We performed a comparison between Alation Data Catalog and Informatica Axon 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."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."
"We can customize templates based on our use cases."
"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."
"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."
"The tool's metadata cataloging is the most valuable feature."
"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 solution offers good data governance."
"The dictionary, the search, and the ratings are without a doubt the most beneficial components of this solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The tool's most valuable feature is bulk upload. We upload files in CSV or Excel format."
"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."
"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."
"Some of Axon's valuable features include creating your business glossaries, importing DQ rules, and creating change management."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The interface is not user-friendly."
"The product's data governance features need improvement."
"The tool's domain model needs to be changed."
"Alation Data Catalog does not provide end-to-end data lineage."
"There are also some technical issues sometimes with integrations because clients have a lot of different types of data sources."
"Right now, although they offer some templates, I would want more templates available to be imported."
"It is complicated to establish the lineage in EDC using PowerCenter mappings."
"The GUI needs to be a little more user-friendly and appealing."
"They could improve technical support because it is not good enough at the moment."
"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 cloud version of Axon is far behind the on-prem, and many of my clients want to go fully to the cloud. However, Axon has to be an on-prem installation. I would like to see their cloud products catch up with their on-prem capabilities."
"There are some limitations with Informatica Axon when one tries to connect or integrate it with Jira."
Alation Data Catalog is ranked 5th in Data Governance with 7 reviews while Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews. Alation Data Catalog is rated 7.8, while Informatica Axon is rated 7.8. 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 Axon writes "It has a marketplace that allows you to showcase all the assets the data owner has". Alation Data Catalog is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Collibra Governance, Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog, Collibra Lineage and erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, whereas Informatica Axon is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Collibra Governance, BigID, erwin Data Intelligence by Quest and Microsoft Purview Information Protection. See our Alation Data Catalog vs. Informatica Axon report.
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