BigID Customer Reviews 2025 | SoftwareReviews

BigID

Composite Score

7.0 /10

CX Score

7.0 /10

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What is BigID?

BigID is an innovator in data intelligence, with an ML-powered enterprise platform that reimagines data management for data discovery, privacy, security, and governance. BigID helps customers proactively manage and protect their data, reduce risk, and get more value from their data. With BigID, customers can make better decisions with their data, achieve compliance, scale with evolving data privacy and protection landscape, and ultimately reimagine how they manage their data.

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BigID Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

84 Likeliness to Recommend

87 Plan to Renew

6
Since last award

69 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+77 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 BigID?

7% Negative

15% Neutral

78% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Efficient Service
Acts with Integrity
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 78

Automation of Metadata Creation

Data Lineage

Collaboration

APIs and Integration

Automated Sensitivity Classification for Data Sources

Hierarchy Management

Business Glossary

ML-augmented data discovery and classification

Metadata Design

Business Rules and Event Management

Data life cycle management and data deletion

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 72

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

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BigID Reviews

vinay S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Telecommunications
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted May 2023

Good but costly especially for larger organisation

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates BigID from other similar products?

It is able to correlate data sources across multiple sources to provide a more complete picture of an individual's personal information Also provide capabilities to discover and protect data as per need

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It doesn't store any of the user's data

What do you dislike most about this product?

Bigid has issues with legacy systems and some latency related issues while doing discovery and classification.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Ease of use Covered most if the data types hence best suited for most of the industries

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Pranav A.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2023

Extremely useful, a bit inaccessible at times

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates BigID from other similar products?

Data inventory import and classification is top tier.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Automated classification and hierarchy.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Traning could be majorly improved and price could be lower.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Consider SmallID before making the step to BigID.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Effective Service

Apurva P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Retail
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2023

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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84 Likeliness to Recommend

87 Plan to Renew

6 Since last award

69 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+77 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love BigID?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Automation of Metadata Creation Asset metadata can be created using rules.

Data Lineage Metadata describing data source and consumption points, movements from the source to consumption, and any transformations happening during this journey.

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

APIs and Integration Has inbuilt APIs allowing access to the database layer without having to go through JDBC/ODBC.

Automated Sensitivity Classification for Data Sources Automation of compliance and data security by automatically classifying sensitive data when scanned.

Hierarchy Management Ability to manage taxonomies and organizational classifications.

Business Glossary Business Glossary defines main business terms and their intended use for all business operations.

ML-augmented data discovery and classification enables finding and classifying sensitive data and doing so correctly. In addition, ML-augmentation can infer metadata, such as a data owner through it’s scans.

Metadata Design Ability to define an organization-wide metadata schema, design its structure and constituent members (metadata tag values).

Business Rules and Event Management Includes modeler-editable business rules engine, rule library, and reporting and optimization.

Data life cycle management and data deletion determine various attributes about data including data that needs to be retained for various purposes such as legal hold or compliance.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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BigID Reviews

vinay S.

Good but costly especially for larger organisation

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Pranav A.

Extremely useful, a bit inaccessible at times

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Apurva P.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

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Business Glossary

ML-augmented data discovery and classification

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