ActiveNav Discovery Center vs Privy by IDfy

ActiveNav Discovery Center is paid software for indexing and analyzing files in source repositories, then producing reports and actions from the indexed results. It supports unstructured data discovery and rule-based classification automation. Discovery Center Workbench lets teams design, build, and test classifications before deployment. Listed sources include file shares, Exchange, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, OpenText Content Server, and Azure Files. The product is a web application delivered through Microsoft Internet Information Services, with web and Windows listed as platforms. Installations can be local, remote, or fully distributed with Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Analysis Services. The server requires Windows Server 2012 or later and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or later. Capacity planning uses Files Under Management, with guidance of roughly one million files per terabyte. Standard licensing uses Volume Under Management, assigned to named host servers. Pricing is on request.

Privy by IDfy is an enterprise privacy and data-governance platform for operationalizing India’s DPDP compliance. It combines consent management, data-principal rights, privacy assessments, third-party risk, incident management, data discovery, lineage, and AI compliance. Consent tools handle creation, validation, withdrawal, multilingual notices, real-time status checks, and tamper-proof audit trails. Data Principal Rights Management automates access, correction, and deletion through a self-service portal supporting 22 Indian languages. A Cookie Manager scans, categorizes, and manages cookies. Data discovery connects through 200+ integrations across databases, warehouses, file stores, business applications, and collaboration platforms, scanning multi-cloud, SaaS, on-premise systems, endpoints, third parties, and AI ecosystems. The AI Compliance Co-pilot detects gaps across 10 modules and three pillars. Third-party risk tools score vendors using credit, security, and compliance data. Privy also provides an API consent layer for pre-collection checks and is described as deployable in as little as 14 days, depending on scope and readiness. It runs via web and API access. Pricing is available by demo request.