Microsoft Purview Data Governance Reviews

We're building a new system from scratch for our clients and wanted to include the data governance. Their solution is hosted in Azure and it seemed logical to go with something that fits with that. I'm a solution specialist and we are partners with Microsoft. 

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. 

There are some limitations to the solution with regard to the lineage of data from different systems. I can see that everything works well, but if we start bringing in data from other systems not hosted in Azure the solution won't know whether it fits in the lineage space. Unfortunately, the solution only integrates with Microsoft Azure technologies so there is potentially some improvement that could be made in that area. In this case, we're lucky that the client has everything in Azure. 

I've only been using this solution for a couple of months. 

We currently have four Purview users. 

The initial setup was very easy, that's part of the appeal. 

Purview is reasonably priced and considerably less than most of its competitors.

I'm aware that the solution has some limitations, but that doesn't affect us in this case. If we do eventually need some features that are lacking, then we can look at other alternatives.

I rate the solution nine out of 10. 

My main use cases for Microsoft Purview Data Governance are for communication compliance and DLP. We're starting to get into the data side of it, mainly focusing on communication compliance and DLP. I use Microsoft Purview Data Governance for data loss protection.

Microsoft Purview Data Governance gives a very good overview of our full environment. It also has integrations with Microsoft Sentinel and all the other tools, including Defender. I appreciate how they've recently added those portals at the bottom of Purview, making it just a one-click shot to switch.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Protection is effective at remediating policy violations. It's catching all the things we need to catch.

Microsoft Purview Data Governance can connect to iOS, Mac, and Android devices and data in other SaaS apps. This is important because it gives us visibility or a 360-degree view of everything we need to do. We appreciate Microsoft. We've an E5 license, so we're heavily invested in Microsoft and appreciate what they do for us.

Microsoft Purview Data Governance delivers data protection across multi-cloud and multi-platform environments, including AWS and GCP. It integrates with many different cloud providers, and we have many legacy systems. That overview is really beneficial.

It is very important to us that Microsoft Purview Data Governance was built taking into account critical regulations from around the world, as we are highly regulated. Since we are in Canada, and Microsoft is based in the US, it is beneficial to know we are able to comply with our regulations.

Microsoft Purview Data Governance enables us to show our compliance in real time. We're highly regulated. It is excellent for auditing purposes and being able to go back as far as we need to. It's also beneficial that we can change the date timeline between 7 days to 10 years.

The features of Microsoft Purview Data Governance that I value most include communication compliance. It provides visibility into how people are using Copilot for Microsoft and gives insight into risks and sensitive conversations. It helps with investigations when personnel decisions need to be made.

Microsoft Purview Data Governance has helped my company by finding insider risks, ensuring data loss prevention, and achieving compliance to make sure everybody is compliant.

I found it challenging to configure Microsoft Purview Data Governance initially. With the integrations of Microsoft Copilot and 365, we don't have that enabled, but it would be beneficial to us to have that enabled, so that I could ask questions.

One of the challenges is that Microsoft changes things so quickly that sometimes you're just playing catch-up, and sometimes these changes aren't communicated effectively.

I have been using Microsoft Purview Data Governance for 18 months.

We've never had any issues with it going down.

We haven't had any issues with onboarding new integrations.

It is lacking a bit because I've opened some tickets, and it's taken months to resolve, or I've never even had them resolved.

I would give them an eight out of ten because they're doing adequately, but there have been some challenges.

Positive

Before choosing Microsoft Purview Data Governance, we used Proofpoint.

It was pretty seamless.

The biggest return on investment when using Microsoft Purview Data Governance is all the governance, providing that 360-degree view of everything going on.

It's not cheap. I'm not exactly sure how much our license costs, but it is very expensive.

Before choosing Microsoft Purview Data Governance, we considered another solution, but we're an agency of the government, so everything we procure has to be bid on, and one of our third-party vendors integrated it and put in the bid.

I would rate Microsoft Purview Data Governance an eight out of ten. I am not giving it a perfect score because there are still some gaps, and there are areas where they're still working.