We performed a comparison between Alation Data Catalog and Informatica Axon 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 tool's metadata cataloging is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of Alation Data Catalog are the simplicity in onboarding data sources, the security in securing the data sources, and the way the various users of Alation Data Catalog communicate with each other through a messenger."
"Alation Data Catalog's best feature is the SQL query publication."
"The platform's most valuable features are workflow automation, automated business metadata tagging, technical metadata tagging, and data integration with data quality tools or platforms."
"We had some of our data science engineers, who had built out some cloud-based data and data products for users. They were spending a lot of their time, up to 30 to 35% of their time, answering questions about the data and helping people understand how to use it. Once they were able to document that information within Alation, they were only focusing on around 5% of the high-value questions that really couldn't be solved through the catalog itself. It freed them up to be more productive, it made their end-users more productive, and it made the adoption rate of their data products rise more quickly because people were able to get to using them."
"We can customize templates based on our use cases."
"Given the relatively low level of maturity, Alation's most relevant feature at the moment is a user interface that's easy to navigate, which helps us find and understand the data. So while Alation has a lot more functionality, our pain point right now is being able to easily find, understand, and trust the information to use it."
"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to select the data flow and lineage."
"The tool's most valuable feature is bulk upload. We upload files in CSV or Excel format."
"The features for data quality, data cataloging, and UI are excellent."
"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."
"Some of Axon's valuable features include creating your business glossaries, importing DQ rules, and creating change management."
"The product is stable."
"The solution offers good data governance."
"The best thing about Informatica Axon is that it integrates with the Electronic Data Capture and the Axon system."
"Alation Data Catalog does not provide end-to-end data lineage."
"Alation Data Catalog doesn't support end-to-end lineage. By that, I mean the ability to trace the movement of data from when it first comes into our organization to where it's consumed."
"The tool's domain model needs to be changed."
"Alation Data Catalog needs to develop a lot in terms of data governance and would be improved with a built-in interactive data quality solution."
"The interface is not user-friendly."
"The product's data governance features need improvement."
"I know that this has been on their roadmap and they're working on it, but as a whole, there's an untapped reservoir of capabilities within their article features that could be used and built upon."
"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."
"Informatica Axon needs more integration connectors so that it can connect to systems and different kinds of datasets."
"The main issue probably has nothing to do with end users, but installation can definitely be simplified."
"Though EDC has maximum coverage, a few things were not available to scan, but I think EDC is evolving to address this issue."
"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."
"The solution should improve its integration."
Alation Data Catalog is ranked 5th in Data Governance with 7 reviews while Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews. Alation Data Catalog is rated 7.8, while Informatica Axon is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alation Data Catalog writes "The catalog now provides an opportunity for people to come together, to share, and to find". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Axon writes "It has a marketplace that allows you to showcase all the assets the data owner has". Alation Data Catalog is most compared with Microsoft Purview, Collibra Governance, Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog, Collibra Lineage and IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, whereas Informatica Axon is most compared with Microsoft Purview, Collibra Governance, BigID, erwin Data Intelligence by Quest and Microsoft Purview Information Protection. See our Alation Data Catalog vs. Informatica Axon report.
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