We performed a comparison between Informatica Axon and Microsoft Purview Information Protection 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."Axon does one interesting thing that I don't think other tools do as well. It lets you rate data and incorporates Informatica's data quality feature into it. There are little indications and graphics that show you how good the data quality is, and you can drill into it to see where potential issues lie."
"The solution allows the complete governance process, starting from the data quality, those definitions, and it can get the data quality in the EDC."
"The best thing about Informatica Axon is that it integrates with the Electronic Data Capture and the Axon system."
"The product is stable."
"The solution offers good data governance."
"The features that I have found most valuable are, first of all, that it comes as part of this whole bundle of Informatica tools. So if you've been implementing Informatica MDM across a business, you'd often find it comes with it. It's been thrown in as a sweetener. The adoption of it is often the challenge because as part of your MDM project, governance is seen as something beyond the MDM and is often restrictive. So this tool actually, for the first time, when you talk to data governance teams, gives a holistic view of what a data governance team can do with this tool."
"The features for data quality, data cataloging, and UI are excellent."
"Some of Axon's valuable features include creating your business glossaries, importing DQ rules, and creating change management."
"Incorporating data loss prevention capabilities built into the Microsoft platform to endpoints, such as Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers, can also help prevent data loss and is highly advantageous."
"We can restrict access or specify who can see sensitivity labels, which can be based on the classification level. We can encrypt restricted content and limit who can see that from an internal view, too, so Purview is a powerful tool."
"It ensures that sensitive data is automatically safeguarded, even for email attachments, regardless of the user or device."
"The UI is user-friendly, and I have observed that it improves further each year."
"Before using it, we had a lot of unlabeled data, and the tool helped us quickly and accurately label a large number of documents."
"Informatica Axon's response times and certain aspects of the admin panel could be enhanced for better usability."
"They could improve technical support because it is not good enough at the moment."
"The stability and the integration of the solution have room for improvement."
"The main issue probably has nothing to do with end users, but installation can definitely be simplified."
"The GUI needs to be a little more user-friendly and appealing."
"It is complicated to establish the lineage in EDC using PowerCenter mappings."
"The solution should improve its integration."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
"There is room for improvement with the policy tips feature."
"There is potential for more integration in the use of AI."
"Microsoft can improve the affordability of Purview Information Protection by offering it at a lower cost."
"Microsoft Purview Information Protection can improve in terms of scan concurrency and scan processing time."
"Our primary concern is third-party application visibility. Many people choose other DLP tools, as they can search the Office 365 suite and detect sensitive information across thousands of other apps. The product is weak compared to the competitors on the DLP front, but the classification is good; the tool needs a bit more maturation."
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Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews while Microsoft Purview Information Protection is ranked 6th in Data Governance with 5 reviews. Informatica Axon is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Purview Information Protection is rated 7.8. 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 Information Protection writes "Provides protection across multiple environments, can classify data and represent it graphically, and has the option for customer-managed teams to encrypt and manage data". Informatica Axon is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID and OneTrust DataGovernance, whereas Microsoft Purview Information Protection is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Microsoft Defender XDR, Varonis Platform, BigID and Securiti. See our Informatica Axon vs. Microsoft Purview Information Protection report.
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