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.
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the Technical Lineage. The fact that you can trace the auditability of a particular field or attribute across various systems is very useful."
"It's not a complicated product."
"The beauty of the solution is that you can customize it quite a bit."
"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."
"The solution's most valuable features are its scalability and how it can be integrated to any other intakes."
"Workflows is the most valuable feature of Collibra because we will typically use an interface for it and we can customize it as per our needs."
"The customization and the dashboards are pretty good."
"It's certainly easy to work with all Microsoft data sources like SQL Server, Synapse, and data lakes, but it also has great functionality working with Oracle. And of particular interest to us is the ability to pull data from Excel, CVS files, and other types of flat files."
"The audit log has been a lifesaver for a lot of reasons. Historically, when using SaaS products, there were always questions about how the audit was going and whether we were sufficient out of the box. Purview has many capabilities available through centralized reporting that provide a view of a specific segment."
"The time to onboard is pretty short."
"It gives you the opportunity to know your data and apply policies around it. If those policies are flouted, you can always track what's happening. You have options such as alerting the person who is committing that action, or you can take automatic action by blocking, for example, an email that is been sent externally. It's very useful."
"My favorite features are eDiscovery and insider risk management, because these are the major threats to an organization that can't be easily traced."
"It is very easy to learn the interface, and it is very user-friendly."
"It starts off with records management, insider risk management, and information protection. And there is the discovery of the clouds, and we can get analytics on that as well, so that we know which user is using which cloud application and for how much time. The Activity explorer tells us which user was transferring out what data at what moment and on which device, including the serial number."
"I don't know if I've gotten much value out of Purview personally, but our security team loves it. Our biggest concern is leakage or theft of our data because we have a lot of PII and stuff that has not been released. We like the insights Purview provides and the way the solution can track and manage things. I'd say that was probably their favorite piece of it so far. From everything the security team has told me, the policy management and DLP features are working spectacularly."
"The UI is good if you happen to be an administrator and are familiar with the technical side of the administration. If you're a business user, the UI is not good. It is hard to learn. It is hard for those who are administering it to teach to end-users and it can take hours of training to do it. Because it is difficult and non-intuitive, business users resist using it. It is a battle to get them on board and to keep them engaged because of the UI."
"Sometimes, if a client needs a specific customization, we cannot do it directly. The client needs to reach out to Collibra and request the customization."
"Where it isn't great is on older technologies that you'll typically find in finance or insurance industries, such as older types of data with VSAM or ISAM, or those types of older technologies. It just doesn't connect with them very easily."
"Every time you change or publish a new questionnaire for certification, you have to basically go into the code and update the new version of the questionnaire."
"It should have more integrations with things like CyberArk because its main purpose is GDPR implementation. We have to have more scope for things that implement more privacy. CyberArk makes sure your credentials are vaulted and your things are secure when you're creating your integrations or connecting to an application. I do believe that they are working on this feature."
"I'm fairly new to the product, however, what I generally hear from my clients is that the requirement around having ways to ingest more metadata."
"The connectors for metadata ingestion need to be improved."
"Data discovery needs to be improved."
"Running eDiscovery once a day takes quite a long time because it has to fetch your data. I also want the eDiscovery results to be improved. At the same time, I would like to get a centralized page where I could see records management applied to my Office 365 tenant visualized instead of waiting for a custom script to run through the complete tenant."
"I would like to have complete video documentation for training."
"Purview's data loss prevention for macOS endpoints has some limitations, and the end-user experience of recovering from a failure is lacking."
"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."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The Microsoft Purview data connector platform, which supports ingestion from non-Microsoft data sources, can be somewhat complex."
"The custom data classification for the African region needs to be improved."
"The product must provide better integrations with OS X and iOS."
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Collibra Governance is ranked 2nd in Data Governance with 41 reviews while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 48 reviews. Collibra Governance is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Purview Data Governance 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 Data Governance writes "User friendly with good documentation but needs to cover more non-Microsoft use cases". Collibra Governance is most compared with Informatica Axon, Alation Data Catalog, BigID, Ataccama ONE Platform and erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, whereas Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon, Microsoft Intune and Collibra Lineage. See our Collibra Governance vs. Microsoft Purview Data Governance report.
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