Alex Solutions vs. Informatica Cloud Data Quality

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Alex Solutions
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Alex Solutions headquartered in Melbourne offers their enterprise data catalog, a marketplace for enterprise data that enables data-centric business outcomes.N/A
Informatica Cloud Data Quality
Score 6.0 out of 10
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The vendor states that Informatica Data Quality empowers companies to take a holistic approach to managing data quality across the entire organization, and that with Informatica Data Quality, users are able to ensure the success of data-driven digital transformation initiatives and projects across users, types, and scale, while also automating mission-critical tasks.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Data Quality
Comparison of Data Quality features of Product A and Product B
Alex Solutions
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Informatica Cloud Data Quality
8.9
Ratings
2% above category average
Data source connectivity00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Data profiling00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Master data management (MDM) integration00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Data element standardization00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Match and merge00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Address verification00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
User Ratings
Alex SolutionsInformatica Cloud Data Quality
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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6.6
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Usability
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8.0
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Availability
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Performance
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Online Training
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Implementation Rating
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Product Scalability
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User Testimonials
Alex SolutionsInformatica Cloud Data Quality
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have information systems with lots of information but need a solution that ties together the data Alex Solution is really a great tool for this. We're a large international company, so this was our case. But if you are a smaller local company with not that much data available it could be you should look for other solutions for a start.
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We used Informatica Data Quality to measure the "Data Quality Score" of internal and external reports at my company. Business users set up data profiling and prepared detailed analysis documents for business analysts. and developers developed Data Quality Mapplets for other IT teams to import their Informatica Power Center repositories. Results are stored in a centralized data quality space and then reported and summarized to related business users in detailed ways. At the end of each project, we are now able to place a "Data Quality Score" watermark score on each report involved.
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Pros
  • Easy and fast data sharing across platforms
  • Single platforms solution
  • Able to handle cloud and on premise
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  • Watch the data real time- After creating the job the data quality engine checks and run the custom rules creating a navigation window at the bottom for review and accessing the data right away.
  • Character Set Mapping
  • Makes sense of our own data, which in turn gives us confidence that we can provide to the end users. IDQ helped us with erroneous data in accounting and HR for accurate and immaculate reports
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Cons
  • Alex Solutions has lots of features and you need to invest time to understand how to do best deal with the solution in your own business case
  • Australian-based solution with no local support in Denmark. Not the biggest issue for us, but potentially is a place with room for improvement.
  • Making it easier for users to adjust visuals and colours.
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  • Several partnerships diminishing the value of technologies
  • Unable to get list of objects from Repository (like sources & targets) that don't have any dependency
  • Scheduling: The built-in scheduling tool has many constraints such as handling Unix/VB scripts etc. Most enterprises use third party tools for this.
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Likelihood to Renew
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I gave a rating of 8 due to the fact that we use Informatica for both our data quality product and ETL product. Having both integrated makes it so much easier. Microsoft had a similar product of finding duplicates, but at the time it didn't seem mature enough. The usability also in IDQ was pretty easy to navigate and use.
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Usability
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Easy to use not only for developers but also business users
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Reliability and Availability
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The application works well except an occasional error out while using the system. It usually gets fixed when restarting the Infa server
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Performance
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Performance works just fine. It was able to load 200+ business terms, 150+ DQ automation, etc. very well.
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Alternatives Considered
I have seen companies with Alex and Collibra, and if I should choose one of these tools based on my knowledge and feedback from the users, I would definitely choose Alex Solutions. From a user perspective Alex Solutions is easier to use - it really is just more intuitive and for most users that can make the difference between using and not using the solution
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Informatica Data Quality has a wide range of cleansing features, that are detailed, professional, and accurate in scaling down the required database. Further, Informatica Data Quality ensures there is proper collaboration, and this fosters businesses to have the freedom of working closely with several programs. Finally, Informatica Data Quality design is authentic and allows personalization.
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Scalability
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Scalability works as expected and it is truly an enterprise system.
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Return on Investment
  • It's always difficult to predict the future, but the feedback from our organization is clear. Data-driven decisions are better decisions for sure.
  • No service or solution is free, but seen in the bigger picture the better decision making surely outweigh the costs of Alex Solutions
  • Our organization has way more focus on data and ensuring correct data collection. This is probably the best impact we have had seen from a data manager's perspective
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  • Integration with tools like PowerCenter helped faster delivery of product, and at the same time conversion
  • Reduce overall project cost due to bad data , bad quality, exceptions identified nearing go-live and post production
  • Employee efficiency is increased exponentially due to more automated, customized tool
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