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Segment vs Veritas Data Insight comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Segment
Ranking in Data Governance
20th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Web Analytics (6th), Customer Data Platforms (CDP) (1st)
Veritas Data Insight
Ranking in Data Governance
35th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of Segment is 0.7%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Data Insight is 0.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Governance Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Segment0.7%
Veritas Data Insight0.9%
Other98.4%
Data Governance
 

Featured Reviews

Vyas Shubham - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Quality Analyst at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Centralized data workflows have empowered cross‑team insights and drive better product decisions
Segment provides strong capabilities overall, but there are still areas of improvement. One area that comes to mind is the pricing and scalability cost. As data volumes, event tracking, and integrations increase, the platform can become expensive for growing organizations. More flexibility in pricing models or clear scaling options would make it easier for mid-sized companies to expand usage without significant budget concerns. Another improvement is that there is a learning curve for advanced configuration or governance features. Basic implementation is relatively straightforward, but some advanced capabilities, such as protocol management, identity resolution, custom transformation, and complex audience segmentation, can require deeper technical knowledge. More guided workflows, building recommendations, and simplified administrative controls would surely improve the usability for non-technical teams.
Humberto Tahara - PeerSpot reviewer
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…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I like the straightforward way of connecting with various data sources and destinations. That's the most valuable feature. It has built-in integrations for a lot of them, so the overall effort required for integrations is relatively low."
"One of the best features Segment offers is its ability to act as a centralized customer data hub."
"Segment has improved our data quality and our ease of collection, and most importantly, it has saved us time by not having to maintain a custom tool for server-side tracking."
"With Segment, we were able to clean the data and also break the data into different classes to reach specific targets with a specific message, and the outcome was very superb."
"Customer support is fantastic."
"Segment has positively impacted my organization by reducing implementation time to one-third of what it previously took."
"Segment's scalability is amazing, and it's fully capable of handling all of the different use cases that we have in our company and we have a very complicated company."
"Inserting some very simple code snippets has made this part of it a breeze for our developer so he can concentrate on the hard stuff."
"The solution allowed us to handle GDPR and we made sure we were ready and had storage optimization."
"It's a good solution."
"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."
"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."
"I love Veritas support."
"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."
"The stability has been great."
 

Cons

"The only challenge was the session functionality."
"The design of the website is such that you lose context when clicking around (e.g. when clicking on docs)."
"As data volumes, event tracking, and integrations increase, the platform can become expensive for growing organizations."
"The challenge is the lack of flexibility in the SDKs, given the capabilities of the destinations."
"I chose a rating of eight out of ten because these video tutorials would really illustrate how to use the tool to its full potential, and perhaps some more hands-on support from the Segment team would push it to a ten."
"Segment could be improved by allowing community-based integrations, particularly for integrations available only via webhook that are not natively available, such as those from attribution platforms."
"The price of Veritas Data Insight could improve, it is expensive."
"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."
"The solution is not lacking any features at this time."
"I need more options for virtualization."
"Its deployment can be a little bit complex. It should be easier to set up."
"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."
"Veritas Data Insight's reporting capabilities require enhancement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing was on the higher side but it wasn't excessively high."
"Licensing is based on the number of users or the usage in terabytes."
"It is my understanding that the license with one year of support is, per user, around 25 Euros."
"The solution is cost-effective."
"The price of Veritas Data Insight could improve, it is expensive."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Performing Arts
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise3
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Segment?
We have seen approximately a fifteen to twenty percent savings in money and also need fewer employees to do the job after using Segment, with approximately thirty-five to forty percent of time save...
What needs improvement with Segment?
Segment provides strong capabilities overall, but there are still areas of improvement. One area that comes to mind is the pricing and scalability cost. As data volumes, event tracking, and integra...
What is your primary use case for Segment?
I have been using Segment for the last two and a half years as part of my role as a Product Analyst. During this period, I have worked extensively with the platform for customer data collection, ev...
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.
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...
What is your primary use case for Veritas Data Insight?
I use it for backup and virtual machines, and the databases are on-premises and in the cloud.
 

Also Known As

Segment.io
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Sample Customers

Nokia, rdio, Bonobos, LiveNation, Atlassian
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