THE BIGID DIFFERENCE

OneTrust Got Outranked. Again.

In the latest Forrester Wave™: Privacy Management Software, independent analysts and verified customers rated BigID higher than OneTrust in four key categories.

From automated DSR to integrated data discovery, BigID delivers: real action, better automation, and privacy that scales.
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Why Customers Switch to BigID

While both BigID and OneTrust offer privacy and security capabilities, the difference is clear:

✅ Automated DSRs That Actually Deliver – Say goodbye to manual workflows. BigID’s Privacy Portal is the most mature automated DSR platform on the market: purpose-built to reduce risk, cut response time, and free up your team.

✅ Integrated Discovery Meets RoPA, Assessments & More — Your data tells the real story—not your stakeholders. BigID connects real-time discovery with your assessments and RoPA so you can go beyond check-the-box compliance.

✅ Fewer Surveys. Less Fatigue. More Insight. BigID reduces the need to endlessly survey business and IT teams - automating inventory and driving context with built-in intelligence.

✅ Retention & Remediation that Go Beyond Documentation — Privacy isn’t just about policy - it’s about taking action. BigID helps you find and remediate data, integrate with IT systems, and drive real lifecycle management.

✅ Cookies & Consent: Fully Covered — BigID delivers cookie and consent management with functional parity to OneTrust - without the lock-in. You get everything you need to switch easily, stay compliant, and keep moving.

✅ One Platform. Shared Language. Cross-Functional Buy-In. BigID bridges privacy, security, and data teams - so you can consolidate tools, align priorities, and stop operating in silos.

✅ Better Support. Faster Innovation. A Partner That Shows Up. Tired of slow support and stalled roadmaps?  BigID delivers dedicated success, constant innovation, and a team that’s invested in your growth.

 

The BigID Advantage

While both BigID and OneTrust offer privacy and security capabilities, the difference is clear:

In the latest Forrester Wave™: Privacy Management Software, independent analysts and verified customers rated BigID higher than OneTrust in these key categories.

Stop settling. Start winning with the #1 in privacy, security, and AI governance.

Personal Data Governance:

 BigID (5.0) vs. OneTrust (3.8)

Performance Management

BigID (4.4) vs. OneTrust (3.8)

Ease of Use

BigID (5.0) vs. OneTrust (3.0)

Automation

BigID (5.0) vs. OneTrust (3.0)

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Data-Centric, Identity-Aware Privacy for the Multi-Cloud & Beyond

  • Cloud, hybrid, & on-prem
  • Deep & accurate data discovery & classification
  • Automatically take action
  • Enterprise scale for privacy

Shine a Light on Dark Data

Automatically find and inventory your most sensitive, critical, and high-priority data - wherever it lives.

Get unmatched data discovery and classification to find and protect the data that matters most to you: whether it's critical, regulated, personal, secrets, passwords, IP, financial, or more across structured and unstructured data.  Get more accurate results every time with ML-driven data classification - across your entire data landscape (from on-prem to cloud to everywhere in between).

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Advanced Sensitivity Classification

Achieve unparalleled accuracy and scalability in data classification.

Go beyond traditional pattern-matching and regular expression (RegEx) with advanced, trainable ML and NLP-based classification. Create custom classifiers that can be tailored specifically to your unique data environment. Test and fine-tune them before deployment to enhance accuracy and mitigate the number of false positives. Label and tag all of your data using a single unified classification ruleset. 

Automate Data Rights Requests

Automate data rights fulfillment from access to deletion.

Dynamically manage Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) at scale to comply with requirements for the right to access and the right to delete personal information. Discover, classify, and connect data to specific user profiles to automate data subject access requests, validate data deletion, and generate DSAR reports.

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RoPA

Build a Record of Processing Activities for Data Mapping.

Identify and document data inventory to visually map data across the organization to assess how data is processed, transferred, and shared to reduce privacy risk.

Consent Governance

Consolidate your view of consent across all systems.

Give consumers the ability to know what data is being collected, analyzed, and monitored, and to opt out of having their data sold or shared. Create a centralized location for cookie consent, data preferences, opt-in and opt-out choices to protect consumers’ data rights and stay complaint.

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Privacy Impact Assessment

Quickly assess risk with Privacy Impact Assessments.

Estimate the risk within the data inventory using PIA industry-standard templates that comply with privacy regulations.

Customizable Privacy Portal

Proactively manage privacy requests, preferences, and cookie consent.

Implement a branded self-service privacy portal – with customizable features to manage data rights requests and privacy preferences including request type, deletion workflows, regulation timelines, and remediation, all in one place.

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Cross Border Data Transfers

Monitor & alert on cross border data transfers.

Discover, map, and take action on cross-border data transfers & third-party data-sharing. Enable secure, compliant cross-border, intra-company, and third-party data-sharing transfers. Get a centralized platform for managing cross-border data transfer processes while ensuring compliance with data protection regulations.

BigID is a Market Leader in Data Privacy and Data Discovery

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BigID's data security and privacy-first posture brings with it purpose-built applications to reduce security and privacy risk, regardless of the data being in a structured data repository or on a file system.

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Analyst, IDC Marketscape: Catalog Stewart Bond
WHITE PAPER

The CPO’s Guide to Building End-to-End Privacy Automation at Scale

The role of the CPO is evolving — is your privacy program keeping up?

Today’s CPOs face more complexity than ever, from sprawling cloud environments and AI blind spots to mounting regulatory pressure. This white paper explores how to break through these challenges and build a privacy program that runs continuously—powered by automation, aligned to strategic risk, and ready to scale.

 

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 CASE STUDY

How Telenor Manages Their Data & Builds Customer Trust with BigID

See why Telenor turns to BigID to build customer trust, protect their customer data, and enable compliance... and why they say "Companies who use BigID are showing that they’re taking data seriously.” BigID has helped to streamline and automate their data processes to manage and protect sensitive customer data and achieve compliance with global regulations.

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 CASE STUDY

How The University of Maryland Saved $5 Million in Risk Exposure

The University of Maryland used BigID to uncover and reduce over $5M in data risk across 2.5PB of cloud storage. With deep discovery and classification across Google Drive, O365, and Box, they identified and cleaned up thousands of exposed PII records—boosting compliance, minimizing exposure, and improving visibility across their data.

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