We performed a comparison between Alation Data Catalog 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."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 tool's metadata cataloging is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"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."
"Alation Data Catalog's best feature is the SQL query publication."
"We can customize templates based on our use cases."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon is features, interfaces, and data mapping. It represents clusters nicely."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon has been the data marketplace."
"It is a very stable solution. I rate its stability a ten out of ten...It is a scalable solution...Informatica Axon's technical support is good."
"It is a scalable product."
"The feature of auto-onboarding of the assets, enterprise assets via EDC is good."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon is that it is flexible and user-friendly."
"The dictionary, the search, and the ratings are without a doubt the most beneficial components of this solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The product's data governance features need improvement."
"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."
"Alation Data Catalog does not provide end-to-end data lineage."
"The interface is not user-friendly."
"The tool's domain model needs to be changed."
"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."
"I know that this has been on their roadmap and they're working on it, but as a whole, there's an untapped reservoir of capabilities within their article features that could be used and built upon."
"There are also some technical issues sometimes with integrations because clients have a lot of different types of data sources."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
"Permissions, scalability, and connection with other informatic tools are the main areas that need development. Integration with other tools, such as IDQ, is challenging. The management of data discovery is highly challenging because many data points have identical definitions."
"The main issue probably has nothing to do with end users, but installation can definitely be simplified."
"There are some limitations with Informatica Axon when one tries to connect or integrate it with Jira."
"I would like to have the solution in one product and technical support needs to be better."
"The solution should improve its integration."
"It would be great if the cloud version could match the full range of capabilities available on-premise."
Alation Data Catalog is ranked 5th in Data Governance with 5 reviews while Informatica Axon is ranked 4th in Data Governance with 17 reviews. Alation Data Catalog is rated 7.8, while Informatica Axon is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alation Data Catalog writes "A stable data catalog solution that helps onboard data sources". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Axon writes "A powerful tool that works well with other solutions and has great technical support". Alation Data Catalog is most compared with Microsoft Purview, Collibra Governance, Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog, Collibra Lineage and IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, whereas Informatica Axon is most compared with Microsoft Purview, Collibra Governance, erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, BigID and OneTrust DataGovernance. See our Alation Data Catalog vs. Informatica Axon report.
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