We performed a comparison between Collibra Governance 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.
"It's incredibly easy to use."
"Collibra is very good at talking to modern database systems like a normal RDBMS, a DB2, or a SQL server or an Oracle."
"From the perspective of a data user, the solution has a great search capability."
"The end-to-end solution itself is great. The most valuable is the workload feature that Collibra offers. There is a vast amount of flexibility in terms of how much we can customize. It gives us a lot of options to implement for a lot of purposes."
"It's not a complicated product."
"Collibra's lineage is a very powerful feature. We have integrated Collibra with Azure and ADLS storage and we create lineage diagrams using the two tools."
"The diagram showing the limits is absolutely magnificent."
"As far as the functionality of the tool is concerned, it's pretty slick."
"The dictionary, the search, and the ratings are without a doubt the most beneficial components of this solution."
"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 feature of auto-onboarding of the assets, enterprise assets via EDC is good."
"The solution allows the complete governance process, starting from the data quality, those definitions, and it can get the data quality in the EDC."
"Axon has a marketplace that allows you to showcase all the assets the data owner has, so they can request access. That's one feature we use extensively. Axon also offers great visibility and intuitive searchability, allowing you to easily search data assets. You can check the lineage and see the work EDC does. EDC handles all the classification, cataloging, and lineage. It's integrated with Axon, and anyone can see that."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"This solution could be improved with the the addition of process diagrams to help the many users of the platform understand all the fields."
"I'm fairly new to the product, however, what I generally hear from my clients is that the requirement around having ways to ingest more metadata."
"What I use it for is fairly rudimentary, and I don't have any complaints about it. I haven't tried to stretch the boundaries at all, but it would be nice if there were capabilities built within the system to somehow help enforce the quality and consistency across related elements that are built in the catalog. It could have intelligent capabilities built in to help maintain the quality of the data and information, such as natural language processing, machine learning, and so on."
"The workflows and the language they use needs to be improved."
"Data discovery needs to be improved."
"The connectors for metadata ingestion need to be improved."
"There's a lot of things available in their Data Intelligence Cloud that are not available on-premise."
"The connectors are not very sophisticated. They can do, for example, Informatica and Tableau, but the connectors themselves could be improved."
"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 cloud version of Axon is far behind the on-prem, and many of my clients want to go fully to the cloud. However, Axon has to be an on-prem installation. I would like to see their cloud products catch up with their on-prem capabilities."
"Though EDC has maximum coverage, a few things were not available to scan, but I think EDC is evolving to address this issue."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
"I would like to see more API integration to have the capability to build a report using other third party reporting tools to streamline the operation."
"Right now, although they offer some templates, I would want more templates available to be imported."
"The main issue probably has nothing to do with end users, but installation can definitely be simplified."
Collibra Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 27 reviews while Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 7 reviews. Collibra Governance is rated 7.6, while Informatica Axon is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Collibra Governance writes "Offers many features for the best relative price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Axon writes "Flexible, with good auto-onboarding, but needs better technical support services". Collibra Governance is most compared with Microsoft Purview, Alation Data Catalog, BigID, Ataccama ONE Platform and erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, whereas Informatica Axon is most compared with Microsoft Purview, Alation Data Catalog, BigID, erwin Data Intelligence by Quest and SAS Data Management. See our Collibra Governance vs. Informatica Axon report.
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