ActiveNav Discovery Center vs Teleskope Understand

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.

Teleskope Understand classifies sensitive information across an organization’s data environment. It uses machine learning, large language models, and small language models to identify PII, PCI data, PHI, secrets, tokens, and business-specific sensitive types. Classification can consider document context, access, business profile, and risk appetite. Prism classifies whole documents and can find documents resembling known sensitive examples without predefined rules. Understand maps human, external, personal, and service identities to the sensitive data they can access and ranks those identities by risk. Its event-driven architecture identifies new data and reclassifies changed data in real time; Teleskope says it scans every file rather than sampling. Coverage includes databases, warehouses, cloud storage, SaaS, code repositories, logs, APIs, and collaboration tools. Listed connectors include Slack, Snowflake, SharePoint, OneDrive, OpenAI, Google Drive, GitHub, Databricks, Box, and AWS services. Deployment options are air-gapped, single-tenant SaaS, or Teleskope-managed. Pricing is on request, and the API supports custom integrations for non-standard systems.