We performed a comparison between Informatica Axon and SAS Data Management 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 solution offers good data governance."
"Axon does one interesting thing that I don't think other tools do as well. It lets you rate data and incorporates Informatica's data quality feature into it. There are little indications and graphics that show you how good the data quality is, and you can drill into it to see where potential issues lie."
"The tool's most valuable feature is bulk upload. We upload files in CSV or Excel format."
"It is a scalable product."
"The product is stable."
"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 best thing about Informatica Axon is that it integrates with the Electronic Data Capture and the Axon system."
"Axon has a marketplace that allows you to showcase all the assets the data owner has, so they can request access. That's one feature we use extensively. Axon also offers great visibility and intuitive searchability, allowing you to easily search data assets. You can check the lineage and see the work EDC does. EDC handles all the classification, cataloging, and lineage. It's integrated with Axon, and anyone can see that."
"The technical support is excellent."
"Its robustness is valuable. It is a full-fledged suite. We have a data warehouse model, and there are also a lot of data quality management tools. The repository and all other tools are there. So, it is a full package in terms of reporting tools."
"If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to customize."
"This is an established product with powerful data analysis and varied options for user entry points."
"In terms of which features I have found most valuable, I would say the importing and exporting features. Additionally, the data sorting, categorizing and summarizing features, especially how it can summarize based on categories. These are the key features."
"The tool is reliable, quick, and powerful."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't faced any issues with glitches or bugs. We haven't had any crashes."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
"The stability and the integration of the solution have room for improvement."
"The solution should improve its integration."
"They could improve technical support because it is not good enough at the moment."
"The on-prem version's functionalities may not be available on the cloud version."
"Though EDC has maximum coverage, a few things were not available to scan, but I think EDC is evolving to address this issue."
"There is room for improvement in the support. The response time could be faster."
"The main issue probably has nothing to do with end users, but installation can definitely be simplified."
"One problem is accessing the data using a solution other than SAS. The SAS data, which we create in the SAS, cannot be accessed by other tools. We can't open those data in other applications. So we need to have that application in place."
"Very little needs to improve but perhaps a nicer graphic interface and remaining competetive in the growing field of data analytics."
"The pricing of the solution needs to be improved. They need to work to make it more affordable."
"I would like the tool to include the ability to automate the modifications of the integrations."
"We implemented it a while ago, and we are trying to improve the data delivery performance. We are looking into how to get faster and automated reporting. We would need better designs and workflows."
"The solution is quite expensive and hard to install/configure."
"We find we often have to go back and re-train users when there are changes made to the solution because the changes are not intuitive."
"The solution could use better documentation."
Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews while SAS Data Management is ranked 29th in Data Governance with 15 reviews. Informatica Axon is rated 7.8, while SAS Data Management is rated 8.4. 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 SAS Data Management writes "A scalable solution with customer support that is responsive and diligent". Informatica Axon is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID and IBM Data Governance, whereas SAS Data Management is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Tungsten RPA, Microsoft Purview Data Governance, SSIS and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). See our Informatica Axon vs. SAS Data Management report.
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