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What does Informatica do?

Tool: Informatica

The Tech: Master Data Management

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Their Pitch

Everybody’s ready for AI except your data.

Our Take

An enterprise software that cleans up messy data so your customer records don't look like a garage sale spreadsheet. Think turning 47 different ways to spell "McDonald's" across your systems into one clean record.

Deep Dive & Reality Check

Used For

  • +**Your CRM, ERP, and marketing tools all have different customer records** → One clean "golden record" that everyone trusts, no more arguing about which email is current
  • +**Product data scattered across 15 Excel sheets from different teams** → Automated syndication to e-commerce channels without manual copy-paste hell
  • +**AI chatbots getting confused by messy supplier data** → Clean, structured data that actually makes sense to machine learning models
  • +Built-in data quality checks catch errors automatically - no more "McDonald's" vs "McDonalds" vs "Mc Donald's"
  • +Connects to your existing tools without custom coding - uses pre-built connectors instead of hiring integration consultants

Best For

  • >Your sales team keeps calling the same customer by three different names
  • >Hit enterprise scale and duplicate records are causing actual revenue problems
  • >IT is tired of explaining why the same supplier appears 12 times in reports

Not For

  • -Companies under 1,000 employees — you're paying Rolls-Royce prices when a Honda would work fine
  • -Teams wanting plug-and-play simplicity — this needs dedicated data stewards or you'll drown in configuration
  • -Anyone on a tight budget — consumption-based pricing means costs scale with your data volume (and enterprises have lots of data)

Pairs With

  • *Salesforce (where your clean customer records actually live and get used by sales reps)
  • *SAP (to sync supplier master data without breaking your ERP workflows)
  • *Snowflake (where the cleaned data gets stored for analytics teams to build dashboards)
  • *Tableau (to create executive reports that don't have embarrassing duplicate customers)
  • *HubSpot (for marketing campaigns that won't send three emails to the same person)
  • *Power BI (where finance builds reports and complains about data quality less often)

The Catch

  • !Budget at least $100K+ annually and expect the final bill to be higher once you add modules and integrations
  • !You'll need someone to become a "data steward" full-time or this becomes expensive shelfware
  • !Built for structured data — if your data is mostly unstructured files and documents, this isn't the right fit

Bottom Line

Costs enterprise money to solve enterprise data chaos — not for companies still using Google Sheets as their CRM.