Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) Reviews

Our organization operates in the financial industry and we utilize the solution to gather and incorporate high-quality data, making it available in the data marketplace.

We are satisfied with the entire solution in its current state and eagerly anticipate its transition to cloud technology.

The tools required to migrate existing mappings and server rules through cloud data quality are not available. Additionally, there is no alert mechanism in place for the existing IDQ that can be integrated with email alerts.

I have been using the solution for over ten years.

I give the stability a ten out of ten.

I give the scalability an eight out of ten.

The technical support responds quickly.

Positive

The initial setup is straightforward. I give the setup a nine out of ten. The deployment took around one and a half hours and two administrators.

The implementation is completed in-house.

I give the solution a ten out of ten.

We have a two-person admin team that takes care of the maintenance.

I would recommend Informatica Data Quality as it has been consistently identified by Gartner as one of the leading solutions in the market.

The product is used for data governance. It's a tool for data governance, a technical metadata dictionary, and a data lineage repository.

So far, we have been pleased with its capabilities. 

It has a wide coverage of technologies. 

The solution scales well.

It is stable and reliable. 

The technical support has been helpful.

The initial setup is very, very difficult. 

The solution is quite expensive. 

I would like them to extend the coverage to other technologies like web services and programming languages.

I've been using the solution for six months. 

It is stable, and it is reliable. The performance is good. We haven't dealt with bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

We can scale the product.

We have about 50 users on the solution right now. It's not used too extensively just yet. It will be in the future, however. We do also have plans to increase usage. 

We've used technical support previously and found them to be quite good. We are satisfied with the level of support we can get. 

Positive

We did not previously use a different solution. 

The initial setup is not straightforward. We found it to be quite difficult. It took us about two weeks to deploy it.

We have ten people that can handle deployment and maintenance tasks, including a team leader and project manager. 

The implementation can be done in-house with a lot of effort.

I'm not sure of the exact cost, however, the range is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's very expensive. 

I'm not an experienced user of it. I used it in workshops, and I use other Informatica products, so I have some relevant knowledge.

I deal with the latest version of the solution. 

I'd rate the product nine out of ten and can recommend it to others to use. 

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.

It has given us a lot of flexibility in terms of solutions.

This is a costly solution. We have several customers who evaluate it but then look for other solutions because of the cost.

At present, Informatica MDM comes as an on-premises or cloud-based solution. I would like to see them offer a SaaS-based MDM model. I think they are working on it.

I've worked with Informatica MDM for close to a year.

We have not had any performance issues.

It is a scalable solution.

The technical support is good depending on the SLA. Sometimes, they do have a busy schedule. When I contacted them for issues, someone joined the call if he/she was ready. Otherwise, we have had to wait for a day or two.

Informatica MDM is a costly solution because it comes as a bundle. They are also globally positioning themselves and are definitely working on very upgraded technologies. If someone wanted to do it on the cloud, they have a lot of flexibility because they upgrade themselves according to the current needs. It definitely comes with a lot of features and that's the reason why it's costly.

The licensing cost should be approximately one million dollars. It's about four to five times that of other vendors.

Take a look at your budget first and then proceed with this solution.

On a scale from one to ten, I give Informatica MDM a nine.

We use Informatica Supplier 360 to provide a New Zealand-based national product catalogue for the health sector.

It's got a reputation in the industry as one of the best solutions for master data management. So, it's what we see in the Gartner top right quadrant as the best product in that space.

We'd like to see the microservices, which don't run yet because the solution is not yet fully cloud-based.

I have been using this solution for about 12 months.

It is stable.

One of the main reasons we purchased this product was its scalability, which is better than other offerings in the market.

We have a premium service with access to tech support. They're very good. On a scale of one to ten, I'd rate them as eight.

Positive

We did not use any solution previous to Informatica Supplier 360.

It's a long-term journey, and we're still working on it. We're due to finish at the end of this year, making it a two-year deployment, but it will have a long run.

A mixture of in-house and integration partner.

We're still in the deployment process, so we haven't seen any ROI yet. We also have a benefits realization program that won't be realized until we've fully rolled it out.

The licensing model allows you to consume a reasonable amount of products and is not constrained to specific parts items. So we can bring on other components of the solution without needing new licenses. You order a tranche of stuff and consume it. 

We are quite happy with the licensing model.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We are resellers.

It has all the advantages of the Cloud in that you can use it without worrying about infrastructure, upkeep, or upgrades. Informatica is in charge of all those things. Additionally, the SLA on the cloud is better.

Not all transformations are supported, unlike PowerCenter. However, I'm confident that they will include this in the roadmap.

I have over 15 years of experience working with Informatica tools, and we have worked with Informatica Cloud Data Integration in the last 12 months.

The installation is simple because it is on the cloud.

It is dependent on the number of jobs you have and so on. However, from a skill set standpoint, you only need one person to maintain this solution. You can also play a developer or administrator role. These are fairly straightforward roles with a lot of community support.

I'm not sure about the most recent pricing trends, but I don't believe it's significantly different from PowerCenter. I believe it is nearly the same.

It is dependent on the requirements. If the transformation requirements are not too complex, I believe they can use the Cloud. However, if they have too many application systems to connect to, or too many databases, and require richer transformation capabilities, they can use PowerCenter.

We have a partnership with Informatica.

I would Informatica Cloud Data Integration an eight out of ten.

We use this solution primarily for core master data management and deduplication.

Recently, they have come up with cloud versions, which I have not experienced. It's mostly deployed on-premise.

