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BigID vs Microsoft Purview eDiscovery comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
8.2
BigID offers high ROI through excellent API integration and comprehensive data management, ensuring compliance with strict privacy regulations.
Sentiment score
7.7
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery boosts ROI by improving data efficiency, compliance, risk management, and reducing legal and IT workloads.
It is one of the best tools in the market.
The ease of accessing necessary information promptly is the biggest return on investment.
We have seen a 100% return on investment.
It's hard to quantify the ROI in a dollar amount, but we realize value by doing more tasks in less time than we did before.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.0
BigID's technical support is responsive and well-rated, offering prompt assistance and effective issue resolution, despite occasional delays.
Sentiment score
7.6
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is praised for responsive support, despite some mixed experiences with wait times and outcomes.
BigID has one of the best technical support teams.
Professional service provides early and efficient support.
I would rate Microsoft Purview eDiscovery's customer service and technical support a ten.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
BigID is scalable and adaptable but requires additional tools for data presentation; experiences vary among users.
Sentiment score
7.9
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is scalable and efficient, seamlessly integrating with cloud infrastructures but lacks some search functions.
It scales with us seamlessly.
With the E3 licensing, I would rate the scalability of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery as a six because it lacks certain critical search functionalities.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
BigID is reliable with effective training, though issues exist with visibility and tagging; expected to improve over time.
Sentiment score
8.6
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is generally stable, with minor slowdowns, but users seek more transparency on performance issues.
BigID is generally stable, however, there is a noted issue with bulk tagging that can affect scan results.
For us, it has been one hundred percent reliable.
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is highly reliable.
 

Room For Improvement

BigID users seek enhanced data governance, security features, classifiers, automation, and interface improvements, with better consent management and large export handling.
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery needs faster, more efficient features, better integration, NLP for queries, and affordable pricing for users.
There is also an issue with incident tagging, where all objects get tagged without an option to untag specific ones, and reverting changes is only possible through MongoDB Central, which can lead to data loss for certain periods.
I want them to focus on data mapping, assessment, automation workflow, and privacy incident management.
Adding more features, as Microsoft continues to expand their cloud offerings, would be beneficial.
We find that many critical functions are available only to E5 license holders.
The reporting, sorting, and filtering capabilities that other products have aren't available natively in Purview.
 

Setup Cost

BigID offers modular pricing based on capacity, valued for advanced features in data-intensive sectors like healthcare and technology.
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery pricing is complex, with E5 costly yet beneficial, while E3 is cheaper but limited.
The pricing is competitive in the market, however, I need to ask for the right price.
BigID might be expensive as it involves various paid services, like data retention and graphic rights management.
The pricing and licensing with Microsoft can be complex, and licensing is known to be a challenge because it changes frequently.
As an M3, I find the Purview pricing of 1250 per user worthwhile.
With CSP or MCE-style agreements with Microsoft, the process is streamlined since we have reps from both Microsoft and CDW working together.
 

Valuable Features

BigID provides user-friendly data discovery, classification, and governance with advanced AI tools, enhancing security and compliance across data sources.
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery ensures efficient data retrieval with multi-platform integration, automation, compliance visibility, and adherence to global data privacy laws.
One of the best features of BigID is its strength in data discovery and governance.
The most valuable feature of BigID is its large number of classifiers, which allow us to scan for specific data such as SSN numbers.
The most valuable feature of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is its ability to search across various platforms, including Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive.
Purview's inclusion of global regulations is critical because we're heavily regulated by FERC, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the SEC.
Purview can connect to iOS, Mac, Android, and SaaS apps, which is critical for capturing SMS and MMS text message data.
 

Categories and Ranking

BigID
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Data Governance (5th), Data Privacy Management Software (3rd), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (7th)
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
eDiscovery (2nd), Microsoft Security Suite (22nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

BigID and Microsoft Purview eDiscovery aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. BigID is designed for Data Governance and holds a mindshare of 7.6%, up 5.5% compared to last year.
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, on the other hand, focuses on eDiscovery, holds 27.0% mindshare, up 14.1% since last year.
Data Governance
eDiscovery
 

Featured Reviews

Ankita Sabale - PeerSpot reviewer
Predefined classifiers in place support sensitive data scanning effectively
BigID does not currently support Kerberos authentication for DataStax. On the user interface, analyzing true and false positives can be challenging, as I can only view 2,000 characters at a time. When tagging scan results, all objects get tagged without the option to untag specific ones. This requires reverting changes through MongoDB, which can result in data loss.
Frank Radeck - PeerSpot reviewer
Tasks that took an entire day before we implemented the solution now take just 30 minutes.
The most valuable feature of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is its ability to search across various platforms, including Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive. It enables a streamlined, unified process for searching across these platforms. It is critical for Purview to be able to connect to iOS, Mac, and Android devices and data in other SaaS apps. From a support perspective, I can do things while I'm eating lunch or something else. It's more dynamic and responsive. I think everybody appreciates it. We're not tied to one device. Purview's multi-cloud capabilities are also essential for the same reasons. Keeping everything under one umbrella further increases the time savings. Purview accounts for critical regulations from around the world. This is crucial because we hold ourselves accountable to standards and need to align with them. Working at a law firm, we have clients who dictate to us what standards they expect. The visibility is excellent. As we move more things into the cloud, more opportunities exist to put everything under one umbrella.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
10%
Insurance Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
University
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BigID?
I like BigID's in-depth discovery and scanning capabilities, especially for unstructured data. This feature is a standout compared to competitors. The tool's data classification capabilities are i...
What needs improvement with BigID?
BigID does not currently support Kerberos authentication for DataStax. On the user interface, analyzing true and false positives can be challenging, as I can only view 2,000 characters at a time. W...
What is your primary use case for BigID?
BigID is part of our data governance project. We onboard data sources in our environment and scan for specific sensitive data sets, such as SSN numbers, passport numbers, and medical information, w...
What do you like most about Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?
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 th...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?
The setup process was very straightforward. We acquired pricing through our reseller in NASDAQ, eliminating the need to search for prices ourselves.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?
The query language can be time-consuming to figure out if you don't know it initially. While there are options with dropdowns to select criteria, having a natural language feature would be benefici...
 

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Sample Customers

Home Depot, Grant Thornton LLP, Cimpress, Fidelity Investments
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