We performed a comparison between erwin Data Intelligence by Quest 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.
"There is a wide range of widgets that enables the user to find the proper information quickly. The presentation of information is something very valuable."
"Overall, DI's data cataloging, data literacy, and automation have helped our decision-makers because when a source wants to change something, we immediately know what the impact is going to be downstream."
"The biggest impact for us is that erwin generates DDL extremely quickly. We're able to pull in metadata, map it to a target, generate DDL to create the tables, and generate SSIS packages. Previously, especially going back 10 to 15 years ago, hundreds of hours had to be spent to manually perform these tasks. This solution completely automates it and gets it 90% done. We can then pass it off to a developer to create the items in SSIS."
"The data mapping manager is the most valuable feature."
"Mind map... is a really good feature because it is very helpful in seeing which column's tables are related. Also, you can flag them with "sensitive data" and other indicators. You can also customize your own features for the mind map. That was another very robust feature."
"The possibility to write automation scripts is the biggest benefit for us. We have several products with metadata and metadata mapping capabilities. The big difference when we were choosing this product was the ability to run automation scripts against metadata and metadata mappings. Right now, we have a very high level of automation based on these automation scripts, so it's really the core feature for us."
"erwin has tremendous capabilities to map right from the business technologies to the endpoint, such as physical entities and physical attributes, from a lineage standpoint."
"We always know where our data is, and anybody can look that up, whether they're a business person who doesn't know anything about Informatica, or a developer who knows everything about creating data movement jobs in Informatica, but who does not understand the business terminology or the data that is being used in the tool."
"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to select the data flow and lineage."
"The solution offers good data governance."
"The solution is stable."
"The feature of auto-onboarding of the assets, enterprise assets via EDC is good."
"The product is stable."
"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 dictionary, the search, and the ratings are without a doubt the most beneficial components of this solution."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"One big improvement we would like to see would be the workflow integration of codeset mapping with the erwin source to target mapping. That's a bit clunky for us. The two often seem to be in conflict with one another. Codeset mappings that are used within the source to target mappings are difficult to manage because they get locked."
"If we are talking about the business side of the product, maybe the Data Literacy could be made a bit simpler. You have to put your hands on it, so there is room for improvement."
"The data quality assessment requires third-party components and a separate license."
"Really huge datasets, where the logical names or the lexicons weren't groomed or maintained well, were the only area where it really had room for improvement. A huge data set would cause erwin to crash. If there were half a million or 1 million tables, erwin would hang."
"We chose to implement on an Oracle Database because we also had the erwin Data Modeler and Web Portal products in-house, which have been set up on Oracle Databases for many years. Sometimes the Oracle Database installation has caused some hiccups that wouldn't necessarily have been caused if we had used SQL Server."
"The versioning can sometimes be confusing because we use the publishing feature for the mapping. Technical analysts sometimes have two versions, and they should know that the public version is the correct one."
"The solution's Arabic language processing is limited. The results are limited when you use the interface in Arabic."
"There may be some opportunities for improvement in terms of the user interface to make it a little bit more intuitive. They have made some good progress. Originally, when we started, we were on version 9 or 10. Over the last couple of releases, I've seen some improvements that they have made, but there might be a few other additional areas in UI where they can make some enhancements."
"The main issue probably has nothing to do with end users, but installation can definitely be simplified."
"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."
"They could improve technical support because it is not good enough at the moment."
"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."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
"The on-prem version's functionalities may not be available on the cloud version."
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erwin Data Intelligence by Quest is ranked 4th in Data Governance with 18 reviews while Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews. erwin Data Intelligence by Quest is rated 8.6, while Informatica Axon is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest writes "Enabled us to centralize a tremendous amount of data into a common standard, and uniform reporting has decreased report requests". 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". erwin Data Intelligence by Quest is most compared with Microsoft Purview, Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Lineage and AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3), whereas Informatica Axon is most compared with Microsoft Purview, Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID and OneTrust DataGovernance. See our Informatica Axon vs. erwin Data Intelligence by Quest report.
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