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 solution has good workflows and is based on AIML."
"Collibra is very good at talking to modern database systems like a normal RDBMS, a DB2, or a SQL server or an Oracle."
"Workflows is the most valuable feature of Collibra because we will typically use an interface for it and we can customize it as per our needs."
"There is a good community setup around the solution that can provide insights."
"The diagram showing the limits is absolutely magnificent."
"It's incredibly easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Collibra are the workflows and the data lineage capabilities."
"It is user-friendly."
"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 audit log has been a lifesaver for a lot of reasons. Historically, when using SaaS products, there were always questions about how the audit was going and whether we were sufficient out of the box. Purview has many capabilities available through centralized reporting that provide a view of a specific segment."
"MIP also provides strong information rights management settings, such as the ability to specify who has access to content and at what time."
"The availability of pre-designed policies tailored to specific geolocations and customer requirements is a valuable feature."
"Data segregation is the most valuable feature."
"I don't know if I've gotten much value out of Purview personally, but our security team loves it. Our biggest concern is leakage or theft of our data because we have a lot of PII and stuff that has not been released. We like the insights Purview provides and the way the solution can track and manage things. I'd say that was probably their favorite piece of it so far. From everything the security team has told me, the policy management and DLP features are working spectacularly."
"The most valuable feature is the tracking activity and device onboarding."
"Microsoft Purview's primary benefit lies in safeguarding sensitive and confidential data, thereby mitigating the risk of internal data exfiltration."
"Every time you change or publish a new questionnaire for certification, you have to basically go into the code and update the new version of the questionnaire."
"We had issues during setup."
"Data discovery needs to be improved."
"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 price of Collibra Governance could improve."
"Occasionally we get little bugs that occur, however, this is typical."
"Recently, I find that the default process of issue management in Collibra is really complex — It wasn't really helpful to us."
"While connecting with the data source, it's not very easy. If there's a firewall, it is difficult to connect with the database. It's not easy when you are configuring on the database."
"Some of the menu headings may not be easy to understand for some people."
"There are some limitations with regard to the lineage of data from different parts of the system."
"The API needs some improvement when connecting to non-Microsoft API sources. This is a limiting factor."
"Reflecting organizational changes within Purview is impractical."
"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."
"I lose a little bit of that control when we're talking about third-party connectors. Compliance-wise, I would like to see more ability to audit from a user perspective, where I could extrapolate what the user was thinking or trying to do."
"Non-Microsoft use cases are not very high. It's limited for now."
"Frequent daily updates from Microsoft can cause interface elements like buttons to appear and disappear, making navigation unpredictable."
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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 48 reviews. Collibra Governance is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.6. 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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