We performed a comparison between Alation Data Catalog and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Metadata Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The most valuable features of Alation Data Catalog are the simplicity in onboarding data sources, the security in securing the data sources, and the way the various users of Alation Data Catalog communicate with each other through a messenger."
"Given the relatively low level of maturity, Alation's most relevant feature at the moment is a user interface that's easy to navigate, which helps us find and understand the data. So while Alation has a lot more functionality, our pain point right now is being able to easily find, understand, and trust the information to use it."
"The tool's metadata cataloging is the most valuable feature."
"We can customize templates based on our use cases."
"We had some of our data science engineers, who had built out some cloud-based data and data products for users. They were spending a lot of their time, up to 30 to 35% of their time, answering questions about the data and helping people understand how to use it. Once they were able to document that information within Alation, they were only focusing on around 5% of the high-value questions that really couldn't be solved through the catalog itself. It freed them up to be more productive, it made their end-users more productive, and it made the adoption rate of their data products rise more quickly because people were able to get to using them."
"Alation Data Catalog's best feature is the SQL query publication."
"The platform's most valuable features are workflow automation, automated business metadata tagging, technical metadata tagging, and data integration with data quality tools or platforms."
"The metadata management of Informatica is great."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is it provides clients with a full view of the enterprise data assets. For example, how many data assets they have and who owns them."
"The capability of the tool to scan and capture the metadata from a variety of sources is one of the capabilities that I find most useful. The central repository into which it is going to put that captured metadata is the best."
"I like EDC's self-service capabilities. You can put the catalog on the intranet inside the organization, so users can search for something. People in the research world have specialized systems, and you might find data from various places that sound similar."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The product seems stable enough."
"The solution scales well."
"It can automatically connect or associate business terms with various options, providing flexibility beyond general capabilities."
"The tool's domain model needs to be changed."
"Alation Data Catalog does not provide end-to-end data lineage."
"I know that this has been on their roadmap and they're working on it, but as a whole, there's an untapped reservoir of capabilities within their article features that could be used and built upon."
"The product's data governance features need improvement."
"The interface is not user-friendly."
"Alation Data Catalog doesn't support end-to-end lineage. By that, I mean the ability to trace the movement of data from when it first comes into our organization to where it's consumed."
"Alation Data Catalog needs to develop a lot in terms of data governance and would be improved with a built-in interactive data quality solution."
"It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."
"The UX and UI of the solution are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages."
"It is not easy to set up and configure the tool."
"Currently, there are limitations in processing and the interface."
"The model is somewhat flexible. There are certain aspects of the model that are not as flexible as we would like. It doesn't do certain things to a great level of depth. So, in situations where we want to drill in to do something specific, we have to essentially copy that data into our own structures in order to add that additional layer of flexibility."
"They have to improve their relationship discovery tool. They say that they have AI inside, but this AI did not automatically find relationships or suggested relationships between entities."
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Alation Data Catalog is ranked 2nd in Metadata Management with 7 reviews while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews. Alation Data Catalog is rated 7.8, while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Alation Data Catalog writes "The catalog now provides an opportunity for people to come together, to share, and to find". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "They listen to their customers, so if something is missing or not working, they will put it on their roadmap". Alation Data Catalog is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Collibra Governance, Informatica Axon, Collibra Lineage and erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, whereas Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter, Denodo and Palantir Foundry. See our Alation Data Catalog vs. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog report.
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