We performed a comparison between Microsoft Purview Data Governance and Microsoft Purview eDiscovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Microsoft Security Suite solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most significant value lies in its seamless integration into the Azure ecosystem, automating various processes and reducing operational burdens."
"The data lineage feature stands out. It tracks where the data comes from and any changes made."
"Microsoft Purview is scalable."
"The availability of pre-designed policies tailored to specific geolocations and customer requirements is a valuable feature."
"Microsoft Purview's primary benefit lies in safeguarding sensitive and confidential data, thereby mitigating the risk of internal data exfiltration."
"The best part is that I can create classifications per my requirements. I use it to classify multiple platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, and different file sharing systems."
"We can prevent, block, or audit however we like."
"MIP also provides strong information rights management settings, such as the ability to specify who has access to content and at what time."
"The tool has been beneficial. Some of our previous users left the organization without sharing the information they had at a personal level. This information was related to the organization, and they didn't disclose it. Thanks to the product, it's easy for me to search and find out what communication a specific user has done, whether it's from SharePoint or any other platform. With Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, we can easily retrieve and restore this data."
"I think eDiscovery Premium has made dealing with data from Teams much more accessible than any other platform."
"The machine learning wasn't half bad. I really like that part. I thought it was novel. It pretty much automated it, once you trained the model."
"The Microsoft Purview data connector platform, which supports ingestion from non-Microsoft data sources, can be somewhat complex."
"The product needs improvement to edit the number of assets. It needs to be more inuitive as well."
"The custom data classification for the African region needs to be improved."
"There are differences when looking at an incident in the M365 portal versus Purview, and the main one is the advanced hunting. In the M365 portal, you can write KQL queries and fetch data. If that was available in Purview, it would be very good."
"We have had a lot of issues since we moved to Unified Support. There have been work gaps there, and we believe they fixed them, but we need to make sure that they are going to be sustainable. It is to be seen."
"Privacy features should be integrated into the core product rather than offered as optional add-ons, as privacy is not a luxury but a fundamental requirement."
"Another area for improvement is in managing the business glossary terms. If they could provide the same type of method that we use to configure the scan rule sets, that would be helpful. Currently, there is no option like this, so we have to do it manually. Automatic detection would be great."
"I'd like to see them improve the training for implementing this type of solution."
"Microsoft Purview eDiscovery should be cheaper."
"I see two significant challenges with many of my clients. One is that there are some functionality gaps compared to specialized tools in the legal industry, like a legal hold tool or a document review tool. They have features that Purview eDiscovery lacks. Those gaps create a situation where I almost have to do things twice. I need to collect all my data in eDiscovery and ship it to another platform to complete the review."
"Purview eDiscovery works, but it's not entirely perfect. There were times when search results would get hung up or error codes would be presented and we'd have to contact Microsoft to get that sorted out."
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Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 7th in Microsoft Security Suite with 51 reviews while Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is ranked 26th in Microsoft Security Suite with 3 reviews. Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Purview Data Governance writes "User friendly with good documentation but needs to cover more non-Microsoft use cases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery writes "It has improved visibility and simplified data review, but it lacks many features found in specialized tools". Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon and SAP Data Governance, whereas Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is most compared with Google Vault, Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud, Smarsh eDiscovery, Varonis Platform and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Microsoft Purview Data Governance vs. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery report.
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