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Boomi iPaaS vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Boomi iPaaS
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (6th)
Informatica Intelligent Dat...
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
180
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (3rd), Data Quality (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (5th), Business-to-Business Middleware (3rd), API Management (8th), Cloud Data Integration (3rd), Data Governance (2nd), Test Data Management (3rd), Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions (1st), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (2nd), Data Masking (2nd), Metadata Management (1st), Test Data Management Services (3rd), Product Information Management (PIM) (1st), Data Observability (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Integration solutions, they serve different purposes. Boomi iPaaS is designed for Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) and holds a mindshare of 8.0%, down 8.7% compared to last year.
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), on the other hand, focuses on Data Management Platforms (DMP), holds 13.5% mindshare, up 12.9% since last year.
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)
Data Management Platforms (DMP)
 

Featured Reviews

RA
Jan 3, 2024
Stable product, suitable for limited integrations and lacks flexibility
Every product has its pros and cons. Boomi has some drawbacks, but it's generally okay. It could be better in terms of features, flexibility, and especially storage. We have issues there. In day-to-day operations, tracking transactions is a major challenge. It takes hours to track a single transaction. It is not a straightforward process. Other products like TIBCO or IBM have simpler transaction tracking by ID. In Boomi, it's much more time-consuming. We need to go through each and every timestamp and identify the transaction details. It is a pain point for us. We use Boomi only for process execution. We used it for API and APM but switched to Azure APM. The low latency mode is another pain point. General mode consumes a lot of resources, but to have adequate logging information, we need to deploy in general mode. Whereas low latency gives very good throughput and good performance, but we are losing a lot of important information. So these are the some of the aspects.
RP
Oct 24, 2018
It has become an easy way to exchange information through any cloud application.
Our primary use case for this product is two-fold:  Reporting- If the users want to visualize into a meaningful report then they would pass on that as a requirement to the Informatica team. This goes to the Informatica team, which will then apply the business rules and validation, cleansing or…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The platform is user-friendly."
"The Salesforce and NetSuite Application specific “connectors” provide a layer of abstraction on top of the SOAP-based APIs to streamline integration development."
"The best features are that it is a cloud-based and a multi-tenant tool."
"Very effective with its drag-and-drop feature."
"The connection configuration part and the drag-and-drop integration module are the most valuable features for me."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"It is easy to learn and implement."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its monitoring part to debug certain issues and find problems."
"Address Doctor gives an accurate combination of information provided with a level of returned threshold value."
"I am impressed by the solution's interface."
"The Mapping Designer allows for declarative ETL development (visual scripting) that leverages a wide array of different transformations."
"It is very useful for testing purposes and designing mappings for small projects. If you go for IDQ in the mapping itself, you can see the data. You can then correct it, and test it so easily. It is working fine. It is also stable, scalable, and easy to deploy."
"MDM is very stable - it can handle millions of hits daily and still run 24/7."
"The scalability is very high."
"I do a quite a lot of data transformations, and the fact that I can do them without changing any of my SQL queries from the code, using the inbuilt tools, is very helpful."
"The ability to clean out data and improve the data quality is the best feature."
 

Cons

"There should be more scripting possibilities."
"The product's UI could be more convenient."
"It crashes if we run high-volume integration."
"There are still some areas that need improvement. For example, when updates are going on, the product becomes very slow."
"We would like to see more involvement between Dell Boomi and the end-users to help improve the customer experience."
"There are very few string handling functions and few mathematical functions are available."
"The solution is complex. There's a few items and features that are hard to understand. They should work to simplify the functionality so new users don't struggle."
"Boomi AtomSphere Integration is not yet exposed to the world as a good product owing to certain shortcomings in the area of marketing where improvements are required."
"I would also like to have profiling functionalities and quality transformations in the cloud."
"Error reporting and debugging need improvement."
"The model is somewhat flexible. There are certain aspects of the model that are not as flexible as we would like. It doesn't do certain things to a great level of depth. So, in situations where we want to drill in to do something specific, we have to essentially copy that data into our own structures in order to add that additional layer of flexibility."
"The only thing that I can imagine that might be improved is how the available transactions verify addresses used. These transactions have a valid end date and must be used within the agreed timeframe."
"The error information provided is not informative, as compared to Power Center."
"The tool could be improved in terms of ease of use, particularly for those without technical expertise. Understanding and extracting data from the table-based structure requires some SQL knowledge and technical skills. Additionally, while Informatica MDM has moved towards a cloud-based MDM with a UI similar to Reltio, I haven't used it, so I can't comment on its effectiveness."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Informatica MDM has a complex user interface, which could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is not reasonable at all. It's very high."
"The cost of the solution is in the neighborhood of $20,000 annually. There are no costs above the standard licensing fee."
"AtomSphere Integration's pricing is competitive, and I would rate it seven out of ten."
"This solution is very economical (based on the connections)."
"I rate the product's price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive."
"Approximately 20k annually."
"The licensing model of Dell Boomi is based on a ‘pay-per-use’ model."
"When it comes to pricing, it's not so much about being less expensive as it is about how they don't tie to the hardware on the underlined VMware that you run on, as other vendors do"
"Informatica MDM is very expensive. Apart from licensing fees, they have broken down their products into multiple products, and they charge for each and every product. If the data is huge, they charge for the data. At times, we have to use third party services for data cleaning, and they charge for that as well."
"It's offers value for money. They're more competitive with respect to pricing and offerings."
"There is no doubt that it is very expensive, but the brand value comes at a cost. Other MDM solutions in the market that haven't proven themselves like Informatica are also pretty expensive. We need to understand that MDM itself is very expensive to implement. So, Informatica is also pretty expensive. I would rate it a two out of five for being pretty expensive."
"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."
"Its pricing model can be improved."
"So, there are plans for licensing. There are subscription-based and usage-based licenses. Also, there are licenses for exceptional analytics, etc. In short, there are different models of licensing for every enterprise."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing nine and a half out of ten."
"It is cost effective and an easily accessible tool."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
5%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Insurance Company
6%
 

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Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What advice do you have for others considering Dell Boomi AtomSphere?
I have worked as an Integration Architect/Developer for many years and have used Mulesoft, Boomi, Informatica, Workato, Celigo, SSIS and many other integration tools. The tool you would pick depen...
What do you like most about Boomi AtomSphere Integration?
The tool's most valuable features I've found are related to debugging and testing. It makes it easy to track execution, documents, and process history. This functionality is particularly useful for...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Boomi AtomSphere Integration?
Boomi AtomSphere Integration is a relatively cheap and cost-effective product compared to other products like SAP or Oracle. I don't know the exact price of the product.
How does Azure Data Factory compare with Informatica Cloud Data Integration?
Azure Data Factory is a solid product offering many transformation functions; It has pre-load and post-load transformations, allowing users to apply transformations either in code by using Power Q...
Which Informatica product would you choose - PowerCenter or Cloud Data Integration?
Complex transformations can easily be achieved using PowerCenter, which has all the features and tools to establish a real data governance strategy. Additionally, PowerCenter is able to manage huge...
What are the biggest benefits of using Informatica Cloud Data Integration?
When it comes to cloud data integration, this solution can provide you with multiple benefits, including: Overhead reduction by integrating data on any cloud in various ways Effective integration ...
 

Also Known As

Boomi
ActiveVOS, Active Endpoints, BPM, Address Verification, Persistent Data Masking, Cloud Test Data Management, PIM, , Enterprise Data Catalog, Data Integration Hub, Cloud Data Integration, Data Quality, Cloud API and App Integration
 

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