# Azure Data Catalog Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Master Data Management (MDM) Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/master-data-management-mdm) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About Azure Data Catalog Azure Data Catalog is an enterprise-wide metadata catalog enabling self-service data asset discovery. The Data Catalog stores, describes, indexes and provides information on how to access any registered data asset and makes data source discovery trivial. ## Azure Data Catalog Reviews ### 1. Azure Data Catalog: Easy way to get value from your Enterprise Data Assets **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gonzalo A. | Civil Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Data Catalog?** The best of it is the glossary and the Data Catalog which you can share within the company. ADC allows you to focus on finding value from your data and reducing time to data collection. **What do you dislike about Azure Data Catalog?** I dislike that the upload time takes longer than expected. Also, I miss better lineage features. **What problems is Azure Data Catalog solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are creating our busyness glossary and our Data Catalog to share it with the whole company. Benefits are easy handling of the tool and easy administration to share with the company using Active Directory. ### 2. Best way to make Data Asset Discovery. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pradeep F. | L2 System Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Data Catalog?** I like this because from this we can easily discover and understand the data sources. Understanding this is very easy. Can use various types of data sources. **What do you dislike about Azure Data Catalog?** Implementation is a bit difficult. Some formats cannot be exported or imported. Long uploading times for cloud service. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Data Catalog:** I can 100% recommend this to someone who is dealing with data and this is a new way to look at what data is. need some knowledge about data. Worth the try. **What problems is Azure Data Catalog solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is brilliant and it directly helps all of us to solve data problems regarding data discovery significantly. ### 3. Azure data catalog review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Data Catalog?** Natural integration with Azure cloud for cloud native data platforms **What do you dislike about Azure Data Catalog?** It is not being viewed as stable product yet resulting in lack of adoption in large scale **What problems is Azure Data Catalog solving and how is that benefiting you?** data democratization and self service for business users ### 4. Microsoft Azure is the wide platform in cloud to upgrade yourself and lead the market. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajit N. | Sr. Advisory Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Data Catalog?** cybersecurity research and development. Microsoft invest more than 1 billion USD Dollor on it, also there is no No upfront cost No termination fees. **What do you dislike about Azure Data Catalog?** Without the information of the data, the consumer cannot connect to the data. No central location for data storage. Discovering data sources was based on tribal knowledge. Without documentation, a problem in understanding the data as well as its use. **What problems is Azure Data Catalog solving and how is that benefiting you?** Without the information of the data, the consumer cannot connect to the data. No central location for data storage. Discovering data sources was based on tribal knowledge. Without documentation, a problem in understanding the data as well as its use. ### 5. Why you should use Azure Data Catalog **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brigid Michael S. | IT Site Reliability Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Data Catalog?** It helps to manipulate data efficiently. **What do you dislike about Azure Data Catalog?** It is sometimes slow when loading large datasets. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Data Catalog:** It is an alternative to rivals that have higher prices like SAP and Oracle. **What problems is Azure Data Catalog solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can navigate, collect, organize, access, and enrich metadata that support data discovery, governance, and integrity. ### 6. Azure Data Catalog - data sources cheat sheet **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anubhab D. | Senior System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Data Catalog?** It is a fantastic fully managed cloud service which can be used to get a good hold of a data sources. Whatever role a person is in it makes understand data very easily. **What do you dislike about Azure Data Catalog?** Certain format of a document cannot be imported or exported. But mostly it's a great product you will love it for sure. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Data Catalog:** Please use this service. It will change the way you deal with data. **What problems is Azure Data Catalog solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped us solve the problem of data discovery significantly. ### 7. Not real Data Catalog **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Data Catalog?** Integrating with Profisse MDM. Integration with ADF **What do you dislike about Azure Data Catalog?** Many scanners are not available in the catalog; Many scanners need to be included. **What problems is Azure Data Catalog solving and how is that benefiting you?** Classificafying the data and capture the linkage between systems with relationships ### 8. Azure Data Catalog **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Data Catalog?** Data Catalog makes data sources easily discoverable and understand, any user can annotate by providing tags, description and metadat **What do you dislike about Azure Data Catalog?** Transactions are scoped to a single assest and its annotations. Transactions cannot span aasests. **What problems is Azure Data Catalog solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is fully managed service that lets you from analyst to data scientists to data developers ### 9. It's the best platform because G2 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Data Catalog?