We have a limited number of users who are using this solution and working with the master data.

Initially, there wasn't a great product competing with Informatica for market management. It has been leading the market with hierarchy management and all the different match concepts and algorithms. They're very robust.

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. VOS or Entity 360 are offering licensing differently.

I have been working with this solution for more than 10 years.

It's stable and reliable.

It's scalable.

I have had mixed experience with technical support. Sometimes it's very quick. Sometimes there isn't a quick turnaround and we don't have a person to reach out to directly to get an answer from them.

Installation was challenging. Informatica has a very robust engine, which takes a little bit of time, but they're stable.

We have a technical team of 50 people. Deployment depends on
the size and complexity of the requirements. Starting from scratch, any new implementation should take around five to six months. For new gen MDMs, the implementation can be done in three and a half months.

The ROI depends on the business requirement. If they're using their core master data and that data is helping them to address a lot of issues, then the return on investment is definitely very high. If an organization isn't using that to full scale, then it might not be that great.

It's offers value for money. They're more competitive with respect to pricing and offerings.

We primarily use the solution for data integration, management, and more recently, data cataloging in the lineage.

It's great as a unified enterprise data management platform. It's useful for cross-platform functionality.

The solution is stable.

The product is scalable and excellent for enterprise-level organizations.

Technical support has been good.

Cost-wise, it could be better. Informatica has a bit steep upfront cost. Upfront, it requires upfront investments. Many models of Informatica still require licenses. I would really like to see Informatica moving more and more into pay as you go model, so to move completely from CapEx to OpEx.

I've personally used the solution for many years. 

The product is stable. They've been on the market for many years. They're key industry players.

Everything is scalable nowadays,

Normally, I wouldn't offer Informatica for small clients - small or medium enterprises. It's an enterprise-grade solution. We are talking about many, many users.

I have some experience with technical support and found them to be good enough.

We've used a combination of different solutions.

Informatica is really versatile, robust solution. That said, there are competitors on different levels for Informatica. For example, for MDM, master data management, Prophecy, would be good, for example.

Normally, if you implement a complex solution, not only the data integration model of Informatica, like PowerCenter, and more of a complex solution, like an enterprise data management platform, it's a multifaceted, multi-phase approach.

The deployment depends on the client's requirements, however, normally, I would say it's something that we would be planning for as a baseline for around one year, or maybe 10 to 12 months.

The deployment itself is never on-premises. It's public cloud mostly. Informatica can be deployed on Azure, on Amazon, and on the Informatica cloud as well.

Maintenance can be really straightforward if it's only one model like data integration. Maybe a few guys would handle it. However, if it's a complex enterprise-level implementation, again, enterprise data management platform with multiple components, multiple integrations between them and with the legacy stack on the premises, off-premises, then it's a big, and maintenance can require ten to 12 people. 

We are an integrator for Informatica. We can help clients deploy it.

I'm not measuring ROI due to the specifics of my job. With what I'm doing, I'm not measuring ROI.

I work as a director in a consulting company. We don't implement it. We implement it for our clients. We don't implement it internally.

I recommended the solution only for particular use cases. For example, let's say if you have a simple use case just simply integrating data, it would probably not be my first choice, Informatica. However, if it's an enterprise-grade implementation of a data platform, a data management platform for creating data from A to Z, then this is a perfect option.

I'd give the solution a solid none out of ten rating.

I have worked with two clients implementing Informatica MDM. One use case was for the regulatory master data in big pharma (using multidomain edition), on premise installation. The other installation was related to several data domains implemented using Informatica multi-domain MDM edition, but hosted by vendor.

Helped identifying and reducing data duplication. Helped in improving data quality.

Its data cleansing capabilities are very valuable. The match and merge and the audit trail functionalities are very useful. Review and approval workflows are widely used by the user community.

Informatica support should be improved, as resolution of some cases takes definitely too long. Scalability of the solution should also be improved.

I would also like to have a bit more modern and friendly UI for the end-users. There should definitely be a simplified way to configure the system and set it up for the end users.

I have been working with Informatica MDM for three years - on premise and hosted version. I started with MDM 10.2, and then with version 10.3 upgrade to 10.4, which is the latest one.

Its stability is pretty good. We don't have any major concerns.

It is scalable, but its scalability should be improved especially with the hosted version.

It is a strategic MDM solution in the company, so it is extensively used.

We have had some trouble with their support from time to time. Resolution time could be improved.

We have been replacing several very old solutions which reached end of extended support life and several old bespoke systems.

It is a pretty complex product, so the initial setup is also complex. You require skilled resources to deploy this product. Its deployment can take several months.

We use an experienced system integrator and seasoned external consultants.

It is a pretty good and advanced tool, but at the same pretty complex to set up. To implement Informatica MDM, you should look for very skilled resources with past experience in deploying Informatica MDM, not competitive solutions. 

Informatica MDM is one of the best in the market in the master data management area. Make sure that you realize the potential of this solution and like with all other MDM projects - plan your roadmap carefully. Start small, enable most important capabilities and then work on enabling additional features.

Don't overengineer. Informatica MDM is very flexible in defining the underlying models, setting up workflows, enabling cleansing, etc. Hence a risk of misusing the product or make it too complex and downgrade its performance of usability. If you don't have really skilled resources who have worked with Informatica MDM, there is a good chance that the project will simply fail, or it will take you much longer than expected to deploy and benefit from this product.

I would rate Informatica MDM a nine out of ten.