We performed a comparison between IBM Data Governance and Informatica Axon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Collibra, Informatica and others in Data Governance."IBM Data Governance improved data analytics operations. During a company merger, we used IBM Data Governance to understand and bridge sample data between systems."
"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."
"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to select the data flow and lineage."
"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."
"Some of Axon's valuable features include creating your business glossaries, importing DQ rules, and creating change management."
"The solution offers good data governance."
"The tool's most valuable feature is bulk upload. We upload files in CSV or Excel format."
"The features for data quality, data cataloging, and UI are excellent."
"The solution allows the complete governance process, starting from the data quality, those definitions, and it can get the data quality in the EDC."
"One area with room for improvement would be the ability to generate detailed quality reports. Some Python libraries provide quality scores and reports—having that capability within IBM Data Governance would be beneficial."
"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."
"The on-prem version's functionalities may not be available on the cloud version."
"Informatica Axon needs to improve its interface."
"The solution should improve its integration."
"Some functionalities can be a challenge in the cloud."
"There is room for improvement in the support. The response time could be faster."
"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."
"It would be great if the cloud version could match the full range of capabilities available on-premise."
IBM Data Governance is ranked 19th in Data Governance with 1 review while Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews. IBM Data Governance is rated 8.0, while Informatica Axon is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Data Governance writes "Provides a single interface to monitor and navigate data quality metrics". 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". IBM Data Governance is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance and Collibra Governance, whereas Informatica Axon is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID and Atlan.
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