IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog Reviews

Vendor: IBM

3.5 out of 5

9 reviews
72% willing to recommend

What is IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog?

Information governance is a next-gen comprehensive process of administering, enhancing, and collating information to strengthen an organization’s trust and belief that its decision and business processes are the best for the organization’s overall health and continued progress. IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is an intuitive, progressive web-based tool that empowers users to discover, comprehend, and dissect information. Users are able to design, administer, and collaborate to track data pipelines, execute protocols and procedures, and share common business languages.

Integrate the solution with IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog to increase on-premises Information Governance Catalog efficiency in the cloud and improve the benefit of current gathered data sets. This value-added governance catalog enables users to place gathered metadata where experienced users, analytics, and data communities have seamless protected access to the appropriate resources, based on need, while still maintaining the organization's governance standards.

IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog delivers a secure starting point for organizations to better comprehend and govern their information across the entire network, and continually delivers secure, well-defined, and governed data.

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IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is the #5 ranked solution in top Metadata Management solutions. PeerSpot users give IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog an average rating of 7.0 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 9 most recent IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.2. (The highest in the category). IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is most commonly compared to Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC): IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 72% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 35% of all views.

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Tirthankar Roy Chowdhury

Teamlead at Tata consultancy services

An area for improvement in IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is that it's missing a lot of connectors. Clients complain about not being able to connect some data sources because there's no available connector, so my company raised that issue with IBM. In some cases, third-party connectors are available, but not for all data sources. Another area that needs improvement in the solution is stability because it also has some stability issues. This is the same issue with the other IBM products bundled with IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog. The solution is connected with IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer and IBM InfoSphere DataStage in my company, so if one has issues with stability, the rest of the products are affected as well.

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Bharathiraja Sukumar

Lead Architect at Radial Inc

They need to improve asset management. Sometimes it depends on the stakeholders or the organization. Employees actually have their own unique requirements in terms of creating the assets and mapping to the terms. That area maybe needs to be simplified. We have a scenario that actually created some problems with the product itself. When we approached IBM they actually didn't have any solution for that. It's not a major thing, however, creating the assets, and indexing the assets, needs some improvement. They could come up with some patching which would definitely help. Sometimes, we have to initiate the requirement with IBM and they have to come up with the development scheme. The solution could offer more native connectors. For example, you can also connect an Oracle database using the ODBC-JDBC connector and there will be a native connector called the Oracle connector itself, so two different connectors will be there. You can connect Oracle databases using ODBC also, and also through the Oracle connector itself. They probably need to improve or increase the number of connectors. Currently, a lot of trending data sources are coming up. One example I would say is Kafka, which has big data-related connectors. Those kinds of things they have to improve and bring inside the metadata asset management tool.

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Gaurav Pahlajani

Technical Analyst DataWarehouse at ALD Automotive Belgium

I've contacted technical support for IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog whenever there was downtime or a limitation in the solution. I've raised PMR requests with the support team, and luckily everything went well and answers were provided on time. On a scale of one to five, with one being bad and five being excellent, I would rate support a three out of five. It's a bit lower because the attrition rate is quite high and the people keep changing. I also felt there were times when the support team needed to have more rigorous training. Support should be trained a little bit more and the response time could be quicker.

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IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog mindshare

As of December 2024, the mindshare of IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog in the Metadata Management category stands at 9.0%, down from 10.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Type	Title	Date
Category	Metadata Management	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Comparison	IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Comparison	IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog vs Alation Data Catalog	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Comparison	IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog vs Collibra Catalog	Dec 22, 2024	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	4.0	N/A	93%	181 interviews Add to research
Alation Data Catalog	3.8	16.7%	76%	11 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The ability to create special rules inside the solution using Portuguese is the most valuable feature."
"The graphic flows and the lineage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The solution allows us to leverage a concept called Open IGC to create custom assets and data lineages that are not technologies typically supported by IBM via connectors."

Room for Improvement

"The scalability has room for improvement."
"The simplicity of usage could improve. Perhaps the simplicity of use for end users, not for system integrators, but for the user, the end users."
"The solution has performance issues when scaling up small sets of information such as assets and data lineage to the ITC."

Pricing

"IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is expensive."
"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
"Licensing for IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is per user."

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IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog Benefits

Manage catalog metadata: Run data workflows to prove trusted information, support compliance and governance standards, resolve duplicate assets, map databases to database aliases, and automate the authentication of data sources to improve overall project deployment. Additionally, users will discover how data moves across the network and will be able to identify how and where data was sourced and how it is being consumed. This will promote a greater assurance and belief that the data is continually secure and safe.
Improved people and process management: The solution helps to definitively clarify roles and responsibilities of all team participants. Users can easily design, edit, and publish governance protocols, accept new or audited information governance rules, and/or move the rule to Draft status. Users will also obtain notice (via email) of any governance issues that appear in their glossary or information assets.
Boost current metadata: This can be achieved by using descriptions and relationships, group related labels, stewards, assets, and custom attributes to all other related assets. Develop protracted data sources to add metadata to the catalog that may not be able to be added automatically or that are not able to be imported easily from outside third-party applications. The solution will also help users have a greater understanding of all their data assets - unstructured, semi-structured, and structured.
Discover assets in the catalog: Users can easily initiate either a simple or advanced search or even begin very intensive deep queries. An intuitive GUI is available to trace the history of all changes, probe stewards, information assets, glossary assets, and all other catalog content.

Seamless cloud integration: IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog facilitates a smooth adjustment to the cloud. This makes it no longer necessary to employ an on-premise ecosystem. This move will also result in significantly reduced resource usage and help save on overall administrative costs for the organization.

IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog was previously known as IBM Information Governance Catalog.