Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) Reviews

I like the fact that you can find almost any product connection that you need and the list is always expanding.

Basically, it just allows connections with Amazon AWS/S3/Redshift.

It needs to be a little more intuitive but it’s really not bad. There are plenty of examples as how to use the product from Informatica and YouTube.

I have used this solution for less than a year.

After the initial setup, the tool seems pretty stable.

There is plenty of online support available from Informatica.

In the past, we have used Informatica PowerCenter.

We implemented this product in-house and my advice is just read all the available online support documentation that you can find.

Read through the online documentation that is available.

• Matching, merging and survivorship
• Maintaining cross reference and merge history information

A lot of my pharmaceutical clients had to implement an Aggregate Spend application to track how much money they are spending on their prescribing physicians. This was need to comply with the Sunshine Act and their was a need to uniquely and unambiguously identify these physicians. The Informatica MDM tool provided a very robust and cost effective solution to implement a single view of physicians.

The major area of improvement is its GUI front end. The out of the box solution call Informatica Data Director is not at all user friendly, it is a data stewardship tool. A user friendly and feature rich front end will be a great improvement.

I've been using it for over eight years.

Only minor issues which can usually be resolved by the Informatica Support team.

Never when the implementation and sizing guidelines were followed.

Never when the implementation and sizing guidelines were followed.

Customer Service: Customer service is very timely and consists of very capable and competent staff.Technical Support: Technical Support is very timely and consists of very capable and competent staff.

I was implementing the Siebel UCM product before while working for Oracle. I had to switch because my client opted for the Informatica/Siperian MDM solution. I have been implementing this product ever since.

The initial set up and configuration is fairly straight forward, which is one of the strengths of this product.

I have implemented this solution with vendor teams as well as in-house ones. A rigorous Vendor Selection process including reference checks are a must if using a vendor to ensure successful implementation. I prefer to work with in-house teams so that it becomes a great learning process for everyone who will have to enhance, maintain and support the MDM application.

In most of the implementations we used relative implementation costs rather than ROI and the Informatica MDM solution is very cost effective.

It varies by the size of the projects based upon number of sources, data volumes and quality, complexities, etc.

Most of my clients go through a Product Evaluation and Recommendation phase during their MDM implementation and the other options usually evaluated are solution offerings from IBM, Oracle, SAP, SAS, Trillium, etc.

Always start by forming a robust Data Governance organization to ensure implementation of good data quality standards, policies and processes.

Our primary use case of this solution is to improve issues of security, quality and accuracy. 
We are partners of Informatica and I'm an architect. 

In terms of Data Quality, the feature most valuable to me is that the solution is applicable for both technical and business users. I like that instead of using on-premises processing power, you can now use your on-cloud platform processing power to process the data and get a faster turnaround time. From a product perspective, everything is well done. 

I think improvements can be made regarding the ability of the product to leverage the power of big data. It would also help if we could get the software as a services product so that we feed in the requirements and it's a more customized solution. I think that would increase the adoption by customers. 

I've been using this solution for three years. 

Informatica is a very stable product, I haven't had any issues with it. 

It's a very scalable solution and it has all the other big data components. 

We have a business partnership with Informatica and they are very responsive. 

I've had a lot of experience with this solution so I don't have any issues with implementation. Perhaps someone from a different background or different circumstance, may face challenges but it is user friendly so it shouldn't be a problem. Implementation generally takes about six months depending on the dimensions required. This solution cannot be implemented in a day or a week.

The pricing of this solution is definitely at the higher end and they don't provide the option of a trial version. If you look at Talend, for example, they provide a free version, so the cost of IBM and Informatica is a little high. 

The cost of the product is high, but feature wise, it provides a whole lot of features that can easily solve your problems. I would recommend this product. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of 10.

Hybrid Cloud

To cleanse and create standardization third-party data by implementing business rules and Address Doctor.

• Manually checks on applying business rules, 
• The tool helps to implement business rules.
• It helps to get quick results as well.

Address Doctor. This is the best feature to gives an accurate combination of the information provided with a level of returned threshold value.

To implement the new workflow with simple steps and a quick visualization with a 360 view of the data.

One to three years.

The use case for Informatica Cloud APi and App Integration is creating service connectors or integrating applications using API calls or REST services. We interconnect different applications and can extend functionality of that integration using APIs in order to connect with third-party applications. We are partners with Informatica. 

The most valuable feature for me is the easy interface; it has a great look and feel, and the functionality is so easy. The friendly interface means we can easily create applications and integration processes to interconnect different applications.

I'd like to see a change in Informatica's pricing model. It's a common issue with Informatica in their cloud offerings. 

The solution is scalable and stable. 

The support process is good and similar to the support offered for all Informatica solutions. We have access to the portal and raise a ticket when we need to. 

The initial setup is straightforward and part of the Informatica Cloud Data Management service.

As mentioned, the pricing model needs to be improved but maintenance and deployment are included in the cost. 

I recommend this solution and rate it nine out of 10. 

We are using the product data for building maintenance and item creation, then putting all the structures in for our new e-Catalog launch. It has been performing well.

• Its key capability is in data maintenance.
• We can maintain all the organizational data in a single software. 
• It is nice to learn. 
• We can see all our information on a single screen.

It is good for centralized data.

We cannot sell the product directly with an additional layer.

One to three years.

It would be more stable if we could merge all the products into a single software.

I haven't used the technical support.

I wasn't involved in the initial setup.

We were looking to market this solution, which is how we ended up using it.

The Match-and-Merge feature is valuable.

We are now more equipped to address the customers' issues.

• Performance issues can be looked at
• Improved release documentation is expected because I feel that the current release document doesn't give you the clear picture of what has been fixed and what has not been fixed from previous versions.

3 Years

We faced issues with User Exits post deployment, but those were addressed by Informatica.

If the guides are followed then the instructions are very well documented about issues that may crop up during up-scaling/upgrading.

Customer Service:

Excellent. Informatica has one of the best customer services with an excellent turn around time.

Technical Support:

Very good, a couple of technical support team members are excellent and they handle the case very professionally.

Complex, it is not just a NEXT NEXT NEXT button click setup, it requires understanding of PAM document provided by the vendor and mapping it with your hardware and then carefully setting up each of the elements - database, application server and then the software itself.

In-House along with some help from third parties. Understanding the business and collecting the initial requirement is the most important aspect and moreover verifying the collected requirement should be done so that there are no disconnects or gaps in understanding how the eventual implementation will look like.

The product is the best in the industry (as it is multidomain) and the vendor support is excellent.

I use AddressDoctor to validate address on a e-commerce site (based on WebSphere Commerce) for a company lead on food production. It is simple to use and results are always correct. Options used to configure validation request and details provided in result, such as which field is changed and why.

I'm not involved in this aspect, but reports underline delivery failure decreased.

Nothing, according to me only data source need to be increased to support new market, like eastern Europe.

Since 2012, when new site version was released. 2011 if you consider also build time.

No problem during deployment; only some issue during development to fit AddressDoctor model whit OOB one.

No.

No.

Good, response is fast and detailed.

Yes, switch was decided by client because previous system is not reliable like AddressDoctor and it doesn't support market where client is.

Complex to adapt data model provided using web service and e-commerce one. Furthermore, I developed two different result management (for customer service and for end user) to fit business requirement.

I implemented it.

Yes, previous versions of address validation (QAS).

Pay attention to configuration. Correct configuration can help implementation and reduce integration time.