Azure Data Catalog vs. IBM watsonx.data intelligence

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Data Catalog	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's Azure Data Catalog is an enterprise-wide metadata catalog designed to make data asset discovery straightforward, a fully-managed service that lets analysts. data scientists, and developers to register, enrich, discover, understand, and consume data sources.	N/A
IBM watsonx.data intelligence	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	IBM® watsonx.data intelligence provides data governance software (formerly IBM Knowledge Catalog) that provides a data catalog to automate data discovery, data quality management and data protection - for both structured and unstructured data.	N/A

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Azure Data Catalog

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Azure Data Catalog	IBM watsonx.data intelligence
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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IBM watsonx.data intelligence's pricing that scales with usage and functionality. watsonx.data intelligence can be deployed in various environments such as cloud, hybrid, or on-premises. The on-premises offering is available via subscription or perpetual licenses, charged with a consumption-based Resource Unit model. The SaaS offering is available via Resource Units or Instances, with the ability to upgrade to higher tiers as needed.

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Community Pulse
	Azure Data Catalog	IBM watsonx.data intelligence
Considered Both Products	Azure Data Catalog Sumon K Chowdhury Asst. Software Specialist Chose Azure Data Catalog We considered alternative tools, but most of our infrastructure was already linked to Azure. Therefore, Azure Data Catalog seemed that integrating the location of our data would be easier and safer. An Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure Data Catalog Azure Data Catalogue was chosen for Microsoft's customer service and expertise Experience with Azure Cloud Solutions Incentivized Helpful? Khairul Islam Tonmoy Software Developer Chose Azure Data Catalog To create cloud-native applications, we rely on Azure Data Catalog for data management. I believe it was better suited to our organization and maturity level regarding costs and onboarding procedures. We can get Incentivized Helpful? Ramprasad Rangachary, PMP® Product Manager Chose Azure Data Catalog As an organization we use Azure platform heavily. Decision to user Azure Data Catalog was a no-brainer considering the easy at which we can integrate it with rest of the infrastructure we already have in place. UX/UI, the powerful data analytics engine was a huge plus. Support … Incentivized Helpful? Mithil Patel Sr. Digital Marketing Director Chose Azure Data Catalog I feel Azure Data Catalog was better suited for our industry and maturing level in terms of costs and onboarding processes in place. I also feel familiarity played a very big role in us choosing the platform over others. For enterprises, I would recommend AWS but not for … Incentivized Helpful? Frank Casso Instructional Design Professional Chose Azure Data Catalog We selected Azure because of other Microsoft products in our ecosystem. The interface and ability to move items across applications like Teams made it easy to adopt. Azure Data Catalog also came highly rated for reliability. We were certain that with it, our people wouldn’t … Incentivized Helpful?	IBM watsonx.data intelligence Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM watsonx.data intelligence The IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog is a great amount of storage for the price. It is easily accessed by all users in the company. It provides great search features and clear pathways to locate documents. This is great for the team and our client when needing access to a specific … Incentivized Helpful? WD Wiliam de Faria Head Privacidade de Dados - DPO LGPD/GPDR Chose IBM watsonx.data intelligence Adabas is a tool for managing Data Governance because an IBM tool has an advantage because it doesn't have the cloud and that makes integration much easier, it has the lowest price on the market and its performance in data discovery is faster than competitors. Incentivized Helpful? VP Vinay Pushkarna, B.Eng, MBA Supervisor, Business Transformation Chose IBM watsonx.data intelligence Azure is definitely a strong competition considering that it has machine learning capabilities too. Incentivized Helpful?

User Ratings
	Azure Data Catalog	IBM watsonx.data intelligence
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (0 ratings)	8.7 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure Data Catalog	IBM watsonx.data intelligence
Likelihood to Recommend	Azure Data Catalog has helped our data governance and BI efforts. It's an enterprise-level data dictionary that grows with our data ecosystem. We build cloud-native apps with data management tools. And we get insights quickly and with less overhead, and the drag-and-drop interface is one of the best parts of it. Drag-and-drop is easy so that we can deliver quickly. Visual effects make it more flexible. One thing to note is that working on it requires some skill to maintain the integrity of all the components. Another improvement would be lowering the licensing cost. Incentivized Sumon K Chowdhury Asst. Software Specialist Read full review	It's great for data discovery and analyzing the quality of that data, and it's great for managing that catalog with strong rules and policies. It has an easy policy management and data governance rules and has a very good graphic tool to show the integration between business terms and physical data not good for managing data privacy and mapping personal data handling processes Incentivized Wiliam de Faria Head Privacidade de Dados - DPO LGPD/GPDR Read full review
Pros	It's easy to use and implement. Ownership of the data. It's helpful for all businesses. Policy on data preservation. It can utilize various data sources. Data management is secure and simple. Incentivized Sumon K Chowdhury Asst. Software Specialist Read full review	Data Storage Collection Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	We have been it for a while now and I do not see any major concerns with the product interms of UX/UI, product support and periodic releases Incentivized Ramprasad Rangachary, PMP® Product Manager Read full review	Data discovery performance. Discovery of unstructured data. Integration with Privacy Management API. Incentivized Wiliam de Faria Head Privacidade de Dados - DPO LGPD/GPDR Read full review
Alternatives Considered	To create cloud-native applications, we rely on Azure Data Catalog for data management. I believe it was better suited to our organization and maturity level regarding costs and onboarding procedures. We can get insights quickly and with less work. Familiarity also played a role in our choice. In general, I believe this product is worthwhile. But the IT environment in which it will be deployed will impact this. Therefore, compared to other tools on the market, Azure Data Catalog is the best option. Incentivized Khairul Islam Tonmoy Software Developer Read full review	The IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog is a great amount of storage for the price. It is easily accessed by all users in the company. It provides great search features and clear pathways to locate documents. This is great for the team and our client when needing access to a specific document. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Less time spent on data searches. Discovering, understanding and consumption of data sources is much easier. We recover data from different locations from a central point. Incentivized Robbie Scott Security Software Engineer Read full review	Too early to determine ROI. I have had cases where IBM Watson has been offered with a suite of services With strengths in enterprise asset management, it has a lot of potential to be the platform of choice. Incentivized Vinay Pushkarna, B.Eng, MBA Supervisor, Business Transformation Read full review
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