We compared Collibra Governance and Microsoft Purview based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Collibra Governance is praised for its data lineage and quality management, excellent customer service, reasonable pricing, and positive return on investment. However, users have highlighted areas of improvement in the user interface, scalability, and integration. On the other hand, Microsoft Purview is valued for its robust data cataloging and collaboration features, competitive pricing, and positive ROI. Users appreciate its user-friendly interface and seamless integration with Microsoft products but seek enhancements in functionality, data classification, and integration capabilities.
Features: Collibra Governance's valuable features include effective data asset management, centralized data view, compliance support, user-friendly interface, customizability, integration capabilities, data lineage, and data quality management. Microsoft Purview offers effective data asset management, comprehensive data view, data governance support, collaboration features, robust data cataloging and discovery capabilities, user-friendly interface, and seamless integration with other Microsoft products and services.
Pricing and ROI: Collibra Governance and Microsoft Purview both receive positive feedback on their pricing structure and setup costs. Users find Collibra's pricing reasonable, while Microsoft Purview offers competitive pricing. Both products have flexible licensing options. Collibra has a straightforward setup process, while Microsoft Purview has a comparatively low setup cost, making implementation smooth., Collibra Governance and Microsoft Purview both provide a positive ROI. However, Collibra emphasizes the value in managing governance processes and ensuring data quality, while Purview focuses on enhancing data governance and accelerating analytics processes. Collibra users mention improved decision-making, while Purview users appreciate cost savings and seamless integration.
Room for Improvement: Collibra Governance could enhance its user interface, scalability, data classification capabilities, integration with other systems, and availability of comprehensive training and documentation. In comparison, Microsoft Purview needs improvements in functionality, user-friendliness, data classification, search filters, integration with other Microsoft products, collaboration features, and data ingestion processes.
Deployment and customer support: Based on user feedback, the duration required for establishing a new tech solution varies for Collibra Governance. Some users took three months for deployment and an extra week for setup, while others took a week for both. For Microsoft Purview, users had different experiences, with some spending three months on deployment and a week on setup, while others only required a week for both phases., Customers have expressed satisfaction with the customer service and support provided by Collibra Governance. They commend the company for their helpful and prompt assistance, as well as their knowledgeable support team. Collibra Governance prioritizes providing excellent customer service. Meanwhile, users of Microsoft Purview have also expressed satisfaction with the customer service and support they received. The assistance was deemed helpful, responsive, and effectively catered to their needs.
The summary above is based on 67 interviews we conducted recently with Collibra Governance and Microsoft Purview users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The ability to collaborate and approve business terms for the business glossary data dictionary is excellent."
"The workflow is very good and has been embedded. It also has a great user interface."
"I like the lineage feature the most because I don't think there's any other tool that actually depicts the data flow from multiple sources and the connectivities between every data element inside those sources."
"Collibra Governance comes with a lot of features, and we have used it in one of our projects for metadata management and data lineage."
"From the perspective of a data user, the solution has a great search capability."
"The catalog feature is definitely valuable because it makes ingesting the metadata of any application quite simple. You don't have to do things manually. You can just schedule an import, and it will just refresh the metadata of whatever application you want. That's what I like. I usually work on the technical side, and other than that, I usually create integrations. I integrate Collibra with different environments or applications. I'm a developer, so I cannot vouch for the business, but for me, it is quite developer-friendly with the Java API interface and the REST API interface that they have provided. It is good for creating dashboards based on the needs of each and every role. It can be user-specific or group-specific. We usually create dashboards and give them to our business users, and they are quite happy with that."
"Collibra's lineage is a very powerful feature. We have integrated Collibra with Azure and ADLS storage and we create lineage diagrams using the two tools."
"The diagram showing the limits is absolutely magnificent."
"The cataloging tool is definitely the most valuable... It tells you about all the data you have in your tables, which helps people understand our data. We now know what data we have."
"The most valuable aspect of Purview is its PowerShell connectivity, enabling automation."
"It is pretty early, but the decision to go with this investment was largely driven by the simplification of our information security technology management stack. That is the primary objective. Once you simplify and you have a connected structure, it allows for faster adoption there. It also gives us additional capabilities as we go on using the technology that we are familiar with, and we do not have to depend on outside parties to come in and tell us how to do certain things."
"It is very easy to learn the interface, and it is very user-friendly."
"It gives you the opportunity to know your data and apply policies around it. If those policies are flouted, you can always track what's happening. You have options such as alerting the person who is committing that action, or you can take automatic action by blocking, for example, an email that is been sent externally. It's very useful."
"From my experience and customer feedback, one of the most valuable features of Microsoft Purview is ease of use, especially for content hosted within Microsoft 365 and Azure. I also like that the pricing model for the solution is reasonable."
"I don't know if I've gotten much value out of Purview personally, but our security team loves it. Our biggest concern is leakage or theft of our data because we have a lot of PII and stuff that has not been released. We like the insights Purview provides and the way the solution can track and manage things. I'd say that was probably their favorite piece of it so far. From everything the security team has told me, the policy management and DLP features are working spectacularly."
"The audit log has been a lifesaver for a lot of reasons. Historically, when using SaaS products, there were always questions about how the audit was going and whether we were sufficient out of the box. Purview has many capabilities available through centralized reporting that provide a view of a specific segment."
"We would like to have out-of-the-box automation."
"Collibra gives a lot of facilities in the cloud, but achieving those facilities on-prem becomes a big challenge"
"The solution's metadata management is pretty novice and could be improved."
"From a usability perspective, customers usually find some areas of the solution a bit complex. It takes a long time for the customers to get used to the UI and the interface."
"There are certain limitations and difficulties regarding the migration of complex data quality rules, as the tool may struggle with lengthy calculations and longer loading times."
"This solution could be improved with the the addition of process diagrams to help the many users of the platform understand all the fields."
"I'm fairly new to the product, however, what I generally hear from my clients is that the requirement around having ways to ingest more metadata."
"Sometimes, if a client needs a specific customization, we cannot do it directly. The client needs to reach out to Collibra and request the customization."
"We've had a few issues with the scanner. It runs perfectly one day, and on another day, it will run the whole night. It's probably related to the rules. If I set some compliance rules and apply the rules to any column, I can't delete it. I have to disable it and reactivate it."
"Enhancing the tool's capability to connect to multiple sources would be valuable."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"It could reduce pricing to encourage usage."
"The overall cost of deploying this solution could be better. It seems that middle and small-sized organizations are not completely happy with deploying this solution in terms of the cost. It would be good if they concentrate on the cost part."
"Although you can explore the data, that creates a great interest in data lineage or the data flow. How does it go from a source to a platform to a Power BI report, for example? It is possible, to some extent, to see that with Purview, but the lineage feature requires some manual work on the development side or more work from Microsoft to improve on it."
"The Microsoft Purview data connector platform, which supports ingestion from non-Microsoft data sources, can be somewhat complex."
"There are some limitations with regard to the lineage of data from different parts of the system."
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Collibra Governance is ranked 2nd in Data Governance with 41 reviews while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 51 reviews. Collibra Governance is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Collibra Governance writes "Transformed our cross-functional business teams into one enterprise-facing view". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Purview Data Governance writes "User friendly with good documentation but needs to cover more non-Microsoft use cases". Collibra Governance is most compared with Informatica Axon, Alation Data Catalog, BigID, Ataccama ONE Platform and erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, whereas Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon, Microsoft Intune and Collibra Lineage. See our Collibra Governance vs. Microsoft Purview Data Governance report.
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