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Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) vs SAP Hybris PCM comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Informatica Intelligent Dat...
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
182
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (3rd), Data Quality (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (13th), Business-to-Business Middleware (4th), 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) (1st), Data Masking (2nd), Metadata Management (1st), Test Data Management Services (3rd), Product Information Management (PIM) (1st), Data Observability (2nd)
SAP Hybris PCM
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Master Data Management (MDM) Software (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Data Integration and Access solutions, they serve different purposes. Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is designed for Data Management Platforms (DMP) and holds a mindshare of 16.7%, up 14.1% compared to last year.
SAP Hybris PCM, on the other hand, focuses on Master Data Management (MDM) Software, holds 1.9% mindshare, down 2.9% since last year.
Data Management Platforms (DMP)
Master Data Management (MDM) Software
 

Q&A Highlights

Dec 28, 2015
 

Featured Reviews

Raj Sethupathi - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers profiling and address standardization but can be complicated
Informatica Data Quality has its data warehouse, primarily using Oracle and some SQL databases. You need a database to host the data. The cleansed version of the data is stored in the data warehouse. It integrates with PowerCenter and other Informatica tools. The integration details can be complex, but a regional setup is involved in this process. Profiling smaller datasets, such as 10,000-50,000 records, worked fine. However, unexpected issues could arise with larger datasets, such as thousands of records or more, especially with tables containing many columns. Handling tables with fifty or more columns can be challenging, even in Excel. A mismatch in data types could cause the entire system to crash. Continual enhancements are being made to address these issues, which can be unique to specific industries like finance and healthcare.
Mohamed Messaoud - PeerSpot reviewer
It has a good architecture and it's easy to maintain
We work with various clients and use Hybris for selling different kinds of products, including merchandise, electronics, ticket reservations, electronics, and food Hybris is stable and has good architecture. It's easy to maintain.  They can change their backend because it's a little hard to work…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I do find Informatica Data Quality is stable. It generally maintains a high level of reliability and stability, making it an asset."
"The feature of auto-onboarding of the assets, enterprise assets via EDC is good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are pushdown, optimization, and partitioning, which can be used for frequent data loading, especially when we have a huge data volume in our company."
"We have a lot of integrations, and it's very easy to create integrations. They have a lot of connectors."
"The features that I have found most valuable are, first of all, that it comes as part of this whole bundle of Informatica tools. So if you've been implementing Informatica MDM across a business, you'd often find it comes with it. It's been thrown in as a sweetener. The adoption of it is often the challenge because as part of your MDM project, governance is seen as something beyond the MDM and is often restrictive. So this tool actually, for the first time, when you talk to data governance teams, gives a holistic view of what a data governance team can do with this tool."
"We use parts and standardization for most of our testing. We purchase the US Postal Service address database, which is updated periodically. Many useful tools, such as Google Maps, can detect and mark new businesses or changes in business locations. Informatica captures and updates this information. Some periodic maintenance is involved, but setting it up is not overly complicated."
"Whether we need data cleansing or data mastering, we get it all in one platform."
"It is a scalable product."
"Hybris is stable and has good architecture. It's easy to maintain."
 

Cons

"There's no direct way to connect to Amazon APIs from Informatica Cloud."
"If I compare it with other MDM solutions in the market, one thing that can definitely be improved is automation to help with the configuration. Currently, when we are creating any staging of base object tables, all the columns have to be configured manually in the Informatica Hub Console. A lot of tables and different kinds of business columns have to be configured manually. There should be an automated process for this, especially in the Dev environment. When people are creating tables and columns from scratch, if there is a backend automated process for that, it would be really helpful. In Stibo, a similar feature is there wherein you can tag attributes to certain objects. It would be helpful if Informatica also provides a similar option. It would reduce the manual effort. It could be that such a feature is already there, but I am not aware of it."
"Enhancements on the UI front, such as multiple templates and improved grid views, would be beneficial."
"Though EDC has maximum coverage, a few things were not available to scan, but I think EDC is evolving to address this issue."
"Performance also needs to be significantly improved, especially when connecting to SFDC for read and write operations."
"The on-prem solution is harder to learn than the cloud-based versions."
"The main issue preventing Brazilian companies from migrating to Informatica Cloud Data Integration from on-prem is the price."
"One area where Informatica Cloud Data Integration could improve is in providing more accelerators for certain functionalities."
"They can change their backend because it's a little hard to work with. They could streamline it with new technology."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"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 platform has a premium cost. I rate the pricing as seven out of ten."
"You can purchase licenses for this solution at different intervals. For example, annually or every three years. They recently changed their terms for licensing and now it is more flexible."
"The price is high, but the competitors are even higher, like Collibra."
"It's a costly solution"
"The pricing structure is good, but having to pay for extra drivers to be used in an ICS environment makes me a little nervous."
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Answers from the Community

Dec 28, 2015
Dec 28, 2015
I have participate in two customer integration projects for financial sector. First was connected with custom MDM, second was Informatica MDM implementation. If you plan build own MDM solution you have consider: - integration with current architecture (bulk loading via MDM, real-time integration via ESB) - use data quality tool for information matching (ex QualityStage or IDQ) - data steward in...
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it_user150675 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 8, 2015
I was part of evaluating several vendors for MDM program at my company and after technically evaluating each of them, Informatica was the choice. It doesn't make sense to build one as the tools available in the market are sufficient to satisfy the needs of MDM program. please let me know if you need help with vendor evaluation, RFP, implementation strategy etc..
Ariel Lindenfeld - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 8, 2015
@nitesh- Do you have a vendor evaluation matrix you can share with the community?
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Insurance Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Computer Software Company
13%
Retailer
13%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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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
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