We performed a comparison between Informatica Axon and SAS Data Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Collibra, Informatica and others in Data Governance."The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon has been the data marketplace."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon is that it is flexible and user-friendly."
"You can extract and transfer your data as you wish it to be consumed later."
"The tool's most valuable feature is bulk upload. We upload files in CSV or Excel format."
"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."
"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 feature of auto-onboarding of the assets, enterprise assets via EDC is good."
"The tool is reliable, quick, and powerful."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't faced any issues with glitches or bugs. We haven't had any crashes."
"In terms of which features I have found most valuable, I would say the importing and exporting features. Additionally, the data sorting, categorizing and summarizing features, especially how it can summarize based on categories. These are the key features."
"Its robustness is valuable. It is a full-fledged suite. We have a data warehouse model, and there are also a lot of data quality management tools. The repository and all other tools are there. So, it is a full package in terms of reporting tools."
"If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick."
"The product offers very good flexibility."
"The technical support is excellent."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to customize."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
"The stability and the integration of the solution have room for improvement."
"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's response times and certain aspects of the admin panel could be enhanced for better usability."
"The main issue probably has nothing to do with end users, but installation can definitely be simplified."
"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."
"Right now, although they offer some templates, I would want more templates available to be imported."
"Some functionalities can be a challenge in the cloud."
"We implemented it a while ago, and we are trying to improve the data delivery performance. We are looking into how to get faster and automated reporting. We would need better designs and workflows."
"The pricing of the solution needs to be improved. They need to work to make it more affordable."
"One problem is accessing the data using a solution other than SAS. The SAS data, which we create in the SAS, cannot be accessed by other tools. We can't open those data in other applications. So we need to have that application in place."
"We find we often have to go back and re-train users when there are changes made to the solution because the changes are not intuitive."
"Very little needs to improve but perhaps a nicer graphic interface and remaining competetive in the growing field of data analytics."
"The solution could use better documentation."
"I would like the tool to include the ability to automate the modifications of the integrations."
"The solution is quite expensive and hard to install/configure."
Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews while SAS Data Management is ranked 27th in Data Governance with 15 reviews. Informatica Axon is rated 7.8, while SAS Data Management is rated 8.4. 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 SAS Data Management writes "A scalable solution with customer support that is responsive and diligent". Informatica Axon is most compared with Microsoft Purview, Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID and ASG Enterprise Data Intelligence, whereas SAS Data Management is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Tungsten RPA, Microsoft Purview, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog.
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