Data Integration Lead at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
Nov 11, 2024
A lot of improvement is needed, mainly due to the fact that the tool is very slow. There are numerous issues, and we have reported these to the Informatica vendor. They don't seem to be focusing much on TDM, and the performance issues, especially considering we have billions of data, are significant.
Assistant Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
Sep 24, 2024
I face multiple issues, but these are not due to a lack of functionality in the product but rather its inherent complexity. There is a lag while opening the console, which is a concern from my end. Additionally, the logs are not always clear, and sometimes, accessing the PowerCenter server becomes necessary to identify errors.
The UI experience is a little bit old. When applying more than 80 columns, it means doing it in phases, as it won't allow it in one go. So, this is an area of improvement.
Director, Business Development at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Feb 6, 2022
Informatica has a data governance suite, and at the moment, there is no connection between the data governance elements, such as the data catalog, and the Informatica Test Data Management software. For example, the data discovery which is part of both solutions is two separate things. If you have a data discovery in the data catalog, then we cannot use it for Informatica Test Data Management purposes and vice versa. The same software vendor, has two different products, with the same functionality. There's was no need to separate things. This is something which was a problem in a use case of the customer where this was the reason why they didn't choose the Informatica solution.
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Informatica TDM empowers testing teams to generate test data sets for both simple and complex test case scenarios; spot and address data privacy risks with a complete library of prepackaged data masking algorithms; and define and reuse test data subset and masking policies across multiple applications and locations without the need to recode.
A lot of improvement is needed, mainly due to the fact that the tool is very slow. There are numerous issues, and we have reported these to the Informatica vendor. They don't seem to be focusing much on TDM, and the performance issues, especially considering we have billions of data, are significant.
I face multiple issues, but these are not due to a lack of functionality in the product but rather its inherent complexity. There is a lag while opening the console, which is a concern from my end. Additionally, the logs are not always clear, and sometimes, accessing the PowerCenter server becomes necessary to identify errors.
The UI experience is a little bit old. When applying more than 80 columns, it means doing it in phases, as it won't allow it in one go. So, this is an area of improvement.
Probably the ideal time testing site, utilizing self-service for real-time testing, could be an area for improvement.
Informatica has a data governance suite, and at the moment, there is no connection between the data governance elements, such as the data catalog, and the Informatica Test Data Management software. For example, the data discovery which is part of both solutions is two separate things. If you have a data discovery in the data catalog, then we cannot use it for Informatica Test Data Management purposes and vice versa. The same software vendor, has two different products, with the same functionality. There's was no need to separate things. This is something which was a problem in a use case of the customer where this was the reason why they didn't choose the Informatica solution.