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 product is stable."
"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."
"It is a scalable product."
"Able to customize data search and data sharing."
"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."
"The best thing about Informatica Axon is that it integrates with the Electronic Data Capture and the Axon system."
"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."
"Right now, although they offer some templates, I would want more templates available to be imported."
"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."
"Permissions, scalability, and connection with other informatic tools are the main areas that need development. Integration with other tools, such as IDQ, is challenging. The management of data discovery is highly challenging because many data points have identical definitions."
"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."
"They could improve technical support because it is not good enough at the moment."
"Informatica Axon needs more integration connectors so that it can connect to systems and different kinds of datasets."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
IBM Data Governance is ranked 18th 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 ASG Enterprise Data Intelligence.
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