No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.

Azure BizTalk Services [EOL] vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 15, 2026

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

Azure BizTalk Services [EOL]
Average Rating
6.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Informatica Intelligent Dat...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
214
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (2nd), Data Quality (1st), Business Process Management (BPM) (5th), Business-to-Business Middleware (2nd), API Management (6th), Cloud Data Integration (3rd), Data Governance (3rd), Test Data Management (3rd), Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) (1st), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (2nd), Data Masking (2nd), Metadata Management (2nd), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (4th), Test Data Management Services (3rd), Product Information Management (PIM) (1st), Data Observability (2nd), AI Data Analysis (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user685410 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Helped to receive and send messages from other organizations. The load carrying capacity should be improved.
Stick to the business case, evaluate strengths of similar products and choose the one that matches your business scenario. BizTalk suffered to take the load (lots of messages in and out) compared to IBM's WebSphere Message Broker. BizTalk was used as a B2B integration tool within an integration project, where seven or more organizations had to communicate with each other within the “Integrated Justice System” for criminal cases, from case registration to legal aid, case closure, punishments, community service, and so on. The other organizations used Message Broker and NPA used BizTalk. Thus, compared to the transmission and load capacity, BizTalk stood second.
Divya-Raj - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Consultant cum Assistant Manager & Offshore Lead at Deloitte
Handles large data volumes effectively and offers competitive pricing
There is a lot of improvement required, as we still face some cache issues most of the time, which is a challenge that we expect to see resolved in the future. Additionally, there is some limitation when we are working with a tool, especially regarding In and Out parameters, and I feel that this aspect should be improved going ahead. We face issues with the API side, as Cloud Application Integration cannot handle large volumes; according to the API page, there is a limitation of 500 records or 500 MB. The AI integrated into the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services solution is called Application Integration, where we still face challenges when dealing with huge volumes, as previously explained.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It has the best price for the functionalities that you can get."
"There are a couple of valuable features. One is that it is very quick on the profiling. So, you get a very fast snapshot of the type of data that you're looking at from the profiling perspective. It can highlight anomalies in the data."
"It gives you accountability to centralize your data and have it available to different applications."
"I feel like we're always getting good support from Informatica, even when there are technical challenges, it's one of the best things about the solution."
"Seamless integration of MDM, data quality and data integration modules."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"The advanced features like task flow and conditional integration are particularly useful."
"REST API: Excellent for scripting control and reporting mechanisms"
"The interface is really good."
 

Cons

"The performance (speed) and load carrying capacity should be improved."
"The UI is extremely complex"
"I have encountered some issues using the substitution, which is one of the techniques of data masking."
"I have encountered some issues using the substitution, which is one of the techniques of data masking."
"It could be improved by including a buffer that saves data when there is a connectivity issue."
"There were a few stability issues, but overall it is a stable product."
"In certain domains, I am looking for material-level match features that are not customizable. The current solution requires code-writing and tweaking, while other solutions offer material-level matches."
"Metadata querying is right now not there in Informatica Cloud Data Integration."
"In terms of what could be improved, they need to create a rules repository. Business rules for the attributes that you have, keeping them in that central repository, and governance of them is something which Axon is lacking a bit. The Informatica Data Quality tool actually caters to that, so that's probably why they have not built that up in the Axon, but it is definitely something that can be built in to this product, as well."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"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 very high and has become a big concern for our customers who require the solution in order for their business to function smoothly."
"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."
"I rate the product's price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is the cheapest and ten is the most expensive. The product is a bit expensive."
"Informatica Cloud Data Integration is famously known for its high price. The vendor targets large enterprises, and not medium or small companies. These large companies, and organizations, handle large amounts of data. If you go into any large bank, such as American or Canadian banks, these banks use this solution because it is more reliable, secure, and has more functionality."
"Informatica Axon is a costly solution. I rate Informatica Axon a four out of ten for its pricing."
"It is an expensive solution. I would say it is the most expensive solution in the market."
"We saw an ROI. We have been able to get data from various sources and consolidate it into a data lake, which is helping us in data analytics."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Cloud Data Integration solutions are best for your needs.
885,667 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
7%
Retailer
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business51
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise153
 

Questions from the Community

Ask a question
Earn 20 points
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

BizTalk Services
ActiveVOS, Active Endpoints, Address Verification, Persistent Data Masking
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

MYOB Limited, Mimeo, SGS International, MarginPoint, ISS Group
The Travel Company, Carbonite
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Informatica, Salesforce and others in Cloud Data Integration. Updated: March 2026.
885,667 professionals have used our research since 2012.