We performed a comparison between Informatica Axon and Microsoft Purview Information Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Governance solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon is features, interfaces, and data mapping. It represents clusters nicely."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon is that it is flexible and user-friendly."
"The solution offers good data governance."
"The dictionary, the search, and the ratings are without a doubt the most beneficial components of this solution."
"It's helpful in integration, and it can be moved around in SharePoint. So, from the SharePoint View, data integration and reporting, it help a lot in that way."
"Able to customize data search and data sharing."
"It is a scalable product."
"The feature of auto-onboarding of the assets, enterprise assets via EDC is good."
"The UI is user-friendly, and I have observed that it improves further each year."
"It ensures that sensitive data is automatically safeguarded, even for email attachments, regardless of the user or device."
"Before using it, we had a lot of unlabeled data, and the tool helped us quickly and accurately label a large number of documents."
"We can restrict access or specify who can see sensitivity labels, which can be based on the classification level. We can encrypt restricted content and limit who can see that from an internal view, too, so Purview is a powerful tool."
"Incorporating data loss prevention capabilities built into the Microsoft platform to endpoints, such as Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers, can also help prevent data loss and is highly advantageous."
"The solution should improve its integration."
"The GUI needs to be a little more user-friendly and appealing."
"Some functionalities can be a challenge in the cloud."
"The on-prem version's functionalities may not be available on the cloud version."
"I would like to see more API integration to have the capability to build a report using other third party reporting tools to streamline the operation."
"The stability and the integration of the solution have room for improvement."
"Informatica Axon's response times and certain aspects of the admin panel could be enhanced for better usability."
"There are also some technical issues sometimes with integrations because clients have a lot of different types of data sources."
"Microsoft can improve the affordability of Purview Information Protection by offering it at a lower cost."
"There is potential for more integration in the use of AI."
"Our primary concern is third-party application visibility. Many people choose other DLP tools, as they can search the Office 365 suite and detect sensitive information across thousands of other apps. The product is weak compared to the competitors on the DLP front, but the classification is good; the tool needs a bit more maturation."
"There is room for improvement with the policy tips feature."
"Microsoft Purview Information Protection can improve in terms of scan concurrency and scan processing time."
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Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews while Microsoft Purview Information Protection is ranked 6th in Data Governance with 5 reviews. Informatica Axon is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Purview Information Protection 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 Information Protection writes "Provides protection across multiple environments, can classify data and represent it graphically, and has the option for customer-managed teams to encrypt and manage data". Informatica Axon is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID and OneTrust DataGovernance, whereas Microsoft Purview Information Protection is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Microsoft Defender XDR, Varonis Platform, BigID and Securiti. See our Informatica Axon vs. Microsoft Purview Information Protection report.
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