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What is Microsoft Purview?
You can’t innovate without knowing where your data is. Get visibility, manage data securely, and go beyond compliance with Microsoft Purview. Safeguard all your data across platforms, apps, and clouds with comprehensive solutions for information protection, data governance, risk management, and compliance.
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85 Likeliness to Recommend
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95 Plan to Renew
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79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+90 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Microsoft Purview?
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Respectful
- Client Friendly Policies
- Altruistic
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Data Discovery (DLP)
Activity Monitoring Alerts
Encryption and Decryption Support
Forensic Analysis Support
Real Time Scanning
Email and IM Support
Customizable and Pre Canned Policies
Centralized Reporting Engine
Endpoint Support
Environment Support
Multiple Enforcement Actions
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Data Integration
Breadth of Features
Ease of Customization
Quality of Features
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Implementation
Vendor Support
Microsoft Purview Reviews
Jeet P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2024
Easy to use, kind of costly but worth it.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Purview from other similar products?
The functionality and the ease of access to various features
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
IT supports
What do you dislike most about this product?
Cost factor
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Use it for the features if pricing isn’t the issue
Pros
- Respectful
- Client Friendly Policies
- Altruistic
- Acts with Integrity
Cons
- Less Reliable
- Less Performance Enhancing
- Less Productive
William W.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Transportation
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2026
Great product and no brainer for organizations
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Purview from other similar products?
Complete integrated stack with M365, Azure, XDR and third party web apps.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The consolidation of data and management tools which make deployment and management easy.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Slower adoption of AI enabled interface tooling to make administration and management easier. Microsoft’s Copilot approach has been a little disjointed as they’ve stumbled into what I believe is now a solid strategy.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you’re on an M365 stack already, it’s hard to beat the value of M365 E5 license and what provides the organization.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
Mark A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jul 2025
Safeguard Your Data Assets With Microsoft Purview
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Purview from other similar products?
What stands out Microsoft Purview is the Unified Data Governance providing a single platform for managing and accessing data across multiple environments like on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments. Other solutions usually require separate tools for different environments.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favourite is being able to manage data across on-premises, multi-cloud, SaaS environments from a single platform
What do you dislike most about this product?
False positives that are generated when sensitive information types are created. Also ambiguity in setting up labels, e.g., sensitive information labels.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would advise the individual to clearly define the data governance goals, plan for integration very well, and finally evaluate the total cost of ownership
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
