Microsoft Purview eDiscovery vs Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud comparison

Microsoft and Veritas are both solutions in the eDiscovery category. Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.8, while Veritas is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.0. Microsoft holds a 9.0% mindshare in eD, compared to Veritas’s 2.3% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Veritas users who would recommend it.

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

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100% willing to recommend

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 6, 2024

Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud and Microsoft Purview eDiscovery are top contenders in data archiving and eDiscovery solutions. Veritas seems to have the upper hand for users prioritizing ease of use and cost-effectiveness, while Microsoft Purview offers superior integration, making it ideal for those already utilizing Microsoft services.

Features: Veritas is known for its user-friendly interface, simplicity, and competitive pricing, making it suitable for straightforward data archiving. Microsoft Purview is noted for its robust search capabilities, seamless integration with Microsoft products, and extensive feature set, making it valuable for comprehensive eDiscovery tasks.

Room for Improvement: Veritas could enhance its advanced search functionalities, integration capabilities, and expand its features. Microsoft Purview needs improvements in processing speed, flexibility for non-Microsoft users, and optimization of its current tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Veritas offers straightforward deployment with minimal disruptions and responsive customer service. Microsoft Purview integrates efficiently within Microsoft environments but faces challenges with non-Microsoft platforms, and has mixed customer service reviews.

Pricing and ROI: Veritas is noted for its affordability, appealing to budget-conscious users. Microsoft Purview is seen as more costly but offers substantial ROI for users leveraging Microsoft's extensive tools. Veritas offers competitive pricing, while Purview is attractive to those seeking premium integration.

To learn more, read our detailed Microsoft Purview eDiscovery vs. Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud Report (Updated: March 2026).

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

Ranking in eDiscovery

1st

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Microsoft Security Suite (22nd)

Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud

Ranking in eDiscovery

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Email Archiving (9th), File Archiving (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the eDiscovery category, the mindshare of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is 9.0%, down from 27.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud is 2.3%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

eDiscovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery	9.0%
Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud	2.3%
Other	88.7%

eDiscovery

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Frank Radeck

Director, IT Infrastructure & Cloud Technology at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

Tasks that took an entire day before we implemented the solution now take just 30 minutes.

The most valuable feature of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is its ability to search across various platforms, including Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive. It enables a streamlined, unified process for searching across these platforms. It is critical for Purview to be able to connect to iOS, Mac, and Android devices and data in other SaaS apps. From a support perspective, I can do things while I'm eating lunch or something else. It's more dynamic and responsive. I think everybody appreciates it. We're not tied to one device. Purview's multi-cloud capabilities are also essential for the same reasons. Keeping everything under one umbrella further increases the time savings. Purview accounts for critical regulations from around the world. This is crucial because we hold ourselves accountable to standards and need to align with them. Working at a law firm, we have clients who dictate to us what standards they expect. The visibility is excellent. As we move more things into the cloud, more opportunities exist to put everything under one umbrella.

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Rastislav Maniak

Partial Owner at Storage One

Archives emails and files, providing indexes for searching the archives

The tool has had some scalability issues, but now that it's offered as a cloud service, it's easier to manage. However, setting it up isn't as straightforward as it used to be, and there may be limitations with the support provided during setup and testing. Also, the quality of support has declined in the past year.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Tasks that took an entire day before we implemented Purview now take just 30 minutes."

"Our legal team benefits from using Microsoft Purview eDiscovery."

"Microsoft Purview eDiscovery has saved me personally a lot of time because I can query it, and it touches everything we have as a full Microsoft shop."

"I think eDiscovery Premium has made dealing with data from Teams much more accessible than any other platform."

"The return on investment is saving the equivalent of one or two full-time IT department employees and a few hours per week for legal staff."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is its ability to search across various platforms, including Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive. It enables a streamlined, unified process for searching across these platforms."

"Purview eDiscovery has made it significantly easier to handle rare litigation requests."

"The most valuable features are automatic content logging tagging. Performing these tasks manually would be impossible. Since most of our data is already in Microsoft, it's convenient to run it through this tool."

