We performed a comparison between Microsoft Purview Data Governance and Netwrix Data Classification Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Governance solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Purview helped us automate and control our data without having to rely on people to manually tag documents with specific retention periods."
"It is very easy to learn the interface, and it is very user-friendly."
"The time to onboard is pretty short."
"It's certainly easy to work with all Microsoft data sources like SQL Server, Synapse, and data lakes, but it also has great functionality working with Oracle. And of particular interest to us is the ability to pull data from Excel, CVS files, and other types of flat files."
"Purview helps mitigate risk and allows us to govern the information being shared among apps and devices."
"Purview's greatest benefit for us is data discovery."
"The e-discovery search is useful."
"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."
"It's highly flexible and scalable, offering customers the choice to match their needs and budget."
"Netwrix Data Classification Manager finds the data in a very efficient manner, and the efficacy of the solution is very good."
"Blueprints and landing zones like we have in Azure would be great to see in Purview. The solution could offer a baseline or blueprint of recommended settings for compliance regulations such as GDPR and ISO, which could be applied with a simple switch in the options."
"The API needs some improvement when connecting to non-Microsoft API sources. This is a limiting factor."
"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."
"Enhancing the tool's capability to connect to multiple sources would be valuable."
"There are some limitations with regard to the lineage of data from different parts of the system."
"Two features are unsupported—custom insights and the DLP component—that would be beneficial to me as a consultant and for the customer in terms of security and monitoring. Regarding security, DLP would provide a more granular level of data masking. Custom insights would offer more detailed monitoring and alerts that can notify customers of failures or anything requiring urgent action."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to Purview's data connector platform in supporting ingestion from non-Microsoft data sources."
"The Microsoft Purview data connector platform, which supports ingestion from non-Microsoft data sources, can be somewhat complex."
"Netwrix Data Classification Manager is very good at network data classification, but it also has to work on endpoint data classification because clients ask for it."
"One of the key issues is its interface and querying capabilities, which can be complex, making it difficult to interpret logs."
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Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 51 reviews while Netwrix Data Classification Manager is ranked 21st in Data Governance with 2 reviews. Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.8, while Netwrix Data Classification Manager is rated 9.0. 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 Netwrix Data Classification Manager writes "A comprehensive data classification and information security solution that offers robust functionality, scalability, and competitive pricing". Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon and Microsoft Intune, whereas Netwrix Data Classification Manager is most compared with Varonis Platform. See our Microsoft Purview Data Governance vs. Netwrix Data Classification Manager report.
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