IG Central vs Microsoft Purview Records Management

IG Central is a self-hosted, single-tenant governance engine for classifying, governing, and searching enterprise content where it already resides. It runs inside the customer’s environment and does not require data migration. Its drill-down LLM classification follows a records taxonomy and extracts typed metadata, sensitivity, and personally identifiable information. The platform enforces retention schedules, supports disposition workflows and policy application, and provides enterprise-wide search, an embedded document viewer, and governance review workflows. Users can inspect classifications, prompts, metadata, and outcomes, then correct classifications; those corrections feed MCP tools for ongoing model refinement. A transactional outbox tracks state changes and is described as crash-safe and fully auditable. Content can arrive through uploads or connected cloud services. Google Drive is available today, while additional connectors are planned. The maker says processing stays inside the customer’s network without public-AI dependency. Pricing is on request.

Microsoft Purview Records Management is a cloud records-management service accessed through the web. It provides rule-based classification, retention rules, disposition workflows, and audit trails for managing records. The listed Microsoft Purview Suite plan costs $12 a month per user when billed yearly, using an annual subscription that renews automatically. The suite includes advanced data lifecycle and records management, advanced data loss prevention, advanced information protection, advanced audit, and eDiscovery (Premium). The service uses a paid pricing model and has no free plan. Retention rules define how records are kept, disposition workflows support controlled handling at the end of retention, and audit trails record activity. Rule-based classification supplies the stated method for organizing records. Because the listed deployment model is cloud and the platform is web, access is through the service’s browser interface. The per-user price means subscription cost varies with the number of users.