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Microsoft Purview

Composite Score

7.5 /10

CX Score

7.9 /10

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What is Microsoft Purview?

You can’t innovate without knowing where your data is. Get visibility, manage data securely, and go beyond compliance with Microsoft Purview. Safeguard all your data across platforms, apps, and clouds with comprehensive solutions for information protection, data governance, risk management, and compliance.

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Microsoft Purview Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

84 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

88 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Purview?

0% Negative

6% Neutral

94% Positive

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Respectful
Client Friendly Policies
Altruistic

Feature Ratings

Average 74

Activity Monitoring Alerts

Data Discovery (DLP)

Customizable and Pre Canned Policies

Forensic Analysis Support

Email and IM Support

Encryption and Decryption Support

Centralized Reporting Engine

Endpoint Support

Multiple Enforcement Actions

Environment Support

Real Time Scanning

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 77

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Microsoft Purview Reviews

Abhijit S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Shipping
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

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Submitted Mar 2024

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Purview from other similar products?

it superior to others.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

easy to use

What do you dislike most about this product?

The price is extremely high.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Good for the future

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Sumeet J.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Banking
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2024

Data catalog in cloud at its best

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Purview from other similar products?

Microsoft purview is cloud native data catalog tool which give a bird eye view of the data inventory, its classification feature along with Microsoft own security layer gives it a better advantage in the industry

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ability to connect with Microsoft products and integrate with them

What do you dislike most about this product?

Its data lineage feature is not that versatile and rich yet. May be in coming years it will mature and provide holistic view of the data moving from one system to the other

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Gem of a product for anyone going for cloud based data catalog tool

Pros

Trustworthy
Unique Features
Respectful
Acts with Integrity

Wesley B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Mar 2024

Hard to implement

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Purview from other similar products?

The reporting is fantastic but difficult to implement. Once done though, it's a great tool.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The breadth of features.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The implementation was incredibly rough.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Be prepared to go through some hardship and complexity if you want it to function well.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Inspires Innovation
Includes Product Enhancements

Cons

Commodity Features

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Microsoft Purview Ratings

84 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

88 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Purview?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Activity Monitoring Alerts User access patterns can be monitored with rule-based alerts for sensitive data access requests.

Data Discovery (DLP) Structured (content registration or data fingerprinting) and unstructured (keywords, lexicons, metadata tags, statistical analysis, etc.) data identification.

Customizable and Pre Canned Policies Centralized reporting engine with out-of-the-box policy support and custom policy creation with bi-directional workflow integration.

Forensic Analysis Support Query capabilities with pre-built and custom drill down, pivot, and parsing; includes export functions and event session reconstruction.

Email and IM Support The solution scans inbound and outbound messages for security violations.

Encryption and Decryption Support Support for real-time decryption and re-encryption of information.

Centralized Reporting Engine The solution provides a central reporting engine for policy creation and management with canned reports and RBAC.

Endpoint Support Multiple operating system and device type support with offline protection, removable media, print screen, and copy and paste support.

Multiple Enforcement Actions The solution provides options for violations such as block, move, quarantine, and delete.

Environment Support Breadth of protocol support, cloud protection, peer to peer, Web 2.0, and virtualization environment support.

Real Time Scanning The solution scans content and context of files in real-time, 24/7.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Microsoft Purview Reviews

Abhijit S.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Sumeet J.

Data catalog in cloud at its best

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Wesley B.

Hard to implement

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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Feature Ratings

Activity Monitoring Alerts

Data Discovery (DLP)

Customizable and Pre Canned Policies

Forensic Analysis Support

Email and IM Support

Encryption and Decryption Support

Centralized Reporting Engine

Endpoint Support

Multiple Enforcement Actions

Environment Support

Real Time Scanning

Vendor Capability Ratings

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support