IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Advanced Security comparison

"Setting up Guardium was easy and straightforward."

"Gathering ​the data works very well. ​"

"It's made database monitoring more visible to the business, creating more conversations about how we should do it better."

"The most valuable feature of the solution for the customers is the monitoring and full log of the database activity of privileged users."

"The product has proven to be flexible"

"The solution supports a lot of databases."

"IBM Guardium Data Protection has better integration options than most of the leading competitors on the market, and the price is always better."

"The most valuable features are the reporting and data-level access control."

"The features that are the most used by the customers and partners are, at the moment, for GDPR, so obviously data encryption and data reduction. Our customers also like the partitioning option."

"The most valuable feature is the data encryption option for columns and tables."

"Needs easier integration with custom applications."

"Initial setup is very complex. Once you start interacting with people's databases, they get very hesitant. Then, the amount of social tasks to socialize the solution ensuring people are comfortable with it became a much heavier lift."

"Initially it did not have support external applications like, say, Tableau, ServiceNow, Remedy, and the like. They have started growing into it, but I would like to have more and more integration with outside applications."

"An improvement would be to make the pricing relative in terms of regions."

"The integration part of the present solution is very complex and tedious. Plus it gives a lot of false positives which need to be eradicated over time."

"Many clients inquire if the solution includes a database firewall, which it doesn’t."

"I would like to see a lot of additional reporting and analytics features. They have basic outlier detection, but I would love to see that go further, and model it after analytics tools like Splunk."

"The backup and recovery is very resource-hungry and requires a huge amount of storage capacity."

"It is really constrained as an environment because you cannot change something that would be useful. It is a very good product because it is very similar to what you have on-premises. Yes, it is constrained, but it is expected because it is a platform as a service so it has to be constrained."

"Having a single command to encrypt a table would be an improvement."

"My company purchased IBM Guardium Data Protection in a package, so I'm unable to give its exact licensing cost, but for the package of three IBM solutions, it wasn't very expensive. I'd rate the pricing for all three solutions three out of five. When my team deployed IBM Guardium Data Protection, all features were included."

"The price of the solution could be better."

"The product's pricing is reasonable and affordable. It is in the moderate range."

"The price of Guardium is higher than the main competitor, Imperva. In addition, it's complex as the calculation of the licensing is done by Processor Value Unit (PVU). However, before purchasing a DAP solution, it is important to analyze specific points to evaluate the cost-benefit of each tool. For example: Does the environment to be monitored have mainframes? If so, it's a point for Guardium. If not, a point for Imperva. Note: IBM is looking into a new licensing policy and reducing the price of Guardium."

"Reasonable cost but could be lower."

"The biggest challenge is the cost associated with the product, and the cost of maintaining. Everything is not translated directly to the benefits we see. There are benefits, yes, but if I were writing the check, would I buy Guardium? No."

"It is not an expensive product. We purchase its yearly license."

"It's an expensive solution"