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IBM InfoSphere MDM

42Judge labels
1First choices
20Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Master data for enterprise buyers
Rank 72 of 92 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 46% of its 13 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of IBM InfoSphere MDM →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In master data · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named IBM InfoSphere MDM for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Master data managementData platform0%72 of 9246%13criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for IBM InfoSphere MDM yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated IBM InfoSphere MDM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00112
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small01012
DeepSeek V4 Flash01012
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K200011
GLM 4.7 FlashX01012
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00101

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase6 labelsNone
Comparative13 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labels1
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative18 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative42 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Choose Informatica or IBM if you have a massive budget, complex governance needs, and a large internal technical team.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Master data · comparative prompt · alternative
“For complex, legacy‑centric hybrid environments: Talend (Qlik Talend Cloud), IBM InfoSphere MDM, TIBCO EBX.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Master data · comparative prompt · alternative
“Regulated, compliance-heavy, hybrid environments | IBM InfoSphere” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Master data · comparative prompt · alternative
“Informatica MDM or IBM InfoSphere MDM are strong choices.” Mistral Small · Master data · scale prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid or be cautious with: IBM InfoSphere MDM — unless you're deeply committed to IBM ecosystem and can handle legacy complexity” Kimi K2 · Master data · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid or be cautious with IBM InfoSphere MDM and SAP MDG if your organization is not prepared for their complexity and cost.” Mistral Small · Master data · negative prompt · hard negative
“describe them as expensive, complex, and better suited to large or highly regulated enterprises rather than smaller teams” Perplexity Sonar · Master data · negative prompt · soft negative
“Complex, heavy‑weight architecture; steep learning curve ... Overkill for many mid‑size firms; long implementation cycles” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Master data · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IBM InfoSphere MDM, over the 42 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM InfoSphere MDM was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Informatica MDM39 of 4219Not among the top eight
SAP Master Data Governance37 of 421Not among the top eight
Semarchy xDM30 of 423Not among the top eight
Profisee MDM25 of 425Not among the top eight
Reltio23 of 423Not among the top eight
Stibo Systems STEP20 of 420Not among the top eight
Oracle Enterprise Data Management12 of 420Not among the top eight
Ataccama ONE11 of 420Not among the top eight
TIBCO EBX10 of 420Not among the top eight
Pimcore7 of 421Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named IBM InfoSphere MDM. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 41 of the 42 answers that named IBM InfoSphere MDM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

semarchy.com27
atrocore.com25
ciopages.com20
profisee.com20
fanruan.com19
guideflow.com17
ovaledge.com17
gartner.com16
larksuite.com16
devopsschool.com15

192 of the 192 domain citations in answers naming IBM InfoSphere MDM came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where IBM InfoSphere MDM stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Searches for its name, Google
140 a month (“ibm infosphere mdm”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
7 a month
Its own site
It sits on IBM's site (ibm.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 72 of 92 in master data
Segment leader
41%
Profisee MDM
First choices
1 across its categories
Named in
42 answers
Its own site cited
in 41 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

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The company

IBM is the company behind IBM InfoSphere MDM.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Drive deeper insights with a trusted view of critical enterprise data on the IBM Cloud Pak for Data platform.
Free plan or trial
Pruebe la versión beta InfoSphere Master Data Management en IBM Cloud Pak for Data. ibm.com/es-es/products/ibm-infosphere-master-data-management
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What IBM InfoSphere MDM's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: ibm.com/products/ibm-infosphere-master-data-management, ibm.com/es-es/products/ibm-infosphere-master-data-management, ibm.com/fr-fr/products/ibm-infosphere-master-data-management, ibm.com/id-id/products/ibm-infosphere-master-data-management, ibm.com/it-it/products/ibm-infosphere-master-data-management. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for IBM InfoSphere MDM by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where IBM InfoSphere MDM is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name IBM InfoSphere MDM, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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