Informatica Axon vs SAP Data Governance comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Informatica Axon
Ranking in Data Governance
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAP Data Governance
Ranking in Data Governance
22nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Data Governance category, the market share of Informatica Axon is 8.2% and it decreased by 1.7% compared to the previous year. The market share of SAP Data Governance is 1.1% and it decreased by 23.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Governance
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Featured Reviews

Rupal Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 23, 2023
Good for data governance, data quality and data exploration
The major points of improvement are stability, integration, and permission to sub-folders or categories of data. If you want to provide access to a particular type of data discovery to a team, it exposes a lot of data points which in turn makes Axon not that useful for them. 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. Mostly, this will come under the data security permission level or admin access.
VM
Sep 22, 2023
A robust solution that establishes rules, policies, and procedures
The solution is used in Life Cycle Data Management where it can be stored in cheaper storage options like Amazon and OpenShift. It has helped with data retention It is robust solution.  SAP should come up with specialized services as per their customer's requirements. I have experience with SAP…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to select the data flow and lineage."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The solution offers good data governance."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon is features, interfaces, and data mapping. It represents clusters nicely."
"It is a scalable product."
"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 new workflow engine is based on the web app rather than the Java-based approach."
"It is robust solution."
 

Cons

"In terms of what could be improved, they need to create a rules repository. Business rules for the attributes that you have, keeping them in that central repository, and governance of them is something which Axon is lacking a bit. The Informatica Data Quality tool actually caters to that, so that's probably why they have not built that up in the Axon, but it is definitely something that can be built in to this product, as well."
"It is complicated to establish the lineage in EDC using PowerCenter mappings."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
"Though EDC has maximum coverage, a few things were not available to scan, but I think EDC is evolving to address this issue."
"They could improve technical support because it is not good enough at the moment."
"Right now, although they offer some templates, I would want more templates available to be imported."
"The on-prem version's functionalities may not be available on the cloud version."
"There are also some technical issues sometimes with integrations because clients have a lot of different types of data sources."
"I would like to see harmonizing with some of the external third-party products so that it will all be within SAP."
"SAP should come up with specialized services as per their customer's requirements."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"You can purchase licenses for this solution at different intervals. For example, annually or every three years. They recently changed their terms for licensing and now it is more flexible."
"We saw an ROI. We have been able to get data from various sources and consolidate it into a data lake, which is helping us in data analytics."
"Informatica Axon is expensive."
"A yearly subscription is paid based on the number of people using the solution. Price-wise, it falls under the medium range since it is neither very costly nor too cheap."
"Informatica Axon is a costly solution. I rate Informatica Axon a four out of ten for its pricing."
"The platform has a premium cost. I rate the pricing as seven out of ten."
"Pricing is determined by the number of licensed users as well as the number of Core CPUs."
"The price is neither too high nor too low."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Informatica Axon?
The product's most valuable feature is the ability to select the data flow and lineage.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Informatica Axon?
The platform has a premium cost. I rate the pricing as seven out of ten.
What needs improvement with Informatica Axon?
Informatica Axon's response times and certain aspects of the admin panel could be enhanced for better usability.
What needs improvement with SAP Data Governance?
SAP should come up with specialized services as per their customer's requirements.
What is your primary use case for SAP Data Governance?
The solution is used in Life Cycle Data Management where it can be stored in cheaper storage options like Amazon and OpenShift. It has helped with data retention.
 

Also Known As

Axon, Diaku, Informatica Data Governance, Informatica Axon Data Governance
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Sample Customers

AIA Singapore, McGraw-Hill Education
Takisada-Osaka Co. Ltd., The VELUX Group, Asian Paints, AOK Bundesverband, EMC Corporation
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