We performed a comparison between Informatica MDM, Microsoft MDS, and TIBCO EBX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Informatica, TIBCO, Reltio and others in Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions."It comes with lot of features and is a one-stop-shop solution for integration, data modeling, and data governance. Everything can be built under one particular umbrella. If any issues come up, then there won't be any blame game saying that it could be an integration issue or an MDM hub issue because it's wholly owned by Informatica. That's the biggest advantage of Informatica MDM over that of any other tools that are available on the market."
"Informatica MDM has a defined data model we can customize with user and developer options."
"It's good for tool management, maintaining the golden record of customer status."
"The tool manually checks on applying business rules and helps to implement them."
"The ability to clean out data and improve the data quality is the best feature."
"MDM is very stable - it can handle millions of hits daily and still run 24/7."
"Informatica MDM has data quality, mastering the data's capability."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica MDM is hierarchy management. It's not something that's typically available and effective within ERPs."
"The most valuable feature is the administration console."
"Unlike specialized tools, MDS is adaptable for various industries, making it a versatile choice for master data management."
"One of the main features I have found useful is the integration with Azure active directory."
"The ease of use is valuable."
"The solution is easy to install."
"Technical support is very good."
"It is very easy to deploy and provision a machine."
"Enables non-technical people to directly interact with the BI system."
"The data quality is very good."
"The API and the data model are very valuable features."
"This solution allows the user to have complete control, and is 100% customizable."
"The most valuable features of TIBCO EBX are that is a complete tool and everything can be done inside, including data governance. We are able to model everything according to the needs of the company. If the company needs five people to agree to a change in data, they can do it with TIBCO EBX. They can model it with any particular rules. Additionally, there is dynamic data modeling, simple workflows using the GUI that comes from the server."
"The data modeling is very good."
"There are a lot of possible use cases for this Master Data Management tool."
"The most valuable features of TIBCO EBX are the workflow and interface."
"The product is extremely flexible."
"The cost of Informatica MDM is expensive and has room for improvement."
"Informatica MDM has limitations with connectivity."
"The on-prem solution is harder to learn than the cloud-based versions."
"Informatica MDM can improve the data catalog and data marketplace."
"Informatica's issue is the licensing. Right now, there are a lot of new gen MDMs that are offering a lot in a single licensing model."
"We promote our code changes from a lower to a higher environment, which is highly complex when working with a multi-domain MDM like Informatica. This is the biggest obstacle for Informatica MDM, and I think they should change it because that's very time consuming."
"Informatica MDM could be improved by adding drag and drop options, business data insights, and visualization reporting."
"They have too many diversified products. If you don't know Informatica, it's very confusing and feels very idiotic."
"The solution could be better integrated into Microsoft's other products."
"Microsoft MDS isn't getting strong support because Microsoft is focusing more on cloud solutions."
"Most of the Microsoft partners, especially digitally, are separate. Personnel are business people, and they do not have technical expertise, so you end up as a company spending a lot of money training your staff and your engineers."
"The Microsoft license cost could be lower."
"I do not like using Silverlight and Internet Explorer. The new 2019 version gets rid of that, which is one of the reasons why we are looking to switch."
"The stability could be improved."
"The only drawback is that it does not have the matching, merging, and all true MDM components. For these, you have to use another competent called Data Quality Services (DQS). You need to plug it in and use it along with MDS for true MDM. Both of these are integrated together, but you have to do them separately, whereas, in Profisee, there are a couple of screens where you can configure the matching process, create matching rules, and other things, and everything is in one product, which is not the case with MDS. In order to implement a true MDM, you need MDS, DQS, and SSIS. You have to use MDS to store your golden records, DQS to configure and standardize all your rules and matching percentages, and SSIS to load the data to DQS and MDS. At the same time, you also need Melissa Data to clean up your addresses to validate and standardize the addresses. That's the main component of true MDM. It would be good if they can create a true matching component inside MDS and merge MDS and DQS."
"It would be a better option to have an on-cloud version."
"We would like to see the community an documentation for this solution be developed. At present there is very little tutorial documentation available, and limited community support for issues with the product."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"The product does not scale well horizontally. We find the scalability to be quite inferior to other options."
"In terms of improvements that this solution needs, it should support big data."
"The design should be easier and more visual."
"TIBCO EBX could improve by making the building of rules less complex and the repository is not robust."
"The documentation needs improvement."
"The tool has to improve mapping and workflow. It should be made more robust."
