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Atlan vs Microsoft Purview Data Governance 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:
 

Customer Service

No sentiment score available
Atlan's customer service is responsive and helpful, though the ticketing system needs improvement for better user experience.
Sentiment score
6.5
Microsoft Purview Data Governance service is rated positively, but users desire consistent, knowledgeable support and improved response times.
The overall ticketing process requires enhancements.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
5.9
Atlan users seek improved Playbooks, enhanced workflows, email report scheduling, duplicate dataset handling, and better data lineage features.
Sentiment score
5.0
Microsoft Purview needs improvements in data lineage, integration, compliance, automation, multilingual support, real-time protection, and user experience.
This would allow users to identify and consolidate similar datasets.
Atlas needs to capture areas where organizations use less known applications.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
9.0
Atlan is highly scalable, supporting 400 users, with strong client relationships and customizable solutions for organizational needs.
Sentiment score
7.8
Microsoft Purview Data Governance is highly scalable and adaptable, though cost and network challenges may require infrastructure adjustments.
Regarding scalability, recent updates in Atlan have included data contracts and specification levels for datasets.
You can scale, but it's necessary to reach out to their architectural team.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Atlan is stable and reliable with minor scaling issues, requiring improved resource allocation for extensive usage support.
Sentiment score
7.6
Microsoft Purview Data Governance is stable but requires careful patch management; users note occasional bugs and accessibility issues.
I have never seen it crash, and it has always been available to meet our needs.
As you consume more resources from the infrastructural point, such as managing bulk metadata, you might need the support of an infrastructure team.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.7
Atlan offers seamless data integration, intuitive interface, automated lineage, data governance, and AI-enhanced metadata for optimized user experience.
Sentiment score
8.3
Microsoft Purview offers seamless multi-cloud data protection, automatic classification, and strong compliance features for enhanced governance and security.
In the market, tools like Informatica require multiple components, however, Atlas provides all capabilities within one tool.
Atlan is helpful for identifying datasets and discovering PI data, such as the classification levels of datasets (gold, silver, bronze).
 

Setup Cost

No sentiment score available
Sentiment score
5.2
Microsoft Purview Data Governance is valued for cost-effectiveness but criticized for complex, potentially costly tiered licensing and pricing.
Atlas is competitively priced compared to other data governance platforms like Collibra and Informatica.
 

Categories and Ranking

Atlan
Ranking in Data Governance
15th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Purview Data Gove...
Ranking in Data Governance
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
Microsoft Security Suite (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of Atlan is 2.1%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Purview Data Governance is 27.9%, down from 28.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Governance
 

Featured Reviews

Danrlei Alves - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers numerous out-of-the-box connectors, user-friendly interface and easy to manage
There are some improvements. There is a feature called Playbooks, which basically allows me to automate certain activities that would otherwise be manual. It's a very interesting feature, but there is room to improve it because, depending on the task you automate, the playbooks seem to have a hard time handling the task. So, it could be improved there. Even though it's a great feature, it can evolve further. And the product as a whole Atlan could invest in features like a data marketplace. It would be interesting to have access to data because it is a data catalog, but it could also be the main marketplace where users request access to data to be able to define, and that access should be given in a seamless manner. There is room for improvement on workflows as well, like the solution. It might not be the core of the solution, but they could start investing in having very robust workflows, especially for metadata data analysis. There is a simple workflow that could be improved.
Peter West - PeerSpot reviewer
Data labeling gives visibility into where your confidential and critical data are
There are negatives to the compliance aspect of Purview in that you get a lot of false positives with some of the native scanning and rules in the platform. A lot of them need tweaking to get a more realistic handle on what data there is. Also, I wouldn't say that the remediation of policy violations is particularly great. It has improved, but it's not very easy to dig into things if there is a policy violation. A lot of them are false-positives. It has helped reduce the time to action on insider threats, but there are quite a lot of false positives there as well. Overall, it's a work in progress for Microsoft. I would also like to see pre-built reporting. The dashboard isn't really that intuitive. It would be good to have more intuitive dashboards that you can drill down into or even customizable dashboards.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Insurance Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
9%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Atlan?
They also offer automated lineage embedded in the connectors, allowing us to track where the data is coming from and where it's going. We find it very efficient in cataloging data sources. Additi...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Atlan?
We pay per-user license. It's a different classification model than with other solutions, where they usually charge you for resources. So, the more assets, the more data sources, the more processin...
What needs improvement with Atlan?
The product could be improved by offering scheduled email reports for managed assets. This feature would greatly benefit users like me who need regular updates without having to log into the platfo...
What do you like most about Microsoft Azure Purview?
It is designed to seamlessly connect to various data sources, which is particularly beneficial for our customers who primarily use Microsoft technologies.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure Purview?
It is cheap or free since we have an EFI license. It is free for the EFI user.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Azure Purview?
There is definitely room for improvement as this product is quite new. In terms of the competence of the tools with the Microsoft ecosystem, the product can do better.
 

Also Known As

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Microsoft Purview, MS Azure Purview
 

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