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."It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"You can extract and transfer your data as you wish it to be consumed later."
"The best thing about Informatica Axon is that it integrates with the Electronic Data Capture and the Axon system."
"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 most valuable feature of Informatica Axon is that it is flexible and user-friendly."
"Some of Axon's valuable features include creating your business glossaries, importing DQ rules, and creating change management."
"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to select the data flow and lineage."
"The solution allows the complete governance process, starting from the data quality, those definitions, and it can get the data quality in the EDC."
"If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick."
"The tool is reliable, quick, and powerful."
"The technical support is excellent."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to customize."
"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."
"Its robustness is valuable. It is a full-fledged suite. We have a data warehouse model, and there are also a lot of data quality management tools. The repository and all other tools are there. So, it is a full package in terms of reporting tools."
"This is an established product with powerful data analysis and varied options for user entry points."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't faced any issues with glitches or bugs. We haven't had any crashes."
"The solution still is a bit manual in its functionality. We want t to be more automation-driven."
"Right now, although they offer some templates, I would want more templates available to be imported."
"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 have the solution in one product and technical support needs to be better."
"There is room for improvement in the support. The response time could be faster."
"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 solution should improve its integration."
"The on-prem version's functionalities may not be available on the cloud version."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is quite expensive and hard to install/configure."
"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."
"The solution could use better documentation."
"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."
"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."
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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