We compared Collibra Lineage and Microsoft Purview based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Collibra Lineage focuses on providing clear data lineage visibility, top-notch customer service, reasonable pricing, and beneficial ROI. In contrast, Microsoft Purview emphasizes effective data asset management, user-friendly interface, reasonable pricing, and positive ROI. Users suggest Collibra Lineage improve its interface and performance, while Microsoft Purview users desire enhanced functionality and integration.
Features: Collibra Lineage's most valuable feature is its clear visibility into data lineage, helping users understand data flow and make informed decisions. Microsoft Purview excels in managing data assets, facilitating collaboration, and offering robust data cataloging capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Collibra Lineage is described as minimal and hassle-free, while Microsoft Purview offers comparatively low setup costs. Both products have received positive feedback for their reasonable pricing structures and flexible licensing options., Collibra Lineage provides significant ROI by improving data quality, aiding compliance, and enhancing data governance efforts. Users value its user-friendly interface and seamless integration with other tools. Microsoft Purview also generates positive ROI by managing data assets, enhancing governance, and accelerating analytics processes. Its user-friendly interface, integration capabilities, centralized data discovery, cost savings, and improved decision-making are highly appreciated.
Room for Improvement: Collibra Lineage could improve its interface, speed, performance, and comprehensiveness in capturing and representing data lineage relationships. Users suggest more customization options and flexibility in exporting and sharing lineage information. On the other hand, Microsoft Purview needs enhancements in functionality, user-friendliness, data classification capabilities, search filters, integration with other Microsoft products, collaboration features, and data ingestion processes.
Deployment and customer support: The feedback on Collibra Lineage indicates that the duration required for deployment and setup can vary, with some users taking three months for deployment and an additional week for setup. However, others only required a week for both phases. On the other hand, users of Microsoft Purview reported similar variations, with some needing three months for deployment and a week for setup, while others required just a week for both phases. This suggests that both products have similar variances in the time required for establishing a new tech solution., Collibra Lineage: Users highly regard Collibra Lineage's customer service, praising its responsiveness, helpfulness, and prompt assistance. The knowledgeable and friendly representatives provide top-notch support. Microsoft Purview: Users express satisfaction with Microsoft Purview's customer service, deeming it helpful and responsive. The support provided effectively caters to their needs.
The summary above is based on 48 interviews we conducted recently with Collibra Lineage and Microsoft Purview users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The solution makes data more discoverable and transparent."
"The most valuable features of Collibra Lineage are the multiple options for automation. Additionally, if you have a scenario where automation does not work, you have the option to manually create the lineage. The solution does not force you to always go through an automated way where you have broken lineage and you are stuck without a lineage."
"The solution has very good online assistance."
"It shows how the data was transformed on the way and how the solutions were derived. This is the essence of the tool and why it is so powerful."
"We find the most valuable feature of this solution to be the lineage aspect."
"The diagrams are good for data visualization."
"MIP also provides strong information rights management settings, such as the ability to specify who has access to content and at what time."
"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 critical that Purview delivers data protection across multi-cloud and multi-platform environments. That is the number one reason that people are adopting hybrid and best-of-the-breed approaches. Especially in banking, it is critical because people want to protect, govern, and secure their data. This is one of the first conversations that happens with security and the architecture group on the client side."
"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."
"It starts off with records management, insider risk management, and information protection. And there is the discovery of the clouds, and we can get analytics on that as well, so that we know which user is using which cloud application and for how much time. The Activity explorer tells us which user was transferring out what data at what moment and on which device, including the serial number."
"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."
"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."
"The product has helped us save both time and money."
"The product must be cheaper."
"We would like this solution to be able to connect directly to the databases, so we can pull directly from Databank without manual intervention."
"Before you can use this solution, you have to make a lot of changes to how you measure your information in your organization, the data governance and policies, and the organizational structures that use them. Many companies believe that if they purchase the licenses for the tool that they have done the job, but this is far from the case with this tool."
"Collibra doesn't provide support for integration for SAP Info Steward directly with Collibra."
"The workflow documentation must be improved."
"Collibra Lineage could improve connectively. If they can offer more out-of-the-box connectors, which come as in a package compared to you having to go and buy a lot in the marketplace for certain specific connectors."
"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."
"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."
"I have some concerns about the separation of roles in Purview from the Microsoft tenant, as well as how they interact with the security portal and endpoint manager."
"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."
"Non-Microsoft use cases are not very high. It's limited for now."
"It could reduce pricing to encourage usage."
"There are some non-Microsoft file formats that are not supported."
"If we could have a view something like we have in CrowdStrike—which is, I believe, the biggest competitor to Microsoft when it comes to security—a node nodal view, which we also have in Defender, that would make it a more complete, one-stop solution. That would save a lot of time for the admins and the engineers."
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Collibra Lineage is ranked 10th in Data Governance with 6 reviews while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 48 reviews. Collibra Lineage is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Collibra Lineage writes "User-friendly with good metadata management but needs more time to mature". 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 Lineage is most compared with MANTA Flow, Alation Data Catalog, erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, OneTrust DataGovernance and Protegrity Data Security, whereas Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon and BigID. See our Collibra Lineage vs. Microsoft Purview Data Governance report.
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These two are suites of 'tools' for metadata management. I would ask first that you list 'what' you are wanting to achieve with such tools. Data Catalog? Data Lineage? Table level or Column level lineage? Data Quality detection, etc, etc.
Your answers will be critical as you engage various vendors as each may say they do 'it all', but the reality is something less. Also, do you need to manage metadata across heterogeneous systems, just Azure, or others, because some tools are great if used on their 'native' platform, but not so great integrating with other platforms.
You may also want to consider Quest/erwin Data Intelligence Suite. I have implemented this solution and it is one of the best. I would add that some tools tend to 'overwhelm' your users with all they can do. So be careful that whatever you bring in will not become 'shelf-ware'.