Microsoft Purview eDiscovery vs Veritas Data Insight comparison

The compared Microsoft and Veritas solutions aren't in the same category. Microsoft is ranked #2 in eD , with an average rating of 7.6, and holds a 23.3% mindshare in the category. Veritas is ranked #19 in DG , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Veritas users who would recommend it.

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

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87% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

eDiscovery (2nd), Microsoft Security Suite (26th)

Veritas Data Insight

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Governance (19th)

Mindshare comparison

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery and Veritas Data Insight aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is designed for eDiscovery and holds a mindshare of 23.3%, up 21.6% compared to last year.
Veritas Data Insight, on the other hand, focuses on Data Governance, holds 0.7% mindshare, down 1.0% since last year.

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Frank Radeck

Director, IT Infrastructure & Cloud Technology at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

Tasks that took an entire day before we implemented the solution now take just 30 minutes.

The most valuable feature of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is its ability to search across various platforms, including Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive. It enables a streamlined, unified process for searching across these platforms. It is critical for Purview to be able to connect to iOS, Mac, and Android devices and data in other SaaS apps. From a support perspective, I can do things while I'm eating lunch or something else. It's more dynamic and responsive. I think everybody appreciates it. We're not tied to one device. Purview's multi-cloud capabilities are also essential for the same reasons. Keeping everything under one umbrella further increases the time savings. Purview accounts for critical regulations from around the world. This is crucial because we hold ourselves accountable to standards and need to align with them. Working at a law firm, we have clients who dictate to us what standards they expect. The visibility is excellent. As we move more things into the cloud, more opportunities exist to put everything under one umbrella.

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Humberto Tahara

Senior Solution Architect Pre-Sales at Invent Cloud Soluções em Tecnologias Ltda

Legacy backup works well with good UI and amazing support

I use it for backup and virtual machines, and the databases are on-premises and in the cloud It's a good solution. It's been in business a long time working with backup. I love it for legacy backup work, I think so. I need more options for virtualization. I know it's good for virtualization, but…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Our legal team benefits from using Microsoft Purview eDiscovery."

"The tool has been beneficial. Some of our previous users left the organization without sharing the information they had at a personal level. This information was related to the organization, and they didn't disclose it. Thanks to the product, it's easy for me to search and find out what communication a specific user has done, whether it's from SharePoint or any other platform. With Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, we can easily retrieve and restore this data."

"I think eDiscovery Premium has made dealing with data from Teams much more accessible than any other platform."

"The return on investment is saving the equivalent of one or two full-time IT department employees and a few hours per week for legal staff."

"The most valuable features are automatic content logging tagging. Performing these tasks manually would be impossible. Since most of our data is already in Microsoft, it's convenient to run it through this tool."

"Tasks that took an entire day before we implemented Purview now take just 30 minutes."

"The speed of it is valuable. I am able to search even 10,000 mailboxes for specific content. It helps search and accommodate the often limited information provided by users regarding what they need."

"The ability to query everything that's in Microsoft and send links or add people, like managers, to review the documents is valuable. It's easy as I don't have to download and email anything. I just add them as a reviewer, and they can access it from there."

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"It's a good solution."

"Veritas Data Insight has been instrumental in managing and categorizing data across our storage repository. The tool identifies valuable business data and distinguishes it from non-essential data. This capability empowers us to separate and exclude unnecessary data from our long-term retention strategy. Its valuable feature is alert mitigation."

"The features I find most valuable in Veritas Data Insight include its exceptional speed in classifying unstructured data and its user risk-scoring functionality."

"I love Veritas support."

"Data Insight is a good product to do everything. It is kind of transparent to administrators. It is also a very good solution with regards to GDPR compliance and regulations. Veritas is a well-established company, and it has a long legacy. Veritas solutions have expected stability and flexibility. It supports most of the flexible solutions in the market and has support for data protection, data monitoring, and things like that. In these ransomware times, it is a very important company with good solutions."

"The stability has been great."

"The most valuable features of Veritas Data Insight are the ease of use, one console deployment for the administration, and backups that can be done in minutes. It is a very fast solution."

Cons

"We find that many critical functions are available only to E5 license holders."

"The sorting and filtering of the result data need improvement, and the interface for writing queries is not user-friendly for business users."

"I would suggest adding more platforms."

"Purview Data Loss Protection for remediating policy violations needs refinement, for example, in defining what constitutes a credit card because that is where I get the most false positives."

