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Atlan vs Varonis Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 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

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Atlan's customer service is praised for reliability and effectiveness, with suggestions for improving the ticketing system.
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Varonis Platform's technical support is praised for responsiveness and effectiveness, despite occasional delays and team transfers.
The overall ticketing process requires enhancements.
Any issues are addressed promptly by Atlan's team.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
6.0
Atlan needs better automation, metadata analysis, data lineage capture, improved UI, and integration with communication tools and Excel.
Sentiment score
5.1
Varonis Platform needs cloud integration, improved performance, enhanced troubleshooting, and better interface to address complexity and dependency issues.
Atlas needs to capture areas where organizations use less known applications.
This would allow users to identify and consolidate similar datasets.
Data observability capabilities could be enhanced to provide more alerts on stale or outdated data via communication tools like Microsoft Teams, Slack, or email.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
9.0
Atlan efficiently supports scalable deployments with adaptable features, though some configurations may require architectural team assistance.
Sentiment score
7.2
Varonis Platform is scalable for large environments, especially SaaS, but expanding requires expertise; handles increased data loads efficiently.
Regarding scalability, recent updates in Atlan have included data contracts and specification levels for datasets.
Its cloud-native backend infrastructure is designed to scale.
You can scale, but it's necessary to reach out to their architectural team.
 

Setup Cost

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Atlan's pricing is cost-effective and competitive, with per-user charges and discounts, despite lacking an integrated data quality module.
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Varonis Platform's pricing varies from average to expensive, better suited for large enterprises with distinct licensing needs.
There are different license levels, and we receive a discount on the unit price, making it very competitive.
Atlas is competitively priced compared to other data governance platforms like Collibra and Informatica.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Atlan is stable with slight scaling issues in automation, requiring extra support for extensive metadata management and consistent availability.
Sentiment score
6.9
Varonis Platform is stable, reliable, but faces performance issues with new plugins and large data, needing permanent fixes.
They were quickly optimized by Atlan's engineering team.
As you consume more resources from the infrastructural point, such as managing bulk metadata, you might need the support of an infrastructure team.
I have never seen it crash, and it has always been available to meet our needs.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.7
Atlan excels in data integration and governance with user-friendly interface, AI-enhanced metadata, and comprehensive data lineage display.
Sentiment score
7.9
Varonis Platform offers 24/7 support, strong behavior analytics, data security, and compliance features, praised for monitoring and flexibility.
In the market, tools like Informatica require multiple components, however, Atlas provides all capabilities within one tool.
It graphically displays the entire data flow, allowing me to understand the flow from source systems to Tableau, including the ability to see SQL scripts behind it and usage metrics.
Atlan is helpful for identifying datasets and discovering PI data, such as the classification levels of datasets (gold, silver, bronze).
 

Categories and Ranking

Atlan
Ranking in Data Governance
15th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Varonis Platform
Ranking in Data Governance
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (13th), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (4th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (8th), Compliance Management (8th), Ransomware Protection (9th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (6th)
 

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 Varonis Platform is 9.1%, up from 7.0% 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.
Frederic  Delos - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers the ability to identify sensitive areas, allowing you to drill down into the sensitive data
The most effective feature for me is its ability to identify sensitive areas, allowing you to drill down into the sensitive data, provided you have access, to determine whether it's a false positive or a true positive. That's the best thing for me, out of all of it. It's got everything, like other ones, but I like to be able to look at something if I'm doing forensics on the alert and say, "Okay, do I really need to do something with this?" For example, we don't want sensitive data in our OneDrive. So it identifies the sensitive data that's possibly in the OneDrive. And what I can do is look at it and identify whether it's actually sensitive data in Datalert or whether it looks like sensitive data, but I know it's a false positive. If it is a false positive, I can basically say ignore this pattern based on X, Y, and Z, you know, whether it's Redjax or keyword proximity. So I like that. With other tools, I gotta go through a whole process because it's a little bit more complex. Here, I can tag it and bag it in one shot. And the next good time I scan, it slips over it. So it helps in that.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Insurance Company
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Insurance Company
8%
 

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 Varonis Platform?
The solution has significantly improved data security and compliance posture by allowing us to track and monitor activities. We can see who accesses data and when files are created and understand w...
What needs improvement with Varonis Platform?
The solution's areas of improvement are the interface and the dependency on on-premises deployment for some components. The interface has improved with the move to a SaaS model, but aspects could s...
What is your primary use case for Varonis Platform?
Customers use the product to identify sensitive information, correlate it with access permissions, and utilize its automation engine for remediation. It includes fixing broken permissions and manag...
 

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