IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog Reviews

Vendor: IBM

3.5 out of 5

9 reviews
72% willing to recommend

What is IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog?

Information governance is a next-gen comprehensive process of administering, enhancing, and collating information to strengthen an organization’s trust and belief that its decision and business processes are the best for the organization’s overall health and continued progress. IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is an intuitive, progressive web-based tool that empowers users to discover, comprehend, and dissect information. Users are able to design, administer, and collaborate to track data pipelines, execute protocols and procedures, and share common business languages.

Integrate the solution with IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog to increase on-premises Information Governance Catalog efficiency in the cloud and improve the benefit of current gathered data sets. This value-added governance catalog enables users to place gathered metadata where experienced users, analytics, and data communities have seamless protected access to the appropriate resources, based on need, while still maintaining the organization's governance standards.

IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog delivers a secure starting point for organizations to better comprehend and govern their information across the entire network, and continually delivers secure, well-defined, and governed data.

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IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is the #7 ranked solution in top Metadata Management solutions. PeerSpot users give IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog an average rating of 7.0 out of 10. IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is most commonly compared to Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC): IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 76% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 41% of all views.

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Tirthankar Roy Chowdhury

Teamlead at Tata consultancy services

An area for improvement in IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is that it's missing a lot of connectors. Clients complain about not being able to connect some data sources because there's no available connector, so my company raised that issue with IBM. In some cases, third-party connectors are available, but not for all data sources. Another area that needs improvement in the solution is stability because it also has some stability issues. This is the same issue with the other IBM products bundled with IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog. The solution is connected with IBM Infosphere Information Analyzer and IBM InfoSphere DataStage in my company, so if one has issues with stability, the rest of the products are affected as well.

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Giuseppe Innamorato

Senior Client Director at Alkemy digital_enabler

We recently suggested FlexiCapture and the ABBYY platform to a customer in Italy, but we are now waiting for their response. Unfortunately, we have no direct experience with the platform. We are a consulting service and a consulting company that also works on system integration. We use a variety of platforms ranging from IBM to Microsoft. We are specifically focused on data management and artificial intelligence solution. We use many different solutions, such as InfoSphere, and Db2 for databases for example. We have many projects also on Information Governance where we use not only IBM products but also Informatica products, for example, in the MDM arena. We work with both IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Governance Catalog.

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Gaurav Pahlajani

Technical Analyst DataWarehouse at ALD Automotive Belgium

I've contacted technical support for IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog whenever there was downtime or a limitation in the solution. I've raised PMR requests with the support team, and luckily everything went well and answers were provided on time. On a scale of one to five, with one being bad and five being excellent, I would rate support a three out of five. It's a bit lower because the attrition rate is quite high and the people keep changing. I also felt there were times when the support team needed to have more rigorous training. Support should be trained a little bit more and the response time could be quicker.

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IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog mindshare

As of July 2025, the mindshare of IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog in the Metadata Management category stands at 5.3%, up from 4.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerResearch reports based on IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog reviews

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Category	Metadata Management	Jul 14, 2025	Download
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Comparison	IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	Jul 14, 2025	Download
Comparison	IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog vs Alation Data Catalog	Jul 14, 2025	Download
Comparison	IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog vs Collibra Catalog	Jul 14, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	4.0	23.5%	93%	185 interviews Add to research
Alation Data Catalog	3.8	15.3%	71%	12 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The ability to create special rules inside the solution using Portuguese is the most valuable feature."
"The graphic flows and the lineage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The solution allows us to leverage a concept called Open IGC to create custom assets and data lineages that are not technologies typically supported by IBM via connectors."

Room for Improvement

"The scalability has room for improvement."
"The simplicity of usage could improve. Perhaps the simplicity of use for end users, not for system integrators, but for the user, the end users."
"The solution has performance issues when scaling up small sets of information such as assets and data lineage to the ITC."

Pricing

IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is perceived as expensive by users, with licensing costs influenced by the number of users or records. Calculated based on processing volumes, it's purchased as a complete tool within the InfoSphere Information Server, not separately. Yearly licensing is customer-managed, with some reports indicating potential expenses around three hundred thousand pounds. Users find the pricing at the higher end, often feeling IBM is contractually challenging.

"IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is expensive."
"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
"Licensing for IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is per user."

Service and Support

IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog customer service is noted for being helpful and responsive once users gain contact access, though initial response times can be slow. Responses vary depending on the severity of issues. Users find support inconsistent, with some issues resolved promptly and others lingering. The support quality ratings are mixed, with some citing high attrition and a need for better training. Communication in Portuguese is available.

Stability

IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog has mixed perceptions in terms of stability. Some note improvement over time, considering it very stable now, while others highlight performance-related concerns as a heavy tool compared to lighter alternatives like Collibra or Alation. Although IBM provides assistance, necessary configurations must be followed. A few years back, it was ranked very stable, but the market's competitive nature suggests room for enhancement to maintain leadership in the data governance space.

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IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog Benefits

Manage catalog metadata: Run data workflows to prove trusted information, support compliance and governance standards, resolve duplicate assets, map databases to database aliases, and automate the authentication of data sources to improve overall project deployment. Additionally, users will discover how data moves across the network and will be able to identify how and where data was sourced and how it is being consumed. This will promote a greater assurance and belief that the data is continually secure and safe.
Improved people and process management: The solution helps to definitively clarify roles and responsibilities of all team participants. Users can easily design, edit, and publish governance protocols, accept new or audited information governance rules, and/or move the rule to Draft status. Users will also obtain notice (via email) of any governance issues that appear in their glossary or information assets.
Boost current metadata: This can be achieved by using descriptions and relationships, group related labels, stewards, assets, and custom attributes to all other related assets. Develop protracted data sources to add metadata to the catalog that may not be able to be added automatically or that are not able to be imported easily from outside third-party applications. The solution will also help users have a greater understanding of all their data assets - unstructured, semi-structured, and structured.
Discover assets in the catalog: Users can easily initiate either a simple or advanced search or even begin very intensive deep queries. An intuitive GUI is available to trace the history of all changes, probe stewards, information assets, glossary assets, and all other catalog content.

Seamless cloud integration: IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog facilitates a smooth adjustment to the cloud. This makes it no longer necessary to employ an on-premise ecosystem. This move will also result in significantly reduced resource usage and help save on overall administrative costs for the organization.

IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog was previously known as IBM Information Governance Catalog.