We performed a comparison between Microsoft Purview Data Governance 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."The availability of pre-designed policies tailored to specific geolocations and customer requirements is a valuable feature."
"The documentation is very exhaustive. Anyone can go ahead and try different use cases."
"The cataloging tool is definitely the most valuable... It tells you about all the data you have in your tables, which helps people understand our data. We now know what data we have."
"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 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."
"Purview helped us automate and control our data without having to rely on people to manually tag documents with specific retention periods."
"You can set up automated dates to alert on internal data."
"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."
"There's also a 90-day policy where if a user is not using the warehouse, it will automatically delete that username."
"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."
"Frequent daily updates from Microsoft can cause interface elements like buttons to appear and disappear, making navigation unpredictable."
"I have some concerns about the separation of roles in Purview from the Microsoft tenant, as well as how they interact with the security portal and endpoint manager."
"Microsoft Purview's compliance processes for handling various Mac and iOS devices could be significantly improved."
"I would like to have complete video documentation for training."
"The custom data classification for the African region needs to be improved."
"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."
"It supports only a limited number of tools and technologies that pertain to Microsoft products. If you want to leverage other solutions such as Workday or Oracle Fusion, features will be coming up, but as of now, it is for the Microsoft suite."
"I would like to have AI functionality on the dashboard to help me analyze and report on the data that we capture using Purview on a daily basis."
"The product is very complicated."
"There is one thing that if I add something manually, I get so many alerts. That's the biggest bad thing."
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Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 51 reviews while Varonis Platform is ranked 10th in Data Governance with 3 reviews. Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.8, while Varonis Platform 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 Varonis Platform writes "Offers visibility and helps to keep track of access ". Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Informatica Axon, Microsoft Intune and Collibra Lineage, whereas Varonis Platform is most compared with BigID, Netskope Data Loss Prevention (DLP), SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, Lepide and CrowdStrike Falcon. See our Microsoft Purview Data Governance vs. Varonis Platform report.
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