Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) vs SAP Master Data Governance comparison

Informatica and SAP are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. Additionally, 92% of Informatica users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of SAP users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and SAP Master Data Governance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

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ROI

Sentiment score

7.1

Informatica's cloud platform enhances data management efficiency, cost savings, and data security, requiring effective change management for optimal results.

Sentiment score

5.4

SAP Master Data Governance improves efficiency and ROI by organizing data, reducing fraud, and successful project management execution.

Leadership prefers to utilize third-party tools, such as Snowflake, which has both storage and ELT features.

Divya-Raj

Sr. Consultant cum Assistant Manager & Offshore Lead at Deloitte

The stability and performance remain issues.

reviewer946383

consultant at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Compared to Collibra Catalog, where the value is noticeable within six months.

reviewer2696502

Data and Analytics Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.9

Informatica's customer service is generally rated positively for quick, knowledgeable support, though some report occasional delays and inconsistencies.

Sentiment score

6.0

SAP Master Data Governance support is generally positive, with responsive service, but some experience delays depending on company size.

Due to the tool's maturity limitations, solutions are not always simple and often require workarounds.

Saikat Ghosh

Consulting Principal & Founder at Digital Data Consultancy

Even after going out of service support, they still reached back to me whenever I raised tickets.

reviewer2145525

IT Manager - Data Quality and Migration at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We expect more responsive assistance because they have the expertise since Informatica is their tool, but I don't see enough expertise on the Informatica support side.

Divya-Raj

Sr. Consultant cum Assistant Manager & Offshore Lead at Deloitte

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.3

Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud is praised for scalability and flexibility in handling large datasets, despite pricing concerns.

Sentiment score

7.1

SAP Master Data Governance is scalable, supporting many users, though cost issues exist for mid-sized enterprises. Performance has improved.

I have used the product over multiple systems and was able to write reports for large data sets without any performance issues.

reviewer2145525

IT Manager - Data Quality and Migration at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

As a SaaS platform, IDMC is quite scalable and provides complete flexibility.

Saikat Ghosh

Consulting Principal & Founder at Digital Data Consultancy

There are many options available, and the licensing model is quite good, supporting our needs effectively.

Joseph Bojilov

Data Integration Architect at Endeavour Foundation

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Regarding scalability when a company is growing, you can scale SAP Master Data Governance.

reviewer2402049

Governance / Data Governance Initiative Advisory And Strategy Leadership at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Users generally find IDMC stable, with occasional challenges after updates, especially in older versions or specific integrations.

Sentiment score

7.7

SAP Master Data Governance is stable, adhering to standards ensures reliability, with good support for quick bug resolution and high user ratings.

Stability is crucial because IDMC holds business-critical data, and it needs to be available all the time for business users.

Saikat Ghosh

Consulting Principal & Founder at Digital Data Consultancy

There are substantial stability issues with Informatica Cloud Data Quality on the cloud.

reviewer946383

consultant at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I find the stability to be good, with occasional restarts required every two to three months due to glitches.

reviewer2145525

IT Manager - Data Quality and Migration at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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It has been sold to hundreds of thousands of clients worldwide since its launch in 2006 or 2007.

reviewer2402049

Governance / Data Governance Initiative Advisory And Strategy Leadership at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

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Room For Improvement

Informatica IDMC needs UI improvements, better connectivity, streamlined configuration, cheaper pricing, and enhanced support with AI integration.

SAP Master Data Governance needs better UI, integration, performance, cloud options, documentation, and enhanced AI for improved data handling.

The tool needs to mature in terms of category-specific attributes or dynamic attributes.

Saikat Ghosh

Consulting Principal & Founder at Digital Data Consultancy

The current solution requires code-writing and tweaking, while other solutions offer material-level matches.

reviewer2145525

IT Manager - Data Quality and Migration at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

If the development interface could be optimized to have fewer modules, it would be greatly beneficial.

Joseph Bojilov

Data Integration Architect at Endeavour Foundation

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It is not a one-time deployment; it requires ongoing investment in user and product knowledge, and you need to weigh the pros and cons of any IT solution.

reviewer2402049

Governance / Data Governance Initiative Advisory And Strategy Leadership at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Regarding SAP Master Data Governance, there is significant room for improvement particularly concerning the replication types.

UdayReddy

Lead at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

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Setup Cost

Informatica IDMC provides a robust but expensive pricing model with complex licensing and potential negotiation discounts for enterprises.

SAP Master Data Governance pricing varies by implementation, user count, and location; costs may be high despite potential discounts.

It ranges from a quarter million to a couple of million a year.

Saikat Ghosh

Consulting Principal & Founder at Digital Data Consultancy

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services is affordable for my specific use cases, with the pricing being rated three or four on a scale where one is very cheap.

Joseph Bojilov

Data Integration Architect at Endeavour Foundation

Regarding pricing, compared to other tools I have worked with, Informatica offers competitive pricing, which I find not high in terms of starting strategy.

Divya-Raj

Sr. Consultant cum Assistant Manager & Offshore Lead at Deloitte

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Valuable Features

Informatica IDMC offers seamless data integration, AI-enhanced features, and efficient governance, enhancing user experience and operational efficiency.

SAP Master Data Governance excels in integration, user interface, and quality management, ensuring efficient data workflows and enterprise-level reliability.

The platform's ability to pull in data from other platforms without the need for an additional integration tool enhances its appeal.

