Best Data Governance Software for Startups

AvePoint is the only full-suite data management solutions provider for digital collaboration platforms. Our AOS platform boasts the largest software-as-a-service user base in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Over 7 million users worldwide trust AvePoint to migrate, manage, and protect their cloud investments. Our SaaS platform is enterprise-grade with hyper scale, robust security and support. We are available across 12 Azure data centers, our products are in 4 languages, we offer 24/7 support and boast market-leading security credentials such as ISO 27001 and FedRAMP in-process. Our comprehensive and integrated product portfolio provides extra value to organizations leveraging Microsoft that want a consistent experience without the pain of having to manage multiple vendors. Automate governance to scale adoption and IT operations while simplifying oversight and collaboration. Reduce more risk by improving process, content security, and compliance across more collaboration platforms.

At the intersection of data governance, privacy, and security, Privacera’s unified data access governance platform maximizes the value of data by providing secure data access control and governance across hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. The hybrid platform centralizes access and natively enforces policies across multiple cloud services—AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Databricks, Snowflake, Starburst and more—to democratize trusted data enterprise-wide without compromising compliance with regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, or HIPAA. Trusted by Fortune 500 customers across finance, insurance, retail, healthcare, media, public and the federal sector, Privacera is the industry’s leading data access governance platform that delivers unmatched scalability, elasticity, and performance. Headquartered in Fremont, California, Privacera was founded in 2016 to manage cloud data privacy and security by the creators of Apache Ranger™ and Apache Atlas™.

Cloudficient offers an enterprise-grade cloud transformation platform designed to guide organizations through every stage of their lifecycle, from migration and onboarding to information governance and e-discovery, using a unified micro-services architecture called the ReMAD platform. It spans three key domains; Cloud Onboarding & Offboarding, which includes tools such as EVComplete, ES1Complete, PSTComplete and Onboarding 365 Complete for migrating legacy archives and PST files into Microsoft 365; Information Governance, exemplified by Expireon, a next-generation cloud archive built for rapid onboarding, targeted indexing, defensible retention/disposition and scalable access while avoiding vendor lock-in; and Foundational eDiscovery, delivered via CaseFusion and other modules that manage custodian mapping, legal hold, data preservation and collection across hundreds of systems.