# Axual Reviews **Vendor:** Axual **Category:** [Event Stream Processing Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/event-stream-processing) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About Axual Axual presents a suite of Kafka solutions tailored for enterprises, offering both cloud and on-premise deployment options. Axual Governance simplifies the management of existing Kafka clusters with a user-friendly interface, visual data mapping and robust Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), ensuring secure and streamlined data oversight. Complementing this, Axual Platform extends these capabilities by including a managed Kafka cluster with advanced streaming capabilities. This comprehensive platform is designed for high-performance, real-time data processing, making it ideal for enterprises and large scale organizations seeking efficient and scalable data management solutions. Together, Axual Governance and Axual Platform provide versatile, powerful tools for Kafka operations, adaptable to any enterprise environment. ## Axual Reviews ### 1. Perfect tool to simplify Kafka services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Senior API Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Axual?** Many things comes on top of chart. 1. Service flow dashboard is really awesome, considering organisations wide integration and data flow, one stop to summarise flows. 2. The best part, it's extremely easy to create , manage Publisher, Subscriber, Topics using Axual 3. Enabling the teams to focus on business functionality, and development rather than maintenance overhead. **What do you dislike about Axual?** There's nothing to dislike about the tool, it's precise and performs as expected. So no complaints so far **What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are extensively working on events streaming Async operations, many challenges may popsup when you work on event streaming, and the complications of implementation itself is challenging. With axual its just writing definitions in markup language and behind the screen Axual takes care of everything. ### 2. A good selfservice and API for enabling Kafka **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jan t. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Axual?** Using the Axual software eases the rollout of Kafka and the use of it within the organization. By configuring Kafka using the selfservice or using API calls, integration within the data streaming environment is made very easy without needing to understand the exact details of the underlying Kafka platform. **What do you dislike about Axual?** The evolution of the Axual software is rather quick and tends to break API's in some cases. This doesn' t speed up integration and needs the help of Axual consultants in those cases. The Axual teams respods fairly quick on requests and incidents though. **What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?** Processing large amounts of data from several sources is fairly easy using Kafka in combination with the Axual selfservice software and API's. ### 3. Self-service Kafka for teams **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Axual?** Axual has a clear focus on making Kafka usuable as a self-service platform. It enables teams to do their own thing in a controlled way. At the same time they provide a manageable platform on the infra side so that we can run it on-prem. **What do you dislike about Axual?** The governance aspect is of the self-service portal provides a clear way-of-working for teams to manage their data streams. However, governing these activities to ensure compliance with company policies becomes a challenge. Self-service requires an automatied policy-driven way of working to stay in control and guide how teams configure their resources within the platform. This is lacking and in some cases forces us to resort to more centralized control. **What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provide a high-performant, business- and mission-critical platform for enterprise-wide event streaming. It is a major part of our company data platform where data streams come together and are shared across the company. Being able to share data in real-time and in high volume is a crucial enabler for many business cases. ### 4. Managing Kafka made easy for enterprises & corporates **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Axual?** - Enterprise grade solution (orgs, departments, teams) - Supporting both federated or centralized approach - Governance & access control for data in the hands of the data owner - Very intuitive GUI - Easy to test and troubleshoot created events **What do you dislike about Axual?** - As with every solution: the first use case is the hardest to realize but once done every additional use case is easier and more cost efficient **What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Managing Kafka on an enterprise/corporate scale is quite intensive (release mgmt, required knowledge and skills) with Axual it becomes more manageable - Ability to govern event streams throughout the whole life cycle from design to deprecation - Ability to improve on data stewardship ### 5. Fantastic platform to streamline/automate your Kafka provisioning **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sion S. | CTO and Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Axual?** The Axual platform offers a huge number of advantages that significantly elevate the operations and security of Apache Kafka. In my opinion, the primary benefit is minimising the operational complexity which comes with deploying Kafka at scale. With Axual Kafka, I can effortlessly scale my clusters to handle varying workloads and accommodate growing data volumes. This eliminates the need for manual intervention and ensures seamless performance even during periods of increased demand **What do you dislike about Axual?** Some of the documentation is outdated and instructions on how to monitor the connectors is unclear. **What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reduced the operational tasks around Kafka maintenance, while supporting improved security and multi-tenancy. ### 6. How to make complicated technology easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Axual?** Axual is responsive, helpfull, has a lot of knowledge. They provide a layer around kafka which makes managing it quite easy. **What do you dislike about Axual?** They have an unique tool and that means you pay a unique price. **What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?** Axual gives us a platform to create and manage our Kafka streams on. They provide insights in how these streams run. Also they provided us with a lot of valuable knowledge about Kafka. ### 7. Excellent Open platform to deploy in the energy space through Grid operator control room **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laurent S. | President, Oil & Energy, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Axual?