We performed a comparison between Microsoft Purview Data Governance and Microsoft Purview Information Protection 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."Has a good interface and is reasonably priced."
"The documentation is very exhaustive. Anyone can go ahead and try different use cases."
"I use the tool in projects as a medium to provide information as reports to the stakeholders."
"It has notable features for maximizing the value of your data. The data discovery and the data analytics parts are great both on-premises and on-cloud."
"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."
"You can set up automated dates to alert on internal data."
"Their data labeling or data classification is particularly valuable because we want to categorize all of our data into confidential, public, or internal."
"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."
"It ensures that sensitive data is automatically safeguarded, even for email attachments, regardless of the user or device."
"Before using it, we had a lot of unlabeled data, and the tool helped us quickly and accurately label a large number of documents."
"We can restrict access or specify who can see sensitivity labels, which can be based on the classification level. We can encrypt restricted content and limit who can see that from an internal view, too, so Purview is a powerful tool."
"The UI is user-friendly, and I have observed that it improves further each year."
"Incorporating data loss prevention capabilities built into the Microsoft platform to endpoints, such as Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers, can also help prevent data loss and is highly advantageous."
"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."
"Frequent daily updates from Microsoft can cause interface elements like buttons to appear and disappear, making navigation unpredictable."
"Purview's data loss prevention for macOS endpoints has some limitations, and the end-user experience of recovering from a failure is lacking."
"Non-Microsoft use cases are not very high. It's limited for now."
"The product needs improvement to edit the number of assets. It needs to be more inuitive as well."
"The API needs some improvement when connecting to non-Microsoft API sources. This is a limiting factor."
"As Microsoft Purview got a little more mature, the deployments got a little more complex, as we were kind of seeing that there are a lot of ways, like there were a hundred ways to do one thing or less."
"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."
"There is room for improvement with the policy tips feature."
"Microsoft Purview Information Protection can improve in terms of scan concurrency and scan processing time."
"Microsoft can improve the affordability of Purview Information Protection by offering it at a lower cost."
"There is potential for more integration in the use of AI."
"Our primary concern is third-party application visibility. Many people choose other DLP tools, as they can search the Office 365 suite and detect sensitive information across thousands of other apps. The product is weak compared to the competitors on the DLP front, but the classification is good; the tool needs a bit more maturation."
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Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 48 reviews while Microsoft Purview Information Protection is ranked 6th in Data Governance with 5 reviews. Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Purview Information Protection is rated 7.8. 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 Microsoft Purview Information Protection writes "Provides protection across multiple environments, can classify data and represent it graphically, and has the option for customer-managed teams to encrypt and manage data". Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon and Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, whereas Microsoft Purview Information Protection is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon, BigID and Securiti. See our Microsoft Purview Data Governance vs. Microsoft Purview Information Protection report.
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