Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager vs Varonis Platform comparison

Microsoft and Varonis are both solutions in the Data Governance category. Microsoft is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.2, while Varonis is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.0. Microsoft holds a 1.2% mindshare in DG, compared to Varonis’s 8.2% mindshare. Additionally, 62% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Varonis users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 12, 2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager and Varonis Platform compete in the compliance and data security sector. Varonis holds an advantage due to its advanced security features.

Features: Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager includes valuable features such as automated assessments, continuous compliance tracking, and integration with Microsoft 365. Varonis Platform provides data access governance, risk reduction, and insider threat detection, offering superior security capabilities and advanced threat detection beyond Microsoft's ecosystem integration.

Room for Improvement: Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager could improve by expanding threat detection capabilities, enhancing cross-platform integrations, and reducing the complexity of managing non-Microsoft data sources. Varonis Platform could benefit from simplifying its deployment process, reducing false alert incidences, and offering more intuitive data visualization tools for easier interpretation of access patterns and risks.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager offers straightforward deployment within the Microsoft ecosystem, ensuring seamless customer support, making onboarding simple. Varonis Platform, while comprehensive, may require a complex setup with dedicated resources, but also provides robust support and customizable deployment to fit various organizational needs.

Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is competitively priced within Microsoft 365 subscriptions, delivering quicker ROI due to lower setup costs and seamless integration. Varonis Platform requests higher initial investment but justifies this with substantial security features and scalability, achieving ROI over a longer term with a focus on advanced protection.

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Purview Complianc...

Ranking in Data Governance

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Microsoft Security Suite (21st)

Varonis Platform

Ranking in Data Governance

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (12th), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (5th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (8th), Compliance Management (8th), Ransomware Protection (9th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is 1.2%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Varonis Platform is 8.2%, up from 5.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Governance

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Peter-Murphy

Head of Technology Operations at Pobl Group

Streamlined data management and improved compliance with efficient document classification

The most valuable feature is data classification retention since I deal with terabytes of data, and managing and monitoring it simplifies the process. Additionally, the system provides a dashboard showing our compliance status, which aids in managing compliance tasks. The compliance score feature allows me to assess and compare our compliance across organizations. I've also noticed efficiency gains, especially in handling subject access requests. Previously, these tasks were manual and time-consuming, but now they are streamlined, reducing the process from weeks to just a day.

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Frederic Delos

Senior Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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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Pros

"Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is tightly integrated with email solutions like Office 365."

"Purview delivers data protection across multi-cloud and multi-platform environments."

"Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is tightly integrated with email solutions like Office 365."

"The best aspect is that it requires little to no time for implementation if I am using all of Microsoft's tools."

"Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is necessary when using Outlook."

"Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager's eDiscovery is essential for organizations using Outlook as their email service."

"The most valuable feature is its ability to apply regulations and ensure compliance with various policies. It also provides tools for investigation, risk assessment, and security score evaluations."

"One of the valuable features of the tool is that it works effectively."

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"I also appreciate the reporting feature, which allows for the extraction of various reports based on specific needs. These reports can be used for audit purposes, such as tracking changes in file locations or deletions."

"On the Varonis side, technical support is phenomenal. Their ability to explain is very good, and they seem to be very knowledgeable. When I get an alert that doesn't quite make sense, they dive in there and kind of take me through it. That's very useful and very good. There are some false alerts, but it is better to have a false alert than no alert at all."

"The 24/7 support is the most valuable feature. They have been able to answer support questions pretty quickly."

"Varonis Platform is transparent and captures everything in the environment without impacting the performance. The tool helps us unify data feeds into a single reporting system."

"There's also a 90-day policy where if a user is not using the warehouse, it will automatically delete that username."

"It can easily identify unusual behavior or access patterns that may pose a potential threat, while operating as a unified reporting system."

"That alerting and reporting service is great."

"The solution ensures that users have not accidentally shared sensitive information with the wrong people or too many people."

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Cons

"We've had issues with data connectors for Teams."

"Microsoft Purview has moved its portal from classic to premium with some display improvements, yet not much in options and functionalities."

"Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is a stable product used by organizations utilizing Outlook as their email client. Despite stability, it needs to be more user-friendly and competitive compared to other eDiscovery tools."

"We'd like to see the solution expanded to include firewalls and endpoints."