** Axual is an excellent software development and integration team specialised in Kafka deployment through various industry verticals. They are a true accelerator for the digital transformation of the pan european energy sectors and strong enabler for the decarbonisation of energy sectors. **What do you dislike about Axual?** Axual is strongly focused on technology developments and should develop more awareness on the business value proposition they actually enable. **What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?** The end to end energy value chain needs to further digitise to enable near real-time flexibility transactions across Grid users, renewable developpers as well as Grid operator. It requires the deployment of harmonised data architectures, interoperable data exchanges leveraging IEC industry standards as well as new secured streaming multi sided platform as proposed by Axual. ### 8. Using Kafka without the complexity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Axual?** We're able to use Kafka without having to manage Kafka itself. Adding applications is just like plug-and-play, which allows our developers to add value quickly and on their own. **What do you dislike about Axual?** The simplicity Axual brings can make it harder to resolve issues that are deeper down at the Kafka level. Luckily customer support is always ready to help along! **What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?** Axual enables us to stream real-time data straight to our end users with barely any in-house expertise required. No need to hire and educate a large maintenance team that is occupied with tweaking and monitoring the Kafka cluster. Our developers can just innovate without the overhead! ### 9. Review Axual - de Volksbank **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maurice V. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Axual?** Product meets expectations (performance, near zero downtime) A well-functioning platform is more important than "formal SLA" agreements **What do you dislike about Axual?** Backlog items may be brought forward in a schedule. **What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?** Axual is the event streaming platform for Volksbank. Axual adds the following extra functionality to Kafka for Volksbank: - Security - Self Service for DevOps teams - Data governance - High availability - Data replication ### 10. A solid product by a partner with passionate expertise and true customer orientation. Axual care! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Axual?** Good product, good partner. Axual care and help us each and every time we have an architectural as well as operational challenges. The product is feature rich, and easy to use. Almost every time we have a new challenge, there is a feature for that. Axual release frequent new features. Axual could accommodate all our intended deployment options. The platform is very enterprise-ready and resilient. Just impressed! **What do you dislike about Axual?** Still finding something. At this point in time (3yrs) it has been a breeze. **What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scaling communication Data driven use cases Customer orientation ### 11. Easy and intuitive GUI **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Axual?** The Selfservice portal of Axual is easy to understand for Teams to create their own flows. With the latest release there is also the possibility to use Terraform which is a nice feature if you want to have everything as code. Ease of implementation, we make use of the SaaS solution of Axual. The customer support is usually fast with answering our questions. **What do you dislike about Axual?** I dont have any dislikes at this moment. **What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?** At our company we were looking for a platform to fill the streaming capability. ### 12. Axual lowers barriers to self-service and governance for your Kafka implementation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stefan v. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Axual?** - Ease of use / self-service making complicated tasks easily executable and understandable. - Governance built-in / workflows. **What do you dislike about Axual?** - Level of ease of use is at a level it abstracts away many details. **What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps my customer's internal customers accelerate their access to shared Kafka services. On top of this it fits very nicely in a platform strategy providing self-service access to Kafka services for product teams. ### 13. True self service for your event driven architecture **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Axual?** empowering event publishers and subscribers with self-service built on top of Kafka **What do you dislike about Axual?** Nothing comes to mind. I encourage them to keep investing in adding features for the self-service portal. **What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enabling teams to publish and subscribe to event streams without the need for a central integration team to do all the work. Events can be distributed easily and at scale. This is achieved whilst maintaining proper data governance. ### 14. easy to use and future-proof **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Axual?** It is very easy to contact the customer support. There is a large set of features that is growing. **What do you dislike about Axual?** As we use the cloud implementation extremly large message sums can be expensive **What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?** it is providing an easy to use platform , with extensive self service to speed up development relating to event streams - [View Axual pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/axual/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+09%3A27%3A15+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=feec7352-2167-4e17-bdfd-25fefe8117fd&secure%5Btoken%5D=a3513e9d044f1ff4d1711f5d419429eff37b70f9404be8814e825fafc9f481fd&format=llm_user) ## Axual Features **Data** - Data Processing - Data Sources - Integration - Real-Time Processing **Analytics** - Reporting & Analytics **Building Reports** - Data Transformation - Data Modeling - WYSIWYG Report Design - Integration APIs **Platform** - Customization - User, Role, and Access Management - Sandbox / Test Environments - Performance and Reliability - Breadth of Partner Applications ## Top Axual Alternatives - [SAS Viya](https://www.g2.com/products/sas-sas-viya/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (754 reviews) - [HubSpot Data Hub](https://www.g2.com/products/hubspot-data-hub/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (560 reviews) - [Tealium Customer Data Hub](https://www.g2.com/products/tealium-customer-data-hub/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (440 reviews)