"Purview eDiscovery works, but it's not entirely perfect. There were times when search results would get hung up or error codes would be presented and we'd have to contact Microsoft to get that sorted out."

"I would suggest adding more platforms. Currently, it's compatible with OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, and Exchange. Adding more features, as Microsoft continues to expand their cloud offerings, would be beneficial. Exploring options like Azure Files might be an avenue for improvement."

"We find that many critical functions are available only to E5 license holders. It would be beneficial to have more options available for E3 customers. Enhanced Teams functionalities and better capture of text message data, both SMS and MMS, would also be improvements."

"Microsoft Purview eDiscovery should be cheaper."

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"Its deployment can be a little bit complex. It should be easier to set up. The ease of use of this solution can also be improved, and it could have a cleaner, up-to-date, and intuitive GUI. There are a lot of competitors out there with much nicer GUI and easier setup. It should have a better connection with the cloud sources and much more monitoring. I would like to have a single management interface for on-premises and cloud deployments so that we don't have to switch between them. Its technical support can also be a little bit better."

"The solution is not lacking any features at this time."

"I need more options for virtualization."

"I need more options for virtualization. I know it's good for virtualization, but another product might be easier to work with, like sending to VendCap and Restore."

"The nature of both data processing and start processes often involves varying timeframes for retrieval, mainly dependent on the historical data being accessed. When the request involves pulling information from six months or two years ago, the process may take longer."

"Veritas Data Insight's reporting capabilities require enhancement."

"Veritas Data Insight can improve the price."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The costs associated with E5 licensing are currently expensive for us, so we use the E3 license, which comes with fewer features and functionalities."

"The pricing and licensing with Microsoft can be complex, and licensing is known to be a challenge because it changes frequently. While the licensing for Purview is not as tricky as other Microsoft products, navigating licenses since the shift to E3 and E5 plans has been a task, as individual licenses must now be purchased separately."

"Microsoft Purview eDiscovery comes as part of Microsoft 365 licenses."

"With the full bundle, pricing is not a significant concern. As an M3, I find the Purview pricing of 1250 per user worthwhile."

"In the positions that I've had through contracting over the years, I've heard talk of it being overpriced and underperforming compared to its competitors."

"It is my understanding that the license with one year of support is, per user, around 25 Euros."

"The solution is cost-effective."

"For Veritas Data Insight, the usage is based on a per-terabyte model. The annual cost for this usage is approximately one million dollars. It would be roughly 50,000 dollars to provide a more accurate equivalent."

"Licensing is based on the number of users or the usage in terabytes."

"The price of Veritas Data Insight could improve, it is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

University

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

The tool has been beneficial. Some of our previous users left the organization without sharing the information they had at a personal level. This information was related to the organization, and th...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

The setup process was very straightforward. We acquired pricing through our reseller in NASDAQ, eliminating the need to search for prices ourselves.

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What needs improvement with Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

The query language can be time-consuming to figure out if you don't know it initially. While there are options with dropdowns to select criteria, having a natural language feature would be benefici...

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What do you like most about Veritas Data Insight?

Veritas Data Insight has been instrumental in managing and categorizing data across our storage repository. The tool identifies valuable business data and distinguishes it from non-essential data. ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas Data Insight?

The price in Brazil is not good, however, all tools in Brazil are expensive due to all of the taxes. When compared to others, such as Data Protector, Dell, or other tools, Veritas has a good price.

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What needs improvement with Veritas Data Insight?

I need more options for virtualization. I know it's good for virtualization, but another product might be easier to work with, like sending to VendCap and Restore. The interface is easier to work w...

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Overview

Efficiently respond to legal matters or internal investigations with intelligent capabilities that reduce data to only what’s relevant. Discover data where it lives. Discover and collect data in place, within your Microsoft Purview boundary. Manage workflows efficiently. Streamline your eDiscovery process with an end-to-end workflow from one platform. Accelerate your process. Get insights quickly with built-in capabilities, reducing review time and costs.

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Data Insight gives you the analytics, tracking, and reporting necessary to deliver organizational accountability for file use and security. Designed to manage the needs of organizations with petabytes of data and billions of files, Data Insight integrates with archiving and security solutions to prevent data loss and ensure policy-based data retention.

-Automate governance through workflows and customization
-Drive efficiencies and cost savings in your unstructured data environment
-Maintain regulatory compliance for information access, use, and retention
-Protect confidential information from unauthorized use and exposure

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