We performed a comparison between Collibra Governance and Informatica Axon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Governance solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's incredibly easy to use."
"Collibra Governance comes with a lot of features, and we have used it in one of our projects for metadata management and data lineage."
"It helps us build a powerful workflow mechanism where there can be any stewardship, including issue management governing assets using policies, regulations, or business rules."
"The automation process is very strong."
"The catalog feature is definitely valuable because it makes ingesting the metadata of any application quite simple. You don't have to do things manually. You can just schedule an import, and it will just refresh the metadata of whatever application you want. That's what I like. I usually work on the technical side, and other than that, I usually create integrations. I integrate Collibra with different environments or applications. I'm a developer, so I cannot vouch for the business, but for me, it is quite developer-friendly with the Java API interface and the REST API interface that they have provided. It is good for creating dashboards based on the needs of each and every role. It can be user-specific or group-specific. We usually create dashboards and give them to our business users, and they are quite happy with that."
"Collibra is very good at talking to modern database systems like a normal RDBMS, a DB2, or a SQL server or an Oracle."
"The most valuable features of Collibra Governance are that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The end-to-end solution itself is great. The most valuable is the workload feature that Collibra offers. There is a vast amount of flexibility in terms of how much we can customize. It gives us a lot of options to implement for a lot of purposes."
"Axon has a marketplace that allows you to showcase all the assets the data owner has, so they can request access. That's one feature we use extensively. Axon also offers great visibility and intuitive searchability, allowing you to easily search data assets. You can check the lineage and see the work EDC does. EDC handles all the classification, cataloging, and lineage. It's integrated with Axon, and anyone can see that."
"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to select the data flow and lineage."
"The feature of auto-onboarding of the assets, enterprise assets via EDC is good."
"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...It is a scalable solution."
"The solution offers good data governance."
"The dictionary, the search, and the ratings are without a doubt the most beneficial components of this solution."
"There are certain processes that involve a lot of manual work, specifically when searching for attributes assignment. It would be better if we could do this via APIs."
"It should have more integrations with things like CyberArk because its main purpose is GDPR implementation. We have to have more scope for things that implement more privacy. CyberArk makes sure your credentials are vaulted and your things are secure when you're creating your integrations or connecting to an application. I do believe that they are working on this feature."
"If someone changes the metadata, we can't see who changed it."
"We would like to have out-of-the-box automation."
"Pricing policy of the product is an area with certain shortcomings that needs improvement."
"Many other tools like Collibra Governance give you the option to actually see the data in the tool, which is not an option in Collibra."
"We had issues during setup."
"From a usability perspective, customers usually find some areas of the solution a bit complex. It takes a long time for the customers to get used to the UI and the interface."
"There are also some technical issues sometimes with integrations because clients have a lot of different types of data sources."
"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."
"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."
"Informatica Axon needs more integration connectors so that it can connect to systems and different kinds of datasets."
"It would be great if the cloud version could match the full range of capabilities available on-premise."
"It is complicated to establish the lineage in EDC using PowerCenter mappings."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
Collibra Governance is ranked 2nd in Data Governance with 41 reviews while Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews. Collibra Governance is rated 7.6, while Informatica Axon is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Collibra Governance writes "Transformed our cross-functional business teams into one enterprise-facing view". 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". Collibra Governance is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID, Ataccama ONE Platform and erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, whereas Informatica Axon is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID, erwin Data Intelligence by Quest and Microsoft Purview Information Protection. See our Collibra Governance vs. Informatica Axon report.
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