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.
"The solution offers good data governance."
"The feature of auto-onboarding of the assets, enterprise assets via EDC is good."
"Able to customize data search and data sharing."
"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."
"Some of Axon's valuable features include creating your business glossaries, importing DQ rules, and creating change management."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It is a scalable product."
"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to select the data flow and lineage."
"The custom classifications are one of the most valuable features."
"The e-discovery search is useful."
"Data authentication enables us to classify documents based on whether they should be restricted for internal consumption or permitted for external sharing."
"The cataloging tool is definitely the most valuable... It tells you about all the data you have in your tables, which helps people understand our data. We now know what data we have."
"It is very easy to learn the interface, and it is very user-friendly."
"Has a good interface and is reasonably priced."
"The most significant value lies in its seamless integration into the Azure ecosystem, automating various processes and reducing operational burdens."
"Microsoft Purview is scalable."
"The stability and the integration of the solution have room for improvement."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
"I would like to have the solution in one product and technical support needs to be better."
"It is complicated to establish the lineage in EDC using PowerCenter mappings."
"Though EDC has maximum coverage, a few things were not available to scan, but I think EDC is evolving to address this issue."
"Informatica Axon needs more integration connectors so that it can connect to systems and different kinds of datasets."
"I would like to see more API integration to have the capability to build a report using other third party reporting tools to streamline the operation."
"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."
"The overall cost of deploying this solution could be better. It seems that middle and small-sized organizations are not completely happy with deploying this solution in terms of the cost. It would be good if they concentrate on the cost part."
"Two features are unsupported—custom insights and the DLP component—that would be beneficial to me as a consultant and for the customer in terms of security and monitoring. Regarding security, DLP would provide a more granular level of data masking. Custom insights would offer more detailed monitoring and alerts that can notify customers of failures or anything requiring urgent action."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The API needs some improvement when connecting to non-Microsoft API sources. This is a limiting factor."
"I have some concerns about the separation of roles in Purview from the Microsoft tenant, as well as how they interact with the security portal and endpoint manager."
"Another area for improvement is in managing the business glossary terms. If they could provide the same type of method that we use to configure the scan rule sets, that would be helpful. Currently, there is no option like this, so we have to do it manually. Automatic detection would be great."
"Although you can explore the data, that creates a great interest in data lineage or the data flow. How does it go from a source to a platform to a Power BI report, for example? It is possible, to some extent, to see that with Purview, but the lineage feature requires some manual work on the development side or more work from Microsoft to improve on it."
"he one thing it doesn't do is data quality."
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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 48 reviews. Informatica Axon is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.6. 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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