We performed a comparison between Informatica Axon and Microsoft Purview based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft Azure Purview is a very new product in the Data Governance space. It is currently tremendously limited, as it only functions reliably with Microsoft Azure products. Many users feel it lacks maturity, but for the Microsoft Azure user, it is an appropriate choice. Informatica Axon is considered a leader in the Data Governance space, providing a plethora of value-added features. It is a reliable, stable, and trusted solution.
"Some of Axon's valuable features include creating your business glossaries, importing DQ rules, and creating change management."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable 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 solution allows the complete governance process, starting from the data quality, those definitions, and it can get the data quality in the EDC."
"The tool's most valuable feature is bulk upload. We upload files in CSV or Excel format."
"It is a scalable product."
"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."
"The solution offers good data governance."
"I think Purview does as good a job...I'll say that it is as stable as the data governance maturity that exists within an organization. It can't be more stable than that."
"It's certainly easy to work with all Microsoft data sources like SQL Server, Synapse, and data lakes, but it also has great functionality working with Oracle. And of particular interest to us is the ability to pull data from Excel, CVS files, and other types of flat files."
"I like Purview's data discovery features. It automatically scans and identifies all the fields. In the last project, the customer required us to have some of the codes we specified in this, and we had to structure the codes in a specific way. We can define the structure."
"The most significant value lies in its seamless integration into the Azure ecosystem, automating various processes and reducing operational burdens."
"One of the best features is the classification rules, especially the scan rule sets. They are really useful, especially when we need to understand the current data the company has to ensure that all the problematic data can be put under someone's responsibility."
"The labeling is the most valuable feature for the companies I'm installing it for. Some of them have several thousand staff, and their concerns are around confidential or private data being shared. The labels and the policies involved with them give them that initial visibility."
"It is very easy to learn the interface, and it is very user-friendly."
"I really like the entire system for auto-labeling content. It's a very refined system. I use the Keyword Query Language to define refined string-based metadata, and then I can really go deep into the specific data with the specific properties labeled in such and such a way."
"Informatica Axon's response times and certain aspects of the admin panel could be enhanced for better usability."
"The on-prem version's functionalities may not be available on the cloud version."
"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."
"Informatica Axon needs to improve its interface."
"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."
"There are some limitations with Informatica Axon when one tries to connect or integrate it with Jira."
"Though EDC has maximum coverage, a few things were not available to scan, but I think EDC is evolving to address this issue."
"I would like to have the solution in one product and technical support needs to be better."
"The overall cost of deploying this solution could be better. It seems that middle and small-sized organizations are not completely happy with deploying this solution in terms of the cost. It would be good if they concentrate on the cost part."
"It could reduce pricing to encourage usage."
"While Purview's data connector platform can ingest information from non-Microsoft data sources, it is slow to do so and the information may become outdated."
"One drawback of Microsoft Purview, though it's beneficial and easy to use, is that when you start plugging in connectors for third-party sources when setting the solution up for data collection, it becomes a bit more tricky."
"The custom data classification for the African region needs to be improved."
"Some of the menu headings may not be easy to understand for some people."
"There are differences when looking at an incident in the M365 portal versus Purview, and the main one is the advanced hunting. In the M365 portal, you can write KQL queries and fetch data. If that was available in Purview, it would be very good."
"Overcoming certain control issues would significantly enhance our overall satisfaction."
Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews while Microsoft Purview is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 48 reviews. Informatica Axon is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Purview is rated 7.6. 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 writes "User friendly with good documentation but needs to cover more non-Microsoft use cases". Informatica Axon is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID, erwin Data Intelligence by Quest and OneTrust DataGovernance, whereas Microsoft Purview is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Microsoft Intune and Collibra Lineage. See our Informatica Axon vs. Microsoft Purview report.
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