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Updated on Mar 6, 2024

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.

To learn more, read our detailed Collibra Governance vs. Microsoft Purview Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"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."

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"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."

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Cons
"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."

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"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I am not so much aware of price details. Initially, there was an add-on NuSoft license to use the DVC connector that NuSoft gives to create integrations, but Collibra is now phasing out of it slowly. Collibra is cutting ties with them is what we have been led to believe, and we have started developing on Spring Boot, which is open source."
  • "I think it is on a yearly basis, but I'm not involved with the pricing session, so I have no idea. There are several licenses for different models. You get one license per product, but a lot of features are controlled separately through different licenses. So, as and when you want to use a feature, you have to procure the license for that feature."
  • "I think they have a trust issue. I did not like the way they recently went through the process. They were like, "Finish this SOW first, only then will we sign the other SOW." Or, "Finish this code." I didn't like that much."
  • "I would say it's probably in line with what other vendors charge for licensing."
  • "It is substantial, and we do pay yearly."
  • "There are different levels of licenses. For example, some users can only do read-only licenses, and others have the stewardship license where they can give access to users."
  • "Collibra Governance is expensive - I would rate its pricing as one out of five."
  • "Collibra provides you with a license based on the subscription model that you purchase."
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  • "The pricing is moderate. It's not too expensive, but it's not the most competitive."
  • "Microsoft Purview is the best option I have encountered when it comes to price. Maybe some of my information is outdated, but Microsoft offered it so that you could use it almost without paying."
  • "There is some competition out there, but the other solutions are quite expensive. They are enterprise tools that are a bit more mature but the license costs $100,000 for some of them. Purview is pay-per-use and a lot of companies are interested in that."
  • "Aside from the complexity of the pricing model, the price itself is realistic. Features like AI components and automatic classification require additional licenses. Still, anyone can start using Purview with a basic E3 license if they're using Microsoft 365 and grow with additional licenses as needed. Overall, we're satisfied with the price."
  • "Its pricing is good in terms of the features that they are providing, but there are many competitors in the market who can easily provide you with similar services at a lesser cost."
  • "The categorization within the licensing could be improved. There are a lot of solutions within Microsoft Purview. If the licensing could be a bit clearer and the solutions could be better categorized according to function and across multiple environments, that would be excellent. The licensing is very confusing."
  • "Price-wise, I think it's very generous and accessible to not just enterprises but small to medium-sized companies as well. I think it's very fair in terms of how they break apart the storage and the actual computing, and that makes it very accessible. So, that is a very big plus for Purview."
  • "Some people find the tier licensing system complicated, but it offers a lot of value for money if we use the features."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:We use the solution's Data Stewardship part.
    Top Answer:We are not able to ingest all the data in Collibra, and that's why we cannot do element-to-element level data tracking.
    Top Answer:It is designed to seamlessly connect to various data sources, which is particularly beneficial for our customers who primarily use Microsoft technologies.
    Top Answer:Currently, the licensing differs for the governance side compared to the risk and compliance side. On the governance side, the charges are based on the usage of Purview, including the data map, data… more »
    Top Answer:Data quality has been a highly requested feature among customers. While it was initially scheduled for release in December last year, I anticipate that this feature will be available soon this year. I… more »
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    Overview

    Collibra Governance is a software solution for data governance, which refers to the set of policies, standards, and processes that govern how an organization manages, uses, and protects its data. Collibra Governance provides a centralized platform for managing data governance, enabling organizations to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and security.

    The software includes tools for managing data lineage, data dictionaries, and metadata, as well as for monitoring data quality and compliance with data governance policies. It also provides a collaboration platform for stakeholders to work together on data governance initiatives, ensuring that data governance is integrated into the organization's data management processes.

    Collibra Governance is designed for organizations of all sizes, from small businesses to large enterprises, and can be used across a variety of industries and use cases. It is a cloud-based solution that can be easily implemented and integrated into an organization's existing data management infrastructure.

    Collibra Governance Features

    Collibra Governance has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Data governance management: The solution has a centralized platform for managing data governance policies, standards, and processes.
    • Data lineage: Collibra Governance includes traceability of data from source to consumption, providing insight into data relationships and dependencies.
    • Data dictionaries and metadata management: With its management of data definitions and metadata, organizations can understand and manage their data assets more efficiently.
    • Data quality management: The solution’s monitoring of data quality and consistency, enables organizations to ensure data accuracy and completeness.
    • Compliance management: Through its tracking of data governance compliance and enforcement of policies, Collibra Governance helps organizations reduce the risk of non-compliance.
    • Collaboration and communication: The Collibra Governance platform encourages collaboration between stakeholders involved in data governance initiatives.
    • Data catalog: Collibra Governance has a centralized repository for data assets, making it easier for users to discover and access data.
    • Integration: The solution supports integration with other data management tools, such as data warehouses, big data platforms, and data quality tools.
    • Analytics and reporting: Collibra Governance includes analysis and reporting of data governance metrics and KPIs, allowing organizations to monitor and improve their data governance processes.

