Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) Reviews

I mainly use it for data management.

It's for tool management, maintaining the golden record of customer status.

Data integration should be improved. Another area of improvement is customer applications, along with business 365 application case integration between applications.

I have been using this solution for three years now. I work with the latest update.

I would rate the stability a six out of ten. There is room for improvement in the stability.

I would rate the scalability of the solution an eight out of ten. There are currently nine end users in my team. There might be more people in the company. 

Recently, Informatica MDM upgraded, it transitioned from its traditional on-premise MDM offerings to a cloud-based platform called Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS). So, we are not planning to expand its further usage.

The customer support and service are helpful. 

I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy. 

It is very easy to set up. However, the deployment time depends on the configuration. It can take 10 to 15 minutes.

The pricing is reasonable.

The users should have more training on Informatica MDM, especially practical training. The vendor should provide some practical training.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I would like to have the solution in one product and technical support needs to be better. 

The product is stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

Informatica Axon is easy to deploy and takes six months to install. We would need five people for the solution's deployment. 

Informatica Axon is expensive. 

I wouldn't recommend the tool to small companies due to price and integration. I would rate the tool a seven out of ten. 

We use Informatica Cloud Data Integration for data integration and building data pipelines.

It is one of the best tools available for data integration.

Though it is a robust tool, the cloud version could be better in terms of pricing. 

It is a stable solution.

It is a scalable product and works better than other cloud solutions. It is extensively used by 15 users in our organization. We have plans to increase the usage.

The product's technical support team is helpful and responsive.

The product's deployment process is easy. It requires two system engineers to support our consultant in setting up the environment. They have to consider how to connect it to an ecosystem of other tools, databases, and data sources.

The product generates a return on investment. It speeds up the development process.

The product is highly-priced.

I recommend Informatica Cloud Data Integration to others. It is user-friendly and supports connectivity to almost all devices. It has great technical support services as well.

I rate it an eight out of ten.

I am a consultant and I use the solution to scan databases and lineages for my clients.

We can scan anything. We can scan reports, XML and JSON files also. That's a good thing about the Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog.

IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages, which is one thing I see in other data catalog tools that Informatica does not have, basically data catalog tools.

I have been using Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog for three years.

I rate the stability of the solution an eight out of ten.

I rate the scalability an eight out of ten. We currently have ten to 15 users using the solution and our client is a medium-sized business.

I rate the initial setup a seven out of ten, because it is pretty straightforward. The solution took two to three days for the initial setup.

When deploying IEDC, one should have a server ready and a lot of open ports, but otherwise it is straightforward.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Axon is a tool for data governance that lets you define personas of people who can define policy and implement those policies and have a check on them. So it's part of a data governance solution.

It is a very good tool. So there is Informatica Axon, Informatica EDC, and Informatica Data Quality, which are the best solutions in the market for data governance. Many customers prefer the solution.

All the functionalities of the solution that are currently available on the on-prem version should be made available on the cloud. The on-prem version's functionalities may not be available on the cloud version. So, Informatica is working on it, and it may take some time. In short, adopting the functionalities of the solution's on-prem version could be faster in the cloud.

I work with an SI company, and my company is also a cyber-security value-added distributor. I have been selling Informatica products, including Axon, for years.

It is a very stable solution. I rate its stability a ten out of ten.

It is a scalable solution. I have six to seven customers using the solution.

Informatica Axon's technical support is good. So, like all the US companies, the support ticket moves from one support team to another.

The initial setup process depends on the complexity of the customers' requirements. So, it can be simple or complex. Usually, data governance projects are a minimum of six to eight months.

Regarding the deployment process, the first step is to conduct a discovery session to understand the customers' problems. This involves identifying the stakeholders involved in the data governance process, determining who owns the data, and identifying the layers of governance that need to be implemented at various levels, including the persona and solution levels.

Two to three people, including a data analyst, a data engineer, and a data quality or data assurance person, are required to deploy and maintain the solution.

A yearly subscription is paid based on the number of people using the solution. Price-wise, it falls under the medium range since it is neither very costly nor too cheap.

It's a very good solution. And for any customer embarking on our data governance journey, Axon is the right tool to choose, along with ECD and Data Quality. I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.

We are using Informatica Cloud Data Integration to take sources from databases to flat files or from web service to flat files. We do data integration with the tool.

Informatica Cloud Data Integration could improve the price by making it less expensive.

I have been using Informatica Cloud Data Integration for approximately four years.

Informatica Cloud Data Integration is stable.

The scalability of Informatica Cloud Data Integration is good.

We have many people in my company using this solution, approximately 100. We do not plan to increase usage.

I have not contacted the support from Informatica Cloud Data Integration.

The initial setup of Informatica Cloud Data Integration is easy. The deployment of the solution only takes a few clicks of the mouse, it takes a few minutes.

We did the implementation of Informatica Cloud Data Integration in-house.

The price of Informatica Cloud Data Integration could be reduced.

