We performed a comparison between Microsoft Purview Data Governance and SAS Data Management 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."Data authentication enables us to classify documents based on whether they should be restricted for internal consumption or permitted for external sharing."
"It is very easy to learn the interface, and it is very user-friendly."
"It's certainly easy to work with all Microsoft data sources like SQL Server, Synapse, and data lakes, but it also has great functionality working with Oracle. And of particular interest to us is the ability to pull data from Excel, CVS files, and other types of flat files."
"I use the tool in projects as a medium to provide information as reports to the stakeholders."
"Has a good interface and is reasonably priced."
"Purview helped us automate and control our data without having to rely on people to manually tag documents with specific retention periods."
"The custom classifications are one of the most valuable features."
"Purview helps mitigate risk and allows us to govern the information being shared among apps and devices."
"The solution is very stable. We haven't faced any issues with glitches or bugs. We haven't had any crashes."
"Its robustness is valuable. It is a full-fledged suite. We have a data warehouse model, and there are also a lot of data quality management tools. The repository and all other tools are there. So, it is a full package in terms of reporting tools."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to customize."
"This is an established product with powerful data analysis and varied options for user entry points."
"If you compare it to SQL, the memory and development times are very quick."
"In terms of which features I have found most valuable, I would say the importing and exporting features. Additionally, the data sorting, categorizing and summarizing features, especially how it can summarize based on categories. These are the key features."
"The product offers very good flexibility."
"The technical support is excellent."
"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."
"There are differences when looking at an incident in the M365 portal versus Purview, and the main one is the advanced hunting. In the M365 portal, you can write KQL queries and fetch data. If that was available in Purview, it would be very good."
"I would like to have complete video documentation for training."
"Non-Microsoft use cases are not very high. It's limited for now."
"I'd like to see them improve the training for implementing this type of solution."
"It could reduce pricing to encourage usage."
"If we could have a view something like we have in CrowdStrike—which is, I believe, the biggest competitor to Microsoft when it comes to security—a node nodal view, which we also have in Defender, that would make it a more complete, one-stop solution. That would save a lot of time for the admins and the engineers."
"The pricing of the solution needs to be improved. They need to work to make it more affordable."
"The solution could use better documentation."
"Very little needs to improve but perhaps a nicer graphic interface and remaining competetive in the growing field of data analytics."
"We implemented it a while ago, and we are trying to improve the data delivery performance. We are looking into how to get faster and automated reporting. We would need better designs and workflows."
"I would like the tool to include the ability to automate the modifications of the integrations."
"With SAS Data Management, you have to purchase an external driver, configure all of the tables for all of the data that you will extract from Salesforce. It's not a straightforward process."
"We find we often have to go back and re-train users when there are changes made to the solution because the changes are not intuitive."
"One problem is accessing the data using a solution other than SAS. The SAS data, which we create in the SAS, cannot be accessed by other tools. We can't open those data in other applications. So we need to have that application in place."
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Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 48 reviews while SAS Data Management is ranked 28th in Data Governance with 15 reviews. Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.6, while SAS Data Management 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 SAS Data Management writes "A scalable solution with customer support that is responsive and diligent". Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon and Microsoft Intune, whereas SAS Data Management is most compared with Informatica PowerCenter, Tungsten RPA, SSIS, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and Palantir Foundry. See our Microsoft Purview Data Governance vs. SAS Data Management report.
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