Most use cases are for DLP, data loss prevention, policies, and archiving, as well as creating retention policies and audit logs.
If you want to do e-discovery searches, like tenant-to-tenant migration, or saving mailboxes to import into other mailboxes, you can use Purview for this as well.
Customers have seen a lot of benefits. It's reduced risk. Customers can monitor data and track discriminatory words. There are templates that you can use to send information about a breach of terms of service. They can do so much with a single product.
The most valuable features vary from organization to organization.
The e-discovery search is useful. It gives good insights into mailboxes. You can even discover emails you can't see, such as those that have been deleted. It's helpful for discovering any email at all.
The deep search, the ability to search for content no matter where it is located, is quite helpful as well.
It helps with compliance.
The solution can be used in multiple cloud environments. Some organizations are not just Microsoft-driven. It is able to integrate well with other applications. They can't be just limited to a Microsoft environment.
It can provide access to iOS, Microsoft, Android, SaaS, and other apps. They might manage it via Microsoft InTune. However, they can monitor or track information across a variety of platforms.
The ingestion from non-Microsoft data sources is good. There are data connectors from the admin center to help you get information from non-Mircosoft data centers. That's handy for those not heavy on Microsoft.
It integrates well with Office and Microsoft Dynamics. We can use Exchange and One Drive. We can monitor data everywhere online. We can do everything from the Azure portal. It's easy to set up and configure everything from the Azure portal. You can also select or remove certain applications. For example, depending on your use case, if you want, you can, for example, turn off SharePoint. You can also set up and monitor for abusive words or discriminatory language as well.
The solution was built to take into account critical regulations from around the world. For credit card protection, for example, they have different templates that handle different regulation requirements, and you can work towards creating your own custom templates if none of them suit your criteria.
It's great for remediating policy violations. It can detect them, and the AI can scan documents and patterns, including keywords, and it can detect specific information as required. Whatever the users are trying to achieve, it can assist.
It's not difficult to educate users to protect data. There are links that describe what you can do and how best to use it.
We like that the solution has extended into Mac OS endpoints. It has fewer limitations now. It's a game-changer. In a single glance of the dashboard, we can see a single platform and view of every endpoint, no matter the OS. We don't have to use multiple vendors. It's much easier to have one product that can solve multiple issues on multiple platforms. It's helped us reduce the number of solutions and simplified the complexity of data governance. When you reduce to a single product, it becomes far less complex.
The visibility is great. Most customers challenge me to learn more about the product as they are very interested in what products like Purview can do. Those in the control department have been giving good feedback.
The real-time compliance is very good.
It helps reduce insider threats. Customers have found it really helps to do that. They can track and manage the uploading of one drive and the movement to another.
The insights clients have from a single dashboard - being able to monitor and track everything and even improve their security posture, are really helping clients a lot.
I'm not sure if there are any missing features.
What I would like to see improved is the documentation scanning and printing.
The partial scripting could be improved with a better GUI.
It could reduce pricing to encourage usage.
I've been using the solution for up to seven years. I worked as a Microsoft engineer and have helped troubleshoot issues across many Microsoft solutions, of which Purview is one of them.
The solution is stable and working fine.
It is a scalable solution. Microsoft has a knack for allowing its products to integrate with a lot of solutions.
Typically, I troubleshoot myself for clients.
I did not previously use a different solution.
I wasn't involved in the setup process. However, I have deployed it myself in my lab. Usually, I don't implement unless it's a new customer who is setting Microsoft up from scratch.
There isn't much maintenance don't eh cloud-side, unless there are organizational or policy changes. You can test it out first before implementing anything organization-wide.
I can't speak to the exact pricing. For my clients, it depends on the organization. Most find the cost to be high. Smaller companies may find it expensive, however, enterprises have no problem with it.
I don't work too closely with the AI aspect of the solution.
I'd advise others to use the solution. It increases the security posture of your organization. Security is not something that is absolute. No matter how sophisticated your software is, you need control, and Purview is the right way to go.
I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.