Informatica Cloud Data Integration is good overall. I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Informatica Cloud Data Integration an eight out of ten.

We are resellers.

It has all the advantages of the Cloud in that you can use it without worrying about infrastructure, upkeep, or upgrades. Informatica is in charge of all those things. Additionally, the SLA on the cloud is better.

Not all transformations are supported, unlike PowerCenter. However, I'm confident that they will include this in the roadmap.

I have over 15 years of experience working with Informatica tools, and we have worked with Informatica Cloud Data Integration in the last 12 months.

The installation is simple because it is on the cloud.

It is dependent on the number of jobs you have and so on. However, from a skill set standpoint, you only need one person to maintain this solution. You can also play a developer or administrator role. These are fairly straightforward roles with a lot of community support.

I'm not sure about the most recent pricing trends, but I don't believe it's significantly different from PowerCenter. I believe it is nearly the same.

It is dependent on the requirements. If the transformation requirements are not too complex, I believe they can use the Cloud. However, if they have too many application systems to connect to, or too many databases, and require richer transformation capabilities, they can use PowerCenter.

We have a partnership with Informatica.

I would Informatica Cloud Data Integration an eight out of ten.

Typical use cases for Informatica MDM include consent management (for a large telecom vendor in Australia), master-data consolidation and analytics for vendors, facilitating vendor onboarding, and syndicating and automating global data synchronization networks.

The configuration process is pretty lengthy and challenging and could be made easier to understand.

I've been using Informatica MDM for over ten years.

Informatica MDM is a very stable product.

Informatica MDM is highly scalable - we've set it up for a customer with over a hundred million customers, and the system worked quite well.

Informatica's technical support is great - I was amazed by the quality of their technical people and the support they provide, as well as their willingness to provide it.

Because it's on-prem, the initial setup is of medium complexity.

Informatica MDM stands out as a tool that can give you the flexibility needed for doing channel-specific data quality or business validation. I don't think any tools come near it in terms of its matching capability and the volume it can handle. Unless your budget is a constraint, it's definitely the way to go. I would give Informatica MDM a rating of nine out of ten.

We use it to take data from one source to another.

It's a subscription service. It's in Informatica's cloud, and because we have the cloud version, we are up to date in terms of its version.

We have a lot of integrations, and it's very easy to create integrations. They have a lot of connectors.

Its pricing model can be improved. The response time from technical support can also be improved.

I have been using this solution for a little over three years.

It is very stable.

It is easily scalable.

It is not great, but it is good. Sometimes, they take a lot of time to respond.

It was really easy to set up the product.

Its pricing model can be improved.

I would recommend this product. From a technical point of view, it's a great product. It's very user-friendly. It's really easy to create integrations, and it's very stable.

I would rate it a nine out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for data integration, management, and more recently, data cataloging in the lineage.

It's great as a unified enterprise data management platform. It's useful for cross-platform functionality.

The solution is stable.

The product is scalable and excellent for enterprise-level organizations.

Technical support has been good.

Cost-wise, it could be better. Informatica has a bit steep upfront cost. Upfront, it requires upfront investments. Many models of Informatica still require licenses. I would really like to see Informatica moving more and more into pay as you go model, so to move completely from CapEx to OpEx.

I've personally used the solution for many years. 

The product is stable. They've been on the market for many years. They're key industry players.

Everything is scalable nowadays,

Normally, I wouldn't offer Informatica for small clients - small or medium enterprises. It's an enterprise-grade solution. We are talking about many, many users.

I have some experience with technical support and found them to be good enough.

We've used a combination of different solutions.

Informatica is really versatile, robust solution. That said, there are competitors on different levels for Informatica. For example, for MDM, master data management, Prophecy, would be good, for example.

Normally, if you implement a complex solution, not only the data integration model of Informatica, like PowerCenter, and more of a complex solution, like an enterprise data management platform, it's a multifaceted, multi-phase approach.

The deployment depends on the client's requirements, however, normally, I would say it's something that we would be planning for as a baseline for around one year, or maybe 10 to 12 months.

The deployment itself is never on-premises. It's public cloud mostly. Informatica can be deployed on Azure, on Amazon, and on the Informatica cloud as well.

Maintenance can be really straightforward if it's only one model like data integration. Maybe a few guys would handle it. However, if it's a complex enterprise-level implementation, again, enterprise data management platform with multiple components, multiple integrations between them and with the legacy stack on the premises, off-premises, then it's a big, and maintenance can require ten to 12 people. 

We are an integrator for Informatica. We can help clients deploy it.

I'm not measuring ROI due to the specifics of my job. With what I'm doing, I'm not measuring ROI.

I work as a director in a consulting company. We don't implement it. We implement it for our clients. We don't implement it internally.

I recommended the solution only for particular use cases. For example, let's say if you have a simple use case just simply integrating data, it would probably not be my first choice, Informatica. However, if it's an enterprise-grade implementation of a data platform, a data management platform for creating data from A to Z, then this is a perfect option.

I'd give the solution a solid none out of ten rating.