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 most valuable feature is the discovery process for the data catalog because we get it in a visual format as a way to understand and classify it."
"As far as the functionality of the tool is concerned, it's pretty slick."
"Collibra Governance's most valuable features are data lineage and stewardships."
"The solution has good workflows and is based on AIML."
"Workflow is very helpful and assessment are good features. I really like the structure of this solution and how it is compartmentalized."
"I like Collibra's flexibility. I like to be able to modify things for our own use. For example, we've chosen to use Collibra also as a knowledge management tool, even though it is not designed to be a knowledge management tool. That's the beauty of it. It can serve as a knowledge management tool by creating some custom assets specifically for knowledge management."
"Collibra Governance is a stable solution."
"The most important feature in Collibra Governance is the ability to gather data or a collection of data into one repository. If a client creates a repository at his place, then it will get updated to the cloud automatically."
"We can prevent, block, or audit however we like."
"Has a good interface and is reasonably priced."
"The time to onboard is pretty short."
"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 custom classifications are one of the most valuable features."
"Instead of having to manually write down which tables and columns exist and then describe them, you can do that process in one go, by simply connecting to a source. That's a huge time-saver and a great benefit of Purview."
"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 ability to classify data quickly and effortlessly is arguably Microsoft Purview's most valuable feature."
"There's still room for improvement in Collibra Governance. Right now, the solution focuses more on publishing and subscription where metadata is being consumed from all systems and processes within Collibra Governance. I'd like to see more features around external systems that let those systems start consuming or start referring things from Collibra Governance automatically, in particular, more API-based integrations, so the solution can truly work as an enterprise governance tool at the heart of the organization. There have been many cases where business stakeholders feel, "Okay. I'll be doing a manual activity because every time I have to maintain and make sure that the solution is working, for example, ensuring the reporting works, I have to go to Collibra Governance." I want this step taken out of the equation, and it has to be an automatic conversion or automatic notification that something has changed. Scalability also needs improvement in the solution. If there could be some sort of self-service where people can customize the solution a bit more, that would make Collibra Governance better. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is an enhanced search feature because it's what users want to use. You want to search for a term and get all details in one go. Right now, if you type a term in the Collibra Governance global search function, it returns a lot of results that you need to know how to filter and what to filter, so there should be automatic filters that give accurate information to somebody who does a search on the solution. I want Collibra Governance to provide a capability where you can search and get relevant information."
"The solution's metadata management is pretty novice and could be improved."
"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."
"What I use it for is fairly rudimentary, and I don't have any complaints about it. I haven't tried to stretch the boundaries at all, but it would be nice if there were capabilities built within the system to somehow help enforce the quality and consistency across related elements that are built in the catalog. It could have intelligent capabilities built in to help maintain the quality of the data and information, such as natural language processing, machine learning, and so on."
"This solution could be improved with the the addition of process diagrams to help the many users of the platform understand all the fields."
"The solution's data lineage is a little difficult and will not support all the source systems on the database."
"There's a lot of things available in their Data Intelligence Cloud that are not available on-premise."
"Collibra gives a lot of facilities in the cloud, but achieving those facilities on-prem becomes a big challenge"
"Microsoft Purview's compliance processes for handling various Mac and iOS devices could be significantly improved."
"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."
"The product must provide better integrations with OS X and iOS."
"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."
"It supports only a limited number of tools and technologies that pertain to Microsoft products. If you want to leverage other solutions such as Workday or Oracle Fusion, features will be coming up, but as of now, it is for the Microsoft suite."
"Purview's data loss prevention for macOS endpoints has some limitations, and the end-user experience of recovering from a failure is lacking."
"Setting up Purview in a production tenant proved challenging due to a lack of clear documentation on permission requirements."
"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."
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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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