2021-02-12T01:04:31Z

What is your primary use case for Informatica Axon?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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PrabhatKumar1 - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-11-20T07:07:41Z
Nov 20, 2023

It is used for our SharePoint data, and it is used for our financial data, so we prepare some kind of data lakes about data. And for a lot of financial things. For example, when somebody has to put the user, like, what we have in your organization. You have a user, and some joint venture partners are there. So, we use it for multiple financial master data. Basically, financial master data, we use it.

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Sabahat Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-10-09T08:29:35Z
Oct 9, 2023

Our use cases were related to the financial and banking sectors. We created data and transferred it to the enterprise level.

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2023-09-06T17:38:45Z
Sep 6, 2023

We use the solution for mass data management.

Rupal Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-08-15T11:43:00Z
Aug 15, 2023

The primary use case is for data governance, data quality, data lineages, and data cataloging.

HH
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2023-06-19T08:08:00Z
Jun 19, 2023

I manage the environment and admin-related tasks. I have integrated Axon into EDC, PowerCenter, and data quality tools, and I face no difficulty integrating with those tools. I also handle installation, configuration, and troubleshooting issues, in addition to when users face access issues or need help seeing their DQ technical roles.

ShahanRehman - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-04-25T15:12:00Z
Apr 25, 2023

Axon is a tool for data governance that lets you define personas of people who can define policy and implement those policies and have a check on them. So it's part of a data governance solution.

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VJ
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2023-02-14T13:21:59Z
Feb 14, 2023

Informatica Axon is based on the needs of business people. A business analyst or salesperson would be able to make the most of its features. It is important to have three tools for a successful data governance project. These are Informatica Axon, a data catalog, and data quality. They need to be integrated, whether it is an on-premise or cloud project. The purpose of Informatica Axon is to help us manage our technical metadata and business metadata. Technical metadata is information about our source systems, such as what type of system they are, for example, Oracle, SQL, Snowflake, Cloud; and what data is being extracted from them such as table columns or source systems. Business metadata is information about our data, such as its meaning or purpose. When it comes to business metadata, we can mention that starting from the roles, responsibilities, policies, processes, and whatever the complete organization follows. We can bring all these business metadata, and we can map or tag each technical metadata and business metadata using glossaries. Informatica Axon could be a one-stop shop where we can understand the data. If we want to understand the data, we need to know where it comes from, whether this data can be trusted, whether the data quality is good, and whether this data has access to everyone or whether we are restricting the user privileges. These are the things we'll be considering when using Informatica Axon.

Davy Michiels - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-11-18T15:40:00Z
Nov 18, 2022

I'm a freelance consultant, so I work for a few different clients on different projects. Sometimes I do system integrations, and sometimes it's more of the deployment of the tool itself. Informatica Axon is mainly used for master data management because it's quite a powerful tool. Lots of clients are struggling because Collibra is not an MDM tool. Azure has some possibilities in the data factory for MDM, but in the end, it doesn't have the engine that Informatica has. I see quite a few clients bring Informatica into the architecture for ETL processes. They use it to extract, transfer, and load data, in addition to MDM, since they're a bit restricted with other tools.

HS
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2022-10-06T08:37:05Z
Oct 6, 2022

I'm a senior architect and we are partners with Informatica.

Fred_Scefi - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-07-31T13:37:47Z
Jul 31, 2022

We essentially use Informatica Axon to set up a data governance framework for a corporation, usually a medium-sized or large organization.

Prasun-Nesu - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-06-26T13:43:00Z
Jun 26, 2022

Axon is a platform that lets everyone see all the data assets, business glossaries, lineage, catalog, classification, etc., but the real activities are being done on EDC. We have only been using Axon for a short time in my organization, and we are decommissioning it, but I used the solution at my previous organization for data governance projects. Data owners, software developers, and architects all access the solution. In total, we have around 150 to 200 users on it.

GL
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2022-02-04T18:58:35Z
Feb 4, 2022

The organizations I work with often have trouble getting buy-in from business users and understanding how data governance relates to them or where the data lineage is. We use Axon in two key areas. The first is automating data governance processes, policies, and roles in terms of data stewards, data owners, etc. Those process flow charts are typically stored in a PowerPoint, Excel, or board document. Everyone involved in data governance would have to send emails manually and such. Axon allows them to automate all that. So if there's a data owner that needs to update a definition, a request that needs to be flagged, or a data quality error, all that is embedded into the Axon system. That's one reason our clients go with it. The use case is embedding the data or the business glossary into the day-to-day workflow. For example, we could integrate it with Tableau. When people are looking at a Tableau report, they understand exactly what the data lineage is and where this data is coming from. They'll also know exactly what those business glossary terms mean, so they can more accurately interpret and analyze the report.

Raja ShahnawazSoni - PeerSpot reviewer
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2021-10-15T10:18:47Z
Oct 15, 2021

The solution is typically a bridge between business and IT. You use Axion as a tool for governance within the organization. The business people could use this tool to understand what information is being entered by IT. For example, if I'm an IT guy and if I'm using something called a column name or a table name which could be pretty technical out there, I just say, for example, BT_DT. I understand what BT_DT is, which, in this case, is birth date. That's the table name. However, the business side wouldn't really understand this. Therefore, I could actually tag BT_DT as birth date in Axon and I could relate it to this particular column and then the business side can use it from there. Apart from that, you could define your data governance policies, your workflows, who's going to approve the data, who's going to use the data, and who should be consuming it. It can assure that data shouldn't get out of certain boundaries.

VK
Real User
2021-07-09T00:06:54Z
Jul 9, 2021

We primarily use it as an enterprise-level firewall.

SG
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2021-02-12T01:04:31Z
Feb 12, 2021

Some of my clients use it as a front end tool for the data quality governing process.

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