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Executive Summary
Updated on Mar 6, 2024

We compared Collibra Lineage and Microsoft Purview based on our user's reviews in several parameters.

Collibra Lineage focuses on providing clear data lineage visibility, top-notch customer service, reasonable pricing, and beneficial ROI. In contrast, Microsoft Purview emphasizes effective data asset management, user-friendly interface, reasonable pricing, and positive ROI. Users suggest Collibra Lineage improve its interface and performance, while Microsoft Purview users desire enhanced functionality and integration.

Features: Collibra Lineage's most valuable feature is its clear visibility into data lineage, helping users understand data flow and make informed decisions. Microsoft Purview excels in managing data assets, facilitating collaboration, and offering robust data cataloging capabilities.

Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Collibra Lineage is described as minimal and hassle-free, while Microsoft Purview offers comparatively low setup costs. Both products have received positive feedback for their reasonable pricing structures and flexible licensing options., Collibra Lineage provides significant ROI by improving data quality, aiding compliance, and enhancing data governance efforts. Users value its user-friendly interface and seamless integration with other tools. Microsoft Purview also generates positive ROI by managing data assets, enhancing governance, and accelerating analytics processes. Its user-friendly interface, integration capabilities, centralized data discovery, cost savings, and improved decision-making are highly appreciated.

Room for Improvement: Collibra Lineage could improve its interface, speed, performance, and comprehensiveness in capturing and representing data lineage relationships. Users suggest more customization options and flexibility in exporting and sharing lineage information. On the other hand, Microsoft Purview needs enhancements in functionality, user-friendliness, data classification capabilities, search filters, integration with other Microsoft products, collaboration features, and data ingestion processes.

Deployment and customer support: The feedback on Collibra Lineage indicates that the duration required for deployment and setup can vary, with some users taking three months for deployment and an additional week for setup. However, others only required a week for both phases. On the other hand, users of Microsoft Purview reported similar variations, with some needing three months for deployment and a week for setup, while others required just a week for both phases. This suggests that both products have similar variances in the time required for establishing a new tech solution., Collibra Lineage: Users highly regard Collibra Lineage's customer service, praising its responsiveness, helpfulness, and prompt assistance. The knowledgeable and friendly representatives provide top-notch support. Microsoft Purview: Users express satisfaction with Microsoft Purview's customer service, deeming it helpful and responsive. The support provided effectively caters to their needs.

The summary above is based on 48 interviews we conducted recently with Collibra Lineage and Microsoft Purview users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.

To learn more, read our detailed Collibra Lineage vs. Microsoft Purview Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Q&A Highlights
Question: Which tool is better for data governance: Collibra or Azure Purview?
Answer: Hi,There is not a default answer. It depends on your focus and your data source. If you are looking a data governance tool for Microsoft 365 or for Azure, Microsoft Purview should be the best because of the native integration.
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"We find the most valuable feature of this solution to be the lineage aspect.""It shows how the data was transformed on the way and how the solutions were derived. This is the essence of the tool and why it is so powerful.""The solution makes data more discoverable and transparent.""The most valuable features of Collibra Lineage are the multiple options for automation. Additionally, if you have a scenario where automation does not work, you have the option to manually create the lineage. The solution does not force you to always go through an automated way where you have broken lineage and you are stuck without a lineage.""The diagrams are good for data visualization.""The solution has very good online assistance."

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"My favorite Purview feature is auto-scanning. Once we set up Purview, we can automatically scan multiple data sources when new data comes into specific databases, like SQL and Oracle. We don't need to rediscover the new data or do anything manually because it automatically happens.""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.""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.""The product has helped us save both time and money.""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.""Their data labeling or data classification is particularly valuable because we want to categorize all of our data into confidential, public, or internal.""The most valuable feature is the tracking activity and device onboarding.""The custom classifications are one of the most valuable features."

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Cons
"The workflow documentation must be improved.""The product must be cheaper.""Before you can use this solution, you have to make a lot of changes to how you measure your information in your organization, the data governance and policies, and the organizational structures that use them. Many companies believe that if they purchase the licenses for the tool that they have done the job, but this is far from the case with this tool.""Collibra Lineage could improve connectively. If they can offer more out-of-the-box connectors, which come as in a package compared to you having to go and buy a lot in the marketplace for certain specific connectors.""Collibra doesn't provide support for integration for SAP Info Steward directly with Collibra.""We would like this solution to be able to connect directly to the databases, so we can pull directly from Databank without manual intervention."

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"The Microsoft Purview data connector platform, which supports ingestion from non-Microsoft data sources, can be somewhat complex.""I'd like to see them improve the training for implementing this type of solution.""he one thing it doesn't do is data quality.""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.""Data quality has been a highly requested feature among customers.""There are some non-Microsoft file formats that are not supported.""Another area for improvement is in managing the business glossary terms. If they could provide the same type of method that we use to configure the scan rule sets, that would be helpful. Currently, there is no option like this, so we have to do it manually. Automatic detection would be great.""I would like to have complete video documentation for training."

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  • "It's expensive, especially for small companies."
  • "There are different licenses available for Collibra Lineage based on what kind of access you want. If you want, for example, a read-only license they have different ones to pick from."
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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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    Answers from the Community
    Dhaval Thakkar
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    These two are suites of 'tools' for metadata management. I would ask first that you list 'what' you are wanting to achieve with such tools.  Data Catalog?  Data Lineage?  Table level or Column level lineage? Data Quality detection, etc, etc.


    Your answers will be critical as you engage various vendors as each may say they do 'it all', but the reality is something less. Also, do you need to manage metadata across heterogeneous systems, just Azure, or others, because some tools are great if used on their 'native' platform, but not so great integrating with other platforms.

    You may also want to consider Quest/erwin Data Intelligence Suite. I have implemented this solution and it is one of the best. I would add that some tools tend to 'overwhelm' your users with all they can do. So be careful that whatever you bring in will not become 'shelf-ware'.

    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The diagrams are good for data visualization.
    Top Answer:We have to pay separately for each connector. The product must be cheaper. There must be a common license for the product.
    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

    Data lineage reveals how data transforms through its life cycle across interactions with systems, applications, APIs and reports. Collibra Lineage automatically maps relationships between data to show how data sets are built, aggregated, sourced and used.

    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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    Collibra Lineage is ranked 9th in Data Governance with 6 reviews while Microsoft Purview is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 48 reviews. Collibra Lineage is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Purview is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Collibra Lineage writes "User-friendly with good metadata management but needs more time to mature". 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 Lineage is most compared with MANTA Flow, Alation Data Catalog, erwin Data Intelligence by Quest, OneTrust DataGovernance and Protegrity Data Security, whereas Microsoft Purview is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon and BigID. See our Collibra Lineage vs. Microsoft Purview report.

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