We performed a comparison between Microsoft Purview and Varonis Platform 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."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."
"The data lineage feature stands out. It tracks where the data comes from and any changes made."
"The ability to classify data quickly and effortlessly is arguably Microsoft Purview's most valuable feature."
"Purview helped us automate and control our data without having to rely on people to manually tag documents with specific retention periods."
"Purview helps mitigate risk and allows us to govern the information being shared among apps and devices."
"The most valuable feature is the tracking activity and device onboarding."
"I like Purview's data discovery features. It automatically scans and identifies all the fields. In the last project, the customer required us to have some of the codes we specified in this, and we had to structure the codes in a specific way. We can define the structure."
"The time to onboard is pretty short."
"The solution has significantly improved data security and compliance posture by allowing us to track and monitor activities. We can see who accesses data and when files are created and understand what's happening in our environment."
"Varonis Platform is transparent and captures everything in the environment without impacting the performance. The tool helps us unify data feeds into a single reporting system."
"I would like to have complete video documentation for training."
"There are negatives to the compliance aspect of Purview in that you get a lot of false positives with some of the native scanning and rules in the platform. A lot of them need tweaking to get a more realistic handle on what data there is."
"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 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."
"Enhancing the tool's capability to connect to multiple sources would be valuable."
"One area for improvement is the detection of data types. This is really important. It has some of that functionality, but I consider it very limited. Maybe they can add some custom programming or machine learning could be particularly useful for the detection of the nature of the data."
"While Purview's data connector platform can ingest information from non-Microsoft data sources, it is slow to do so and the information may become outdated."
"Overcoming certain control issues would significantly enhance our overall satisfaction."
"The product is very complicated."
Microsoft Purview is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 48 reviews while Varonis Platform is ranked 10th in Data Governance with 2 reviews. Microsoft Purview is rated 7.6, while Varonis Platform is rated 8.0. 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 Varonis Platform writes "Offers visibility and helps to keep track of access ". Microsoft Purview is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Informatica Axon, Microsoft Intune and Collibra Lineage, whereas Varonis Platform is most compared with BigID, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Veritas Data Insight, Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Netskope Data Loss Prevention (DLP). See our Microsoft Purview vs. Varonis Platform report.
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