We performed a comparison between Microsoft Purview and SAP Data Governance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Collibra, erwin by Quest and others in Data Governance."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 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."
"The custom classifications are one of the most valuable features."
"You can set up automated dates to alert on internal data."
"Purview helped us automate and control our data without having to rely on people to manually tag documents with specific retention periods."
"The best part is that I can create classifications per my requirements. I use it to classify multiple platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, and different file sharing systems."
"The time to onboard is pretty short."
"The data lineage feature stands out. It tracks where the data comes from and any changes made."
"The new workflow engine is based on the web app rather than the Java-based approach."
"It is robust solution."
"The product must provide better integrations with OS X and iOS."
"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."
"Blueprints and landing zones like we have in Azure would be great to see in Purview. The solution could offer a baseline or blueprint of recommended settings for compliance regulations such as GDPR and ISO, which could be applied with a simple switch in the options."
"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 current event-based retention management is very poor."
"Enhancing the tool's capability to connect to multiple sources would be valuable."
"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."
"The product needs improvement to edit the number of assets. It needs to be more inuitive as well."
"I would like to see harmonizing with some of the external third-party products so that it will all be within SAP."
"SAP should come up with specialized services as per their customer's requirements."
Microsoft Purview is ranked 1st in Data Governance with 48 reviews while SAP Data Governance is ranked 19th in Data Governance with 2 reviews. Microsoft Purview is rated 7.6, while SAP Data Governance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Purview writes "User friendly with good documentation but needs to cover more non-Microsoft use cases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Data Governance writes "A robust solution that establishes rules, policies, and procedures". Microsoft Purview is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon and Ataccama ONE Platform, whereas SAP Data Governance is most compared with Informatica Axon and Alation Data Catalog.
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