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Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) vs Informatica PowerExchange comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Informatica Intelligent Dat...
Ranking in Data Integration
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
180
Ranking in other categories
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)
Informatica PowerExchange
Ranking in Data Integration
19th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

MP
Jul 24, 2024
Powerful tool to create data warehouse solution with accessibility and features
We use the solution for ETL It's a powerful tool to create data warehouse solutions for our clients. We take unstructured data and use Informatica Cloud to structure it in various ways, making it usable on a reporting front end. This enables clients to make informed business decisions based on…
Hassan Emam - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 15, 2022
Simple to set up with helpful support and useful change data capture
We are using the solution for real-time integration. Sometimes there are some complex requirements for real-time reporting, and  it'll be maybe for CDC, change data capture One of the most important beneficial values has been reducing the impact on the source systems. For example, rather than…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Informatica MDM has a defined data model we can customize with user and developer options."
"We are able to set rules, establish a data quality management platform, and monitor the quality."
"I do find Informatica Data Quality is stable. It generally maintains a high level of reliability and stability, making it an asset."
"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 ability to clean out data and improve the data quality is the best feature."
"Informatica is good for integrating data and cloud applications. We have connectors for integrating cloud applications like Salesforce. You can quickly integrate anything with an exposed API or a REST API. The industry is increasingly shifting to the cloud, so we need more products that can connect to cloud-based applications. The integration is seamless and works in real time. It's also secure because you don't need to expose databases or tables."
"It is one of the best tools available for data integration."
"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 data transformation is the solution's most valuable feature."
"In terms of the return on investment, the tool is very helpful in the digital transformation process since multiple systems are available."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity to data sources."
"The main benefit of PowerExchange is its native real-time capabilities. Competing tools are counting on third-party packages or Oracle to offer real-time capabilities. However, Informatica has a native ability to scan the data on the file system level and capture the changes almost instantly when I push it to the consumers. The solution has a powerful built-in replication engine."
"Overall, it's a good tool. It's currently number one on the market. It pretty much has all the necessary capabilities to pull the incremental data from the source system, technically speaking."
"Provides a significant amount of control over the landscape and overall implementation."
"The solution can connect to different systems i.e. mainframe, IMS or AS/400 Legacy Systems."
"The agentless RCDC enablement through PowerExchange is a great idea and has worked very well so far."
 

Cons

"The cloud version of Axon is far behind the on-prem, and many of my clients want to go fully to the cloud. However, Axon has to be an on-prem installation. I would like to see their cloud products catch up with their on-prem capabilities."
"The on-prem version's functionalities may not be available on the cloud version."
"Right now, although they offer some templates, I would want more templates available to be imported."
"It needs to be a little more intuitive but it’s really not bad."
"Certain applications are not being synced with the ION."
"Its look and feel needs improvement. It has a lousy look and feel. Informatica PIM is designed specifically for the retail industry. They need to make sure that it is also applicable to all the other industries and verticals."
"There's no direct way to connect to Amazon APIs from Informatica Cloud."
"We promote our code changes from a lower to a higher environment, which is highly complex when working with a multi-domain MDM like Informatica. This is the biggest obstacle for Informatica MDM, and I think they should change it because that's very time consuming."
"Should diversify more, maybe with a reporting and visualization utility,"
"The one place where it could be improved is definitely pricing. That's a very big problem. It depends product to product, but pricing is an issue."
"They should make it quick and easy for use of citizen data integration or for people or integrators developing at the customer side. They could be development teams within the business team. For them, the product owners can consider making it a little bit more seamless and a little bit more democratized."
"Apache Spark has a machine learning algorithm, an area where Informatica PowerExchange lacks."
"I would like to have easier integration with cloud platforms."
"The solution needs better integration with other tools."
"The major challenge associated with the tool is on the infrastructure side."
"Integration with the largest number of databases and other systems would be important."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is cost effective and an easily accessible tool."
"Informatica MDM recently changed its pricing model. It's usage-based but I don't have much insight into the current pricing."
"Informatica MDM's pricetag should come down. They have to cut some costs."
"The solution is very expensive."
"The pricing structure is good, but having to pay for extra drivers to be used in an ICS environment makes me a little nervous."
"Pricing is determined by the number of licensed users as well as the number of Core CPUs."
"I rate the product's pricing a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is high price."
"The price is comparable."
"The product is not very expensive."
"The cost of PowerExchange is reasonable. It does not rely on complicated formulas or unrealistic equations. The pricing model is straightforward. There is one component, and real-time integration is included. Some other solutions require purchasing additional modules or third-party plugins for this capability."
"Many users don't prefer to use the product, considering the high costs attached to the licensing part of the solution."
"There is a need to pay towards the licensing cost of the product. It is an expensive product."
"There are licensing and connector costs. Basically, Informatica is pay-as-you-use."
"An annual package license fee is required."
"It's expensive. In fact, nobody would buy any product of Informatica if the price was the only consideration. It costs money, and it doesn't come cheap, but it provides value for money in many ways."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Insurance Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
13%
Insurance Company
10%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with Informatica PowerExchange?
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Also Known As

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
PowerExchange, Connectors
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

The Travel Company, Carbonite
ACH Food, BNSF Railway Company, Illinois State University
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