Microsoft Purview eDiscovery Reviews

Name: Microsoft Purview eDiscovery
Brand: Microsoft
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

3.5 out of 5

3 reviews
66% willing to recommend

What is Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

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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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is the #3 ranked solution in top eDiscovery software and #26 ranked solution in top Microsoft Security Suite solutions. PeerSpot users give Microsoft Purview eDiscovery an average rating of 7.0 out of 10. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is most commonly compared to Microsoft Intune: Microsoft Purview eDiscovery vs Microsoft Intune. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 60% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 14% of all views.

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

October 2024

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Mike McBride

Writer/Blogger at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Purview's data protection features are vital. With all the changes in data protection and privacy laws, Microsoft must provide a way for people to keep their data safe while being able to access it when needed. Microsoft 365 is a vast platform. You have data everywhere and connections to outside resources hosted on AWS and other non-Microsoft platforms. It's crucial to have the ability to keep all your data safe in one place. That's the dream. It's crucial to be able to grab information from whatever's connected to that, whether it's an iOS, Android, or other endpoint. At the same time, when I'm doing forensic collection from those devices using Celebrate or some other tool, can I pull that information into my eDiscovery platform? I like the Data Connector platform, which supports ingestion from other Microsoft data sources. It's a little confusing, though, because Microsoft defaults to throwing everything into Exchange. You're putting so much stuff into the mailbox, but Exchange is the place where I know I can get it. When you have a connector or something like Slack, it just pulls those messages straight into the mailbox. As a new eDiscovery user, I'm not concerned about how to go to these platforms and get this information. I only need to worry about the mailbox. Native integration across Dynamics and 365 is crucial. Some things live in Azure databases that the discovery tools can't collect. That's an issue for a lot of people I work with. Let's say I've got this Azure database storing many data, but my eDiscovery tool can't read from it. Now I need to figure out how to get that data and pull it into my discovery tool. That is one area where Microsoft has made much progress over the last three years. More things are reachable, but accessing stuff in Azure is still a challenge. One of the biggest challenges is that regulations vary depending on your location. I don't envy Microsoft figuring that out, but it's critical. In the discovery world, there are data privacy protections and laws about the geolocation of data, etc. Those are things we have to pay attention to. You can't fudge that because those are legal requirements. It's crucial to have a discovery tool that can work with that.

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Deepesh Mehtani

Project Manager at AA Telecom

The tool's search options and data connectivity are good. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is valuable for collecting information. It makes it easier for us to provide information when a user is looking for specific data from another user. For instance, it's very convenient if a user needs data from their email but doesn't want to navigate through ten years of logs (since we've migrated everything to Office 365). The old emails and data in SharePoint are easily searchable. So, I can quickly go there, retrieve the necessary information, such as a PSD card or a data file, and grant access to the users.

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reviewer2161866

eDiscovery Analyst with 1-10 employees

Purview's data connector platform for non-Microsoft data-source ingestion is not too bad. It's a WYSIWYG and has a nice UI, but not the greatest. You can bring in TSPs and other things from other sources if you need to. I haven't had a case where that has been necessary but I have heard of other places that are in need of it. However, there are other platforms, like Nuix, that can do it. The machine learning, if it's leveraged properly, could positively affect the solution's speed, but refining the searches seems to be more effective than taking the time to train models to be more accurate. It offers a little bit of everything, but it's not really specialized. It's just another suite of tools for a particular task, in this case, for ediscovery for litigation. Having a grasp of searching helps, including the Keyword Query Language. It's a bit finicky and there are some limitations to what you can do with Purview. I would advise you to read Microsoft's website on it. They have a pretty good Wiki for it.

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery mindshare

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As of October 2024, the mindshare of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery in the eDiscovery category stands at 24.5%, up from 5.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"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 machine learning wasn't half bad. I really like that part. I thought it was novel. It pretty much automated it, once you trained the model."

Room for Improvement

"Microsoft Purview eDiscovery should be cheaper."
"I see two significant challenges with many of my clients. One is that there are some functionality gaps compared to specialized tools in the legal industry, like a legal hold tool or a document review tool. They have features that Purview eDiscovery lacks. Those gaps create a situation where I almost have to do things twice. I need to collect all my data in eDiscovery and ship it to another platform to complete the review."
"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."

Pricing

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

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