Ataccama Data Quality & Master Data Management

Ataccama ONE Platform 's major use case, like many companies, is for data quality. What happens is we get the requirement from business, we implement those rules and attach them to the tables so they can get the data quality results. Then they go back to the main source and change the data so it will be clean and effective. The source connections are a good part of this.

I have experience in both Ataccama ONE Platform  and Ataccama ONE Desktop. Ataccama ONE Platform goes to some large corporations. We are using it for very big data. There is a lot of data being processed by Ataccama in our organization. It is very good in scalability.

When hybrid deployment is done, it doesn't have an option to load any kind of file directly into Ataccama ONE Platform. What happens is when we load a file into Ataccama ONE Platform, it goes to Ataccama's database rather than the customer's database. That is one backlog.

Lineage is the second part. They used MANTA before. For the past two or three versions, they have developed their own lineage. That is not as good as the original ones. I know they need to improve because it is their own lineage and they are doing it newly, so that will be improved anyway.

When the version is being updated, I think they need to do more regression testing. A few things which have worked in the previous version are not working in the current version. I added a column which was customly added by me in my previous version, and in the current version after the update, I was not able to pull any data from that in my Ataccama ONE Desktop.

We are the people who are deploying Ataccama ONE Platform. We are in the development procedure, developing the platform for business.

The difficulty of deployment for Ataccama ONE Platform depends on the use cases which the business has. Ataccama handles it well from the perspective of data quality and data governance, but when compared to the lineage, I think it needs to improve more.

I have been using Ataccama ONE Platform for maybe two years.

We are still developing the application, so there have not been many crashes or instabilities. It is good. When we are doing upgrades or patch versions, sometimes it has to go down and then we need to restart, and then it comes back again. That is understandable because we are doing upgrades and patches. It is common.

I contact their technical support all the time.

The speed of their support depends on the issue. If it is a small issue, they tend to respond very quickly and they try to answer the question. We are facing a few issues, like with some linear scalars. It has been one and a half to two months now and it is not yet resolved. They are still working on that. That is where it will be slightly concerning.

To the support of Ataccama, I would give a score of six or seven.

I started working with Ataccama directly. I do not know if my company had worked with any other alternatives before.

Ataccama ONE Platform does not require updates to keep it working, but it needs constant updates so we would be in the updated version and do things much better. Constant updates take place and constant patches will be done.

We need a team for the deployment.

I do not have much experience with different tools and how much they charge. Based on my personal opinion and on a few discussions with some people, I think the pricing is reasonable. It is not too high. When compared to some other tools like Collibra, which is a much higher subscription, Ataccama is far better when compared to Collibra or some other leading data governance tools.

I would give this product an overall rating of 7.5 out of 10.

My main use case for Ataccama ONE Platform  is to develop data quality rules, apply them in the monitoring project, and then triage the issues with the data quality rules.

For example, we had a project of billing at MetLife. For the MetLife billing, we developed both business rules and technical rules to apply to the data. We developed those rules and then identified issues, and we used DQIT and ServiceNow  as an issue tracker for the team to identify the issues and rectify them at the source.

The best features that Ataccama ONE Platform  offers are its user-friendliness and the ability to create many rules that we can reuse. A single rule can be applied to multiple columns and multiple projects, which is helpful for deduplication.

The reusability of rules has really helped my work because there are a few technical rules that we can apply, such as the null check. If there is a null check, we have to apply that DQ rule for every primary key. There will be many tables and columns with primary keys, so creating a null check and applying the same null check to multiple tables and columns will really help, making it easy for anyone to identify what kind of rule it is. Having multiple rules of the same logic makes tracking and backtracking the issue a little difficult.

There is also a good feature, the post-processing plan in Ataccama ONE Platform, which is very useful for extracting the metadata of a rule, table, or project, pulling them and then pushing them into a SQL database. With that, I can create dashboards using Tableau or Power BI to see what kind of rules I have applied, what checks I have applied, and what kind of data is failing. It will be easy for anyone to identify what rules are failing since reports matter most because higher management will be seeing them, allowing for correction at the source.

