We performed a comparison between Microsoft Purview Data Governance and Varonis Platform 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."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."
"Microsoft Purview is extremely stable."
"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 feature is the tracking activity and device onboarding."
"You can set up automated dates to alert on internal data."
"It is designed to seamlessly connect to various data sources, which is particularly beneficial for our customers who primarily use Microsoft technologies."
"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."
"Microsoft Purview's primary benefit lies in safeguarding sensitive and confidential data, thereby mitigating the risk of internal data exfiltration."
"The solution has significantly improved data security and compliance posture by allowing us to track and monitor activities. We can see who accesses data and when files are created and understand what's happening in our environment."
"There's also a 90-day policy where if a user is not using the warehouse, it will automatically delete that username."
"Varonis Platform is transparent and captures everything in the environment without impacting the performance. The tool helps us unify data feeds into a single reporting system."
"The Microsoft Purview data connector platform, which supports ingestion from non-Microsoft data sources, can be somewhat complex."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"While Purview's data connector platform can ingest information from non-Microsoft data sources, it is slow to do so and the information may become outdated."
"One area for improvement is the detection of data types. This is really important. It has some of that functionality, but I consider it very limited. Maybe they can add some custom programming or machine learning could be particularly useful for the detection of the nature of the data."
"I would like to have complete video documentation for training."
"There are some non-Microsoft file formats that are not supported."
"he one thing it doesn't do is data quality."
"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."
"There is one thing that if I add something manually, I get so many alerts. That's the biggest bad thing."
"The product is very complicated."
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Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 48 reviews while Varonis Platform is ranked 10th in Data Governance with 3 reviews. Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.6, while Varonis Platform is rated 8.4. 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 Varonis Platform writes "Offers visibility and helps to keep track of access ". Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Informatica Axon, Microsoft Intune and Collibra Lineage, whereas Varonis Platform is most compared with BigID, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, Netskope Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Veritas Data Insight and CrowdStrike Falcon. See our Microsoft Purview Data Governance vs. Varonis Platform report.
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