We performed a comparison between Informatica Axon and Microsoft Purview based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft Azure Purview is a very new product in the Data Governance space. It is currently tremendously limited, as it only functions reliably with Microsoft Azure products. Many users feel it lacks maturity, but for the Microsoft Azure user, it is an appropriate choice. Informatica Axon is considered a leader in the Data Governance space, providing a plethora of value-added features. It is a reliable, stable, and trusted solution.
"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."
"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to select the data flow and lineage."
"The features for data quality, data cataloging, and UI are excellent."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon has been the data marketplace."
"It is a scalable product."
"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 tool's most valuable feature is bulk upload. We upload files in CSV or Excel format."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"I really like the entire system for auto-labeling content. It's a very refined system. I use the Keyword Query Language to define refined string-based metadata, and then I can really go deep into the specific data with the specific properties labeled in such and such a way."
"It has notable features for maximizing the value of your data. The data discovery and the data analytics parts are great both on-premises and on-cloud."
"It's certainly easy to work with all Microsoft data sources like SQL Server, Synapse, and data lakes, but it also has great functionality working with Oracle. And of particular interest to us is the ability to pull data from Excel, CVS files, and other types of flat files."
"Microsoft Purview is scalable."
"The custom classifications are one of the most valuable features."
"We can prevent, block, or audit however we like."
"I don't know if I've gotten much value out of Purview personally, but our security team loves it. Our biggest concern is leakage or theft of our data because we have a lot of PII and stuff that has not been released. We like the insights Purview provides and the way the solution can track and manage things. I'd say that was probably their favorite piece of it so far. From everything the security team has told me, the policy management and DLP features are working spectacularly."
"Their data labeling or data classification is particularly valuable because we want to categorize all of our data into confidential, public, or internal."
"Some functionalities can be a challenge in the cloud."
"The main issue probably has nothing to do with end users, but installation can definitely be simplified."
"The stability and the integration of the solution have room for improvement."
"Though EDC has maximum coverage, a few things were not available to scan, but I think EDC is evolving to address this issue."
"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."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
"The GUI needs to be a little more user-friendly and appealing."
"Informatica Axon's response times and certain aspects of the admin panel could be enhanced for better usability."
"There are some limitations with regard to the lineage of data from different parts of the system."
"It could reduce pricing to encourage usage."
"I'd like to see them improve the training for implementing this type of solution."
"The product needs improvement to edit the number of assets. It needs to be more inuitive as well."
"The API needs some improvement when connecting to non-Microsoft API sources. This is a limiting factor."
"I would like to have complete video documentation for training."
"he one thing it doesn't do is data quality."
"The current event-based retention management is very poor."
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Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 51 reviews. Informatica Axon is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.8. 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 Microsoft Purview Data Governance writes "User friendly with good documentation but needs to cover more non-Microsoft use cases". Informatica Axon is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID, erwin Data Intelligence by Quest and Microsoft Purview Information Protection, whereas Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Microsoft Intune and Collibra Lineage. See our Informatica Axon vs. Microsoft Purview Data Governance report.
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