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."Microsoft Purview's most valuable feature is its ability to identify content across a number of prescribed regulatory frameworks, including Microsoft, GDPR, PII, and UCC Financial."
"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."
"My favorite features are eDiscovery and insider risk management, because these are the major threats to an organization that can't be easily traced."
"You can set up automated dates to alert on internal data."
"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."
"Microsoft Purview is scalable."
"It is very easy to learn the interface, and it is very user-friendly."
"The labeling is the most valuable feature for the companies I'm installing it for. Some of them have several thousand staff, and their concerns are around confidential or private data being shared. The labels and the policies involved with them give them that initial visibility."
"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 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."
"The product must provide better integrations with OS X and iOS."
"Non-Microsoft use cases are not very high. It's limited for now."
"There are negatives to the compliance aspect of Purview in that you get a lot of false positives with some of the native scanning and rules in the platform. A lot of them need tweaking to get a more realistic handle on what data there is."
"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."
"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."
"Some of the menu headings may not be easy to understand for some people."
"The API needs some improvement when connecting to non-Microsoft API sources. This is a limiting factor."
"The Microsoft Purview data connector platform, which supports ingestion from non-Microsoft data sources, can be somewhat complex."
"The product is very complicated."
"There is one thing that if I add something manually, I get so many alerts. That's the biggest bad thing."
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Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 51 reviews while Varonis Platform is ranked 10th in Data Governance with 3 reviews. Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.8, 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, Netskope Data Loss Prevention (DLP), SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, Veritas Data Insight and Lepide. See our Microsoft Purview Data Governance vs. Varonis Platform report.
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