Data Management Platforms (DMP)
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Raj Sethupathi - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers profiling and address standardization but can be complicated
Informatica Data Quality has its data warehouse, primarily using Oracle and some SQL databases. You need a database to host the data. The cleansed version of the data is stored in the data warehouse. It integrates with PowerCenter and other Informatica tools. The integration details can be complex, but a regional setup is involved in this process. Profiling smaller datasets, such as 10,000-50,000 records, worked fine. However, unexpected issues could arise with larger datasets, such as thousands of records or more, especially with tables containing many columns. Handling tables with fifty or more columns can be challenging, even in Excel. A mismatch in data types could cause the entire system to crash. Continual enhancements are being made to address these issues, which can be unique to specific industries like finance and healthcare.
Divya Prakash - PeerSpot reviewer
An integration tool that is highly compatible and easy to maintain
Dealing with the large file sizes has occasionally been a challenge, though we have found workarounds. But dealing with large file sizes could be easy in integrations. I have also come across schema files where headers, footers, and bodies are there, but it's not a valid schema. None of the MSCAs are defined properly. In such cases, we have to think of multiple workarounds, such as splitting or merging. But this is a standard requirement for organizations, so custom solutions should be provided. There are cases when the systems don't expect additional MSCAs, or they expect headers, footers, or tags with different values. But this is not a proper XML. So if we are dealing with XML conversions, mapping, and integrations, we have to do some custom work. These are solutions that Oracle can provide.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
6%
Educational Organization
39%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Oracle Integration Cloud Service?
Oracle Integration Cloud Service offers a lot of adaptors.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Integration Cloud Service?
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Also Known As

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
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