Saikat Ghosh

Consulting Principal & Founder at Digital Data Consultancy

The connectors serve as the main functionality, making data integration processes more efficient by saving time and effort.

Joseph Bojilov

Data Integration Architect at Endeavour Foundation

We could run data quality rules as part of Service Bus, which ensured the integrity of customer information before it was entered into our database.

reviewer2696502

Data and Analytics Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

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It is important that when you begin this journey of deploying the product, that you do not approach it from a technical standpoint but involve business design from the very beginning.

reviewer2402049

Governance / Data Governance Initiative Advisory And Strategy Leadership at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Informatica Intelligent Dat...

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) (5th), Business-to-Business Middleware (2nd), API Management (6th), Cloud Data Integration (3rd), Data Governance (3rd), Test Data Management (3rd), Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) (1st), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (2nd), Data Masking (2nd), Metadata Management (2nd), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (4th), Test Data Management Services (3rd), Product Information Management (PIM) (1st), Data Observability (2nd), AI Data Analysis (1st)

SAP Master Data Governance

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Master Data Management (MDM) Software (1st)

Q&A Highlights

it_user545286

Principal Software Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 09, 2016

Reltio: Question about Master Data Management Capabilities

Riversand technology is leader in the MDM space and makes a product called MDMcenter. Gartner and Forrester put these guys in a leader and visionary quadrant topping Informatica, oracle, and sap. They have a product used by many fortune 1000s and multinational companies. I have rolled out MDM solutions for a bunch of customers using different platforms and Riversand's is the best. They have cloud based and on premise solutions. It can scale from small projects to biggest implementations of the planet, different geographies/locations, langauges and near infinite entities. Their licensing can vary based on required modules; but they offer Matching, Deduplication, Searching, Workflow, Modeling, Analytics, Integration, Domain / cross-domain, Governance tools to change / commit / rollback. The applications modeling and framework is flexible so it can handle any domain, product, retail, manufacturing, customer, vendor, finance, investment vehicles, jewelry, oil and gas, person, auto, high tech, oil gas, fast food, grocery, etc. Hands down this is best product in its class. It's top shelf. Given the choice and having used other products, I'd choice Riversand over the other competing products. If you didn't check them out yet, you definitely should.

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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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reviewer2402049

Governance / Data Governance Initiative Advisory And Strategy Leadership at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Centralized master data has improved quality and now supports consistent global governance

Regarding what SAP can do better in SAP Master Data Governance, they have an entire roadmap of constant improvements since they deployed the product, always adding new business functionality and add-ons. Each company may have different feedback, wishing for certain features. The essence of SAP Master Data Governance is to provide structure, and from my standpoint, it offers a pretty good structure. There will always be areas for improvement; for example, when I deployed it a few years ago, their approach to internal orders for finance was still new, and they were figuring out how it would work based on organizational requirements. The financial data objects are straightforward, but financial statements are a bit more challenging. It is not a one-time deployment; it requires ongoing investment in user and product knowledge, and you need to weigh the pros and cons of any IT solution. I often advise clients to walk before they run because establishing hierarchies requires having a designed structure before implementation, though you can add that later. For additional functions in SAP Master Data Governance, it is interesting because on my project, we are already using AI technology for data cleansing before records are entered into SAP Master Data Governance. It would be beneficial to have the Dun & Bradstreet add-on within SAP Master Data Governance. However, one must remember that for AI to work effectively, it requires good data. Without that, AI does not make a difference. SAP Master Data Governance will always require a human perspective, especially to identify duplicate records. While SAP Master Data Governance provides technical capabilities for identifying potential duplicates based on searches, it requires human oversight due to the complexity of analyzing data fields. I believe integrating AI into the product could work, particularly after a solid data migration, which ensures that the records are reliable before utilizing AI for analytics.

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Answers from the Community

it_user545286

Principal Software Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dec 9, 2016

Reltio: Question about Master Data Management Capabilities

2 out of 7 answers

it_user348246

Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Dec 8, 2016

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 (http://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/search)

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it_user311469

Works with 10,001+ employees

Dec 8, 2016

Will do but can you help me out with my groceries for this week ? ( please stop sending me these emails. I am a professional not a volunteer) Sent from my iPhone

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Financial Services Firm

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	4
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	21

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What do you like most about SAP Master Data Governance?

We've managed tens of thousands of updates within 30 to 60 minutes, and we can also replicate these changes to all connected systems.

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The challenge with SAP MDG is not only the cost but the resources. The skills required are niche in the market, and while you can purchase the product either one time or on a subscription basis, th...

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Also Known As

ActiveVOS, Active Endpoints, Address Verification, Persistent Data Masking

SAP MDG

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

Your company wants accurate, complete, and trusted data to master your digital business processes and business models. The SAP® Master Data Governance application provides ready-to-run, domain-specific master data governance, enabling you to decentrally own and consolidate and to centrally create, change, and distribute master data across your enterprise system landscape. Tight integration with other SAP solutions supports the reuse of data models, business logic, and validation frameworks with open integration to third-party products and services to support your entire technology stack. It supports cleansing, standardization, duplicate detection, and best-record calculation. It then lets you synchronize clean and standardized data across cloud and on-premise applications.

SAP

Sample Customers

The Travel Company, Carbonite

Convergent IS, CHIO Aachen, Dell, Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), City of Boston, Mozzart, Mitsui Knowledge Industry (MKI), AOK Bundesverband, eBay

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