Ataccama ONE Platform has positively impacted my organization by being much cheaper compared to other DQ tools and providing very good support. If we need any features and give them time and bandwidth, they really develop them for us. It has also helped with cost-cutting, and we have many more features like address validation that help organize data from source to target.

Ataccama ONE Platform improved efficiency considerably, as we developed every DQ from scratch and started implementing DQ using Ataccama. It reduced time and effort, especially with the help of the Collibra to Ataccama integration. Collibra is a data governance tool, so with the help of the Collibra to Ataccama integration and vice versa, all the metrics and key performance indicators were moved to Collibra, giving a whole data governance visibility.

I worked in Ataccama ONE Platform from version 5 and now we have version 15, which has improved a lot. However, there is still considerable scope for improvement because Ataccama ONE Platform was not that great around 2020 when I started working with it. There can still be more features including writing any logic, improving more keywords for logic building, and enhancing address validation, based on my understanding.

User experience is actually good; I do not have any complaints or feedback on that. However, the documentation part can be improved because documentation is key for any organization or tool. If anything is needed for understanding, you have to rely on documentation. Ataccama's documentation has potential for improvement.

I have been working with Ataccama ONE Platform for more than four years.

Ataccama ONE Platform is stable.

Ataccama ONE Platform's scalability is high, supporting large volumes of data and complex logic with flexible deployment options.

The support from Ataccama's customer service team is very good. We can raise a ticket using Jira , and they address it as soon as possible based on priority. If we have priority issues, we can highlight that, and they will address those as fast as possible. If needed, they schedule calls and discuss issues if they cannot be resolved through messaging or emails. The service is really good.

I have not used any different solution before Ataccama ONE Platform because by the time I joined the organization, they were about to start using Ataccama. I have not used a different solution previously, but currently, we are using a different solution in my new organization.

It was a little tough for my team to learn and start using Ataccama ONE Platform because the documentation at that time was not good. However, after multiple connects with the vendor team and through a little exploration, we started identifying things, and eventually, we began working on it. I would rate it a seven.

I have definitely seen a return on investment. Money got saved and time got saved because previously, data quality was addressed through SQL and Python. This approach definitely got streamlined, saving both time and reducing the team size necessary to take it further.

My experience with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing was good. It was mainly handled by leadership, so I found the pricing reasonable. The only concern I had was that some features like address validation cost a little extra with the basic plan, though you still receive support there.

We evaluated different options such as Monte Carlo  and IDQ  before choosing Ataccama ONE Platform.

Ataccama ONE Platform was on-premise before but has moved to a hybrid cloud now.

Ataccama ONE Platform integrates with other tools or systems in my organization.

Ataccama ONE Platform connects with Collibra, which is a data governance tool, and it also connects with cloud platforms, databases, data warehouses, and third-party applications like Snowflake , Microsoft Azure , Google Cloud , Amazon Web Services , and big data environments. Regarding databases, we can connect to DataBricks, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server . For third-party applications, we can connect through ServiceNow .

Ataccama ONE Platform handles data security and compliance in my organization by using GDPR, HIPAA, and mainly these two frameworks, along with AI governance ensuring privacy through multiple encryptions. For production data, we use data masking and strict access rules. Additionally, we have multiple teams for monitoring, auditing, and policy enforcement.

The performance and speed of Ataccama ONE Platform when handling large data sets were a bit difficult initially, but it has improved a lot. It is fine now for handling big data.

I would definitely recommend Ataccama ONE Platform to others looking into using it.

A tip for new users is definitely to go through the documentation and practice a little about the data quality rules and how to develop them. The UI is very user-friendly and very self-explanatory, so you will understand it well.

I would definitely encourage anyone to take Ataccama ONE Platform and use it. I would rate this review a seven.

My main use case for Ataccama ONE Platform  is mastering my customer data like customer details, address, phone number, and email, as we experience a lot of duplicates. We use Ataccama ONE Platform  for mastering and making the data unique.

