We performed a comparison between Informatica Axon and Microsoft Purview based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft Azure Purview is a very new product in the Data Governance space. It is currently tremendously limited, as it only functions reliably with Microsoft Azure products. Many users feel it lacks maturity, but for the Microsoft Azure user, it is an appropriate choice. Informatica Axon is considered a leader in the Data Governance space, providing a plethora of value-added features. It is a reliable, stable, and trusted solution.
"The best thing about Informatica Axon is that it integrates with the Electronic Data Capture and the Axon system."
"The solution allows the complete governance process, starting from the data quality, those definitions, and it can get the data quality in the EDC."
"The features that I have found most valuable are, first of all, that it comes as part of this whole bundle of Informatica tools. So if you've been implementing Informatica MDM across a business, you'd often find it comes with it. It's been thrown in as a sweetener. The adoption of it is often the challenge because as part of your MDM project, governance is seen as something beyond the MDM and is often restrictive. So this tool actually, for the first time, when you talk to data governance teams, gives a holistic view of what a data governance team can do with this tool."
"The features for data quality, data cataloging, and UI are excellent."
"The feature of auto-onboarding of the assets, enterprise assets via EDC is good."
"The product is stable."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon is that it is flexible and user-friendly."
"Microsoft Purview's primary benefit lies in safeguarding sensitive and confidential data, thereby mitigating the risk of internal data exfiltration."
"It is designed to seamlessly connect to various data sources, which is particularly beneficial for our customers who primarily use Microsoft technologies."
"We can prevent, block, or audit however we like."
"Microsoft Purview is extremely stable."
"The cataloging tool is definitely the most valuable... It tells you about all the data you have in your tables, which helps people understand our data. We now know what data we have."
"Purview helped us automate and control our data without having to rely on people to manually tag documents with specific retention periods."
"The availability of pre-designed policies tailored to specific geolocations and customer requirements is a valuable feature."
"The ability to classify data quickly and effortlessly is arguably Microsoft Purview's most valuable feature."
"The solution should improve its integration."
"The stability and the integration of the solution have room for improvement."
"Right now, although they offer some templates, I would want more templates available to be imported."
"Informatica Axon needs more integration connectors so that it can connect to systems and different kinds of datasets."
"Permissions, scalability, and connection with other informatic tools are the main areas that need development. Integration with other tools, such as IDQ, is challenging. The management of data discovery is highly challenging because many data points have identical definitions."
"They could improve technical support because it is not good enough at the moment."
"Informatica Axon's response times and certain aspects of the admin panel could be enhanced for better usability."
"The on-prem version's functionalities may not be available on the cloud version."
"I'd like to see them improve the training for implementing this type of solution."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Two features are unsupported—custom insights and the DLP component—that would be beneficial to me as a consultant and for the customer in terms of security and monitoring. Regarding security, DLP would provide a more granular level of data masking. Custom insights would offer more detailed monitoring and alerts that can notify customers of failures or anything requiring urgent action."
"Some of the menu headings may not be easy to understand for some people."
"The product needs improvement to edit the number of assets. It needs to be more inuitive as well."
"Frequent daily updates from Microsoft can cause interface elements like buttons to appear and disappear, making navigation unpredictable."
"There are some non-Microsoft file formats that are not supported."
"If we could have a view something like we have in CrowdStrike—which is, I believe, the biggest competitor to Microsoft when it comes to security—a node nodal view, which we also have in Defender, that would make it a more complete, one-stop solution. That would save a lot of time for the admins and the engineers."
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Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 51 reviews. Informatica Axon is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Informatica Axon writes "It has a marketplace that allows you to showcase all the assets the data owner has". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Purview Data Governance writes "User friendly with good documentation but needs to cover more non-Microsoft use cases". Informatica Axon is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID, erwin Data Intelligence by Quest and Microsoft Purview Information Protection, whereas Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Microsoft Intune and Collibra Lineage. See our Informatica Axon vs. Microsoft Purview Data Governance report.
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