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"The tool streamlines data discovery processes for compliance by setting up a gateway to copy every incoming and outgoing email to the archive independently of the mailbox. This ensures that even if a user deletes their mailbox, the emails are still available in the archive, making it a compliant solution for monitoring all incoming and outgoing emails. Additionally, it offers the ability to place legal holds on important emails."

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

Cons

"I would suggest adding more platforms."

"I see two significant challenges with many of my clients. One is that there are some functionality gaps compared to specialized tools in the legal industry, like a legal hold tool or a document review tool. They have features that Purview eDiscovery lacks. Those gaps create a situation where I almost have to do things twice. I need to collect all my data in eDiscovery and ship it to another platform to complete the review."

"Microsoft Purview eDiscovery should be cheaper."

"It has been one of the most solid tools I have worked with. However, Purview Data Loss Protection for remediating policy violations needs refinement, for example, in defining what constitutes a credit card because that is where I get the most false positives."

"The query language can be time-consuming to figure out if you don't know it initially."

"Purview Data Loss Protection for remediating policy violations needs refinement, for example, in defining what constitutes a credit card because that is where I get the most false positives."

"We find that many critical functions are available only to E5 license holders. It would be beneficial to have more options available for E3 customers. Enhanced Teams functionalities and better capture of text message data, both SMS and MMS, would also be improvements."

"The sorting and filtering of the result data need improvement, and the interface for writing queries is not user-friendly for business users."

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"Technical support could be better."

"The tool has had some scalability issues, but now that it's offered as a cloud service, it's easier to manage. However, setting it up isn't as straightforward as it used to be, and there may be limitations with the support provided during setup and testing. Also, the quality of support has declined in the past year."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing and licensing with Microsoft can be complex, and licensing is known to be a challenge because it changes frequently. While the licensing for Purview is not as tricky as other Microsoft products, navigating licenses since the shift to E3 and E5 plans has been a task, as individual licenses must now be purchased separately."

"With the full bundle, pricing is not a significant concern. As an M3, I find the Purview pricing of 1250 per user worthwhile."

"Microsoft Purview eDiscovery comes as part of Microsoft 365 licenses."

"The costs associated with E5 licensing are currently expensive for us, so we use the E3 license, which comes with fewer features and functionalities."

"In the positions that I've had through contracting over the years, I've heard talk of it being overpriced and underperforming compared to its competitors."

"The tool is expensive, and I rate its price as eight out of ten. It might not be very expensive. However, comparing it with something that's free or already included in the price is challenging, like the Office 365 archive mailbox. Previously, this was part of the subscription price. Now, it's an additional cost, typically covered by departments like legal or compliance rather than IT."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

University

Financial Services Firm

28%

Government

Computer Software Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

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Questions from the Community

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

The setup process was very straightforward. We acquired pricing through our reseller in NASDAQ, eliminating the need to search for prices ourselves.

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What needs improvement with Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

The query language can be time-consuming to figure out if you don't know it initially. While there are options with dropdowns to select criteria, having a natural language feature would be benefici...

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What is your primary use case for Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

I sometimes use it for legal holds or to find lost items, and to determine what is going on. However, most of the time, my use case is legal-related.

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What do you like most about Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud?

The tool streamlines data discovery processes for compliance by setting up a gateway to copy every incoming and outgoing email to the archive independently of the mailbox. This ensures that even if...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud?

The tool is expensive, and I rate its price as eight out of ten. It might not be very expensive. However, comparing it with something that's free or already included in the price is challenging, li...

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What needs improvement with Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud?

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Overview

Efficiently respond to legal matters or internal investigations with intelligent capabilities that reduce data to only what’s relevant. Discover data where it lives. Discover and collect data in place, within your Microsoft Purview boundary. Manage workflows efficiently. Streamline your eDiscovery process with an end-to-end workflow from one platform. Accelerate your process. Get insights quickly with built-in capabilities, reducing review time and costs.

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Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud is a cloud-based archiving service that helps regulated organizations more effectively meet data governance requirements. and more efficiently execute business or legal eDiscovery. Thousands of customers have used Enterprise Vault.cloud to help ensure a successful and compliant migration to a cloud based application platform such as Microsoft Office 365 or Google G Suite Enterprise.

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Lixil, CDCR, Windsor Foods, KM&A, Bear

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