For example, I use Ataccama ONE Platform in my daily work to handle a customer called John Doe with the address as one single tree, and we have one more record with the same customer name John Doe but with the address as four single tree. The PIN of those two customers is the same, and even the phone numbers and emails are the same, so we have two customers. We use Ataccama ONE Platform to merge those two customers and have one unique record, which is one master record.

This is our primary purpose, and I do not have anything else to add about how I handle these kinds of data issues.

The best features Ataccama ONE Platform offers, which stand out to me the most, is the way it takes out the survivorship record from a group of customers' data or any type of data based on the match and merge rules that we apply. That is the unique feature and the most enhanced feature I have ever seen.

When it comes to match and merge rules, Ataccama ONE Platform is quite straightforward. You identify what rules you need based on your business requirement. For example, if you want to match and merge the customer based on the last name plus address, that is one rule. You can go to selection criteria and have the column selected, such as the last name and the address. Similarly, you can have multiple rules in the order by, such as first name, last name plus email or first name, last name plus phone. It is quite straightforward.

Ataccama ONE Platform has positively impacted my organization, and when we talk about big wins, initially our project had almost eighty million to ninety million customer records which were not pure data, as it had a lot of duplicates. Ataccama ONE Platform has helped us narrow it down to sixty-five million. We are still trying to lower it down more, which is a big win—at least a twenty million reduction in the data size or the storage size.

This reduction has impacted our team and business by reducing costs, but we are expecting more reduction. We are not fully satisfied and are expecting at least twenty to thirty percent more reduction, but it has improved our cost and performance.

There are multiple areas where Ataccama ONE Platform can be improved. One area is handling the huge volume, which has been one drawback as it gets slow, and the performance or speed gets slow when there is huge data. The second thing is that after every change and every match and merge rule you apply, you need to reprocess the entire record, which has to again go through the match and merge rules.

If there is any change, instead of reprocessing all the records manually, Ataccama should have an inbuilt functionality to handle the reprocessing of the historical records based on the new rules.

I have been using Ataccama ONE Platform for two years.

I would not say Ataccama ONE Platform is one hundred percent stable. I would rate it at seventy percent stable.

Ataccama ONE Platform's scalability does not handle increases in data or users well. As the volume increases, the performance of Ataccama ONE Platform decreases.

Customer support is very good with Ataccama ONE Platform. I would rate the customer support a nine.

I did not previously use a different solution before Ataccama ONE Platform.

I do not have the metrics, but I have seen a return on investment.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it was not very high. It was at a high end but not that high, and costing was a problem.

What made the costing a problem with Ataccama ONE Platform is related to licensing, as it is every one year.

Before choosing Ataccama ONE Platform, we evaluated other options, specifically IBM MDM , but we wanted to try a new option with better technology, so we opted for Ataccama ONE Platform.

There are many features, and I currently do not recall anything else.

I gave Ataccama ONE Platform a rating of seven out of ten due to the main reasons being the mastering of the data and the efficiency it has. The one negative point that caused me to reduce the score by three points is due to the not proper handling of huge volume.

The negative point I mentioned, specifically, that brought the score down for me is that when there is a huge data reprocessing, the reprocessing of the jobs takes almost more than ten hours to fifteen hours and that disrupts our business load. We cannot do those processing during the business hours and have to wait for non-business hours as it takes ten hours and we cannot have our system down for ten hours.

My advice to others looking into using Ataccama ONE Platform would be that if the data is under fifty million or forty million, Ataccama ONE Platform is the MDM  tool you might be looking for. It is good for mastering, data quality, and reprocessing. It is not my company that has the business relation, but my client which has a relationship as a partner with Ataccama ONE Platform.

I will say, as per the new technology that Ataccama ONE Platform is, it is a great start. Within a few years, it has captured a lot of market, and I am very hopeful that in the next few years it will be the most popular mastering and data quality tool worldwide. I rated Ataccama ONE Platform a seven out of ten.