We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Purview Data Governance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Microsoft Security Suite solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Microsoft Entra ID Protection and Microsoft Sentinel are both excellent monitoring features for Microsoft Entra ID."
"With Azure Conditional Access you can specify network locations where you want some of the services in the organization to be available to users, and where you don't want users to have access."
"Personally, I'm a great fan of Azure Active Directory due to the security and compliance features that are there in the classic or default Azure Active Directory."
"Technical support has been great."
"Microsoft Azure AD is easy to install and is a stable solution."
"It's a very intuitive platform. It's easy to create groups and add people."
"It is cloud based so it is always updated,"
"When logging on to Azure AD it's pretty quick."
"MIP also provides strong information rights management settings, such as the ability to specify who has access to content and at what time."
"One of the best features is the classification rules, especially the scan rule sets. They are really useful, especially when we need to understand the current data the company has to ensure that all the problematic data can be put under someone's responsibility."
"Microsoft Purview is extremely stable."
"The data classification part of the solution is excellent, especially as it gives us an insight into our sensitive data within Microsoft 365."
"The most significant value lies in its seamless integration into the Azure ecosystem, automating various processes and reducing operational burdens."
"The product has helped us save both time and money."
"Purview helped us automate and control our data without having to rely on people to manually tag documents with specific retention periods."
"The data lineage feature stands out. It tracks where the data comes from and any changes made."
"Initially, we wanted to exclude specific users from MSA. So, we had a condition policy, which forces MSA for all the users. So we wanted to exclude users who are using an NPS extension. So it was not listed, as a NPS extension was not listed outside an application, in actual, so, we go back and were not able to exclude users using NPS extension from MSA. So that was one limitation that we found and we had to work around that."
"The only issue with Azure AD is that it doesn't have control over the wifi network. You have to do something more to have a secure wifi network. To have it working, you need an active directory server on-premises to take care of the networks."
"The dashboard and interface could be better. It would be ideal if it was easier to use."
"The synchronization between my AD and Azure AD needs improvement."
"Everything should be in one package. There are so many different packages. They need to provide guidance because there are so many features and we don't know how to implement them in our organization."
"The downside is that we now have all our eggs in one basket with Microsoft. We have this great authentication and single sign-on, but if Microsoft has an outage in North America or globally, on Outlook or Teams, we're dead in the water... We get some type of hiccup once a quarter."
"The only issue is the OU is not properly synced. Therefore, you have to do a manual sync sometimes or you might lose the connector due to AD Connect or sync servers."
"Reading documentation could be simplified. Technical support could also be faster."
"I'd like to see them improve the training for implementing this type of solution."
"There are some limitations with regard to the lineage of data from different parts of the system."
"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 some non-Microsoft file formats that are not supported."
"Data quality has been a highly requested feature among customers."
"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 overall cost of deploying this solution could be better. It seems that middle and small-sized organizations are not completely happy with deploying this solution in terms of the cost. It would be good if they concentrate on the cost part."
"The current event-based retention management is very poor."
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Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 4th in Microsoft Security Suite with 190 reviews while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 7th in Microsoft Security Suite with 48 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Saves us time and money and features Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Purview Data Governance writes "User friendly with good documentation but needs to cover more non-Microsoft use cases". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ping Identity Platform and Okta Workforce Identity, whereas Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon and Microsoft Intune. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. Microsoft Purview Data Governance report.
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