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."They have just the most marvelous reports called mind maps, where whatever you are focused on sits in the middle. They have this wonderful graphic spiderweb that spreads out from there where you can see this thing mapped to other logical bits or physical bits and who's the steward of it. It's very cool and available to your business teams through a portal."
"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."
"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."
"Being able to capture different business metrics and organize them in different catalogs is most valuable. We can organize these metrics into sales-related metrics, customer-related metrics, supply chain-related metrics, etc."
"The solution saves time in data discovery and understanding our entire organization's data."
"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 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."
"We use the codeset mapping quite a bit to match value pairs to use within the conversion as well. Those value pair mappings come in quite handy and are utilized quite extensively. They then feed into the automation of the source data extraction, like the source data mapping of the source data extraction, the code development, forward engineering using the ODI connector for the forward automation."
"The tool's most valuable feature is bulk upload. We upload files in CSV or Excel format."
"The best thing about Informatica Axon is that it integrates with the Electronic Data Capture and the Axon system."
"The product is stable."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"The dictionary, the search, and the ratings are without a doubt the most beneficial components of this solution."
"The solution offers good data governance."
"It's a little bit clunky. I think a lot of these features were bolted on, and they don't necessarily transition smoothly in the interface. I would like to see a little more cohesion."
"There was a huge learning curve, and I'd been in software development for most of my career. The application itself, and how it runs menus and screens when you can modify and code, is complex. I have found that kind of cumbersome."
"Everything about Data Intelligence is complex. Though we've used the tool for five years, we're still only using about 30 to 40 percent of its capabilities. It would be helpful if we could customize and simplify the user interface because there are so many redundant things."
"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 fact that I sometimes have to go in and out of different applications, even though it's all part of the whole erwin suite, perhaps means it could be architected a little bit better. I think they do have some ideas for improvements there."
"Another area where it can improve is by having BB-Graph-type databases where relationship discovery and relationship identification are much easier."
"The metadata ingestion is very nice because of the ability to automate it. It would be nice to be able to do this ingestion, or set it up, from one place, instead of having to set it up separately for every data asset that is ingested."
"The solution's Arabic language processing is limited. The results are limited when you use the interface in Arabic."
"There are some limitations with Informatica Axon when one tries to connect or integrate it with Jira."
"Though EDC has maximum coverage, a few things were not available to scan, but I think EDC is evolving to address this issue."
"It is complicated to establish the lineage in EDC using PowerCenter mappings."
"Informatica Axon needs more integration connectors so that it can connect to systems and different kinds of datasets."
"Informatica Axon needs to improve its interface."
"The solution should improve its integration."
"It would be great if the cloud version could match the full range of capabilities available on-premise."
"There is room for improvement in the support. The response time could be faster."
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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 Data Governance, Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Collibra Lineage and AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3), whereas Informatica Axon is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID and Microsoft Purview Information Protection. See our Informatica Axon vs. erwin Data Intelligence by Quest report.
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