We performed a comparison between Informatica Axon and Varonis Platform 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 tool's most valuable feature is bulk upload. We upload files in CSV or Excel format."
"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."
"You can extract and transfer your data as you wish it to be consumed later."
"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."
"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."
"Some of Axon's valuable features include creating your business glossaries, importing DQ rules, and creating change management."
"Varonis Platform is transparent and captures everything in the environment without impacting the performance. The tool helps us unify data feeds into a single reporting system."
"There's also a 90-day policy where if a user is not using the warehouse, it will automatically delete that username."
"The solution has significantly improved data security and compliance posture by allowing us to track and monitor activities. We can see who accesses data and when files are created and understand what's happening in our environment."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
"Right now, although they offer some templates, I would want more templates available to be imported."
"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."
"They could improve technical support because it is not good enough at the moment."
"It would be great if the cloud version could match the full range of capabilities available on-premise."
"The on-prem version's functionalities may not be available on the cloud version."
"Informatica Axon needs to improve its interface."
"I would like to have the solution in one product and technical support needs to be better."
"The product is very complicated."
"There is one thing that if I add something manually, I get so many alerts. That's the biggest bad thing."
Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews while Varonis Platform is ranked 10th in Data Governance with 3 reviews. Informatica Axon is rated 7.8, while Varonis Platform 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 Varonis Platform writes "Offers visibility and helps to keep track of access ". Informatica Axon is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID and SAP Data Governance, whereas Varonis Platform is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, BigID, Netskope Data Loss Prevention (DLP), SailPoint Identity Security Cloud and Lepide. See our Informatica Axon vs. Varonis Platform report.
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