    Collibra Governance Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Collibra Governance. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Improved data accuracy and quality: The solution’s centralized management of data governance processes helps reduce the risk of data errors and improves data quality.
    • Increased data security: With Collibra Governance, users are more protected from data breaches.
    • Better decision making: Improved visibility into data relationships and dependencies, enables organizations to make informed decisions based on accurate and complete data.
    • Collaboration: The solution helps encourage teamwork and better communication.
    • Improved data management: Collibra Governance offers centralized management of data assets, making it easier for organizations to manage and understand their data.
    • Increased efficiency: Collibra Governance’s automation of data governance processes, reduces manual effort and increases efficiency.
    • Improved reporting and analytics: Analysis and reporting of data governance metrics and KPIs enables organizations to monitor and improve their data governance processes.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Collibra Governance is a solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Some of its major advantages are that it has good data lineage, is easy to use, and has good customization capabilities in addition to many other great features.

    A Sr. Systems Analyst, Master Data Governance at a manufacturing company expresses, “[The solution has] good data lineage and is surrounded by a helpful community.”

    “[It’s] easy to use with good customization capabilities and great features,” says a Senior Consulting Analyst at a construction company.

    According to Kriti T., Senior Manager, Service Design Manager at a pharma/biotech company, “The solution lets me associate the right people with the right assets, so anybody who has to look at end-to-end instances can use Collibra Governance and figure it out in terms of who to contact, what to do, and where to find what you need.”

    Microsoft Purview is a unified data governance solution that helps you understand all of your on-premises, multi cloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) data and maintain control over its usage. With the Microsoft Purview solution, you can create a detailed, up-to-date map of your data landscape with sensitive data classification, automated data discovery, and end-to-end data lineage. Not only does it enable data curators to easily secure your data, but it also allows data consumers to find valuable, trustworthy data.

    Microsoft Azure Purview is designed with:

    • Data Map: Microsoft Purview Data Map provides the foundation for data discovery and effective data governance. Azure Purview Data Map is a cloud-native PaaS service that captures metadata about enterprise data present in analytics and operation systems on premises and in the cloud.

    • Data Catalog: Microsoft Purview Data Catalog finds trusted data sources by browsing and searching your data assets. The data catalog aligns your assets with business terms and data classification to identify data sources.

    • Data Insights: Microsoft Purview Data Insights gives you an overview of your data estate to help you discover what kinds of data you have and where.

    Microsoft Purview Features

    Microsoft Purview has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Automated data discovery, lineage identification, and data classification
    • Insights into the location and movement of sensitive data across your entire data estate
    • Unified map of your data assets and their relationships for more effective data governance
    • Glossary with business and technical search terms to aid data discovery

    Microsoft Purview Benefits

    Some of the benefits of using Microsoft Azure Purview include:

    • Automate and manage metadata from hybrid sources.
    • Classify data using built-in and custom classifiers and Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels.
    • Label sensitive data consistently across SQL Server, Azure, Microsoft 365, and Power BI.
    • Easily integrate all your data systems using Apache Atlas APIs.
    • Search for data using technical or business terms.
    • Easily understand data by browsing associated technical, business, semantic, and operational metadata.
    • Quickly identify the sensitivity level of data.
    • Scan your Power BI environment and Azure Synapse Analytics workspaces with a few clicks.
    • Automatically publish all discovered assets and lineage to the Purview Data Map.
    • Connect Microsoft Azure Purview to Azure Data Factory instances to automatically collect data integration lineage.
    • Quickly determine which analytics and reports already exist without reinventing the wheel.

    Reviews from Real Users

    PeerSpot reviewer Kelly B., Solution Specialist at LobsterPot Solutions, says, “We're building a new system from scratch for our clients and wanted to include data governance. Their solution is hosted in Azure and it seemed logical to go with something that fits with that. Purview has a pretty good interface and I'm satisfied with what the solution does and the price it's being sold at. It integrates well with Azure technologies.” She also adds, “The initial setup was very easy, that's part of the appeal.”

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    Buyer's Guide
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    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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