We performed a comparison between Microsoft Purview and OneTrust DataGovernance 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."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."
"The most valuable feature is the tracking activity and device onboarding."
"I really like the entire system for auto-labeling content. It's a very refined system. I use the Keyword Query Language to define refined string-based metadata, and then I can really go deep into the specific data with the specific properties labeled in such and such a way."
"It gives you the opportunity to know your data and apply policies around it. If those policies are flouted, you can always track what's happening. You have options such as alerting the person who is committing that action, or you can take automatic action by blocking, for example, an email that is been sent externally. It's very useful."
"The ability to classify data quickly and effortlessly is arguably Microsoft Purview's most valuable feature."
"Microsoft Purview's most valuable feature is its ability to identify content across a number of prescribed regulatory frameworks, including Microsoft, GDPR, PII, and UCC Financial."
"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."
"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."
"This product makes it easy to manage personal data."
"One valuable aspect of the solution is its cloud-based nature. Users can just pay the fees and get started instantly."
"The tool gives us the ability to trace the path of an incident."
"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."
"It could reduce pricing to encourage usage."
"Privacy features should be integrated into the core product rather than offered as optional add-ons, as privacy is not a luxury but a fundamental requirement."
"The current event-based retention management is very poor."
"Two features are unsupported—custom insights and the DLP component—that would be beneficial to me as a consultant and for the customer in terms of security and monitoring. Regarding security, DLP would provide a more granular level of data masking. Custom insights would offer more detailed monitoring and alerts that can notify customers of failures or anything requiring urgent action."
"Blueprints and landing zones like we have in Azure would be great to see in Purview. The solution could offer a baseline or blueprint of recommended settings for compliance regulations such as GDPR and ISO, which could be applied with a simple switch in the options."
"he one thing it doesn't do is data quality."
"Some of the menu headings may not be easy to understand for some people."
"Deployment is a big issue."
"The tool is an amalgam. It's a collection of loosely integrated pieces and parts that don't work well together. There is room for improvement there. My team reached out to the support team, and their experience was not satisfactory."
"The integration with third-party products could be better."
Microsoft Purview is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 48 reviews while OneTrust DataGovernance is ranked 23rd in Data Governance with 3 reviews. Microsoft Purview is rated 7.6, while OneTrust DataGovernance is rated 6.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Purview writes "User friendly with good documentation but needs to cover more non-Microsoft use cases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OneTrust DataGovernance writes "Good cloud-based solution requiring improvement in terms of integration". Microsoft Purview is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon and erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, whereas OneTrust DataGovernance is most compared with BigID, Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon and Alation Data Catalog. See our Microsoft Purview vs. OneTrust DataGovernance report.
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