BigID vs Dataiku Govern

BigID is a New York data security, privacy and governance company founded in 2016; Dimitri Sirota is co-founder and CEO. Its platform, BigID Next, discovers and classifies sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises and mainframe systems, and BigID has extended it to AI. Its last announced funding was a $60 million growth round led by Riverwood Capital in March 2024, which press coverage put at a valuation above $1 billion with about $320 million raised in total. **AI governance features** BigID's AI governance page describes discovery of models, agents, copilots, shadow AI, MCP servers and AI libraries in code; classification and labeling of training and retrieval data, including vector stores; records of which models were trained on which data; least-privilege access for agents and employees based on data sensitivity; privacy and AI risk assessments; scanning of prompts and responses with guardrail policies and alerts; assessment of vendors that use AI; and lineage from source data to AI output. AgentIQ, launched September 21, 2026, lets customers run BigID through prebuilt or custom agents, including from Claude, Copilot, GPT or Gemini. BigID approaches AI governance from the data side. Its AI governance page does not mention bias testing; its NIST AI RMF page lists bias detection under the Measure function without detail. **AI compliance coverage** The same page says BigID assesses risk relative to the EU AI Act and alignment with the NIST AI RMF, and describes alignment with ISO/IEC 42001, alongside GDPR and CCPA/CPRA. Its NIST AI RMF page groups BigID features under the framework's four functions and shows an AI assessment template; it does not map to subcategories. For healthcare, BigID says it supports HIPAA and HITECH privacy, retention, breach response and audit workflows. **Certifications** BigID's certifications page says it is SOC 2 certified (the page banner says SOC 2 Type II), publishes a SOC 3 report, and that its PCI compliance was evaluated by an independent assessor. It describes ISO 27001 as something it is aligned with, while its trust center lists ISO 27001 among independent assessments; ask BigID for the certificate. For US federal customers, BigID announced FedRAMP coverage through a partnership with Knox Systems on March 19, 2026, and on October 14, 2026 said its federal offering had reached FedRAMP High status through Knox's managed platform. **Analyst mentions** BigID says it is a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Sensitive Data Discovery and Classification Solutions, Q2 2026, and announced on March 9, 2026 that it was named a Challenger in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms. Its AI governance page also cites Gartner's 2025 Market Guide for AI TRiSM and a Frost & Sullivan 2025 Company of the Year award for AI governance. We did not open the reports. **Who it's for** Large enterprises that want AI governance tied to a data discovery, privacy and security program. BigID has industry pages for financial services, healthcare, insurance, retail, high tech, telecommunications, pharma and the public sector. It publishes no prices on its site.

Dataiku Govern is the governance component of the Dataiku platform. Dataiku describes it as a single place to track and manage data and AI initiatives across the organization. Dataiku was founded in 2013 by Florian Douetteau (CEO), Clément Stenac, Thomas Cabrol and Marc Batty; its press releases are datelined New York. It says it supports over 750 large organizations. Govern has three registries (models, LLMs and deployment bundles), a step where each project is qualified by value and risk, and workflows where named reviewers add notes and documents at each stage. Sign-off rules block a deployment until the required approvals are in place, and a timeline records who changed what and when. Dataiku's documentation (version 13) describes the governed items as Dataiku projects, saved models, model versions and bundles synced from Dataiku nodes; the pages we read do not say whether AI built outside Dataiku can be governed. Custom workflows, sign-offs and item types need the Advanced Govern license. The Govern page also points to related Dataiku products for evaluating LLM applications (LLM Guard Services) and for managing agents. **AI compliance coverage** Dataiku publishes two governance solutions for Govern. EU AI Act Readiness has a pre-assessment that sorts an AI system into the prohibited, high, limited or minimal risk tier, templates for the high-risk tier only, and a technical documentation artifact built from Annex IV questions. ISO 42001 Readiness has templates from a pre-assessment through a monitoring plan and post-assessment. Both need Advanced Govern, and Dataiku says neither is legal advice or a guarantee of compliance. When we checked, the EU AI Act solution page still said high-risk obligations were expected by August 2026; Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 has since moved them to December 2, 2027 (Annex III) and August 2, 2028 (Annex I). The Govern page names no other AI framework. **Certifications** Dataiku's trust page says it has completed SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II assessments and is certified to ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27701:2019 and ISO 42001:2023 (for its own AI management system), with a HIPAA compliance report for Dataiku Cloud. **Company** Reuters reported on October 1, 2025 that it had hired banks for a possible US listing and that its last round was a $200 million Series F led by Wellington Management in December 2022 at a $3.7 billion valuation; we found no announcement of a listing as of November 11, 2026. Dataiku announced in June 2026 that Gartner named it a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for AI Platforms for Data Science and Machine Learning for the fifth time; that report covers the Dataiku platform, not Govern on its own. **Who it's for** Organizations that already build and deploy models in Dataiku and want approval gates and documentation on top. Dataiku lists banking, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, retail and consumer goods, energy and utilities, and the public sector as industries. It publishes no prices.