Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog Reviews & Product Details

This tool is praised for its robust data discovery and metadata management capabilities. Users often appreciate its ability to create comprehensive catalog of enterprise data, making it easier to understand, manage and govern data assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a resource intensive tool and costly too. Some features like automated lineage derivation could be more improved so that it is easier to track and perform root cause analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data integration is the best option for better performance and business processes. If you have already invested in the Informatica platform, it is the absolute product to use. Data ingestion and prep is an excellent aspect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Needs work on the visibility of metadata management and data lineage capabilities. It is also pretty time-consuming for beginners to understand the UI and get started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to handle cloud and on-prem data scanning and management makes this a great solution versus the rest. The interface is straightforward to use and the metadata management piece puts into perspective all your quality and curation search needs for running data-centric operations and products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

All tools in this domain have this problem from Erwin to Microsoft to Databricks to yes Informatica too! Stop segmenting functionality for an upcharge; you lose customer attention and retention in this way. Don't add on sell for a particular type of scanning option for specific content or process. In evaluating every tool not just Informatica I found this scenario where for x development time we will build said scanner for you or in the case of Informatica there was when I was evaluating it a sort of premium versus standard which was a turn off. Not sure if this is still the case, but this was my experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It lets you to consolidate and bring the data together from versatile formats into a form to centrally manage at one instance. The features seems to be unique while used this tool esp while enabled on metadata for discovery purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would expect t it should let add more flexibility while drilling down to all metadata traversal across the systems which I meant to say about their data to be available for more analysis for other teams or tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is easy to search and explore what data is available, who is the data owner and other responsibles involved with that specific data.

Initially the UI appears simple and still users can perform advanced filtering with the drop down options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think, it is still like a reference application and users still need to search and identify the responsibles and after that they would need to approach them to gain the required access by following the defined access request process or else we would need to have additional application such as data market place to request access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

has a wide range of useful tools, user friendly and convenient to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the pricing is a bit on the higher end, few limitations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy integration with the Informatica suite of data management and data integration products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With Informatica moving their products to the cloud, especially PowerCenter moving to IDMC - Informatica Data Management Cloud, customers are challenged to keep pace with this movement to the cloud, this applies to all the on-premise components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A clean and intuitive interface where features are easy to find, in addition, the menu it is pretty intuitive to performance ant repetitive tasks, moreover not complicated to add features or merge functions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data Catalog looks to have many options not configurable or not to be shown all the time, for instance, will be nice to have fewer emoticons available to increase focus when you need it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

very easy dashboard for business users to search the required data and navigate to the impacted data , it help us to reduce the time and headache involved in getting the required data or information about a product . easy to download required data reports and take decisions quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

requires some amount of training and getting used to it before some one can easily deploy it and perform the data collection, comparison and collating that you would have to do Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Excellent interface for searching and discovering the data assets hidden in the entire data landscape. Also helps in gaining contextual insights around data profiling, data quality and can be shared with others increasing collaboration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data lineage capability can be enhanced further as a visual representation of data lineage can sometimes be complex. One of the key challenges organizations face today is identifying the true source of data displayed in their reports and dashboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.