"Policy configuration, particularly for web interfaces and OCR scanning, presents challenges."

"There could be improved automation for handling tasks in bulk or in an automated way."

"Integrating add-on licenses, which currently offer additional features at a cost, into the base product would be beneficial, especially for a charity organization to avoid incurring extra costs."

"One area for improvement is the technical support for Purview. With all the other solutions from Microsoft we get really good technical support, but with Purview we had a compliance error and we couldn't find the solution. Purview would not point us to the correct solution, it just indicated the error. We had to troubleshoot it and find out what led to this error. We contacted technical support but it took them one week to identify the root cause of the error."

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"The remediation process can be improved. There will be no existing permission group for the McAfee channel domains. We can create a new permissions group for the required folder."

"The solution's interface is a little complicated with regard to setting up filters and reports."

"Varonis requires more access permissions for its core functions compared to competitors, which can be a concern for companies about data safety."

"The GUI should be more functional. There should be a process for connecting through Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc."

"There is one thing that if I add something manually, I get so many alerts. That's the biggest bad thing."

"For unstructured data monitoring, it's one of the top ones, if not the top one, due to its usability."

"The product is very complicated."

"We have Microsoft Office 365. I just saw an article today which says that they're actually getting integrated with Microsoft Office 365, which would be a useful feature. For user-based reports, log on activity, and stuff like that, it doesn't seem to really be present like Log360. That could just be my inexperience with it. I've been dealing with it for only about two and a half months."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing and licensing are moderate because we have other licenses for Microsoft services. The pricing is in line with that."

"The platform is expensive. I rate the pricing a nine out of ten."

"I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being the most expensive."

"Varonis Platform wasn't certainly the cheapest solution."

"You could do a subscription, where you pay yearly, or you could purchase it outright. The licensing cost is based on the number of users on the system that you are monitoring."

"The pricing is good. It neither expensive nor cheap. It is average."

"It's expensive, kind of, really expensive."

"Licensing is on an annual basis. Maintenance and renewal fees are separate. Varonis Datalert is quite expensive."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager?

We have more visibility of data and how it is being shared.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager?

I rate the pricing as a one since it is included in what I am already paying for, as part of the Microsoft 365 E5 licensing.

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What is your primary use case for Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager?

I use this solution for data loss prevention and general data management. I find that the solution is subjective regarding compliance.

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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...

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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...

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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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Overview

Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is a feature in the Microsoft 365 compliance center that helps you manage your organization’s compliance requirements with greater ease and convenience. Compliance Manager can help you throughout your compliance journey, from taking inventory of your data protection risks to managing the complexities of implementing controls, staying current with regulations and certifications, and reporting to auditors.

To learn more about our solution, ask questions, and share feedback, join our Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity Community.

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Varonis Platform specializes in network security and data monitoring with modules for alerting, data classification, and access management, benefiting environments like Microsoft 365.

Varonis is designed to secure data by auditing and tracking data movement. It leverages data alert and classification modules to identify and manage sensitive information. The platform enhances network security by alerting users to unexpected data modifications and deletions, crucial for effective data loss prevention. It supports unstructured data management, ensuring proper data access and permission controls. Known for its 24/7 support, Varonis offers comprehensive analytics and unified reporting, helping prevent data overexposure and facilitating compliance efforts.

What are the key features of Varonis Platform?

24/7 Support: Provides round-the-clock assistance.
Data Monitoring: Tracks data activities efficiently.
Unified Reporting: Consolidates data access reports.
Data Classification: Identifies sensitive data effectively.
Permission Management: Simplifies managing access rights.
Behavior Analytics: Detects abnormal behavior patterns.

What benefits should be highlighted in user reviews?

Enhanced Security: Improves data protection measures.
Compliance Support: Assists in meeting compliance standards.
Data Transparency: Offers clarity in data access activities.
Access Control: Ensures proper access to data.
Centralized Remediation: Eases remediation procedures.

Varonis Platform is widely utilized in industries needing stringent data confidentiality and management, such as finance and healthcare, for tracking data modifications and unauthorized access. Enterprises deploy it to manage permissions within large datasets, benefiting Microsoft 365 environments. While Varonis requires enhancements in cloud integration, the current deployment is often based on-premises, with attention to addressing the security needs and effective data handling for critical infrastructure.

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