We performed a comparison between Collibra 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."The ability to collaborate and approve business terms for the business glossary data dictionary is excellent."
"Workflow is very helpful and assessment are good features. I really like the structure of this solution and how it is compartmentalized."
"I like the lineage feature the most because I don't think there's any other tool that actually depicts the data flow from multiple sources and the connectivities between every data element inside those sources."
"From the perspective of a data user, the solution has a great search capability."
"In terms of data governance, as I mentioned, it can be a one-stop solution for all of your data governance needs."
"Collibra Governance is a stable solution."
"Provides a good view of the data and how it's being utilized, as well as calibration quality."
"The beauty of the solution is that you can customize it quite a bit."
"There's also a 90-day policy where if a user is not using the warehouse, it will automatically delete that username."
"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."
"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."
"Collibra gives a lot of facilities in the cloud, but achieving those facilities on-prem becomes a big challenge"
"Data discovery needs to be improved."
"We are not able to ingest all the data in Collibra, and that's why we cannot do element-to-element level data tracking."
"This solution could be improved with the the addition of process diagrams to help the many users of the platform understand all the fields."
"There are certain processes that involve a lot of manual work, specifically when searching for attributes assignment. It would be better if we could do this via APIs."
"One problem is the data lineage, especially extracting the ETL transformation from different ETL tools and identifying how the data is getting changed from one layer to different layers and how the transformation is applied. It doesn't support all the ETL tools for extracting the transformation logic. It supports some of the tools, but there are still some tools that need to be supported. There is also a small pain point in terms of integration. There is a little bit of change in their strategy from Collibra's end. Earlier, they used to offer two solutions. One was out of the box, and one was a custom-built solution for which they used to provide a dual connector. Now the focus from the Collibra side is more on using the out of the box connector. They are discouraging doing the custom integration. That leaves us with two problems. The first problem is that the out-of-the-box connecter is not yet enabled for a lot of systems, and the second problem is that the out-of-the-box connecter has certain limitations. If we want to tweak those as per our needs, it is not possible. However, the custom-built is still supported, and you can still build a custom integration by using the API, but it is not very encouraged by Collibra. Its dashboard also needs to be improved. There are options to use the HTML code to customize your dashboard, but it has a lot of limitations."
"Sometimes, if a client needs a specific customization, we cannot do it directly. The client needs to reach out to Collibra and request the customization."
"The workflows and the language they use needs to be improved."
"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."
Collibra Governance is ranked 2nd in Data Governance with 41 reviews while Varonis Platform is ranked 10th in Data Governance with 3 reviews. Collibra Governance is rated 7.6, while Varonis Platform is rated 8.4. 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 Varonis Platform writes "Offers visibility and helps to keep track of access ". Collibra Governance is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Informatica Axon, Alation Data Catalog, BigID and SAS Data Management, whereas Varonis Platform is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, BigID, Netskope Data Loss Prevention (DLP), SailPoint Identity Security Cloud and Lepide. See our Collibra Governance vs. Varonis Platform report.
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