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Microsoft Intune vs Microsoft Purview Data Governance comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
Microsoft Intune's support varies, with premium support praised but regular users often experience delays and inadequate initial assistance.
Sentiment score
6.3
Microsoft Purview Data Governance support is responsive with Premium Support but faces challenges in documentation and initial support levels.
When a support ticket is submitted, it directly reaches someone with Intune support expertise.
When I contacted Microsoft, they had the same expertise, if not more, which is phenomenal because I felt heard and my problem was solved.
Sometimes, the support provided is excellent, and the representative is knowledgeable, while other times, the service needs improvement.
The support could be better, particularly with consulting.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
5.0
Microsoft Intune requires better app deployment, reporting, integration, MAM features, and usability, with enhanced security and cost-effective licensing.
Sentiment score
5.0
Microsoft Purview struggles with integration, user interface, documentation, compliance, and lacks features like enhanced API, DLP, and multi-language support.
There are communication issues, so you might start working with a feature without knowing if it will be deprecated six months from now.
Many third-party companies offer single-pane-of-glass reporting that shows you what your update environment looks like, how your patch is doing, application status, etc., but Intune's reporting is not intuitive.
Workspace ONE operates in real-time, whereas Intune has a noticeable delay when deploying policies or apps.
It's essential to know if a feature isn't working due to missing licenses.
There are some problems with DLP rules, and it would be great if the security around DLP could be expanded.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Microsoft Intune is highly scalable, adaptable, and supports thousands of users, though some challenges exist with macOS platforms.
Sentiment score
7.7
Microsoft Purview Data Governance offers seamless, scalable integration across platforms, efficiently using metadata without data replication.
The scalability of Microsoft Intune is ten out of ten.
Ideally, we want to automatically segregate devices based on user properties like primary use, but currently, dynamic groups seem limited to device properties.
It supports organizations with 200 endpoints and those with more than 15,000 endpoints.
The product is scalable and works across multi-cloud and multi-platform environments.
 

Setup Cost

Sentiment score
7.4
Microsoft Intune is cost-effective and appealing due to competitive pricing, flexible licensing, and bundling with Microsoft services.
Sentiment score
5.2
Microsoft Purview is reasonably priced, cost-effective for larger enterprises, but smaller businesses find it expensive; pricing clarity needed.
Introductory professional services, like a fast-track service, were included with our E5 membership, and there have been no additional costs.
The Intune suite and add-ons, such as batch management and remote help, are costly.
Microsoft Intune's costliness stems from licensing fees and the overhead associated with its management, user experience, and device remediation.
The feature might be available in the console, but it won't work without the proper license, creating confusion.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Microsoft Intune is stable and reliable, with minor update issues, improved performance, and high user satisfaction ratings.
Sentiment score
7.4
Microsoft Purview Data Governance is stable and reliable with minor defects, robust functionality, and enterprise-grade performance.
Microsoft Intune has been very stable.
A couple of years ago, the performance was not as good as it is now, but there are noticeable backend improvements.
We've encountered problems with other services like Exchange, Intune has remained unaffected.
It can take seven days to 24 hours to determine whether a policy is effective.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
7.9
Microsoft Intune simplifies multi-platform device management with integration, security features, and centralized control, ideal for remote work environments.
Sentiment score
8.3
Microsoft Purview Data Governance enhances multi-cloud protection with Azure integration, data classification, compliance management, and automated discovery.
Intune excels in configuration and compliance management for Windows 10, ensuring devices receive timely updates and adhere to organizational standards.
Dynamic groups allow us to set conditions for automatic membership, eliminating the need for user intervention or manual review and ensuring a seamless workflow.
Windows Autopatch is the most valuable because it removes the burden of patch management.
The feature that I find most valuable is its ability to block unintended data sharing, like forcing unencrypted emails to be encrypted.
The data protection feature is vital as it controls who can access data when it moves out of our protected boundary.
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Intune
Ranking in Microsoft Security Suite
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
232
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management (2nd), Remote Access (1st), Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) (1st), Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) (1st)
Microsoft Purview Data Gove...
Ranking in Microsoft Security Suite
8th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
53
Ranking in other categories
Data Governance (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Microsoft Security Suite category, the mindshare of Microsoft Intune is 13.8%, up from 9.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Purview Data Governance is 5.3%, up from 3.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Gaurav Chandola - PeerSpot reviewer
We can manage all aspects of our devices from a single console, easy to scale, and quick to deploy
Intune has many benefits from the Microsoft perspective. This solution can manage Windows 10 devices, app management, and provide security solutions. We don't need to worry about our network connection, and we'll be more secure with regular security patches and compliance. Since everything will be deployed through the internet and users will log in using the internet only, the risks have been mitigated. Security updates, security patching, and the application will be targeted from Intune. The location tracker will be available to track where the device is and the user's location. The user will be restricted from accessing certain applications using compliance policies. Conditional access policies will be based on the reason why the user needs access to the application. Microsoft Intune is one of the best products in the industry for managing Windows devices. The solution has more feature restrictions. The conditional access policies also eliminate the dependency on the on-prem network for the devices. The solution also manages our security settings and a lot of other beneficial features such as Microsoft Purview which gives us the compliance portion. We can manage all aspects of our device from a single console, including M365 services. This allows us to configure data classification types, such as public, private, internal, confidential, and highly confidential.
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
Educational Organization
26%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
9%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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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

Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Microsoft Purview, MS Azure Purview
 

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