** It's the best platform because G2's real-time. **What do you dislike about Azure Data Catalog?** Sometimes they don't allow certain format of a document to be saved or exported/imported **Recommendations to others considering Azure Data Catalog:** Need to get support immediately ans fix the problem on priority **What problems is Azure Data Catalog solving and how is that benefiting you?** Azure Data Catalog is an enterprise-wide metadata catalogue that makes data asset discovery straightforward ### 10. Azure data catalog **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Data Catalog?** Fully managed service. Easy to use. Data can be consumed from various sources. **What do you dislike about Azure Data Catalog?** Implementation could have been more simple. **What problems is Azure Data Catalog solving and how is that benefiting you?** We now fully know and understand all our data source. We know how to make use of all the data scattered around. ### 11. Its pretty good for what it is **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Data Catalog?** The product is good for what it is for. I think it is really helpful in managing a business. The cloud service is convenient and easy to use. It had simple process that were very easy to implement even with those who were not very technologically inclined. It was a very easy to use software and I really like the organization and folder options that Azure had in the cloud. It kept everything neat and ready to access. **What do you dislike about Azure Data Catalog?** I think it was pretty buggy for the software. it did not offer a lot of extras and I think it could do more. The cloud service could take a long time to upload sometimes and it made work take longer then it should. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Data Catalog:** Its a great software. If you need something for organization in your company give it a try. It offers a ton of space in the cloud with a very reasonable price. I think any company who needs either more space or security could give Azure data catalog a shot. It is inexpensive and works pretty well. I think its got a lot of features like folders and protection that make it a very valuable tool **What problems is Azure Data Catalog solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows us to solve organization problems we were having. We try to keep files in a cloud so many can have access to them in our company. This cloud did that for us. We use it to upload personal information that we have of students. This allows all staff who would need access to easily get it. It also keeps student information off of the computers. This is a good protection because if a computer is damaged the Azure cloud still has all the information safe and protected. ### 12. Business Transformation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nelson M. | Communication Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Data Catalog?** It has changed the way we think about data storage and accessibility. It has transformed the way we do business. We can access and work with people all over the world. **What do you dislike about Azure Data Catalog?** With the worldwide accessibility comes a new set of challenges including security. While we open up to all people, we also have to be careful not to open up to the bad guys. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Data Catalog:** It is a great product. You won't be disappointed. **What problems is Azure Data Catalog solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accessibility has reduced need for travel and allowed us to reach one another, communicate and access necessary information easily and conveniently. This is great for profitability and productivity. ### 13. Azure Services **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prab T. | Senior Technical Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2015 **What do you like best about Azure Data Catalog?** Whats great about Azure is its ecosystem. Microsoft Azure integrates seamlessly with existing Microsoft Infrastructure and cloud services. This is a big plus for the enterprises since a lot of big enterprises are still testing the waters with the move to cloud and are trying a hybrid approach for now in which they have some systems on premise and some on cloud. There are some advantages with Azure over AWS like moving storage on the fly and a existing massive online community to to support the Microsoft product line. Azure has a huge powershell repository which helps with automation. The Azure Stack(WAP replacement) is also coming which will allow companies to get full features of Azure but in an on premise environment. Great move by Microsoft to gain traction for the cloud in the enterprise environment. **What do you dislike about Azure Data Catalog?** As with any cloud platform there are few limitations but Microsoft is listening to feedback and fixing them. The new preview portal is sluggish but it is covering a lot of gaps Microsoft had in the old portal. Another factor is the cost of the Azure services compared to AWS. This could be a show stopper for some organisations but the value offered by Azure is better than AWS in the long term. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Data Catalog:** Azure is great suite of Services offered by Microsoft which is evolving at a great pace. The cost will come down as the time passes. Its a great product for enterprises who are looking to DR solutions, and hosting their servers on the cloud or have a solid Microsoft on premise ecosystem and would like to integrate additional automation and self service(Azure Stack) capabilities in their environment. **What problems is Azure Data Catalog solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main driver for the Microsoft Azure is its integration with MS environment like Office365 and on premise DR scenarios. I have done projects for Azure AD integration with onpremise and Office365. SSO capabilities. Self Service Password Resets and integration with existing System Center Products and drive automation in the enterprises. 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