We performed a comparison between IBM Data Governance and Microsoft Purview Data Governance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Collibra, Informatica and others in Data Governance."IBM Data Governance improved data analytics operations. During a company merger, we used IBM Data Governance to understand and bridge sample data between systems."
"Their data labeling or data classification is particularly valuable because we want to categorize all of our data into confidential, public, or internal."
"I use the tool in projects as a medium to provide information as reports to the stakeholders."
"The data lineage feature stands out. It tracks where the data comes from and any changes made."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"My favorite features are eDiscovery and insider risk management, because these are the major threats to an organization that can't be easily traced."
"One area with room for improvement would be the ability to generate detailed quality reports. Some Python libraries provide quality scores and reports—having that capability within IBM Data Governance would be beneficial."
"Non-Microsoft use cases are not very high. It's limited for now."
"Microsoft Purview's compliance processes for handling various Mac and iOS devices could be significantly improved."
"Setting up Purview in a production tenant proved challenging due to a lack of clear documentation on permission requirements."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"he one thing it doesn't do is data quality."
"Enhancing the tool's capability to connect to multiple sources would be valuable."
"Overcoming certain control issues would significantly enhance our overall satisfaction."
"Purview's data connector platform for non-Microsoft data sources is good, but there is some functionality that hasn't been developed yet. There are some servers that it can't connect to yet, because they're still in a trial process."
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IBM Data Governance is ranked 18th in Data Governance with 1 review while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 51 reviews. IBM Data Governance is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Data Governance writes "Provides a single interface to monitor and navigate data quality metrics". 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". IBM Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance and Informatica Axon, whereas Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon and Microsoft Purview Information Protection.
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If I have to choose one, it's Purview. However, it's pretty new (just the beginning), has no complete capabilities and is not mature.
IBM is very complex and hard to implement.