ARIS BPA vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) comparison

ARIS BPA vs. Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)

December 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

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ROI

Sentiment score

6.2

ARIS BPA varies in ROI timelines, enhancing process understanding and control but with hard-to-quantify financial impacts.

Sentiment score

7.1

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

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

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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

Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.7

ARIS BPA's support is praised for technical assistance and flexibility but could improve in responsiveness and communication.

Sentiment score

6.9

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

I would give ten points to the technical support from Software AG for ARIS BPA product, from zero to ten, with ten being the best.

Consultant at KAFD DMC

The consultants are fine, however, reliance on single experts for modules can be risky.

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Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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

Consulting Principal & Founder at Digital Data Consultancy

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

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.

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Sr. Consultant cum Assistant Manager & Offshore Lead at Deloitte

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.6

ARIS BPA is scalable for small to large enterprises, offering flexibility, modular features, and easy licensing for process management expansion.

Sentiment score

7.3

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

For user scalability, it is a matter of licenses, while functional scalability is supported and easy to implement.

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Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

ARIS BPA has high scalability and wide scalability for any enterprise or organization.

Sherif Allam

Enterprise Architect at Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Egypt

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

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.

Consulting Principal & Founder at Digital Data Consultancy

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

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Data Integration Architect at Endeavour Foundation

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.2

ARIS BPA is generally stable, with minor issues primarily in large environments, but responsive support enhances stability perception.

Sentiment score

7.7

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

The stability of ARIS BPM is quite strong, rated eight out of ten.

Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We do experience a lot of glitches with ARIS BPA.

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Consultant at KAFD DMC

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

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.

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

Room For Improvement

ARIS BPA needs better integration, user interface, scripting, documentation, training, pricing, and simplicity for wider accessibility.

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

Software AG should focus on developing AI models for ARIS BPA on-premises, particularly in user interfaces, as well as creating predefined business processes for common areas such as HR and finance.

Tamer Eldamanhouri

Software Engineering & Manager at Arab Infromation Management Services

Software AG could improve this by making the database more open.

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Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

ARIS BPA needs to be more accurate when generating documents.

Sherif Allam

Enterprise Architect at Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Egypt

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

Consulting Principal & Founder at Digital Data Consultancy

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

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.

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Data Integration Architect at Endeavour Foundation

Setup Cost

ARIS BPA pricing is high but valued by large enterprises; smaller firms may find costs prohibitive due to complex licensing.

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

ARIS BPA does save a lot of effort because this is one tool which can be used for multiple purposes and the viewers have the capability to perform different kinds of analysis, extract reports, and see processes.

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Consultant at KAFD DMC

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

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.

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.

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Sr. Consultant cum Assistant Manager & Offshore Lead at Deloitte

Valuable Features

ARIS BPA offers powerful modeling, customization, and collaboration tools, integrating SAP and databases, ensuring strategic alignment and governance.

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

ARIS BPA is a tool to build models and frameworks for organizations or reengineer business processes from both functional and business perspectives.

Tamer Eldamanhouri

Software Engineering & Manager at Arab Infromation Management Services

Everything related to ARIS BPA is helping us with regards to enhanced processes, strengthened controls, identifying risks, assessing process capabilities, and identifying where the gaps are and what kinds of activities within the processes are automated and manual.

Consultant at KAFD DMC

The maintenance capabilities of ARIS BPM and the strong underlying database are particularly valuable.

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Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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

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.

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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

Categories and Ranking

ARIS BPA

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (6th)

Informatica Intelligent Dat...

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

214

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (2nd), Data Quality (1st), Business-to-Business Middleware (3rd), 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 (1st), Metadata Management (1st), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (3rd), Test Data Management Services (3rd), Product Information Management (PIM) (1st), Data Observability (1st), AI Data Analysis (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of ARIS BPA is 3.1%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is 1.3%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Management (BPM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	1.3%
ARIS BPA	3.1%
Other	95.6%

Business Process Management (BPM)

Featured Reviews

Has improved process modeling and analysis while supporting integration with organizational data

Consultant at KAFD DMC

The process design in ARIS BPA does help with our operational efficiency. What we are doing is object library management for various kinds of objects that we are using in ARIS BPA during our process modeling. We are using that to do a lot of analysis on how many times a system is being used in how many processes, who are the major stakeholders, and if we enhance one system, how is it going to impact other processes and integrated processes. This is helping us a lot. Everything related to ARIS BPA is helping us with regards to enhanced processes, strengthened controls, identifying risks, assessing process capabilities, and identifying where the gaps are and what kinds of activities within the processes are automated and manual. We are doing a lot of things with regards to the processes as it is at our heart. Processes are one thing and then we have different kinds of things which are related to it, such as SLAs, guidelines, and policy. We are identifying areas of improvement in other documents as well.

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Handles large data volumes effectively and offers competitive pricing

Sr. Consultant cum Assistant Manager & Offshore Lead at Deloitte

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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	32
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	47

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	51
Midsize Enterprise	27
Large Enterprise	153

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ARIS BPA?

The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ARIS BPA?

It is a bit expensive regarding ARIS BPA. However, ARIS BPA does save a lot of effort because this is one tool which can be used for multiple purposes and the viewers have the capability to perform...

What needs improvement with ARIS BPA?

We are not using any what-if scenario features in ARIS BPA. Currently, we are not using the performance monitoring and compliance checks features in ARIS BPA. We have plans to use them, but current...

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Also Known As

ARIS, ARIS BPM

ActiveVOS, Active Endpoints, Address Verification, Persistent Data Masking

Overview

ARIS is the market-leading solution for professional business process management and modeling. Whether you want to document the "as-is" state of your operations for quality or certification reasons or design the "to-be" in terms of continuous improvement in your transformation program, ARIS is the best choice for establishing a single source of truth regarding all process excellence topics in your organization. It is for any organization looking to digitally transform their business, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution. ARIS helps you to make the most out of your processes with Process Mining, Risk & Compliance Management, RPA and much more.

What makes the difference?

The most comprehensive platform for process excellence in the market
Easy to use
Covers business & IT architecture from all angles
Full flexibility and >100 diagram types
Customer-driven development based on best practices
Strong partner ecosystem

ARIS is the market-leading solution for any organization and ideally suited to digitally transform the organization, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution.

Software AG

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

Sample Customers

Tesco, Weifu, Airbus, Siemens, Proximus, Alicorp, Sekerbank, Bancor, Philips,Sky, Emirates NBD, Dubai Municipality, Suva, U.S. Army, Australia Post, Westfalen Weser Energie - ARIS serves customers across all industries and of every size worldwide. Companies trust ARIS as the market leader for process excellence with more than 30 years of experience in the market, 10 million users worldwide, from 1 user companies to the Fortune 500.

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