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 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 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."
"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."
"Alation Data Catalog's best feature is the SQL query publication."
"We can customize templates based on our use cases."
"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 feature of Informatica Axon is that it is flexible and user-friendly."
"The solution offers good data governance."
"The feature of auto-onboarding of the assets, enterprise assets via EDC is good."
"The tool's most valuable feature is bulk upload. We upload files in CSV or Excel format."
"The product is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon has been the data marketplace."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon is features, interfaces, and data mapping. It represents clusters nicely."
"The solution allows the complete governance process, starting from the data quality, those definitions, and it can get the data quality in the EDC."
"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."
"The tool's domain model needs to be changed."
"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."
"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."
"The product's data governance features need improvement."
"Alation Data Catalog does not provide end-to-end data lineage."
"Informatica Axon's response times and certain aspects of the admin panel could be enhanced for better usability."
"The solution should improve its integration."
"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 solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
"Right now, although they offer some templates, I would want more templates available to be imported."
"The GUI needs to be a little more user-friendly and appealing."
"They could improve technical support because it is not good enough at the moment."
"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."
Alation Data Catalog is ranked 5th in Data Governance with 7 reviews while Informatica Axon is ranked 4th in Data Governance with 23 reviews. Alation Data Catalog is rated 7.8, while Informatica Axon is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alation Data Catalog writes "The catalog now provides an opportunity for people to come together, to share, and to find". 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". 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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