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Metadata Management
April 2024
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Excellent for extracting technical metadata, but tricky to scale
I recommend Informatica to my clients based in the finance and banking sectors. It has been very helpful.
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    What do you like most about Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog?
    Top Answer:The product seems stable enough.
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    What needs improvement with Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog?
    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 »
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    Ranking
    9th
    out of 27 in Metadata Management
    Views
    603
    Comparisons
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    Average Words per Review
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    1st
    out of 27 in Metadata Management
    Views
    2,187
    Comparisons
    1,543
    Reviews
    8
    Average Words per Review
    552
    Rating
    7.8
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    Also Known As
    IBM Data Catalog
    Informatica EDC, Informatica Enterprise Information Catalog, Enterprise Information Catalog
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    Overview

    IBM Watson® Knowledge Catalog is an open and intelligent data catalog for managing enterprise data and AI model governance, quality and collaboration. By providing an end-to-end experience rooted in metadata and active policy management, the solution can be leveraged to find success across top use cases like regulatory compliance for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), governing data lakes, and self-service consumption of high-quality data.

    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.

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    AIA Singapore, Mattel
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm24%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Insurance Company11%
    Computer Software Company10%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company29%
    Construction Company14%
    Insurance Company14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government9%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise74%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise58%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog is ranked 9th in Metadata Management while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 1st in Metadata Management with 13 reviews. IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog is rated 0.0, while Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 7.6. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "Great metadata management with more visibility and great technical support". IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog is most compared with IBM InfoSphere Information Server, IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, Pentaho Data Catalog and Collibra Catalog, whereas Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Catalog, AWS Glue, Informatica PowerCenter and SAP PowerDesigner.

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