Alation Data Catalog vs Infogix Data360 Govern [EOL] comparison

Alation and Precisely are both solutions in the Data Governance category. Additionally, 71% of Alation users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Precisely users who would recommend it.

Alation Data Catalog

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71% willing to recommend

Infogix Data360 Govern [EOL]

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100% willing to recommend

Alation Data Catalog

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Categories and Ranking

Alation Data Catalog

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Governance (7th), Metadata Management (2nd)

Infogix Data360 Govern [EOL]

Average Rating

10.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Featured Reviews

Brahma Lam

Developer at CVS Health

Has metadata cataloging features but needs changes in domain model

The tool's metadata cataloging is the most valuable feature. The tool's domain model needs to be changed. Alation Data Catalog is stable. The solution is scalable. Alation Data Catalog's deployment is easy. I rate it a nine out of ten. Deployment takes only two to three hours to complete.…

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Delmar Assis

CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

An integrated solution with good management capabilities, easy and fast deployment, and amazing support

It is an integrated solution that provides end-to-end capabilities for managing the data. It is very useful for cleaning the data, manage: business glossaries, data catalog, lineage/impact analysis, profiling and compliances. It also allows us to combine data from on-premises and cloud sources; On this unified data, we can perform some advanced analytics to predict customer behavior and create new products. Its management and governance capabilities are valuable. connecting data leaders to deliver business ready data, also It provides full tracking of the data flow. It provides customers the full control over the data and the ability to protect the data. It enables us to provide the best service to the customers. We also get great support from Infogix.

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Pros

"Alation Data Catalog provides a nice interface for connecting to the database, querying the data, and working on it."

"Given the relatively low level of maturity, Alation's most relevant feature at the moment is a user interface that's easy to navigate, which helps us find and understand the data. So while Alation has a lot more functionality, our pain point right now is being able to easily find, understand, and trust the information to use it."

"The tool's metadata cataloging is the most valuable feature."

"The solution is used to query MySQL clients and store data and documentation."

"We had some of our data science engineers, who had built out some cloud-based data and data products for users. They were spending a lot of their time, up to 30 to 35% of their time, answering questions about the data and helping people understand how to use it. Once they were able to document that information within Alation, they were only focusing on around 5% of the high-value questions that really couldn't be solved through the catalog itself. It freed them up to be more productive, it made their end-users more productive, and it made the adoption rate of their data products rise more quickly because people were able to get to using them."

"The most valuable features of Alation Data Catalog are the simplicity in onboarding data sources, the security in securing the data sources, and the way the various users of Alation Data Catalog communicate with each other through a messenger."

"The most valuable feature is cloud integration."

"We can customize templates based on our use cases."

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"It is an integrated solution that provides end-to-end capabilities for managing the data. It is very useful for cleaning the data. It also allows us to combine data from on-premises and cloud sources. On this unified data, we can perform some advanced analytics to predict customer behavior and create new products. Its management and governance capabilities are valuable. It provides full tracking of the data flow. It provides customers the full control over the data and the ability to protect the data. It enables us to provide the best service to the customers. We also get great support from Infogix."

"Infogix support stands out in terms of quality and response time, and it is really easy to speak with them by phone or by email."

Cons

"The interface is not user-friendly."

"Alation Data Catalog needs to develop a lot in terms of data governance and would be improved with a built-in interactive data quality solution."

"Although the solution performs far better in terms of data cataloging, its data governance capabilities need improvement."

"We have had issues setting up the connectors and getting Alation's support team to resolve issues."

"The product's data governance features need improvement."

"The tool's domain model needs to be changed."

"Alation Data Catalog does not provide end-to-end data lineage."

"Alation Data Catalog doesn't support end-to-end lineage. By that, I mean the ability to trace the movement of data from when it first comes into our organization to where it's consumed."

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"The 360-degree view for the customers needs to be improved."

"We would like this solution to be available in our local language. In our region, people are not fluent in English. It would be nice to have this solution in Portuguese and Spanish. Its workflows are great, but it would be useful to have business flow at a high level because we need to work together with business users. We need more capabilities for business users to understand something in terms of data."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The platform is moderately expensive compared to the other competitors in the market."

"A three-year agreement is better than a one-year rolling 12-month agreement from a price point of view. I'd recommend looking at a three-year deal because you can't stand up a catalog and produce value in 12 months."

"The solution is a little expensive."

"I don't have all the details on the pricing side, but the solution was more expensive than originally expected."

"Its price is much lower than Informatica. Its licensing is very easy to understand. It is not too complex. There is no maintenance fee. The support is included with the license. Its licensing is subscription-based, which makes it easy to define the budget and other things. It also makes it easier to plan and understand how to use the solution. It uses the pay-as-you-use model, so you can start small and expand the solution and pay as per your usage."

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Financial Services Firm

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Computer Software Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alation Data Catalog?

The platform's most valuable features are workflow automation, automated business metadata tagging, technical metadata tagging, and data integration with data quality tools or platforms.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alation Data Catalog?

I don't have all the details on the pricing side, but the solution was more expensive than originally expected. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solut...

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What needs improvement with Alation Data Catalog?

When issues arise, two key concerns arise. First, how can we perform root cause analysis faster? Second, how can we optimize resource allocation, considering the associated costs? Every customer is...

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Overview

Alation pioneered the data catalog market and is now leading its evolution into a platform for a broad range of data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, lineage, stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation.

Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. With Alation, analysts are empowered to search, query and collaborate on their data to achieve faster, more accurate insights.

Trusted by 400+ enterprises worldwide like Salesforce, Nasdaq, LinkedIn, Finnair, and Cisco.

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Data360’s top-down approach to Data Governance makes it easy to understand the critical information that impacts business objectives and initiatives, thereby helping data governance team members focus on the data that matters.

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Salesforce, Snowflake, Citrix, eBay, TripAdvisor, Albertsons, Nasdaq, Pfizer, LinkedIn, Finnair.

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