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.
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon has been the data marketplace."
"The best thing about Informatica Axon is that it integrates with the Electronic Data Capture and the Axon system."
"The solution offers good data governance."
"The dictionary, the search, and the ratings are without a doubt the most beneficial components of this solution."
"The features for data quality, data cataloging, and UI are excellent."
"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 most valuable feature is the tracking activity and device onboarding."
"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."
"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."
"Has a good interface and is reasonably priced."
"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."
"I use the tool in projects as a medium to provide information as reports to the stakeholders."
"The documentation is very exhaustive. Anyone can go ahead and try different use cases."
"Data authentication enables us to classify documents based on whether they should be restricted for internal consumption or permitted for external sharing."
"Some functionalities can be a challenge in the cloud."
"Informatica Axon needs to improve its interface."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the support. The response time could be faster."
"There are some limitations with Informatica Axon when one tries to connect or integrate it with Jira."
"The on-prem version's functionalities may not be available on the cloud version."
"I would like to see more API integration to have the capability to build a report using other third party reporting tools to streamline the operation."
"The main issue probably has nothing to do with end users, but installation can definitely be simplified."
"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."
"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."
"Overcoming certain control issues would significantly enhance our overall satisfaction."
"I would like to have complete video documentation for training."
"The product needs improvement to edit the number of assets. It needs to be more inuitive as well."
"We've had a few issues with the scanner. It runs perfectly one day, and on another day, it will run the whole night. It's probably related to the rules. If I set some compliance rules and apply the rules to any column, I can't delete it. I have to disable it and reactivate it."
"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."
"I have some concerns about the separation of roles in Purview from the Microsoft tenant, as well as how they interact with the security portal and endpoint manager."
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Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 51 reviews. Informatica Axon is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.8. 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 Data Governance 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 Microsoft Purview Information Protection, whereas Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Microsoft Intune and Collibra Lineage. See our Informatica Axon vs. Microsoft Purview Data Governance report.
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