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Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) vs Pentaho Data Catalog comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Informatica Intelligent Dat...
Ranking in Metadata Management
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
185
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (4th), Data Quality (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (9th), Business-to-Business Middleware (5th), 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 (2nd), Test Data Management Services (3rd), Product Information Management (PIM) (1st), Data Observability (2nd)
Pentaho Data Catalog
Ranking in Metadata Management
13th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Metadata Management category, the mindshare of Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is 22.6%, down from 27.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pentaho Data Catalog is 0.8%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Metadata Management
 

Featured Reviews

Saikat Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
Match and merge functionality is still the best but cloud version needs more functionality
There are various areas for improvement in IDMC. Enhancements on basic data management functionality and the UI front, such as multiple templates and improved grid views, would be beneficial. Bulk data management features could be improved from the UI perspective to get to the level of the on prem versions of Informatica MDM. The tool needs to mature but missing small but important features, like restricted dynamic attributes functionality, data inheritance rules in master hierachies, identifiers not being passed in jobs is a drawback.
Lisa Williams - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps make metadata available from our transactional databases, data warehouse, document management system, and GIS
As I've said, we've tagged a lot of fields that are related to specific processes, like the driller's log or, for example, if you want to get a license to be a well driller. Now, what I'm having to do for the consultants is create an Excel spreadsheet that has the name of the tag and a description of it. I'm now creating a data silo. What would be helpful is a place, inside Lumada Data Catalog, where you can describe the tags that you're using. Otherwise, anybody coming into the system, or seeing the tag from the outside in one of the reports, is going to say, "What is that tag really referring to?" and has to know where my spreadsheet is.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"MDM doesn't require a separate IDQ."
"You can extract and transfer your data as you wish it to be consumed later."
"The scalability is very high."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica MDM is hierarchy management. It's not something that's typically available and effective within ERPs."
"Axon does one interesting thing that I don't think other tools do as well. It lets you rate data and incorporates Informatica's data quality feature into it. There are little indications and graphics that show you how good the data quality is, and you can drill into it to see where potential issues lie."
"The solution scales well."
"Informatica Data Quality is a product that is worth the money."
"Seeing the data in the mapping itself is really nice."
"The ability to easily and quickly ingest new data sources is the most valuable feature... I'm not an especially technical IT person, but my data governance lead and I are able to ingest the data, quickly profile it, and do data identification and tagging."
 

Cons

"The price modeling could be more flexible."
"Its features for partitioning and optimization could be better."
"Informatica Axon's response times and certain aspects of the admin panel could be enhanced for better usability."
"There are some limitations with Informatica Axon when one tries to connect or integrate it with Jira."
"It would be helpful if there was a GenAI feature integrated into the system, especially regarding the data quality."
"They could improve technical support because it is not good enough at the moment."
"The pricing model is problematic."
"It could be improved by including a buffer that saves data when there is a connectivity issue."
"We've tagged a lot of fields that are related to specific processes... What would be helpful is a place, inside Lumada Data Catalog, where you can describe the tags that you're using. Otherwise, anybody coming into the system, or seeing the tag from the outside in one of the reports, is going to say, "What is that tag really referring to?" and has to know where my spreadsheet is."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have licenses, and we are provided with certain particular services in the solution."
"Informatica MDM recently changed its pricing model. It's usage-based but I don't have much insight into the current pricing."
"I rate the product's price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is the cheapest and ten is the most expensive. The product is a bit expensive."
"It is cost effective and an easily accessible tool."
"It is expensive. That's probably the biggest drawback. The business has heartache paying the license, but that's mainly because they don't realize what value it brings. The key thing about the MDM solution is that it is in the backend, and no one sees what it is actually doing. You don't know it is a problem until it is not there."
"Informatica MDM's pricetag should come down. They have to cut some costs."
"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."
"Comparatively, their prices are a little bit too high."
"We can afford it. We got a three-year contract... If it were to go up and price a lot, I don't know if I would be able to keep it."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Insurance Company
7%
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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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