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We performed a comparison between IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"It is easy to use.""The graphic flows and the lineage are the most valuable features of this solution.""Ability to connect with multiple types of sources.""The feature I found most valuable in IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is the lineage as it's very powerful and it provides data analytics in terms of where the data lives and where it goes. The interface is also clear, though it could still be sorted out, but the lineage is the most powerful thing in the solution.""The solution allows us to leverage a concept called Open IGC to create custom assets and data lineages that are not technologies typically supported by IBM via connectors.""Working on the roles, actually, is the most valuable aspect.""The best feature of IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog for me is that it's easy to use and only requires a little bit of manual intervention. Once you discover the data sources, everything flows into the tool automatically, so you do not have to map it manually. There's been a lot of automation in the solution which I like best.""The ability to create special rules inside the solution using Portuguese is the most valuable feature."

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"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten.""The solution scales well.""The most valuable feature of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is it provides clients with a full view of the enterprise data assets. For example, how many data assets they have and who owns them.""The most valuable feature is its ability to extract metadata from various sources- be it an old SaaS application or the latest cloud application.""The metadata management of Informatica is great.""I like EDC's self-service capabilities. You can put the catalog on the intranet inside the organization, so users can search for something. People in the research world have specialized systems, and you might find data from various places that sound similar.""The product seems stable enough.""The way that the solution scans is very useful."

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Cons
"The simplicity of usage could improve. Perhaps the simplicity of use for end users, not for system integrators, but for the user, the end users.""Sometimes, if the product is new, getting support is difficult and the team was facing some challenges.""The solution has performance issues when scaling up small sets of information such as assets and data lineage to the ITC.""The scalability has room for improvement.""An area for improvement in IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is that it's missing a lot of connectors. Clients complain about not being able to connect some data sources because there's no available connector, so my company raised that issue with IBM. In some cases, third-party connectors are available, but not for all data sources. Another area that needs improvement in the solution is stability because it also has some stability issues. This is the same issue with the other IBM products bundled with IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog. The solution is connected with IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer and IBM InfoSphere DataStage in my company, so if one has issues with stability, the rest of the products are affected as well.""What could be improved in IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is its query tool, including its terms, labels, and reports because the query tool isn't user-friendly. This would also be an additional feature or enhancement in the solution that would make it more attractive to users and would make IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog a really good solution.""They need to improve asset management.""What I would tell IBM in terms of what needs to change or improve is that the product is too complicated. IBM purchased various components from different vendors over time and certainly in the UK, IBM did not have anybody that had the expertise to be able to get IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog to run properly."

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"Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog could improve by having a much better user interface. It is not user-friendly.""IEDC can improve the comparison of lineages.""The model is somewhat flexible. There are certain aspects of the model that are not as flexible as we would like. It doesn't do certain things to a great level of depth. So, in situations where we want to drill in to do something specific, we have to essentially copy that data into our own structures in order to add that additional layer of flexibility.""The scalability is tough.""They have to improve their relationship discovery tool. They say that they have AI inside, but this AI did not automatically find relationships or suggested relationships between entities.""Interoperability is one area where EDC has room for improvement. It was challenging when the faculty took over the data world and had specific vendors they wanted to use, and some were not particularly open platforms.""The solution is quite expensive.""It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "In terms of pricing, I find IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog excessive. It's at the top end of the price range in terms of what you get for your money. It's an expensive product, and contractually, IBM is difficult to deal with. I can't remember the exact cost of IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, but it could be in the region of three hundred thousand pounds."
  • "Licensing for IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is per user."
  • "Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
  • "IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is expensive."
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  • "I have no idea what the price actually is. It is probably not going to be the cheapest, but it is a pretty stable and robust platform from the backend standpoint."
  • "I rate the product's pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The ability to create special rules inside the solution using Portuguese is the most valuable feature.
    Top Answer:The scalability has room for improvement. I would like the ability to run the solution from different servers. The price has room for improvement.
    Top Answer:IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is used to integrate and govern our information.
    Top Answer:It is more complicated to extract data using the product compared to Visio. The system could display the details on the screen. Additionally, they should add AI features and the capability to provide… more »
    Top Answer:We use the product for building static and automatic data lineages.
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    Also Known As
    IBM Information Governance Catalog
    Informatica EDC, Informatica Enterprise Information Catalog, Enterprise Information Catalog
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    Overview

