We performed a comparison between Informatica Axon and SAS Data Management 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."Able to customize data search and data sharing."
"The feature of auto-onboarding of the assets, enterprise assets via EDC is good."
"The solution offers good data governance."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica Axon is features, interfaces, and data mapping. It represents clusters nicely."
"The dictionary, the search, and the ratings are without a doubt the most beneficial components of this solution."
"You can extract and transfer your data as you wish it to be consumed later."
"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 tool is reliable, quick, and powerful."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to customize."
"The technical support is excellent."
"This is an established product with powerful data analysis and varied options for user entry points."
"The product offers very good flexibility."
"If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't faced any issues with glitches or bugs. We haven't had any crashes."
"In terms of which features I have found most valuable, I would say the importing and exporting features. Additionally, the data sorting, categorizing and summarizing features, especially how it can summarize based on categories. These are the key features."
"Informatica Axon's response times and certain aspects of the admin panel could be enhanced for better usability."
"They could improve technical support because it is not good enough at the moment."
"Some functionalities can be a challenge in the cloud."
"It is complicated to establish the lineage in EDC using PowerCenter mappings."
"Though EDC has maximum coverage, a few things were not available to scan, but I think EDC is evolving to address this issue."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
"Informatica Axon needs more integration connectors so that it can connect to systems and different kinds of datasets."
"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."
"I would like the tool to include the ability to automate the modifications of the integrations."
"The pricing of the solution needs to be improved. They need to work to make it more affordable."
"The solution is quite expensive and hard to install/configure."
"One problem is accessing the data using a solution other than SAS. The SAS data, which we create in the SAS, cannot be accessed by other tools. We can't open those data in other applications. So we need to have that application in place."
"With SAS Data Management, you have to purchase an external driver, configure all of the tables for all of the data that you will extract from Salesforce. It's not a straightforward process."
"We find we often have to go back and re-train users when there are changes made to the solution because the changes are not intuitive."
"We implemented it a while ago, and we are trying to improve the data delivery performance. We are looking into how to get faster and automated reporting. We would need better designs and workflows."
"Very little needs to improve but perhaps a nicer graphic interface and remaining competetive in the growing field of data analytics."
Informatica Axon is ranked 3rd in Data Governance with 23 reviews while SAS Data Management is ranked 29th in Data Governance with 15 reviews. Informatica Axon is rated 7.8, while SAS Data Management is rated 8.4. 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 SAS Data Management writes "A scalable solution with customer support that is responsive and diligent". Informatica Axon is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, BigID and IBM Data Governance, whereas SAS Data Management is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Tungsten RPA, Microsoft Purview Data Governance, SSIS and FME. See our Informatica Axon vs. SAS Data Management report.
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