We compared Collibra Governance and Microsoft Purview based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Collibra Governance is praised for its data lineage and quality management, excellent customer service, reasonable pricing, and positive return on investment. However, users have highlighted areas of improvement in the user interface, scalability, and integration. On the other hand, Microsoft Purview is valued for its robust data cataloging and collaboration features, competitive pricing, and positive ROI. Users appreciate its user-friendly interface and seamless integration with Microsoft products but seek enhancements in functionality, data classification, and integration capabilities.
Features: Collibra Governance's valuable features include effective data asset management, centralized data view, compliance support, user-friendly interface, customizability, integration capabilities, data lineage, and data quality management. Microsoft Purview offers effective data asset management, comprehensive data view, data governance support, collaboration features, robust data cataloging and discovery capabilities, user-friendly interface, and seamless integration with other Microsoft products and services.
Pricing and ROI: Collibra Governance and Microsoft Purview both receive positive feedback on their pricing structure and setup costs. Users find Collibra's pricing reasonable, while Microsoft Purview offers competitive pricing. Both products have flexible licensing options. Collibra has a straightforward setup process, while Microsoft Purview has a comparatively low setup cost, making implementation smooth., Collibra Governance and Microsoft Purview both provide a positive ROI. However, Collibra emphasizes the value in managing governance processes and ensuring data quality, while Purview focuses on enhancing data governance and accelerating analytics processes. Collibra users mention improved decision-making, while Purview users appreciate cost savings and seamless integration.
Room for Improvement: Collibra Governance could enhance its user interface, scalability, data classification capabilities, integration with other systems, and availability of comprehensive training and documentation. In comparison, Microsoft Purview needs improvements in functionality, user-friendliness, data classification, search filters, integration with other Microsoft products, collaboration features, and data ingestion processes.
Deployment and customer support: Based on user feedback, the duration required for establishing a new tech solution varies for Collibra Governance. Some users took three months for deployment and an extra week for setup, while others took a week for both. For Microsoft Purview, users had different experiences, with some spending three months on deployment and a week on setup, while others only required a week for both phases., Customers have expressed satisfaction with the customer service and support provided by Collibra Governance. They commend the company for their helpful and prompt assistance, as well as their knowledgeable support team. Collibra Governance prioritizes providing excellent customer service. Meanwhile, users of Microsoft Purview have also expressed satisfaction with the customer service and support they received. The assistance was deemed helpful, responsive, and effectively catered to their needs.
The summary above is based on 67 interviews we conducted recently with Collibra Governance and Microsoft Purview users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It is user-friendly."
"The solution's most valuable features are its scalability and how it can be integrated to any other intakes."
"I like Collibra's flexibility. I like to be able to modify things for our own use. For example, we've chosen to use Collibra also as a knowledge management tool, even though it is not designed to be a knowledge management tool. That's the beauty of it. It can serve as a knowledge management tool by creating some custom assets specifically for knowledge management."
"We have folks in the field doing our clinical research operations, and they have the opportunity to refer to Collibra when they are examining a particular report. When they have a question about how something in that report is derived, they can pull a metric that is defined fully in Collibra. They have the opportunity to drill back into Collibra to see that."
"From the perspective of a data user, the solution has a great search capability."
"I like the lineage feature the most because I don't think there's any other tool that actually depicts the data flow from multiple sources and the connectivities between every data element inside those sources."
"There is a good community setup around the solution that can provide insights."
"The diagram showing the limits is absolutely magnificent."
"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 is designed to seamlessly connect to various data sources, which is particularly beneficial for our customers who primarily use Microsoft technologies."
"You can set up automated dates to alert on internal data."
"It is very easy to learn the interface, and it is very user-friendly."
"Microsoft Purview is scalable."
"It is critical that Purview delivers data protection across multi-cloud and multi-platform environments. That is the number one reason that people are adopting hybrid and best-of-the-breed approaches. Especially in banking, it is critical because people want to protect, govern, and secure their data. This is one of the first conversations that happens with security and the architecture group on the client side."
"Purview helps mitigate risk and allows us to govern the information being shared among apps and devices."
"I use the tool in projects as a medium to provide information as reports to the stakeholders."
"We would like to have out-of-the-box automation."
"There are a lot of gaps in Collibra's support and documentation."
"One problem is the data lineage, especially extracting the ETL transformation from different ETL tools and identifying how the data is getting changed from one layer to different layers and how the transformation is applied. It doesn't support all the ETL tools for extracting the transformation logic. It supports some of the tools, but there are still some tools that need to be supported. There is also a small pain point in terms of integration. There is a little bit of change in their strategy from Collibra's end. Earlier, they used to offer two solutions. One was out of the box, and one was a custom-built solution for which they used to provide a dual connector. Now the focus from the Collibra side is more on using the out of the box connector. They are discouraging doing the custom integration. That leaves us with two problems. The first problem is that the out-of-the-box connecter is not yet enabled for a lot of systems, and the second problem is that the out-of-the-box connecter has certain limitations. If we want to tweak those as per our needs, it is not possible. However, the custom-built is still supported, and you can still build a custom integration by using the API, but it is not very encouraged by Collibra. Its dashboard also needs to be improved. There are options to use the HTML code to customize your dashboard, but it has a lot of limitations."
"Recently, I find that the default process of issue management in Collibra is really complex — It wasn't really helpful to us."
"Occasionally we get little bugs that occur, however, this is typical."
"Many other tools like Collibra Governance give you the option to actually see the data in the tool, which is not an option in Collibra."
"What I use it for is fairly rudimentary, and I don't have any complaints about it. I haven't tried to stretch the boundaries at all, but it would be nice if there were capabilities built within the system to somehow help enforce the quality and consistency across related elements that are built in the catalog. It could have intelligent capabilities built in to help maintain the quality of the data and information, such as natural language processing, machine learning, and so on."
"There are certain limitations and difficulties regarding the migration of complex data quality rules, as the tool may struggle with lengthy calculations and longer loading times."
"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."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to Purview's data connector platform in supporting ingestion from non-Microsoft data sources."
"We have had a lot of issues since we moved to Unified Support. There have been work gaps there, and we believe they fixed them, but we need to make sure that they are going to be sustainable. It is to be seen."
"The custom data classification for the African region needs to be improved."
"The API needs some improvement when connecting to non-Microsoft API sources. This is a limiting factor."
"There are some non-Microsoft file formats that are not supported."
"Reflecting organizational changes within Purview is impractical."
"Support should be improved in the form of good documentation and video lessons where a person can check things out. There is a community, but it takes a lot of time if we want to get an answer to a question."
Collibra Governance is ranked 2nd in Data Governance with 41 reviews while Microsoft Purview is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 48 reviews. Collibra Governance is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Purview is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Collibra Governance writes "Transformed our cross-functional business teams into one enterprise-facing view". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Purview writes "User friendly with good documentation but needs to cover more non-Microsoft use cases". Collibra Governance is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Informatica Axon, BigID, Ataccama ONE Platform and erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, whereas Microsoft Purview is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon, Collibra Lineage and Microsoft Intune. See our Collibra Governance vs. Microsoft Purview report.
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