    Information governance is a next-gen comprehensive process of administering, enhancing, and collating information to strengthen an organization’s trust and belief that its decision and business processes are the best for the organization’s overall health and continued progress. IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is an intuitive, progressive web-based tool that empowers users to discover, comprehend, and dissect information. Users are able to design, administer, and collaborate to track data pipelines, execute protocols and procedures, and share common business languages.

    Integrate the solution with IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog to increase on-premises Information Governance Catalog efficiency in the cloud and improve the benefit of current gathered data sets. This value-added governance catalog enables users to place gathered metadata where experienced users, analytics, and data communities have seamless protected access to the appropriate resources, based on need, while still maintaining the organization's governance standards.

    IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog delivers a secure starting point for organizations to better comprehend and govern their information across the entire network, and continually delivers secure, well-defined, and governed data.

    IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog Benefits

    • Manage catalog metadata: Run data workflows to prove trusted information, support compliance and governance standards, resolve duplicate assets, map databases to database aliases, and automate the authentication of data sources to improve overall project deployment. Additionally, users will discover how data moves across the network and will be able to identify how and where data was sourced and how it is being consumed. This will promote a greater assurance and belief that the data is continually secure and safe.

    • Improved people and process management: The solution helps to definitively clarify roles and responsibilities of all team participants. Users can easily design, edit, and publish governance protocols, accept new or audited information governance rules, and/or move the rule to Draft status. Users will also obtain notice (via email) of any governance issues that appear in their glossary or information assets.

    • Boost current metadata: This can be achieved by using descriptions and relationships, group related labels, stewards, assets, and custom attributes to all other related assets. Develop protracted data sources to add metadata to the catalog that may not be able to be added automatically or that are not able to be imported easily from outside third-party applications. The solution will also help users have a greater understanding of all their data assets - unstructured, semi-structured, and structured.

    • Discover assets in the catalog: Users can easily initiate either a simple or advanced search or even begin very intensive deep queries. An intuitive GUI is available to trace the history of all changes, probe stewards, information assets, glossary assets, and all other catalog content.
    • Seamless cloud integration: IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog facilitates a smooth adjustment to the cloud. This makes it no longer necessary to employ an on-premise ecosystem. This move will also result in significantly reduced resource usage and help save on overall administrative costs for the organization.

    Informatica Enterprise Information Catalog provides a machine-learning-based discovery engine to collect data assets across the enterprise while increasing the understanding of those data assets through a graph-based enterprise information catalog. Powered by Informatica’s unique metadata services engine, Enterprise Information Catalog enables business analysts and data stewards to find all types of data across the enterprise; discover relationships among them; enrich data with business glossary terms and crowdsourced annotations; and understand the provenance, quality, and usage of their data.

    Sample Customers
    Rabobank, QuadReal Property Group, Jakarta Smart City
    AIA Singapore, Mattel
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm25%
    Computer Software Company25%
    Transportation Company13%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm28%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Insurance Company12%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Computer Software Company29%
    Construction Company14%
    Insurance Company14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
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    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise55%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise73%
    Buyer's Guide
    IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog vs. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog
    March 2024
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    IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is ranked 4th in Metadata Management with 9 reviews while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 12 reviews. IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is rated 7.0, while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog writes "A solution that allows for custom assets and data lineages but experiences performance issues when scaling up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "Great metadata management with more visibility and great technical support". IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog, IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Collibra Catalog, whereas Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and Denodo. See our IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog vs. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog report.

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