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Microsoft Purview Data Governance vs Satori comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Purview Data Gove...
Ranking in Data Governance
2nd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
60
Ranking in other categories
Microsoft Security Suite (10th)
Satori
Ranking in Data Governance
30th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (31st), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (19th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of Microsoft Purview Data Governance is 7.8%, down from 18.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Satori is 1.3%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Governance Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Purview Data Governance7.8%
Satori1.3%
Other90.9%
Data Governance
 

Featured Reviews

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Tech lead at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Automated data discovery has streamlined management while configuration remains complex
Compared to Big-ID, Microsoft Purview Data Governance looks complicated to me. I do not feel it has a good user-level UI. The interface feels a little complicated compared to Big-ID. I did not appreciate the configuration part. It felt complex, whereas when I went for a Big-ID demo, the interface looked better and was easier to understand for any user.
reviewer2873355 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
Streamlined data products have empowered non‑technical teams and still require more automation
The best feature Satori offers is its simplicity for non-business and non-technical persons because all you have to do is provide inputs—the tables that you want to use as source—and then the framework does all the work. You just define the tables and what tables need to be joined. This simplicity helps my team in day-to-day work because non-technical people and product owners can actually develop data products with this streamlined pipeline without having to know how to code and without having to maintain a code base. We just maintain and enhance while they build what they want. Satori also has data quality checks that are defined by the data quality team, so we know if the data are corrupted. That is another main feature. Satori has positively impacted my organization because it's a product that has been sold to many clients and has also been used internally for some use cases that the company needed. It's one of the most successful products of the company.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"My favorite Purview feature is auto-scanning. Once we set up Purview, we can automatically scan multiple data sources when new data comes into specific databases, like SQL and Oracle. We don't need to rediscover the new data or do anything manually because it automatically happens."
"My favorite features are eDiscovery and insider risk management, because these are the major threats to an organization that can't be easily traced."
"Data segregation is the most valuable feature."
"Purview's ability to connect to iOS, Mac, and Android devices is critical."
"Microsoft Purview's most valuable feature is its ability to identify content across a number of prescribed regulatory frameworks, including Microsoft, GDPR, PII, and UCC Financial."
"Purview has a pretty good interface and I'm satisfied with what the solution does and the price it's being sold at."
"Purview helped us automate and control our data without having to rely on people to manually tag documents with specific retention periods."
"Microsoft Purview is extremely stable."
"Satori leads to more sales and has doubled our sales."
"Satori has positively impacted my organization by providing a solution that helps in the development of AI intelligence while protecting AI with less effort than other solutions."
"Satori has improved our data security by providing better visibility into user permissions, simplifying access management, and helping reduce unnecessary access to sensitive information, while also supporting better data governance and saving time during permission reviews."
 

Cons

"Setting up Purview in a production tenant proved challenging due to a lack of clear documentation on permission requirements."
"The features in the actual data governance could be improved, and I think there is room for improvement in the product."
"The product needs improvement to edit the number of assets. It needs to be more inuitive as well."
"Purview's data loss prevention for macOS endpoints has some limitations, and the end-user experience of recovering from a failure is lacking."
"Support should be improved in the form of good documentation and video lessons where a person can check things out. There is a community, but it takes a lot of time if we want to get an answer to a question."
"There should be more clarity about the costing, particularly how the cost is calculated, especially when utilizing health reports and quality features."
"The current event-based retention management is very poor."
"Auto-tagging should be available at lower levels of licensing. Right now, a high level of licensing is needed for auto-tagging, and this feature should be made available at a lower license level."
"Everything could potentially be improved."
"Satori can be improved by integrating CI/CD because currently we are doing it manually, which is something we need to fix."
"I would like to see more advanced automated risk detections, customizable security alerts, and simpler permission reporting, as these improvements would make access management easier and help the team."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is a little bit high, but it's worth the money because it has a lot of features."
"The price is reasonable because most of our clients already have an E3 license, which makes implementation easy."
"We pay $15,000 per end user for the E5 license."
"Microsoft Purview is expensive."
"It is cheap. It is based on consumption. If somebody wants to start using it, the price is definitely cheaper than a tool like Collibra."
"Aside from the complexity of the pricing model, the price itself is realistic. Features like AI components and automatic classification require additional licenses. Still, anyone can start using Purview with a basic E3 license if they're using Microsoft 365 and grow with additional licenses as needed. Overall, we're satisfied with the price."
"It's not cheap. I'm not exactly sure how much our license costs, but it is very expensive."
"While Purview's standard pricing might not be accessible to most small businesses, we were fortunate to benefit from the educational pricing which made it a financially viable option for our needs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
16%
Construction Company
11%
Transportation Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise33
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure Purview?
Microsoft Purview Data Governance is quite affordable compared to other market solutions, which have high initial costs. It allows for a cost-effective start with negligible initial cost. However, ...
What needs improvement with Microsoft Azure Purview?
The features in the actual data governance could be improved, and I think there is room for improvement in the product. We haven't used role-based access control in a complex way; it's somehow embe...
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Azure Purview?
We are currently working with Microsoft Purview Data Governance and other Microsoft products. We are using Microsoft Purview Data Governance.
What needs improvement with Satori?
Satori can be improved by integrating CI/CD because currently we are doing it manually, which is something we need to fix. Additionally, we could enhance it with more automation, improve the code, ...
What is your primary use case for Satori?
My main use case for Satori is building data products as a Data Bricks framework where I am creating data products for each team following a Data Mesh architecture. I have a wheel file, and when so...
What advice do you have for others considering Satori?
My advice for others looking into using Satori is to train themselves to use it efficiently. It's a very nice product, but it definitely needs some learning curve to get used to it. For Satori's AI...
 

Also Known As

Microsoft Purview, MS Azure Purview
Satori Universal Data Access Control, Satori Streamlined Security and Compliance, Satori Data and Usage Analytics
 

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