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Our eCommerce platform uses P360 to build and maintain hundreds of "micro stores" for our customers. P360 is able to handle multiple distinct shops with separate inventory and allow us to provide a curated experience for our customers. When we were sourcing product information management systems, Informatica's PIMS seemed to have the most robust handling of multiple product structures for distinct customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The platform is both expensive and incredibly complicated and I've never felt like Informatica was very invested in our success with it. We received a little bit of training from the company (and our trainers were nice enough) but it was always us asking questions and pushing for answers and never them following up and coaching us. I understand we're not their biggest account, but it's left a bad taste in my mouth because the program is not designed to be user friendly or easy to parse visually. It takes us months to train new people on it and when we have questions, it takes a long time to get responses from Informatica. It also felt like many features that should be basic required additional fees for programming/activation. The strength of P360 is maintaining many multiple catalogs that share products, but being able to change a "master" product and have that automagically cascade to all the hundreds of stores required additional programming from Informatica at a high cost. Also, in a world of multiple product pictures and videos, P360 seems to offer limit support for more than one piece of media. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
12 out of 13 Total Reviews for Informatica MDM – Product 360
I find Informatica's data integration capabilities to be one of its most notable features, especially when combined with Informatica PowerCenter.It has User-friendly interface with scalability features .Once gone through the documentation properly,it is easy to implement and use.It is easy to use in your Project to manage data.Customer support is also quit accessable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There are few dislikes too.
It is little coslty for the licensing part.There are many more MDM tool like reltio and product master with cheaper rate.
It also have limited cloud-Native support and AI features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Informatica MDM provides a perfect platform for user to identify the duplicates and indirectly analyze the factors contributing for revenue growth. The match and merge algorithm is quite impressive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Informatica MDM lags the feature of having data governance at mass data import level which is most comman business demand at the moment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Very suited to real-life product 360 and intelligence foundation use cases. Low development latency. Efficient data modeling. Easy licensing. Ready integration to data quality tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing major to dislike. A bit more time to market than another product 360 application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Informatica Product 360 is a complete package to manage E2E product data using advance product features such as import, task, data quality, export etc. It is GS1 compliant which helps in easy adaptation of the tool by large scale industries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Very limited customisation opportunities for Web UI. Inability to involve rest API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The fluidity of the software and the hierarchy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Configuration is sometimes tricky. More fluidity is necessary for this portion! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is notorious among the specialists in the business and preferable and most recognised set of tools for the major companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There are other tools such as Ataccama that have much better user experience for developers and flexibility to work faster and more efficient. Probably they are more cost effective too. However Informatica products maybe more reliable and with more history behind it which could be a plus for the companies using it. There is no doubt that these are powerful and recognised tools.
As far as personal experience with the Informatica MDM tools they are sometimes really rigit to use. Especially for some very common tasks. I also feel that the creativity part is someone restricted too.
The one thing that I most disliked were the Informatica MDM courses and final examination which didn't meet my expectations. Especially the test. So I don't truly recommend them. I found the test for the certification to be very subjective with a lot of unprofessional (maybe even wrongly asked and wrongly scored) and dubious questions that feel detached from the course materials and the product essentials. You might find yourself scoring almost 100% on difficult questions and important matters and on fields that you feel are pretty straight forward and you know them best you might reach extremely low score and wonder how it might have happened. Something like 0-20% which could cost you a lot in the end result for the test. This is due to the fact that a great number of questions look quite fancy and you don't know what they exactly mean. Even though you might be quite familiar with the material and implementation yourself you might question the logic behind those questions on practically very easy and/core practices within the scope. So there is a lot room for improvement on the questions to aim first and foremost to improve the knowledge of the participants and to find out which ones are ready for self-reliant professional experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Helps mastering data from multiple sources, feasibility of applying business rules to master the data, works well with ETL tools like Informatica PowerCenter, seamless matching and merging process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Mapping defined for land to stage have very minute details that are not easy to understand and the coulomb mappings are hard to follow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Golden record Algortithms, Data lineage and UI for Data Integrations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing much, all of the features are indeed required Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Easily integrates with other ETL products from Informatica. Very intutive . Sourcing data from diverse systems is quick. Option of delpoying it to cloud is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
User interface can be made more business user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Mastering process for the multiple domain data with single tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
MDM,Dataquality and powercenter tools are not integrated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
