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 product's most valuable feature is the ability to select the data flow and lineage."
"It is a very stable solution. I rate its stability a ten out of ten...It is a scalable solution...Informatica Axon's technical support is good."
"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."
"The feature of auto-onboarding of the assets, enterprise assets via EDC is good."
"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 product is stable."
"The technical support is excellent."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't faced any issues with glitches or bugs. We haven't had any crashes."
"If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick."
"The product offers very good flexibility."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to customize."
"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."
"This is an established product with powerful data analysis and varied options for user entry points."
"The tool is reliable, quick, and powerful."
"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."
"The GUI needs to be a little more user-friendly and appealing."
"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."
"Informatica Axon's response times and certain aspects of the admin panel could be enhanced for better usability."
"Right now, although they offer some templates, I would want more templates available to be imported."
"They could improve technical support because it is not good enough at the moment."
"There are some limitations with Informatica Axon when one tries to connect or integrate it with Jira."
"There are also some technical issues sometimes with integrations because clients have a lot of different types of data sources."
"The solution could use better documentation."
"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."
"I would like the tool to include the ability to automate the modifications of the integrations."
"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."
"The pricing of the solution needs to be improved. They need to work to make it more affordable."
"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."
"Very little needs to improve but perhaps a nicer graphic interface and remaining competetive in the growing field of data analytics."
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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