We performed a comparison between Informatica MDM and SAP Master Data Governance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Informatica MDM stands out as a tool that can give you the flexibility needed for doing channel-specific data quality or business validation."
"The tool manually checks on applying business rules and helps to implement them."
"It has flexibility in extending the data model."
"The fuzzy matching capability is a great feature."
"The most valuable features of Informatica MDM are the IDQ and RDM data management."
"It is easy to create REST-based interfaces of the master data objects."
"I think the integration feature is probably one of the key features in Informatica MDM...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Informatica MDM are it is cloud-enabled and has all the elements that are supposed to have in terms of MDM as a solution. All the features that are there. It is very well-integrated with any of the SAP and non-SAP applications. It is quite user-friendly. The user experience that you receive in Informatica MDM is quite good."
"The ability to identify and manage duplicate data is valuable. The solution automatically checks for duplication possibilities based on criteria like name matching."
"The scalability is very good."
"SAP Master Data Governance is a customizable solution and is flexible."
"The product is easy to use and is beneficial from a data governance perspective."
"A good solution for large enterprises."
"The solution is great at standardizing all of our records."
"User-friendly and provides customized reports and personalized data."
"We've managed tens of thousands of updates within 30 to 60 minutes, and we can also replicate these changes to all connected systems."
"Pre-sales technical support is much better than post-sales technical support."
"The tool should provide a unified user interface to manage the data objects."
"The integration could be a bit better. The process is something new."
"I feel the out-of-the-box APIs or the API management could be improved slightly from their current state. It could be more user-friendly."
"The biggest pain point for us is the documentation. Typically, you have to go through knowledge forums and knowledge groups to find out about the syntax issues for interfacing with new products. Typically, you've got to deal with someone who has been through the pain before. Their documents are not really up to date with current innovations happening in the industry. As big as they are, you can't really expect it, but that's our pain point."
"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."
"The UI is terrible and not user-friendly."
"The configurations could be better. It is a bit confusing because we must develop two tools when building a data model in Informatica MDM. Even though Informatica MDM is a single tool, we have our hub console plus the provisioning tool within that. Whatever data model we are building in the hub console, we have to develop it in the provisioning tool again. It is double the work to create a data model. We are also using external calls or the Java custom plans functions. This can be both positive and negative. Since MDM as a client does not support any complex validation, we have to depend on the external call or a Java call. Every time we deployed, the entire solution was impacted if something went wrong."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"The documentation provided for the MDG extensions by Utopia could be improved."
"The solution lacks some flexibility."
"The UI could improve by being more neat and clean. Sometimes users find it difficult to use it."
"The profiling feature, especially for materials, needs improvement. We faced challenges maintaining specific details for a single material from multiple vendors."
"They should improve the solution's performance as sometimes the process consumes much time."
"The user experience can be improved."
Informatica MDM is ranked 1st in Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions with 43 reviews while SAP Master Data Governance is ranked 1st in Master Data Management (MDM) Software with 22 reviews. Informatica MDM is rated 8.0, while SAP Master Data Governance is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Informatica MDM writes "Optimize business processes while ensuring that users see a return on their investment from the use of the product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Master Data Governance writes "Provides efficient technical support services, but it could be more affordable ". Informatica MDM is most compared with Reltio Cloud, Profisee, TIBCO EBX, IBM InfoSphere MDM and Microsoft MDS, whereas SAP Master Data Governance is most compared with TIBCO EBX, Microsoft MDS, Reltio Cloud, IBM InfoSphere MDM and Semarchy xDM. See our Informatica MDM vs. SAP Master Data Governance report.
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I cannot offer insight into the licensing policy of each vendor as they are very varied and indeed can change deal to deal. Oracle for instance might give you limited database license if you use it specifically for MDM - but will audit you and bill you for full use even if you add one custom table! What it also means is that if are going with the big ones - you can negotiate!!
I can, however, help you with key MDM requirements as defined by Gartner.
-Workflow/BPM,
-Loading/synchronization/business services/integration (which is basically ETL) - but it gives you the ability to implement in different styles - centralized, registry, co-existence, consolidation
-Information quality, semantic consistency : this is for DQ capability and survivorship
-data modeling - strength based on metadata management, policy enforcement, dating and versioning
-Stewardship support (such as 360 degree view, where used, decay analysis, ownership)
-Governance (a combination of a lot of the above really)
-multiple use cases (Operational and analytical) - here you can use ERP/PLM/CRM as operational examples and APS and DWH as analytical use cases.
- multi domain (product, customer, supplier, account, HR, location, person) - Tricky, as many vendors including Oracle claim to be multi domain - but they do not use a single framework to manage multiple domains - that is really not multi domain because the CDO's office still needs to manage multiple frameworks and the cost of ownership is very high.
- data quality dashboards
- Task management (Advanced)
- multi device support
If you are interested, you can also check us out at :
www.triniti.com for cheaper alternatives if you are an Oracle eBusiness Suite user. You can also peruse our following whitepapaers:
www.triniti.com (gives you an insight on why we have eliminated ETL and modeling from MDM)
www.triniti.com (Talks about an emerging part of MDM called ADM - application data management. We argue why MDM is worthless, if it is not built to make applications that consume master data such as ERP, CRM etc cannot use it instantaneously)
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 (www-03.ibm.com)